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Monday 19th - Wednesday 28th May 2025

Bali - Yogis Garden

~ 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 trauma-informed conscious dance spaces, ensuring safety, consent, and inclusivity

~ Understand key trauma-informed principles

~ 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

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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 skillful 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 students’ 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.

    Apply Polyvagal theory to guide nervous system regulation, ensuring a safe and healing dance environment.

  • 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 a space's energy effectively.

    Offer trauma-informed conscious dance spaces, integrating resourcing, titration, and pendulation to support participants’ safety and empowerment.

    Become the most embodied, fullest version of yourself.

We have had 100’s of 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 with decades of experience in movement therapy, including various teacher trainings at the 100-hour level, as we commit to offering the highest standard of teaching methods.

Facilitators and DJs from our team hold dance spaces all around the world, and after this training, you will become part of a global network of like-minded facilitators.

With deep knowledge and expertise, we ensure that each training provides a powerful foundation for facilitators to lead with confidence and clarity.

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 till 20th December 2024 (must pay in full to receive the early bird cost) - 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

Deposit: $500NZD

Partial Pay: 3 x monthly payments over 3 months - €450.00 Euros  $800 NZD 

Partial Pay: 6 monthly payments over 6 months - €225.00 Euros or $400.00 NZD

This is minus your deposit.


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 $500NZD 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 6 weeks before the training we will refund your investment minus a $100.00 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Epic Assistants.

    We are blessed to have incredible assistants from all around the world for these trainings. Each assistant has undergone their own transformative journey and has since gone on to lead dances around the globe.

    This is the 2nd time we have run this training in Bali, and we are excited to share that this marks the 10th time we have run this training overall. As the global leading edge in somatics and dance, we intentionally limit the number of participants to ensure the development of high-quality facilitators. Our faculty and assistants are highly experienced and deeply understand how embodied ecstatic dance experiences can create healing and transformative change in people’s lives. Are you ready to stand beside us and spread this gift into the world?

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.


FAQ

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • 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 

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

- Rumi