Somatic Movement for Healing, Awareness & Vitality
Discover the Power of Somatic Movement
Trauma-informed movement, breathwork, meditation, and embodiment practices designed to help you reconnect with your body, process stress, and cultivate grounded presence
Course Summary
This course consists of five, 90 minute live stream classes, with optional Q and A sessions at the end. You are provided with weekly reflection prompts, practices, and resources.
The Next Course dates are July 1, July 8, July 15, July 22, and July 29. Class times are 6:15-7:45PM EST
Embodied Wisdom is an exploration of the body as a source of intelligence, healing, and creative expression.
Through somatic movement, breath, and awareness, participants learn to listen to the body, build embodied self-awareness, release held tension, and restore natural patterns of movement, vitality, and regulation.
We leave feeling empowered with skills to not only recognize and work with our pain and past experiences, but the capacity to embody joy, freedom, and ease.
This trauma-informed practice supports the nervous system while also cultivating a deeper sense of presence, joy, and connection to the body. Through intentional movement, we explore how to repattern habitual tension, support healthy connective tissue, and develop sustainable movement practices that feel nourishing and intuitive.
Over five weeks, participants will build a foundation of body awareness while learning simple tools for nervous system regulation, emotional integration, and embodied self-inquiry.
Week 1 — Returning to the Body:
Introduction to somatic movement, body scanning, and reawakening sensation. Establishing safety and awareness within the body. We discuss common impacts of trauma on the body and postural conditioning. If you have no experience with trauma and the body, this is still a powerful opportunity to learn about the nervous system and Somatic (lived) experience.
Week 2 — Retrieval:
This week we learn the core framework to our movement method throughout this course. It is accessible to all body types and levels of physical practice. We build range and mobility through and with the entire body as we learn about connective tissue (fascia) and create coherence through fluid, repetitive movement. We restore sensation in the body. Understanding how stress and trauma can affect the body, our expression, and presence. Working with tension patterns, developing biofeedback, and learning to release held energy through movement. Continuing to build embodied self-awareness.
Week 3 — Grounding & Emotional Flow:
Exploring the lower body—feet, hips, pelvis, and legs. Connecting to grounding, stability, and emotional expression, processing, and power.
Week 4 — Opening the Heart:
Working with movements that release, explore, and express the chest, shoulders, and upper body. Cultivating compassion, joy, self-love, and authentic expression. Learning self-soothing skills and nourishing/restoring the heart.
Week 5 — Integration & Expression:
Bringing the whole system together. Experiencing freedom in movement, integration of the practices, and reconnecting with the body’s natural creativity and play.
Somatic—of the living body.
This course is about discovering yourself through connecting with personal truth-the truth we feel and express in and through our bodies.
Over five weeks, we explore how the body holds experience—and how, through intentional movement and awareness, it can also revitalize, regulate, and restore.
It is a playful, practical, embodied approach to healing, expression, and deeper self-connection.
Course Curriculum
Your Guide
Kelsey Wishik
Kelsey Wishik is a distinguished guide in the realm of self-discovery and natural connection. A yoga and movement instructor, artist, and musician, Kelsey holds ERYT-200 and ERYT-500 certifications and is a Continuing Education provider for the Yoga Alliance, with over 25 years of experience in yoga, meditation, and martial arts.
Her teachings are a rich blend of yoga philosophy, biomechanics, somatic movement, neuroscience, pranayama, meditation, dance, and quantum physics, reflecting a deep commitment to the holistic exploration of self, nature, creativity, and consciousness. Her movement work is informed by principles of sustainability and longevity, emphasizing nervous system integration, healthy connective tissue, and empowered movement patterns that cultivate presence, resilience, and lasting vitality.
Participants in her programs are guided on a journey designed to foster a profound understanding of self in harmony with nature while engaging thoughtfully with the contemporary world and its unique insights and challenges. Through carefully held containers of reflection, movement, and inquiry, participants are guided on transformative journeys that support deeper awareness, integration, and personal evolution.
With global experience facilitating workshops, retreats, and community circles, Kelsey offers a unique pathway for individuals seeking to reconnect with their inner wisdom, creative vitality, and authentic relationship with the natural world.
I can confidently say that Kelsey's practice comes from a place of deep connection & wisdom of the multifaceted layers of the human being. She has the gift of holding safe, healing space that allowed me to fully drop in, shed, & gain clarity. I highly recommend Kelsey to anyone who may be feeling the pull, trust it!"
Kelsey Wishik is a powerhouse of a teacher. Her wisdom, knowledge, and ability to be a mirror as well as a guide along this human path is top notch." -Brooke P.
Brooke P.
Course Pricing
Community Sustainer Tier
$265 USD
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This rate is offered to support access to the work for those who may need it
Mission Sustainer Tier
$300 USD
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Your investment helps create access for more individuals and helps grow these programs
Four part payment plan
4 payments of
$75 USD
per month
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4 monthly payments of 75 to total $300
Embodied Wisdom is about emerging from shields, stories, patterns with a wealth of skill to listen and connect with one’s life force, to lovingly expand the edges of our beliefs and how those beliefs have impacted our movement-- thru life and the world.
We are the keepers of this body, it is our sacred vessel. This course gives authority to lived (somatic) experience—to our inherent ability to be in relationship with life from the inside out.
This course is Trauma-informed, inclusive to all people and levels of movement capacity.
This course is certified by the Yoga Alliance as a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Resource. Registered Yoga teachers and other approved practitioners can receive 15 Hours of CEUS
Includes transformational, integrative journaling prompts for further self-development.
Connects a global conscious community of kindred spirits on the personal and shared journey of deeper self-understanding, healing, and actualization of our potential.
Who is this for?
This course is for anyone who feels the call to come back into relationship with their body.
It’s for those who may feel disconnected, overwhelmed, or stuck in patterns they don’t fully understand—who may have accumulated tension, holding patterns, pain, or impacts of trauma.
It’s for people who want to move beyond purely mental approaches to healing and self-awareness, and instead experience themselves through sensation, breath, movement.
This is for people who want to FEEL BETTER and more comfortable with their bodies.
This is for spaceholders and facilitators who want to be more informed, trauma-conscious, or receptive to the evolving nature of our understanding of movement.
This is for people who want to build community and connect with joy, expression, relief, ease, and self-discovery through movement! For people who want more agency in affecting how they FEEL or build self-regulation skills, and learn about the Nervous System.
You don’t need any prior experience with somatic work, yoga, or movement practices. All bodies, all levels of mobility, and all backgrounds are welcome.
This work is also an opportunity to discover ease in the body as a skill—something that can be learned and practiced to create healthier, more coherent patterns in the body.
