Deepen Your Capacity for Love, Consciousness & Joy

Exclusive 2-Hour Masterclass With Susan Harper

You’ll learn to open your capacity for love, consciousness, imagination, and joy, through the creative art of inquiry with Continuum Montage creator Susan Harper, RSME/T. Her masterclass, created exclusively for the Somatic Movement Summit, offers a mix of experiential practices and inspirational principles including sensual movement, gentle breathing, aware self-touch, micromovements, and primordial sounding, to help you awaken to greater resonance and awareness. You’ll learn to deepen your felt-sense of discovering and experiencing aspects of your life. You’ll also discover the unique interconnected skills of somatic, perceptive, and relational inquiry, to nurture and deepen intimacy in all your relationships.

How Trauma Affects Support, Suspension, and Breath

Exclusive 75-Minute Masterclass With Betsy Polatin

Trauma tends to fragment and even diminish your sense of self. In this masterclass, created exclusively for the Somatic Movement Summit, internationally recognized breathing and movement specialist Betsy Polatin, MFA, will offer simple exercises to enhance and expand sensory skills by exploring the musculoskeletal, respiratory, and nervous systems — including how they relate to trauma. Learn to awaken your inherent potential by pulling grounding support from the Earth (grounding can lead to full stature and expansion, but trauma and overwhelm can interfere with this process.) You’ll also learn how to track subtle sensations while becoming aware of the coordination of optimal breathing.

Body Awareness as Spirituality

Exclusive 90-Minute Masterclass With Paul Linden, PhD

By opening and balancing body, breath, and movement, you can choose more comfortable and effective responses for handling challenges. In this exclusive Somatic Movement Summit masterclass with Paul Linden, PhD, developer of Being In Movement® mindbody education, you’ll experience a deep examination of yourself in the world. You’ll perceive the interaction among musculoskeletal structure and function. You'll also explore intentional projection, thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, as well as task performance and ethical behavior. The goal is to create a centered mindbody state — open awareness, calm alertness, and power — as a foundation for ethical and effective functioning.

The Myth of Aging: Lesson Series

Audio & Video Teachings From Gayatri Schriefer and Brian Siddhartha Ingle

This audio and video series guides you through nine lessons of somatic movements from Thomas Hanna’s “The Myth of Aging” collection. You will learn to sequentially unwind tension to regain freedom and fluidity of movement. These lessons teach you ways to address the main cause of pain in the body, and increase possibilities for functional movement and self-healing.

NeuroMovement® Lesson: Activating Your Power Center

A Video Teaching With Anat Baniel

This easy, pleasurable 30-minute NeuroMovement® lesson from Anat Baniel, founder of the Anat Baniel Method(sm), and NeuroMovement®, will wake up your brain. It also evokes the power of your pelvis and lower back in how you think, feel, and act.

Disrupt Chronic Reactivity With These Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises®

A Shift Network Course Sampler From Steve Haines

In these user friendly class modules from Steve Haines’ popular somatic movement course, Awaken Powerful Primitive Somatic Reflexes With TRE to Shake Free of Trauma & Find Safety, Freedom & Joy, Steve takes you through the history of shaking — a simple, safe tool to help you more effectively manage tension and trauma. He’ll share insights from scientific research on how shaking is a mammalian reflex for discharging stress and plenty of tips and tricks to help tremors move seamlessly through your body. He’ll also help you understand the basic structure of the body so you can appreciate where and why tremors can get stuck.

You’ll receive:

• Module 1: The Joy of Shaking
• Module 2: Grounding & Shaking to Connect
• Module 4: Free Your Body — Shake to Release

Balance Your Nervous System With Effective Somatic Movement Techniques

A Shift Network Collection From Dr. Martha Eddy & Kaila June

Experience guided movement practices for balancing your nervous system, including embodied visualizations and meditations, relaxing movements, and play. With this collection, you’ll discover an embodied map of the nervous system and its key functions, as well as causes of dysregulation — including stress, conflict, and trauma — and what to do to calm your body.

