Upcoming Events
Strozzi Institute - Somatics, Trauma, & Resilience: Depthful Practices for Healing Personal and Collective Trauma and Shame
June 27th - 30th, 2024
A 4-day in-person intensive for coaches, leaders, and individuals who want to increase their own resilience, support their clients’ healing, and successfully address deeper aspects of transformation.
Embodying the Bodhisattva: Exploring Social Justice, Somatics and Meditation (Hybrid) with Lama Liz Monson
May 14th - 19th, 2024
This retreat will explore how personal and collective somatic practices and meditation allow us to come into alignment with our deepest aspirations and values. As a result, we learn to embody ways of being and acting that support not only our individual healing and growth, but also the transformative potential of our collective action in the world. Embodied transformation as a path toward collective liberation.
Strozzi Institute - Somatic Bodywork Level 1
April 3rd - 7th, 2024
Somatic Bodywork Level One course is designed to teach the fundamentals of Strozzi Institute for Somatics’ Bodywork on an introductory level.
It builds off of the foundational elements you learned in Embodied Transformation and and will help lead you to a more embodied level of centering.
Embodied Social Justice Certificate Program 2024
Join the waitlist to be the first to hear updates for this one-of-a-kind, once per year, 3-month certificate program committed to collective liberation by increasing awareness, unlearning oppressive social patterns, repairing relationships and building trust & belonging.
Embody Lab: MindBody Coaching Certificate Program
120-hour certificate program
This unique 4-month online coaching certificate program is designed for individuals, practitioners, and educators wanting to explore a Mind-Body Coaching approach that combines the power of somatics with mindfulness to foster transformative change. Through an experiential learning model, participants will embody the core principles and processes to guide clients and organizations in holistic, transformational, and impactful coaching.
Past Events
California Institute of Integral Studies, Weekend Workshop
February 10th & 11th, 2024
Two-Day Online Workshop, Three Hours Per Day
How do we transform the habits, survival strategies, and worldviews that are held deeply in our human tissue? Somatic awareness and embodied practices take us far, but we need somatic opening to get to the roots of change and healing. We adapt as we try to meet our inherent needs of safety, belonging, and dignity. We also have automatic survival strategies that help us navigate personal and collective trauma, oppression, and other tragedies. All of this ends up as embodied patterns, some of which still serve us, and others that don’t—getting in the way of things that are important to us like love, purpose, right action, and compassion.
Embodywise: Somatics, Trauma, Healing and Social Justice
January 12th - 14th, 2024
Open to healers, clinicians and social activists, Erika Lyla and Staci Haines present a holistic framework for embodied trauma healing that integrates an understanding of how we are shaped by our social conditions. Discover the connection between personal and social transformation, and how each can serve the other.
Embody Lab: Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program
Live & Online September 26th - December 15th, 2023
Staci will be joining on October 9th as part of a 60-hour training certificate program for individuals, practitioners and educators wanting to explore a unified somatic approach to trauma-informed care, including a deeper understanding of the body’s relationship with social, environmental, developmental, relational, spiritual, and cultural wounding and healing.
Embody Lab Master Class: Complexity and Contradictions: Healing & Practice
LIVE & ONLINE DECEMBER 5TH, 2023 | 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Holding complexity and navigating contradictions seems to be essential life skill these days. Whether it’s working with our internal experiences and healing, navigating relationships and family, or engaging in the world and our collective future, complexity and contradictions are there. How do we work with these skillfully, from a somatic perspective? How can we welcome complexity and not lose ourselves? How do we navigate contradictions without polarizing?
Through this masterclass we’ll learn to expand our embodied ability to notice, be with, and take skillful action amidst complexity. We’ll discover how contradictions live in the soma, and how we can shift from reacting to them to embracing them. Complexity and contradiction hold wisdom. Through embodied practice and process, we’ll discover this wisdom and let it inform our healing, relationships, and action.
Strozzi Institute: Change Makers Embodied Transformation
November 2-5, 2023. In person.
Designed for Change Makers: develop your vision, celebrate your gifts, and learn to transform the habit of reaction into presence, discernment, and choice. This in-person program offers the core practices of Embodied Transformation where you’ll deepen your embodiment of declarations, and learn practices to align your actions with what you most care about.
Strozzi Institute Somatic Coaching Intensive: Embodied Trauma Healing and Resilience
October 19th - 23rd, 2023. In person.
Designed for coaches, this intensive aims to understand the impacts of personal and systemic trauma, using advanced pieces of the methodology to explore complexity and contradictions. By the end of this course, coaches will discover inherent resilience, and learn to distinguish it from embodied survival reactions.
Healing Justice London x Staci Haines: Somatics and Collective Liberation
August 21-24, 2023, London UK. In person.
This invitation only intensive is for UK movement leaders and Healing Justice London organizers.
Transformative Change (XC): Being Changed- A Half Day Intensive with Staci. K Haines
July 9th, 2023 | Virtual
It's said that it takes 300 repetitions to create muscle memory and 3,000 repetitions to reach embodiment. Traverse the "I", the "you", the "we” and the "all" in this intensive with Staci K. Haines. Sharpen and hone in on the most critical somatic practices for those of us who are committed to embodied social justice. Practice on Purpose in community as you explore questions like: In what ways can we let our practice change us? How do we hold complexity? What am I longing for? What is my "embodied vision"?
Transformative Change (XC): Embodied Social Justice Certificate Program
April- June 2023 | Virtual
This one-of-a-kind, once per year, 3-month certificate program is committed to collective liberation by increasing awareness, unlearning oppressive social patterns, repairing relationships and building trust & belonging.