Somatic Dance Teacher Training - level 1 | soma
~ Master next-level somatic facilitation
~ Learn ecstatic dance DJ skills
~ Understand how to hold trauma-informed spaces
~ Create transformational energetic containers
ARE YOU READY TO BECOME A LEADER IN THE CONSCIOUS DANCE REVOLUTION?
AFTER THIS TRAINING YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
~ Skilfully open and close ecstatic dance spaces with deep embodied wisdom
~ DJ for ecstatic dance containers
~ Create intimate embodied dance spaces, dance temples and weekly somatic inquiry workshops
~ Weave embodiment practices into your already existing business to deepen the power of your offerings
~ Hold deep ritual dance spaces that transform people’s lives through skilful somatic guidance
~ Offer conscious dance spaces that are trauma-informed
~ Enhance women’s and men’s circles with powerful embodiment practices
~ Include eco-somatics concepts into your dance spaces, either inside or out in the wilds of nature
Dear Dancing Soul
This training is for you if:
~You desire to learn how to skilfully create DJ sets that support deep embodied journeys.
~You want to deepen your own understanding of embodiment and how to weave it into a conscious dance container.
~You ache to know how to take your free movement offerings to the next level of depth that skilful somatic facilitation creates.
~You desire to shed your own limiting beliefs and know how to competently support your clients and students to do the same.
~You want to know how to efficiently work with the energy of a space, know how to set the field with intentions, cleanse the room energetically and create a deep sense of safety and trust.
~You desire to deepen your understanding of eco-somatics - “The relationship of Somatics and Ecology to expand your felt sense of self to include the wider web of the whole.”
What we cover
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Learn DJ skills from an international team of established ecstatic dance DJs.
Learn how to lead transformational embodied dance experiences.
Understand how to curate a soundscape that deepens your student’s somatic experience.
Dive deep into the transformational waters of your own soul.
Effortlessly lead your students to the edge of their movement potential.
Find your authentic voice in the world.
Learn how to theme inspiring classes in different teaching contexts.
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Dive into embodiment practices and learn how to offer them with clarity.
Create a heart-centred community and following with ease.
Demystify Tantrik philosophy and simplify its practices to enhance transformational offerings.
Learn how to work with the limiting beliefs of your dancers and support them in shifting with ease.
Increase your understanding of how to work with the energy of a space effectively.
Become the most embodied, fullest version of yourself.
We have had over 100 STUDENTS THROUGH OUR TRAININGS
And we humbly continue to study in our own fields of expertise.
Are you ready to become a leader?
Join Sarsha Hope, Stephen Blase and Guest facilitators in this 100-hour Somatic Dance Teacher Training, where you will learn to craft and facilitate leading-edge, deeply transformational dance experiences for your students.
With decades of experience in movement therapy, including several teacher trainings, at the 100-hour level, we commit to offering the highest standard of teaching methods.
You will come out of this training transformed from the inside out.
Are you ready
to dive deep?
Somatic Dance is a training technology for the mind and soul that evolves students to their highest coherent, balanced, embodied and multi-dimensional self.
You will leave this training equipped with all you need to hold potent, powerful dance spaces and support from our global team as you find your way.
Many of our students have gone on to become sought-after DJs and create abundant dance spaces in their local communities.
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Daily Schedule
8.30 am – 12.00 pm – Meditation and Embodiment
12.00 – 1.00 pm – Lunch Break
1.00 – 3.00 pm – Dance Lab/DJ Technical Lab
3.00 -4.00 pm – Break
4.00 - 6.00 pm –DJ Technical Lab
The daily schedule will be subject to change based on the day and the needs of the students.
We will begin at 12 pm on the first day so you can check in and have lunch before we begin.
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Investment
Investment: First five accepted applicants:
$1,890 Euros or $3,350 NZD - SOLD OUT
After that, the total price is
$1,999 Euro or $3,450 NZD - Paid in full
SEE BELOW FOR ALL PAYMENT OPTIONS
First, you need to apply and once you have been accepted, a deposit of $200 is needed to hold your place.
Your $200 deposit will be subtracted from the total course fee.
This price includes 10 nights accommodation, all course materials, 3 x daily highly nutritious catered lunches, and refreshments.
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Cancellation Policy
We understand that sometimes things happen beyond your control. We stand by Somatic Dance Teacher Training. If you need to cancel, we would love to discuss how to support you to be able to attend.
However, if you must cancel up to 1 month before the training, we will refund your investment minus a $50.00 admin fee.
If you need to cancel within two weeks of the start of the training, we will refund 50% of your investment. There are no refunds once the training has started.
Note: the Deposit is non-refundable.
payment plan options
MINUS THE INITIAL $200 DEPOSIT
Portugal - Earlybird Pay in Full - First five applications - $1,690 Euros or $3,150.00 NZD -SOLD OUT
Portugal: Pay in Full - 1 x payment of $1,890 Euros or $3,350.00 NZD (including deposit)
Portugal: Part Pay - 3 x monthly payments over 3 months - $633.00 Euros or $1,116.00 NZD
Portugal: Part Pay - 6 x monthly payments over 6 months - $333.00 Euros or $575.00 NZD
Weekly payments of $50 Eros
The SPACE
Our training is held at Monte Terrace retreat centre, in Mora. Multiple room options, open shala/dance space, pool, and farm.
MEET OUR TEAM.
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Sarsha Hope
Sarsha Hope is the visionary and founder of the Somatic Dance International Teacher Training, a groundbreaking program recognized as a powerful, transformative experience that trains leading-edge facilitators and DJs. 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.