You’ll receive: 

• “Module 1: Cultivating & Accessing Neurocellular Awareness Through Movement” from the popular Dr. Martha Eddy course Reset Your Nervous System & Regulate Your Own Wellbeing With Dynamic Embodiment℠ Movement 
   
  
• “Returning Home with Somatic Groundwork™” with Kaila June, RSME/MS from the 2021 Somatic Movement Summit
   
  
• “Calming the Nervous System: Small Steps to Release Stress and Help in Trauma Recovery” with Dr. Martha Eddy from the 2021 Somatic Movement Summit

Decompress From Excess Pain & Tension

A Shift Network Collection From Judith Aston, Martha Peterson, Edward Barrera & Servaas Mes

Bodily discomfort doesn’t just stem from too much tension or tightness, it can also be related to areas where the body is lacking tone or holding anxiety. In this collection from popular Shift Network courses and summits, you’ll be guided through exercises to loosen and decompress — including “Flower” and “Arch and Curl,” somatic movements that begin to reduce anxiety and improve breathing — allowing you to reclaim space within your body. You’ll learn to deepen your ability to sense how you stand and walk, noticing imbalances or areas of tension.

You’ll receive:

• Module 3: How Your Physical Habits & Patterns Show Up in Your Body from Facilitating Your Body’s Magic With Aston® Kinetics with Judith Aston
• Module 2: Release the Habituated Posture of Fear & Anxiety — Addressing Tension in the Front of Your Body from Gentle, Effective Somatic Practices to Move From Pain to a Life Full Of New Possibilities with Martha Peterson
• “The Art of Correcting Scrambled Movement Reflexes (Why We Keep Feeling Stiffness and Pain)” with Edward Barrera, HSE & Servaas Mes from the 2021 Somatic Movement Summit

Dance of Oneness Daily Practice

A Video Teaching With Banafsheh Sayyad

This dance and standing meditation practice guided by Banafsheh Sayyad, a Persian master sacred dancer, choreographer, and founder of Dance of Oneness^®, is designed for all bodies regardless of your ability and physical limitations. It's perfect to do on a daily basis. It activates your ability to be present, opening you to the source energy that permeates everything as you learn to embody grace, clarity, soft strength, and fluid sensuality. You will gain tools to navigate our challenging times from a grounded, centered, loving, and elevated state of joy and wisdom. Set to the music of Tony Khalife and infused with the poetry of Rumi.

Mosaics: Somatic Archaeology© Meditations

An Audio Journey With Dr. Rudy Gibson

This 13-part audio journey offers guided breathwork and meditations meant to accompany Dr. Ruby Gibson's book, My Body My Earth, The Practice of Somatic Archaeology. Ruby, who developed Somatic Archaeology© and Generational Brainspotting™, offers numerous healing practices in this collection, including chakra-clearing, brain-balancing, grounding, cleansing, and harmonizing.  

A Guided Meditation for Your Lungs & Your Heart

A 40-Minute Guided Audio Journey With Lavinia Plonka

This 40-minute meditation on your breath with Lavinia Plonka, Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner and body language expert, will help you develop your interoceptive abilities while offering new options for breathing freely. You'll be amazed how your breath influences your spine and your mood. 

The Embodied Life™ I & II

A Guided Audio Journey & PDF From Russell Delman

The Embodied Life™ I & II includes 12 guided audio sessions and a 22-page PDF booklet. It's a complete program that touches you on all levels — physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual — and includes sessions on "Giving Your Weight to the Ground," "Freeing the Pelvis," and "Cultivating Internal Spaciousness," among others. Through dynamic talks, movement lessons, breathing experiments, and guided meditations presented by host Russell Delman, you will be led on an effective path of self-discovery and transformation. 

Cultivating and Practicing Awareness

A Video Teaching With Richard E. Sims

Various practices ask you to bring an awareness to your body. But what does this mean, and how exactly do you do it? In this guided teaching, Richard E. Sims, RSME/T, offers a practical approach to developing and practicing awareness and attention in the body. Learning these valuable skills is beneficial if you're trying to deepen your connection with the body, and further your explorations into the somatic and embodiment worlds.

Somatic Intelligence Volume 5: The Conversation Every Body Wants to Have With You

An Ebook From Suresha Hill

This Ebook from Suresha Hill explains several ways the body communicates with us and with itself. Each of these communication layers is a system unto itself, connected to all of the others structurally and functionally, and has an influence on our overall wellbeing. You'll learn about these systems of communication and how to participate in the communication process to create changes that open, release, and balance the body. You'll also find several illustrated movements, with instructions on how to use them as a form of messaging to the system — including some that adapt traditional yoga postures, moving into the realm of somatic/sensory awareness.