30. Your Body is the Compass: Embodiment and Somatic Dance with Sarsha Hope

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Apr 9, 2024

Sarsha Hope, founder of the Somatic Dance International Teacher Training, dives deep into the world of embodiment and somatic movement. She clarifies the difference between embodiment and somatics, emphasizing how trusting your body's intuition can transform decision-making. Sarsha discusses the importance of energetic hygiene for facilitators and outlines trauma-informed practices essential for safe group spaces. She also highlights the healing power of dance, advocating for gentle, paced approaches to trauma work and the significance of connecting with nature for peace.

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INSIGHT

Embodiment Vs Somatics

Embodiment is coming home to the body and using practices to feel more comfortable and aware in it.
Somatics goes deeper into felt-sense, accessing the living consciousness of tissues like bones and skin.

ANECDOTE

Dance Revealed Ancestral Healing

Sarsha describes moving from yoga to dance and discovering ancestral healing through dance.
Her students reported menstrual healing and ancestral connection after somatic dance practice.

ADVICE

Start A Daily Dance Practice

Put on music and make daily dancing a simple embodiment practice.
Allow messy, angry, or cathartic movement to let energy move through your body.

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Sarsha Hope joins us today to chat all things embodiment and somatic movement. Sarsha is the visionary and founder of the Somatic Dance International Teacher Training, a groundbreaking program recognized as one of the world's exclusive dance training experiences. It seamlessly integrates somatic facilitation, DJ skills, ritual, energetics, and ecosomatics, all viewed through a trauma-informed lens. This unique methodology creates potent, finely tuned dance containers. We talk about the difference between embodiment and somatics, how intuition grows when you learn to trust the compass of your body. This episode will be particularly helpful for facilitators and space holders. We can learn so much from Sarsha and her many years of teaching in this space. She speaks on energetic hygiene for facilitators and the importance of being trauma informed while holding spaces and so much more.

This is a powerful conversation filled with poetry and insight into understanding the body. If you are someone that wants to feel more embodied and safer in your movement expression this episode is for you! What we cover: The difference between embodiment and Somatics Building Safety in the body so we can express freely Intuition grows when you learn to trust the compass of your body Energetic hygiene for facilitators Setting containers with clear intentions The importance of being trauma informed while holding space The difference between emotional release and trauma release Socials: SARSHA HOPE instagram | @sarshahope website | sarshahope.com

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Join Sarsha on her next Dance Teacher Training.

Somatic Dance Training - Portugal 5th - 14th June 2024 Are you ready to become a leader in the conscious dance revolution? Applications open now. https://www.sarshahope.com/somatic-dance-portugal

Resources - Books on Trauma The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk When the body says no - Dr Gabor Mate