Drawing from a vast reservoir of experience spanning over 25 years, Sarsha holds certifications in embodied flow yoga, somatic trauma therapy and somatic parts work. theta healing, massage, and is a reiki practitioner. She is also a tantrika, DJ, dance performer, Mother, and yoga/meditation teacher. She artfully incorporates a lifetime of wisdom into her offerings, encompassing international teacher training’s, online courses, retreats, and personalized embodiment coaching.
IT IS A TRUE HONOUR TO WITNESS THIS GROWING GLOBAL PHENOMENON.
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Stephen Blase
Blase is a touring music artist, DJ and mentor with dynamic range and specialises in cultivating conscious dance spaces. He combines practical knowledge of music theory and Djing with embodied awareness of energy and somatics to create soundscapes that assist dancers to drop out of the mind and into the inherent wisdom of the body.
Blase finds joy in bringing the freedom and expansion of the Somatic Dance space into his performances as a solo Artist and has been touring New Zealand for the summer festival season, playing at festivals such as NZ Spirit Festival, Splore, Earthbeat and Dimension festival. He has also made appearances around the globe playing traditional Ecstatic Dances in the UK and Portugal and is set to continue touring this summer in Europe.
He believes the power of dance has the ability to heal the world and break individuals out of their conditioning and limiting beliefs and his mission is to liberate souls into their highest calling, one dance at a time.
Blase has a wide variety of knowledge that helps to deepen the potency of this dance training including his multiple years of music knowledge, 200 hour Embodied flow yoga training, a certificate in Integrated somatic trauma therapy and over 500+ hours in formal Somatic Dance space.
In this training Blase translates the artistry of his craft into practical lessons of music theory, understanding DJ software and fundamentals and the curation of an Ecstatic dance playlist.
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Laurie Silver
Laurie Silver is the visionary and co-founder of Soma & Soul, New Zealand’s only weekly Somatic Dance journey solely for women. She is also the creatrix of Dance Lab, an opportunity for recent Somatic Dance Teacher Training graduates in New Plymouth to practice their skills and develop their unique style.
As a California Licenced Acupuncturist, Herbalist, certified Iyengar Yoga teacher, Reiki practitioner, Level 2 Somatic Dance graduate, poet, mother and lifelong student of Vedic/Tantric wisdom traditions, Laurie has recently been invited into private practice, using Somatic Dance alongside other modalities.
Through personal experience, observation, and clinical practice, Laurie has seen Somatic Dance repattern limiting thought loops and self-sabotaging behaviour, transform victim consciousness, elevate depressed emotional states, move someone from a habitual fear/frozen state into a pure presence,flow state, release somatically stored trauma (without having to analyse or mentally revisit the traumatic event) and embody states of expansive awareness.
The therapeutic benefits of Somatic Dance continue to inspire and amaze Laurie. After decades of education, qualifications, and degrees, she remains in awe of the simple yet profound wisdom available within the body. Watching other women remember this truth is one of her greatest pleasures and a profound privilege.
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Lea Uhle
Lea is a yoga teacher, somatic dance facilitator, DJ and enthusiastic dancer.
Through her experiences in somatic dance, ecstatic dance, contact impro, yoga and other embodiment spaces, she has created more freedom and a more loving and understanding space to herself.
With her love to free movement/ dancing and the DJ side of it, she will accompany and support you, especially behind the decks.
She holds dance spaces with love, compassion and openness - inviting you to let craziness, wildness, sensuality, silence, laughter, crying, screaming, loudness, childishness and everything that may arise, to be there. To find your own unique and authentic expression in this abundant dance journey.
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Marissa Lianne
Marissa offers spaces to dive deeper into oneself through movement such as yoga and dance. Connecting the mind, body and soul.
She brings humans together in somatic dance, where freedom, connection and transformation are embodied on the dance floor.
Marissa is a 500hr yoga teacher and has done somatic dance levels 1 & 2 with Sarsha Hope. She has held down the community dances in Queenstown since 2023 as a DJ and facilitator.
She holds the belief that magic happens when we give permission to be full expression of ourselves, wild and free without any restrictions.
Her mission is to create safe spaces to explore these parts of ourselves. Supporting other souls on their journey through embodiment practices that have helped change her own life.
FAQs
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The nearest airport is Lisbon. From there you can take the tube or uber to Sete rios Bus station where you can find 2 buses a day to the nearest vila. Through https://www.nationalexpress.com/en From Lisbon- sete rios to Mora.
Also the venue has a transport service from the vila to the land for 20€ for participants or you can get a taxi to
Monte Terrace
Estrada dos montes novos
7490- 321
Mora -Portugal
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The deposit is non - refundable. As this is a deeply transformative training we find that leading up to it students will let their stuff get in the way and having a non refundable deposit is one way of continuing their commitment to transformation through the medicine of dance.
Please refer to the rest of our refund policies if unexpected things come up.
We highly recommend that you get travel insurance.
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This is a common question on our trainings and although yes this is a very physical training the emotional and mental process can be more tiring than the physical.
We recommend you come in well rested and hydrated and allow yourself lots of self care.
We also encourage you to take time afterwards to allow for rest and integration before rushing back to work.
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Upon completion, you will be a level 1 certified Somatic Dance DJ and Facilitator.
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Your course fees cover 3 nutritious meals per day, shared accommodation and all your course materials.
It does not include your flights and transport to and from the venue.
Join us in this frequency upgrade
"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
- Rumi