PSYCHE
SOMATIC DANCE TRAINING
· Level 2 · Bali · 2027
20th to the 30th July 2027 · Bali, Uluwatu · Salty Prana
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-aware 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.
Package Pricing :
Level 1 & Level 2
SOMA&PSYCHE
If you're feeling called to join us for the full path, we’ve designed a special offer with you in mind. Here is our Level 1 and Level 2 package pricing:
$ 6,000 NZD
This price includes both course fees, all course materials, and 3 nourishing farm-to-table meals daily.
THIS TRAINING IS FOR YOU IF:
• You have completed Somatic Dance Level 1 or equivalent experience
• 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.
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 These parts are not broken or outdated; they were formed to protect, organise, and help us survive.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
Level 2 training is held at Salty Prana Retreat Center, sitting high on the Bukit Peninsula in Uluwatu, overlooking the beautiful blue sea with views stretching on towards Nusa Penida.
Amazing sunrises and sunsets, as both shalas have unblocked views over the ocean towards the east and south.
Single Room
SUPER KING SIZE BED
28 SQM ROOM
AC
ENCLOSED BATHROOM
Twin Share
TWIN BED 100X2OO
28 SQM ROOM
AC
ENCLOSED BATHROOM
Dorm Room
4 BEDS 100X2OO
35 SQM ROOM
AC
ENCLOSED BATHROOM
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!
Select the DEPOSIT option during registration and checkout, and our team will reach out to discuss available payment plan options with you.
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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
Since 2016, she has been on a journey to what she knows now to be her soul's purpose. It began with being shaken loose from the comfortable life she had been living just prior to her 40th birthday. It was a blessing that opened the doorway to start exploring all aspects of this world and to get to know more about herself.
Along the way, she was led to a Yoga Teacher training with Sarsha Hope in 2021. She had always been a lover of music and going out to dance, but the training awakened a curiosity to know more, and before the yoga training was finished, she knew she was going to complete the Dance Training the same year.
After the training, she bought her first set of decks and speakers and started running her own dance spaces, beginning with an outdoor Dawn Dance on 22-02-2022.
She looks back now and thinks, "WOW, I did that!" She has been holding dancefloors every month since then—whether it is her own Somatic Dance, retreats, workshops, DJing Vinyasa Yoga classes, significant birthdays, underground gigs, or festivals.
AssistantNatasha Mason
Sarah Menlove
Sarah has a deep love and passion for creating sacred spaces for people to drop the masks, come home to their bodies and connect to their most authentic, alive, free Selves, where the full spectrum of the human experience can be welcomed, expressed and loved. Over the past 4 years she has been sharing the medicine of Somatic Dance throughout NZ, at festivals such as NZ Spirit, Wellfest, Morph Festival and Resonate, as well as at private retreats, online and in-person group journeys, community dance events in Southland and with private 1:1 embodiment clients.
Sarah began her journey with Somatic Dance in 2021, completing Level 1 in Taranaki and has been back every year since, in both assisting and student roles and has since completed all three levels. Having previously left competitive sport and overcome body image struggles and restrictive eating, dance became a way to connect with her body (and Self) in a whole new way, discovering fluidity, softness, flow and strength, passion and drive could co-exist together.
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PSYCHE
EARLY PRICE is :
$ 3,199 NZD
This price includes course fees, all course materials, and 3 nourishing farm-to-table meals daily.
