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DANCE EMOTIONAL DETOX

A 24-Practice Journey from Emotional Baggage to Embodied Freedom.

Let Go of What You've Been Carrying. Reclaim Who You've Always Been.

EXPLORE 24 SOMATIC DANCES TO SWEAT OUT THE LIES, CRY OUT THE GRIEF, SHAKE OUT THE FEAR, AND BREATHE BACK YOUR TRUTH

Explore 24 sacred somatic dances to sweat out the lies, cry out the grief, shake out the fear, and breathe back your truth.

Through rhythm, ritual, and raw feeling, you'll release what your body has been holding and come home lighter, freer, fully alive.

This is where Buddhist wisdom meets trance dance meets somatic liberation.

Are you ready to experience a spiritual exorcism through movement?

When you let dance become your medicine and emotion become your teacher, liberation becomes possible.

Welcome to your Emotional Detox: a full-body prayer to your becoming.

By the end, you won't just feel better. You'll feel reborn.

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Who Would You Be Without Your Sad Stories?

Imagineā€¦

  • Waking up without the weight of yesterday's pain dictating today's choices.
  • Accessing the full range of human emotion ā€” from grief to joy, rage to love, fear to awe ā€” instead of being stuck in just two emotional gears, often numbness, anger, or anxiety.
  • Sleeping deeply, thinking clearly, creating freely, and responding to life instead of reacting from old wounds.

This is what becomes possible when you release emotional baggage.

Most of us carry unprocessed emotions we don't even know are there.

They're the missing link in our healingā€”unconsciously running and ruining our lives, keeping us overreactive or numb, trapped in patterns we can't think our way out of.

You don't have to stay in your sad stories. You're worthy of a new life.

And your body already knows how to set you free.

The Hidden Cost of Unprocessed Emotion

When emotional baggage goes unprocessed, it shows up as:

Limited emotional range

Operating in only two gears (numb/angry, numb/sad, happy/sad)

Overreacting or shutting down

Unable to feel what you feel when you feel it

Mental Loops

Ruminating on the past, stuck in your head instead of your body

Exhaustion and poor sleep

Carrying tension your nervous system can't release

Blocked creativity and joy

Desensitized to aliveness, unable to access inspiration

Repeating painful patterns

In relationships, work, and self-sabotage

Physical symptoms

Chronic tension, fatigue, pain, or illness with no clear cause

Disconnection from meaning

Feeling flat, spiritually numb, or like something essential is missing

Relational fallout

Difficulty creating safety, trust, and real intimacy

The barrier to feeling alive is the baggage of the past.

And without centering healing around the body and what's alive in the body,
you stay desensitized.

But there's another wayā€¦

Real Stories of Healing through Somatic Dance

 
 
 
 

What Freedom From Baggage Actually Feels Like

When you dance with the unprocessed emotions and complete what your body needs to release, the shifts are profound:

Your mind relaxes.

Thoughts slow down and rumination fades, replaced by a clarity that lets you think without anxiety clouding every decision.

Your creativity awakens.

Ideas begin to flow again as inspiration returns. You feel genuinely connected to your aliveness instead of just going through the motions.

You sleep deeply.

Your nervous system finally gets permission to rest and restore, leading to the kind of sleep that actually rejuvenates you.

You respond instead of react.

Old triggers begin to lose their grip as you meet life with presence instead of unconsciously playing out the same patterns.

Your emotional range expands.

You discover you can:

  • Feel waves of sadness without collapsing into them
  • Experience anger without it becoming destructive
  • Access joy without guilt shadowing it, and
  • Touch gratitude without fearing you'll lose what you have
You remember who you are.

As you shed your baggage, youā€™ll restore your natural vitality, your authentic self, the you that's been waiting to come home.

How Somatic Dance Releases What Words Cannot

Being human hurts.

We carry grief, shame, fear, anger, and most of us were never taught how to feel it, let alone release it.

Instead, we numb, explode, dissociate, or collapse.

Somatic dance is different.

It doesn't ask you to talk about your sad stories. It gives your body the space to move your painā€”to let it breathe, shake, and transform.

The Method Behind the Movement

Our somatic dance approach is based on the renowned Somatic Activated Healing Method (SAH Method), which has achieved a 93% breakthrough rate across thousands of students worldwide.

The Somatic Activated Healing Method isn't random movement or choreography for performance:

It's a carefully designed map for your emotions and your nervous system. Each class guides you step by step through a process of release and renewal.

