Somatic Dance Teacher Training

level 1 | soma

MOVE TO THE RHYTHM OF YOUR SOUL

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:

~ DJ for ecstatic dance containers

~ Skilfully open and close ecstatic dance spaces with deep embodied wisdom

~ 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 skillful 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

  • 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.

  • 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 sort after DJs and create abundant dance spaces in their local communities.

When we have stepped through the fires of our own soul’s transformation, then we have the capacity to guide others in the deeply healing medicine of dance

I no longer pray—
I let my ancestors dance
through my hips
at the slightest provocation.


-Chelan Harkin

Payment Details

Investment:

Early bird - first 5 accepted is 2,700 NZD or 1,490 euro. This includes course fees and all meals.

You will then need to add your accommodation choice (So add the course fee, with your desired room choice above).

Normal price after early bird is $2,900 NZD or 1,620 euro This includes course fees and all meals.

You will then need to add your accommodation choice.

Payment Plans

Partial Pay: 3 x monthly payments over 3 months - $920 Early bird $999 NZD full price

Partial Pay: 6 x monthly payments over 6 months - $460 early bird $490.00 NZD full price

These payment plans do not include the cost of the accommodation.

How To Pay:

Press the apply button below, and let us know what room you have chosen.

We will then send you an email with the different was you can pay:

- If you are coming from NZ, you can pay a direct deposit

- Through a wise transfer if paying in another currency

- Or we can send you a payment link through stripe.

Once you have been accepted a deposit of $300 is required to hold your place. This will then be deducted from the remaining amount.

  • Daily Schedule

    8.30 am – 12.00 pm – Meditation and Embodiment

    12.00 – 1.00 pm – Lunch Break

    1:00 – 3:00 pm – Dance/ DJ 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 1 pm on the first day so you can check in and have lunch before we begin.

  • Cancellation Policy

    Refund 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 need to 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 2 weeks of the start of the training, we will refund 50% of your investment. There can be no refunds once the training has started.

    A reminder the deposit is non-refundable but is transferable.

    Note we strongly recommend that you have travel insurance,

  • Exceeded my wildest expectations!

    Before finding this training, I thought something like this only existed in my imagination (and I’ve been manifesting this hard!). And then it fully exceded all my wildest expectations.

    To be in a container with so many empowered embodied women, with so much care put into every detail and feel all the wisdom of the teachers - pure magic.

    Thank you so much for all your time & support - I feel like I not only gained so many skills, it felt like a whole upgrade of my system. Plus a whole community of embodied facilitators as a bonus!

    • Mia (Portugal 2023)

  • Depth & Power

    “I have witnessed many practices, but I have never experienced the depth and power of conscious movement so attuned and authentically embodied to each individual’s unique gifts. This training was beyond all my expectations.”

    • Sarah Campus

  • Embodying Wholeness

    The somatic level one training was unlike anything I’ve experienced. My unequivocal enthusiasm for conscious dance met the incredible facilitation from Sarsha and Blase and every day unravelled another little piece of my spirit, inching closer to remembering who I am when I embody my wholeness.

    Sarsha’s depth of guidance, knowledge of embodiment and beauty throughout is awe inspiring and Blase’s DJ lessons, easy going and gentle spirit as well as his flawless curation of the music throughout are just divinely matched. If you want a true deep dive into your realness, rawness and vulnerability, then these two hold space for all of it. The course was a seamless spirit, dance and sound journey that had the potency to uncover me in ways that nothing else can in quite the same way.

    Since completion, I’ve held regular dances in London and and each on is a rich, incredible experience that draws from the experience of the somatic dance team. I can’t wait to see how it all develops

    -Isabell

  • Unknown to new beginnings

    “I arrived [at the training] prepared for the absolute unknown… not realising this would be a new beginning.

    In unity, we sweated, cried, laughed, screamed, moved, and prayed. We entered the universe and exploded into new star beginnings.

    If you are called here, be ready, ready to receive this potent gift of moving love.”

    • Riana Evelyn

  • Beyond anything I could have anticipated...

    The Somatic Dance Teacher Training (Portugal ’23) was a transformational immersive journey of both inner and outer landscapes beyond anything I could have anticipated.

    Diving deep into the principles of movement, exploring how to craft a journey of Somatic Dance, trauma informed guidance on holding space plus the technical DJ skills, we left more than equipped with tools to offer deep medicine through movement. Sharing this journey on beautiful land with a group of powerful sisters made the experience even more potent.

    A true embodiment of the magic she offers, Sarsha has been one of the most beautiful, wise and integral teachers of my exploration into somatics both in and outside of the teaching role. With Blase co-facilitating and holding the epitome of divine masculine energy behind the decks, the synergy of the whole team created a watertight container to learn, to feel, to release, to heal within.

    With the imparted wisdom and guidance of integral teachers, experiential learning engrained in the body and connection and sharing of the wider Somatic Dance International community, the journey from the training into the outside world felt integrated and supported and offered the confidence to be able to share my first Somatic Dance offering just a few months later across multiple conscious festivals in New Zealand.

    -Helen

  • I have been faciliating dance ever since!

