SOUL
SOMATIC DANCE TRAINING
· Level 3 · New Zealand ·
2026 DATES COMING SOON
Venue, TBC
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Learn how to skilfully hold eros on the dance floor.
Understand how to create potent ritual space.
Deepen your understanding of your own energetic blueprint.
Evolve how you hold ecosomatic dance spaces.
No one is here by accident. Each one of us was sent here for a special destiny.
- John O’Donahue
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Harness sensual, creative energy with safety and consent
You'll explore the delicate balance of working with Eros, understanding how to guide sensual energy in a way that honors boundaries and consent.
Cultivate a space where Eros is embodied and respected
This module empowers you to hold a container where Eros is fully celebrated and embodied, ensuring an environment of respect, safety, and mutual understanding.
Create sacred spaces for transformation and intention
Learn the art of crafting environments that evoke deep connection and transformation, setting the stage for meaningful experiences.
Guide participants through meaningful rituals
Discover how to use movement, sound, and symbolic elements to facilitate rituals that deepen participants' connections to themselves, others, and the earth, emphasizing the importance of intention and energetics.
Map your unique energetic blueprint
Explore practices that help you identify and understand your personal energetic signature, revealing how it influences your facilitation style and interactions.
Attune to and honor your natural rhythms
Learn to recognize your own rhythms and energy patterns, empowering you to navigate your growth and facilitate more authentic, embodied experiences for your participants.
Integrate ecology and somatics in your practice
Discover how to weave principles of ecology into your facilitation, fostering a deeper connection between participants and the natural world.
Honor the seasons and natural cycles
Learn to guide dancers in alignment with the rhythms of nature, using the seasons and elements to create a harmonious ecosomatic dance experience that embodies symbiotic flo
When the divinity of the body is forgotten, our connection to the earth is severed.
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
DJAI Maha
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.
Assistant