Somatic Activated Healing:

The Components That Create Transformation

Gets you out of your head.

Trauma, stress, and shame trap us in loops of thought. Dance drops you back into sensation, into the present moment.

When you consistently reconnect with your body's internal awareness, you begin to notice tension, anxiety, or overwhelm before you become completely dysregulated.

Completes the stress cycle.

Animals shake and move to release survival energy. Humans don't. Somatic dance gives your body permission to do what it knows: discharge, reset, restore.

Daily practice creates a safe container to allow the body to complete this self-protective response and release the bound-up energy.

Unlocks buried feelings.

Emotions are felt before they're named. When you move, stuck emotions rise to the surface safely instead of festering inside.

Emotions are felt before they're named. When you move, stuck emotions rise to the surface safely instead of festering inside.

Rewires your nervous system.

Every time you move through fear, grief, or anger in dance, your body learns it can feel without being destroyed.

When your nervous system repeatedly experiences safety through movement, it creates new neural pathways that counteract defensive patterns associated with trauma. That's resilience.

Expands your emotional range.

Instead of being stuck in two emotional gears (or worse, completely numb), you learn to embody the full spectrum: anger, grief, joy, freedom, compassion, gratitude, inspiration.

You become fluent in feeling.

Reveals joy again.

Beneath all the survival patterns is your natural vitality. Somatic dance reconnects you to joy, freedom, and creativity.

Real Stories of Healing through Somatic Dance

ā€œThank you for helping me reconnect with movement, dance, freedom, joy. Thank you for showing me what it truly means to be in my body. To be in the present moment and how to heal from this space.ā€

Katie

ā€œI jumped onto your session this morning . . . knowing I would have a release but huneeeeee I feel like I released years of hurt and grief, even in that short time.Ā  I comforted my little inner child and my teenage self and all my selves in those moments, like there was a higher me, holding each versionĀ  THANK YOU!ā€

Ellie Jane

ā€œSah, my heart is dancing to a new beat and you will forever be part of its rhythm. Thank you for your PRESENCE and your LOVE. Thank you for opening the door that I danced through to heal on a deeper level, give on a deeper level, connect on a deeper level. I am more home in my body than I have ever known in this life.

Amy

It is so powerful and will leave you feeling amazing! And did I mention the fun factor involved? You will feel like you're at a dance party but it's much more than that, you are letting go of all that emotional baggage that has been weighing you down and making you feel so crappy.

With each practice, you will be peeling back the all the emotional layers of shame, anger, blame, fear etc. to make room for the emotions of love, joy, peace etc.

Tammy

"I finally understand what mindfulness FEELS like in my body. The panic attacks that once controlled my life now pass through without taking me under."

Michael W.

"NOTHING worked for my depression like this. Not medication. Not therapy. Not meditation. Until SAH. Now I feel alive again."

David M.

"One session. That's all it took to prove me wrong about movement-based healing. Decades of tension released from my shoulders in an instant. I actually cried."

James T.

"My blood pressure normalized. I sleep through the night. I'm actually present with my family. All because I learned to release stress through movement."

Carlos R.

How Somatic Activated Healing Works:

Transformation Without Talking

Here, we don't ask you to analyze your pain or explain your trauma. We help you move it and release it, so you can reclaim yourself.

The body knows what it needs to say. We simply give it permission to speak through movement instead of words.

The Musical Journey

Carefully curated soundscapesĀ pull you deeper into the emotional body, helping bypass mental resistance.

Each track is intentionally chosen to meet you where you are and guide you through the emotional arc of the practice, creatingĀ a sonic container that makes it safe to feel what needs to be felt.

Safe but Wild

This method is structured enough to provide a safe container for processing trauma, yetĀ wild enough to evoke feelings of ecstasy, primal energy, and freedom.

You're held by the framework while being invited to fully express yourself, to let your body move however it needs to move, without judgment or constraint.

The Body Keys

Our proprietary toolkit consists ofĀ 20 core somatic movements, called ā€œbody keysā€ā€”each one designed to unlock access to a specific emotion.

Every Somatic Dance practice is built around a clear intention, with a carefully chosen combination of body keys designed to help you embody it.

Instead of thinking your way through feelings, your body becomes the direct pathway to emotional freedom.

