Somatomy

This weekend gathering is meant to inspire you to explore, to expand and to engage your full self to awaken. To remain present and connected to your feeling self, to bridge awareness of others and to embody the space you occupy is a path of presence. By losing connection to self, your body lacks youthful energy and your mind is racing, full of distracting fear-based thoughts. This state of dis-connect of body awareness can result in the contracting of or shifting into unconscious body shapes, in diminished breath capacity, in discomfort and in blocked life force flow which magnifies panic-based, fearful decision making and inertia.

In this workshop, I promise to share effective ways of sourcing the authority living in your body, inspired by anatomical insights. I’ll empower you to enliven and to unlock your body-mind connection; I’ll invite you to free yourself of your mind’s games to distract your attention and dance you into a state of presence. Transforming these habitual patterns enlivens your spark of creativity and refreshes the passion of enriching your zone of genius. Awakening and sensualizing yourself in your full body awareness is a practice of self-love and playful presence that liberates you from generational and cultural patterns.

We will share stories, feelings, vulnerabilities and perceptions about growing and awakening through the 5Rhythms and movement awareness. And we’ll move together and relate in many creative shapes feeling our architecture and anatomy from the inside out. You will be invited to share and collaborate with fellow participants in the nourishing practice of integrating Somatomy into your walking/dancing life.

Join me in this playground of 5Rhythms® conscious movement and deep dancing where you will:

1. Discover your functional anatomy through guided experiences.

2. Expand your body intelligence through developmental movement .

3. Learn a new set of tools for awakening your bodymind relationship.

4. Connect your attention and awareness, your breathing and your movement into one integrated being.

About the title, Somatomy:

Somatomy is a word that came to me while snowshoeing one day in the woods. I had been formulating a series of foundational workshops at the request of my producers and returning students. I knew that at the core, I would be teaching the pathway to presence within our bodies, and combining that with the practice of gently and effortlessly orchestrating our attention with ease and flow. This is the essence of a loving connection with oneself, and the key to maintaining a high level of healthy vitality, even into your senior years – all things people have seen in me, and asked to teach them how to achieve.

“How can we grow old and still revel in a multitude of magnificent moments?”

– Ohad Naharin

Winter retreat 2026: fire, ice, and darkness to light

Winter retreat in Helsinki, Finland in an amazing venue on the island of Suomenlinna, a UNESCO World Heritage Site sea fortress. You can stay on-site at Hostel Suomenlinna or book your own accommodation. 

Join us for dancing wave after wave, with darkness and light, between moving and resting, with the elements of fire and ice. Allowing the winter hibernating bear part of us to rest with other dancing bodies. Waking up the fire and energy inside us, reaching towards our own inner light in the darkness of winter. Weather permitting, there will also be opportunities to move outside in the winter, to hopefully dance with and in snow, and to play with the elements of winter in many ways.

Suomenlinna is an easy 20 minute ferry ride away from central Helsinki. And you can fly direct to Helsinki from many international airports. If you want to explore the Arctic and the North of Finland as well, you can have an adventure in winter magic before or after this retreat. This is the best time of year for skiing, for instance!

Teaching is in Finnish with translation into English available if it is needed (please let us know!).

This workshop counts as 2.5 days of Waves towards the teacher training prerequisites.