PSYCHE
SOMATIC DANCE TRAINING
· Level 2 · Bali · 2026 ·
7th to the 17th July 2026
Bali - Yogis Garden
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A 100-hour Somatic Dance Teacher Training
Level 2 is an initiation into remembering what has always lived in the body.
If Level 1 is about bringing people into the felt sense of their body and learning how to hold trauma-informed dance space through sound, presence, and care, Level 2 is about learning how to work with what lives there.
The beliefs, identities, protective strategies, and parts of self that formed to keep us safe, and the deeper intelligence that knows how to move beyond them.
• You have completed Somatic Dance Level 1.
• You feel ready to work with psyche as lived, embodied experience.
• You want to support people beyond regulation into resilience and choice.
• You are drawn to both somatic science and shamanic intelligence.
• You want to expand your DJ and facilitation skills for deeper, wider contexts.
Level 2 is for facilitators ready to hold complexity, depth, and transformation.
THIS TRAINING IS FOR YOU IF:
When we recognise and overcome the limiting beliefs that hinder us from our greatest potential, we can use that wisdom and the medicine of dance to skillfully guide others.
Deepen your capacity to work with what lives in the body
Learn to meet and update protective patterns through somatic belief inquiry.
Understand how psyche, movement, and nervous system patterning are interconnected.
Refine your DJ skills to support depth, disruption, and integration
Somatic Dance understands psyche as distributed throughout the body.
The mind does not live only in the brain.
Our stories, beliefs, and ways of being are held in tissues, movement patterns, rhythms, breath, and nervous system responses.
Parts of self develop through lived experience personal, ancestral, cultural as intelligent adaptations to the environments we were shaped within. These parts are not broken or outdated; they were formed to protect, organise, and help us survive.
Level 2 works with this intelligence through what we call Somatic Belief Inquiry.
Rather than analysing or fixing, we learn to:
sense how parts of self live in the body
meet them through movement and awareness
support their updating through new experience
This is where somatic science meets shamanic knowing where movement becomes both inquiry and initiation.
TESTIMONIALS FROM GRADUATES
“You will never be the same, in all the best ways. Level 2 was the biggest reclamation of self to date. There’s an energy here that’s so potent. When those ready to go deeper into the medicine of dance and this mahi come together, the intention is strong, fierce, empowering—and yet incredibly grounding and nourishing. You will never be the same, in all the best ways."
-Lauren Albans
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Somatic Belief Inquiry
Understanding how parts of self are held throughout the body.
Working with protective strategies as intelligent adaptations.
Supporting integration and updating through movement, not analysis.
The Distributed Nervous System
Nervous system awareness beyond the brain — through tissue, rhythm, and movement.
Recognising how beliefs and identities organise somatically.
Supporting flexibility, coherence, and choice through experience.
Eco-Somatic Intelligence
Exploring the nervous system as relational and ecological.
Drawing on eco-somatic theory to support resilience and initiation.
Understanding nervous system health not only as regulation, but as the capacity to weather storms.
Inspired by the understanding that maturity is not just personal balance, but the ability to orient toward the wellbeing of the wider field — the “forest nervous system.”
Advanced DJing & Sound Design
Expanding DJ skills to support depth, disruption, and integration.
Using sound to guide nervous system states and somatic inquiry.
Broadening musical range for ritual, dance, and therapeutic contexts.
Language, Cues & Movement Pathways
Noticing habitual movement and relational patterns.
Using precise, invitational language to open new possibilities.
Supporting agency, choice, and embodied leadership.
Group Dynamics & the Drama Triangle
Recognising how relational patterns appear somatically in groups.
Working skillfully with projection, responsibility, and power.
Supporting collective awareness without collapse or control.
WE CAME TO REMEMBER
To remember the intelligence of the body.
To remember the parts of self that carried us here.
To remember how to move individually and collectively through change.
Level 2 is an initiation into mature embodiment:
A nervous system that is regulated, resilient, relational, and responsive to the whole.
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Level 2 teaches how to design somatic dance journeys that function as initiatory experiences.
Through movement, sound, relationship, and rhythm, participants are supported to:
• sense their internal and relational signals.
• meet protective parts with awareness and choice.
• experience intensity without fragmentation.
• integrate learning through settling and coherence.This is not catharsis for its own sake.
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Graduates of Level 2 feel confident to:
• Offer somatic dance journeys with depth and structure.
• Facilitate 6-week online embodiment containers.
• Lead retreats and immersive experiences.
• Integrate somatic dance into 1-on-1 coaching and professional practice.Level 2 does not give you formulas.
It gives you capacity, discernment, and embodied authority.
THE SPACE
Our training is held at The Yogi’s Garden, they offer a unique experience of “the real Bali” at their private retreat, wellness and educational centre set within a working farm less than an hour from bustling Ubud.
