Embrace Your Authentic Self and Elevate Your Expression

SECTION 1

The JourneyDance Embodiment & Emotional Empowerment Experiences

In the Embodiment Experience you will become so embodied, open and present that you can listen to your heart’s calling and align with your true essence as you dance your way into love, wisdom, power and deep connection with yourself and others.

• Reconnect with yourself through the JourneyDance™ Embodiment Series and Heart Series

• Explore the chakras and learn energetic anatomy

• Expand your emotional intelligence

• Open and claim your voice

• Feel energetic connections and somatic healing techniques through Toni’s Heart Series

• Explore transformational structures, movement, imagery, process, and rituals

• Immerse in music as a tool for transformation

This is our reimagined Module 1 & Module 2 Teacher Training in the past.

SECTION 2

JourneyDance® and Sacred Drama Practices Weekend

With our Trauma Informed Faculty:

• Discover how Movement & Music are alchemic tools for transformation and self-healing.
  
  
• Learn the JourneyDance Somatic + Movement Processes that moves you through unresolved past pain.
  
  
• Embody energetic & emotional clearing techniques to expel negativity, and increase self-esteem and confidence.

This is our reimagined Module 3 Teacher Training in the past.

SECTION 3

Online Trauma Informed & DEI Mini Module Weekend

Understanding what trauma is and:

• Identifying different types of trauma/adversities
• Understanding common reactions to trauma
• Exploring short- and long-term consequences of trauma exposure

SECTION 4

5 Day In Person JourneyDance Experiential Practicum

Celebrate this 6 month journey.

• Receive ongoing support from expert-JourneyDance facilitators who will give you the support each step of the way
• Shared teaching experience
• Be confident in your offering and brainstorm your next steps.

Diversity Equity & Inclusion Awareness Faculty

Joanna Hollis

Joanna (she/her/hers) is a priest and a coach in the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey. She believes in celebrating the wonderful diversity of humanity and regularly speaks and teaches both formally and informally on the topics of justice, diversity and inclusion. Joanna is active in denominational work around LGBTQIA+ inclusion and is trained in anti-racism.  She is an avid lover of all things Divine Feminine, a Level 3 Reiki practitioner and a JourneyDance teacher. Prior to ordination in 2009, Joanna taught Japanese language and culture in public schools in California and holds a BA in Japanese Studies, an MA in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (MATFL) and a MA in Divinity (MDiv).

Diversity Equity & Inclusion Awareness Faculty

Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC

Hilary is a licensed professional counselor, facilitator, educator, speaker, writer, and activist. She is the co-founder of the Center for Body Trust and co-author of the book,  Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing and Liberation. Hilary’s private practice, where she specializes in disordered eating and dieting, body shame and weight bias, and trauma, has been thriving for over 19 years. Her counseling framework is collaborative and informed by a relational, systemic and social justice lens. Hilary has additional training in workshop facilitation, mind-body coaching, and is a certified Daring Way facilitator. She is a sought after speaker on topics such as weight-inclusive approaches, weight bias, Body Trust and the intersections of activism and therapy. She offers individual counseling and coaching, consultation, and trainings for organizations and professional groups.

Diversity Equity & Inclusion Awareness Faculty

Michelle Brass

Michelle is a speaker, writer, and health and wellness coach deeply committed to the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples and communities. Her work is focused on the areas of Indigenous food sovereignty, Indigenous health and wellness, personal healing and transformation, and community well-being.

Trauma Awareness Faculty

Amie Koontz

Amie is an integrative psychotherapist, educator, musician, myofascial release & neuromuscular therapist, yoga, movement & mindfulness instructor, relationship coach and sexologist in training working with humans of all stripes, relationships of all structures and organizations in Vermont (and beyond). Additional training in Gender Studies, Human Sexuality, Cultural Competency, Trauma, Neuroscience, Mindfulness, Somatic Work, Polyvagal Theory, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Music and Art.

Trauma Awareness Faculty

Sarah Hentges

 Sarah is a professor of transdisciplinary cultural studies and the founder of The Spiral Goddess Collective, a Center for Mind/Body Movement. Sarah’s work draws on a vast and varied set of experiences in and out of academia and the world of fitness including her Ph.D. in American studies, RYT-200 certification in yoga, 100+ hours of trauma-informed yoga teacher training, a 50-hour certificate in Embodied Social Justice from The Embody Lab, is a JourneyDance Faciltator. She has over 25 years as a fitness instructor, 20+ years teaching college classes, and 15 + years as a yoga instructor.

JourneyDance Trauma Awareness Facilitator in Mexico

Rodrigo Gonzales Zazoya

Rodrigo has more than 25 years of experience in the field of dance, and is a dancer and choreographer who graduated from the National Center for Contemporary Dance. Additionally, he has a master's degree in Guidance and Human Development at the Humanist Institute of Gestalt Psychotherapy, as well as being trained in Psycho-Body Dance Therapy and Hakomi Psychotherapy. He is the first certified JourneyDance™ facilitator and trainer in Mexico. Rodrigo has also studied "Body, Trauma, and Addictions in Gestalt" with Michael Clemmens (USA) and has completed the "Trauma and Gestalt Diploma" at the Marist University of Querétaro. He currently serves as the coordinator of the body area: Humanity at the center "Utopia Gestalt," and he is the creator and teacher of the Humanidanza Training program, which has produced 5 generations of students. Rodrigo currently offers practices, intensives, and workshops in JourneyDance™ and other disciplines, as well as provides conferences, classes, and workshops at universities, companies, and congresses in Mexico.

Trauma Awareness Faculty

Lorena Norwood

 Lorena has been a JourneyDance ®  Facilitator since 2012. Lorena is a graduate of Smith College with a B.A. in Clinical Psychology. She has been supporting families and individuals across the lifespan in strength-based human services for 30 years. She developed and delivered trauma-informed interventions in the areas of domestic and family violence and addiction recovery while working at the Western Massachusetts Training Consortium for 10 years. She brought this to her work at the Salasin Project and provided weekly JourneyDance ® classes for 8 years to the Franklin County Community. She has combined her knowledge and understanding of trauma informed practice with JourneyDance ® and continues to teach weekly classes at
Terradyne Wellness Center in Head of Jadore, Nova Scotia, Canada, where she resides
with her partner and where she can be found beachcombing year-round.