EMBODIED SPIRITUALITY

by Sah D'Simone

Mental Health Misinformation on Social Media: Reflections from My Harvard Collaboration

Mental Health Misinformation on Social Media: A Harvard Collaboration on Decolonizing Wellness

By Sah D’Simone – Founder of the Somatic Dance Institute & Creator of the Somatic Activated Healing™ Method

I'm honored to share that I recently had the privilege of collaborating with Harvard University...

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Somatic Dance vs. Talk Therapy: What's the Difference?

By Sah D’Simone – Founder of the Somatic Dance Institute & Creator of the Somatic Activated Healing™ Method

In recent years, more people are waking up to a truth long known by mystics and healers: the body remembers what the mind forgets.

For decades, talk therapy has given us language for our pai...

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What Somatic Dance Is — and What It Is Not

A lineage-rooted, clear-eyed guide (with love) from the Somatic Dance Institute

By Sah D’Simone – Founder of the Somatic Dance Institute & Creator of the Somatic Activated Healing™ Method

Somatic dance is not a trend, a vibe, or a playlist with candles. It’s a way of knowing—an embodied study of t...

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Decolonizing the Body: The Colonial Virus, Superiority Complex, and the Courage to Feel

By Sah D’Simone – Founder of the Somatic Dance Institute & Creator of the Somatic Activated Healing™ Method

Inside our virtual Somatic Activated Healing™ Teacher Training, where students from across the globe are learning to become somatic dance coaches, I found myself cracked open in ways I didn't...

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The True Origins of Somatics: Decolonial Practice, Embodiment, and Liberation Through Somatic Healing

By Sah D’Simone – Founder of the Somatic Dance Institute & Creator of the Somatic Activated Healing™ Method

I didn’t enter somatics through academia, I entered through devotion.

Through months of silence in a monastery in Nepal, where my body became the text and my breath the teacher. Through nigh...

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