experiential learning & podcast for helping professionals
Soul Embodied Connections
with somatic psychotherapists, TAJAH SCHALL & rachael collins
The desire for movement and connection are some of the deepest, earliest human needs.
Colonization has forcefully separated many of us from being able to consistently feel our body/mind/spirit as one. Oppressive systems and ideologies have separated us from our inherent connection to the natural world, as well as from each other. The modern world suffers from a lack of community and lack of spaces of true acceptance, which requires acknowledging and embracing our differences. White supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism compel us to minimize the importance of connection and relationship, and instead to value power, achievement, and intellect at all costs.
Our collective is facing this wound - clients are suffering, helping professionals are suffering. In part, because of a lack of spaces that can embrace the layers of what it means to hold complexity in group spaces.
‘Soul Embodied Connections’ is our response to this collective wound - a space to explore how helping professionals can hold these complexities and be of service - in an embodied way.
Through our Experiential Podcast & Learnings, we explore how to move into deep embodied connections with self, others, the natural world and Spirit. How to remember and reconnect to what makes us human as well as what makes us divine. In a way that honors our different bodies and life experiences, makes space for rupture and repair, and lifts up our shared humanness.
We hold space for folks to feel and move with their experience of collective grief, as we witness oppressive systems begin to crumble around us. We weave together rhythm, movement and interpersonal process to support deeper understanding and connection.
podcast
Soul Embodied Conversations
Listen in as we contemplate how to support humans connecting across different sociocultural locations in an embodied way. How can we as humans begin to lessen our divide - with each other, the natural world, and spirit?
This is an experiential podcast for helping professionals, activists, and those simply interested in doing something differently. The invitation is to contemplatively listen, feel, move your body, engage and be inspired.
6-week process group
The Artistry of Embodied Relationships
An experiential process group exploring the artistry of Embodied Relationships & Service. Through the use of rhythm, movement and radically inclusive process - we will explore how new(er) clinicians can find and deepen their seat as a helping professional. Come move, grieve and reconnect to yourself, community, and the transpersonal.
1-year mentorship
The Artistry of Embodied Relationships
We plan to offer an expanded container for deeper exploration and mentorship in 2025. We bring our combined 18 years of experience as Somatic Psychotherapists and faculty of Naropa University to offer practitioner training in the pillars of Embodied Relationships.
Meet your Guides
Rachael Collins
Rachael Collins, LPC, ACS, BC-DMT is a cisgender, autistic, queer white woman. She is a mother, a weaver, a teacher, a somatic psychotherapist, shamanic practitioner, and former Lead Clinical Instructor for Naropa University’s Somatic Counseling program. Rachael specializes in utilizing body based, relational and creative approaches with folks experiencing complex trauma and neurodiversity.
As well as mentoring other clinicians in truly taking their seat, her current area of exploration is in bridging the seen and unseen within our bodies and oppressive systems surrounding us in order to support folks in finding more integration, wholeness and integrity.
Tajah Schall
Tajah Schall, LPC, R-DMT is a cisgender, Black, queer woman with roots in Philadelphia (Lenni-Lenape land). She is a dancer, musician, song catcher, poet and mama.
Professionally, Tajah is a somatic psychotherapist, dance/movement therapist, and former chair of Naropa University’s Somatic Counseling program. As a social justice counselor and consultant, she is deeply committed to examining her own identities, both of privilege and marginalization, in a loving and embodied way. Tajah works to uplift the experiences of folks in marginalized bodies, and to support folks in privileged bodies recognize their privilege without getting stuck in shame or savior complex.