The Taj Dorm
10 nights accomodation.
$450 NZD or 220 €
Little Sweet
10 nights accomodation.
$650 NZD or 320 €
Gladak Twins
10 nights accomodation.
$500 NZD or 243 €
T.Deluxe Twin
10 nights accomodation.
$600 NZD or 332 €
When the divinity of the body is forgotten, our connection to the earth is severed.
DAILY SCHEDULE
8.30 am – 12.00 pm
Meditation and Dance Practice
12.00 – 1.00 pm
Lunch Break
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Breakdown of Class and Lecture
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 1 pm on the first day so you can check in and have lunch before we begin.
FAQ
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Absolutely! Payment plan options are available at checkout.
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The retreat centre is called: Yogis Garden. Situated 1 hour drive from Ubud.
The nearest airport is in Denpasar.
You will need to get a GRAB taxi or shuttle. (own expense)
Yogi's garden does provide a driver for a cost that we can organise for you, you would just need to organise a meeting point for them to collect you. From the airport it is IDR 550k and from UbudIDR 300k. Even on your own, that is cheap, but way more fun to arrive as a group.
If you haven't already, get the GRAB App for getting yourself around shorter distances, so easy to jump on the back of a scooter with these guys, but you can get a car as well.
We recommend you arrive in ubud / Bali a few days before training starts to settle.
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For Bali, most travelers from eligible countries, including the U.S., U.K., Australia, and others, can enter visa-free for up to 30 days for tourism purposes. However, this visa-free entry is non-extendable, so you must leave the country by the 30th day or face penalties.
If you think you might want to extend your stay beyond 30 days, you can opt for a Visa on Arrival (VOA), which is valid for 30 days and can be extended for an additional 30 days by applying at an immigration office in Bali. The VOA costs $35 USD and can be paid on arrival at the airport or applied for online in advance for a faster entry process
If you’re staying strictly within the 30 days, visa-free entry will suffice. Make sure your passport is valid for at least six months beyond your date of entry.
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Sim Card: You can get that at the airport or I use Airalo when travelling. It's an App that you can download and buy E-sim cards with, again it will save you time.
You can use cards in Bali but cash is best. Get cash out at the airport as they don't charge you conversion fees there. Of course, having a WISE card is also best when travelling to avoid high conversion fees.
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Yogi’s Garden is situated in the mountains/jungle, and is quite remote. Because of this, we would recommend bringing some snacks with you (of course we provide meals)
Because we are in the mountains, there can be quite a chill in the morning and evenings. Please bring some warm things / shawl / blankets for practice.
Comfortable clothing that you can practice free movement in
A drink bottle
A journal and pen
An Open Mind
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
Founder & Visionary
Stephen Blase
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.
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.
DJ artistry
DJaima
Marissa creates spaces for deep self-exploration through movement, weaving together yoga, dance, and somatic practices to connect mind, body, and soul. She believes in the transformative power of movement; where freedom, connection, and expression come alive on the dance floor.
A 500-hour certified yoga teacher, Marissa has trained in Somatic Dance Level 1, 2 & 3 with Sarsha Hope. Since 2023, she has been a DJ and facilitator for community dances in Queenstown, holding space for others to move, release, and express with full authenticity. In 2024, she assisted in Portugal and has since become a sought-after DJ on the New Zealand festival circuit.
Marissa’s mission is to create safe, expansive spaces where individuals can explore their full expression wild, free, and without restriction. She is passionate about supporting others on their embodiment journeys and guiding DJs in crafting powerful, heart-centered musical experiences.
Assistant
Sierra Espinal
Sierra Espinal is a devotee to the soul of the earth and heart of humanity, raised by the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific Northwest with Honduran roots and now a humble student of the wisdom that pulses through Aotearoa and beyond. A mythopoetic, ecologically centered yoga and somatics teacher with over 1000+ hours of yoga teacher training and a 300-hour certified somatic dance facilitator.
She is the founder of Wild Earth // Rhythm and Ritual, and immersive eco-somatice dance experience that interweaves myth, storytelling, native wild plant medicines, and embodied movement to guide the soul home. Through her work, she creates sacred spaces where dance becomes a bridge between the body, the earth, and the unseen realms.
With a reverence for the body’s innate intelligence, Sierra invites others into a profound relationship with movement, nature, and the unseen forces that shape our existence. Her work is a call to remembrance—a return to the rhythms of the earth, the aliveness of the body, and the untamed wisdom and wilderness that lives within us all.
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PSYCHE
REGULAR PRICE:
$2,300 USD
This price includes course fees, all course materials, 3 nourishing farm-to-table meals daily, and accommodation in dorm room.
If you wish to upgrade your accommodation, please add:
- $100 USD more for Gladack Twin Room
- 150 USD more for Solo Sweet Room
- 200 USD more for Taj Delux
