Bodyfulness: Exploring Somatic Practices for Healing, Joy, Presence and Collective Transformation

Staci Haines is a national leader in the field of Somatics, specializing in intersecting personal and social change. She is a senior teacher at Strozzi Institute and the Director of Methodology, having studied and worked with Strozzi Institute since 1995.

Petra is disability culture activist and community performance artist. She creates participatory community performance environments that think/feel into public space, ecosomatics, tenderness, site-specific art, access and experimentation.

Riane Eisler is a social systems scientist, cultural historian, and attorney whose research, writing, and speaking has transformed the lives of people worldwide.

Christine Caldwell, is the founder and professor emeritus of the Somatic Counselling Program at Naropa University, where she taught somatic counseling, clinical neuroscience, research, and diversity issues.

Yasmin Lambat is a fascia-informed somatic movement therapist and educator. She is the founder of SomaSensing, a fascia tuning therapy that taps into fascia as a sixth sense and its intuitive ability to heal. Calming anxiety, chronic pain, inflammation, and trauma-related symptoms of distress.

Sister Euphrasia (Efu) Nyaki is a psychotherapist offering alternative forms of preventative health care and holistic healing to adult and adolescent women and their impoverished communities in northern Brazil.

Aisha is a life coach, sexological bodyworker and teacher committed to creating a community that works through one to one leadership and guidance. She has dedicated herself to learning and offering embodied healing that focuses on integrating all parts of ourselves, including the shadow, so that we may each have a greater sense of who we are, where our individual purpose and pleasure lies and how to create a life that we love.

Dr. Abi Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, Ph.D., integrates Somatic Experiencing with clinical research, the psychobiological principles of attachment, psychodynamic therapy, and somatic bodywork in her practice and teaching. She has conducted original research on the role of implicit memory in Somatic Experiencing with a committee that included Dr. Daniel Siegel.

Dave Berger is a somatic psychotherapist, physical therapist & bodyworker. Dave is senior international faculty with the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute. He is part of Peter Levine’s initial legacy faculty being mentored by Dr. Levine to teach SE master classes. As a therapist, teacher, consultant and mentor, Dave’s passion and commitment to deep healing guide his work.

Betty is a Chiropractor, Body Electric School trained Sacred Intimate, Certified Sexological Bodyworker, Foundations of Facilitation trainer, and a self-propelled erotic adventurer and intimacy coach with 30 years experience in therapeutics and body-based erotic education.

Ya’Acov Darling Khan, the author of the best-selling Jaguar in the Body, Butterfly in the Heart (Hay House 2017) and Shaman (Hay House 2020), is known for his blend of down-to-earth strength, humility and humour. He is acknowledged as a practicing shaman by people who work with him world-wide and by indigenous elder shamans and communities from the Arctic to the Amazon.

Geneen Marie Haugen is a writer, wilderness wanderer, scholar, and guide to the intertwined mysteries of nature and psyche. She delights in offering wild questions, ceremonies, escapades and reflections to stir the imagination and expand perception of the world, perhaps shift the sense of who we are and what we’re about, and deepen an experience of participation with an intelligent, animate Earth/cosmos.

Camille Barton is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and embodiment researcher, who uses afrofuturism to imagine creative interventions towards systems change. They are invested in breaking down the mind body separation that is dominant in Western paradigms in order to create more space for flexible thinking, holistic healing and bridging across differences.

Akeim is an interdisciplinary performer and maker, born in Jamaica and raised in England. His intention is to create moving, thought provoking and free spirited work that challenges, enlightens and reflects on socio-political issues.

Ebyän is a Nubian-Italian speaker, activist, and multidisciplinary artist. She weaves worlds through her writing, dance, and storytelling pieces that inspire, heal, and revolutionize. Ebyän abides by the wisdom written in rock, wood, water, and in our hearts, reclaiming the animist spirituality of her ancestral heritage.