    “In September 2020, I attended the Somatic Dance Teacher Training with Sarsha Hope. It was 10 days of a bunch of amazingly creative, loving people diving deep together, learning, releasing, sharing, and showing up. It was LOVE.

    I have been facilitating dance ever since, and my students leave the space feeling relaxed and their most authentic versions of themselves.”

    • Za Idelon

  • Gratitude:

    “What a magnificent unfolding I experienced [at the Training] and the beautiful humans that gathered!

    To my delight, this experience was so much more than I expected! It was much more expansive, and there were so many unexpected gifts, including the embodiment of my sexuality, confidence, listening, channelling, and self-connection.

    Sarsha, I highly regard your presence, transmission, and knowledge in the spaces you hold and would recommend your training to all humans who are ready to express more through movement, uncover more of themselves below the surface and be in presence.”

    • Whakarongotai Nikora

  • Life changing!

    “The Somatic Dance training changed my life completely. Not only was I given the confidence to lead intelligently crafted embodiment journeys, which I am now doing regularly, but I went through a deep process of healing and awakening myself during the 10 days. It was so powerful that I have now done the training twice and would do it a third time in a heartbeat. The training helped me to open my voice, find my own unique expression, cultivate new levels of connection to my body, break through blocks that had been limiting me for a long time and truly celebrate who I am. All while surrounded by the most amazing and supportive humans who provided a safe space for me to surrender to the process. Sasha’s body of work is extremely profound, and I highly recommend this training to all.”

    • Emily Ruygrok

  • Unfolding the truth of who I am

    “This embodied training experience is a deeply creative transformative journey into the soul…inside out. I am so privileged to have access to such potent teachings that get embedded in my cells every single day since. To embody the learnings is the real knowledge of Self, and what bliss to do this with a collective that shares the intention of delving deeper and unfolding the truth of who they are. I fully recommend listening to your heart and inner calling to embark on this journey with Sarsha, whom I humbly take as a teacher in this life, with deep gratitude to you and the whole team.” 

    • Rana Hamida

  • WE CAME TO BE DANCED

  • NOT THE DRESS ME UP IN HIGH HEELS, GLASS OF WINE IN HAND DANCE

  • NO

  • IT'S THE DANCE UNTIL YOU SHATTER YOUR EGO'S GRIP OF THE "I AM NOT ENOUGH" STORY

  • AND MOVE UNTIL THE DEEP EMBODIED KNOWING ARISES, THAT IT IS SAFE TO BE SEEN AND HEARD

  • AND I REMEMBER HOW TO TOUCH THE FABRIC OF REALITY DANCE

  • IT'S NOT THE SWAY ON THE SPOT OR STAY IN YOUR BOX KIND OF DANCE

  • FUCK THAT

  • ITS THE RAW WILD PULSING OF BLOOD DANCE

  • FEEL YOUR BAREFEET ON THE EARTH DANCE

  • AND PURIFY YOUR HEART WITH ALL THE UNSHED TEARS DANCE

  • WE CAME

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Sarah Campus

    Sarah is a passionate facilitator of somatic dance and ritual, dedicated to igniting, healing, and connecting people through the transformative power of music and movement. With over 25 years of embodied expertise in contemporary dance, performance, somatics, and yoga, Sarah brings a wealth of experience to the dance floor.

    Trained by Sarsha Hope in somatic dance levels 1 and 2, she offers a unique blend of raw creative power, creating brave and enriching spaces for individuals to explore their human dimensions through conscious movement. As a qualified embodied somatic dance facilitator, Sarah is committed to fostering a vibrant and supportive environment where the joy of dance becomes a profound journey of self-discovery.

    Sarah is also a sort after somatic dance facilitator at New Zealand’s leading wellness festivals and has been on the assisting team for somatic dance teacher training’s for 6 years now.

  • Natasha Mason

    Natasha Mason’s journey is a beautiful odyssey of self-discovery and soulful connection.

    Enriched by her Embodied Flow Yoga and Somatic Dance training experiences, Natasha left the corporate world in 2021 to offer brave spaces for others to connect back into this human body, through yoga, dance and sacred circle. Natasha has facilitated + DJed over 25 somatic dances in the community.

    In 2024 Natasha co-created epic somatic dance experiences at Resolution and Spirit Fest.

    A gifted creator of somatic sacred space, a ritual romancer, Natasha weaves the threads of this ancient medicine to guide transformative journeys that echo her own. Natasha welcomes you into this stunning community.

  • Emmalee Bevan

    Cosmic creator

    Hair Wizard , Empowerment coach - trained in NLP and emotion codes.

    Somatic dance facilitator DJ, Raw food chef and Yoga teacher.

    Emmalee has been working one on one with clients for 25 years and has a focus on emotional well-being through somatic’s energy healing and NLP unlocking the doors to self-discovery.

    Emmalee is your ultimate vibe tribe and motivator.

    With an eye for tailoring and designing experiences in well-being for groups around the world in the UK - Bali and New Zealand.

    1:1 coaching, Group coaching, online courses retreats and Rituals.

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.


"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

- Rumi