The Ritual Container

Each class is a ceremony. You enter heavy, journey through the archetypes ā€” the universal emotional landscapes we all carry ā€” and let the body speak what words never could. You leave lighter, clearer, more alive.

These practices create a sacred space where transformation happens, where your movement becomes prayer and release becomes possible.

The Trance State

Itā€™s the moment your thinking mind quiets, and movement begins to lead you.ā€ØYour breath deepens. Your awareness sharpens.Ā Your body finds rhythms older than language.

In this space, something ancient and wise wakes up inside of you.ā€ØTime loosens. Inhibition dissolves. You stop ā€œdancingā€ ā€” and the dance begins to move through you.

This is the power of trance dance: it bypasses the rational mind and opens a direct channel to emotion, memory, and spirit.

CELEBRATED BY

YOUR 24-PRACTICE ROADMAP

Trust
Love
Power
Liberation

These four gateways form the complete roadmap, each one building on the others to support your journey from emotional baggage to embodied freedom.

GATEWAY 1: TRUST & SURRENDER

Intention: Learning to trust life, let go of control, and feel safe in the unknown.

Practices

  1. There Is No Rush: Open the journey with surrender and patience
  2. I trust in the unresolved pieces of my life: Make peace with the unknown
  3. I trust that thereā€™s opportunity in my heartache: Let pain become a catalyst for growth
  4. I trust that I am impacting the world: Recognize your unique contribution to collective healing
  5. Freedom in Stuckness: Find flow inside difficulty
  6. Closure Ritual: What are you letting go of? Who are you forgiving? What are you ready for?

What Emerges: Nervous system softens, trust in timing, forgiveness, readiness for new life.

GATEWAY 2: SELF-LOVE & BELONGING

Intention: Healing the heart, reclaiming worthiness, and anchoring in love.

Practices

  1. Nurture a loving relationship with yourself: Release self-doubt and become your own best friend
  2. Cultivate Compassionate Connections: Deepen relationships through presence and kindness
  3. Own Your Place in the World: Step into your power and claim your space
  4. Letting Go Is An Act of Self-Love: Discover freedom in release
  5. I Love and Accept Myself: Embrace your worthiness without conditions
  6. Cultivating Confidence & Authentic Relationships: Build connections rooted in truth

What Emerges: Embodied self-acceptance, open heart, deeper belonging, relational courage.

GATEWAY 3: POWER, PURPOSE & RESILIENCE

Intention:Ā Reclaiming energy, direction, and inner strength.

Practices

  1. I Cultivate Peace & Power:Hold strength without strain, softness without collapse
  2. Know Who You Are:Anchor in your essence beyond roles and expectations
  3. What's Your Dream?Dance your deepest vision awake
  4. I'm Gonna Win:Fierce commitment to thriving
  5. Unshakable Abundance:Dance into trust in life's generosity
  6. Grief and Resilience:Alchemize pain into purpose

What Emerges:Ā Clarity, grounded strength, resilience, confidence in life's unfolding.

GATEWAY 4: AWAKENING & LIBERATION

Intention:Ā Dissolving identity, dancing the mystery, becoming everything.

Practices

  1. Rhythms of Resilience: Embody rhythm and adaptability
  2. Unapologetically Alive: Celebrate freedom and aliveness
  3. No Self: A Rebellion Against Ego & Identity: Dance beyond the prison of "I"
  4. No-Self in Motion: Taste the liberation of emptiness through movement
  5. Gate Gate Pāragate Pārasamgate Bodhi Svāhā: Mantra of transcendence
  6. This Beat Is All We Have, No One, and Everything: Final liberation dance, merging into the great mystery

What Emerges:Ā Realization of non-duality, ecstatic presence, embodied awakening, peace beyond striving.

What You'll Receive

This offering includes:

  • 24 transformative somatic dance videosĀ (1 hour each), hand-selected from Sahā€™s library to guide you through a variety of emotional landscapes and healing intentions
  • A complete journey from baggage to freedom: You'll begin where trust and surrender soften your grip on control, move through the heart-opening work of self-love and belonging, step into your power and purpose with clarity, and culminate in the liberating experience of awakening beyond ego and identity.
  • Journaling prompts for each practice to help you integrate what arises, deepen your awareness, and anchor the shifts happening in your body and nervous system.
  • Your blueprint for lasting change: These 24 practices will help rewire your nervous system and build capacity to stay grounded, recover from stress, and regulate your emotions naturally.

Lifetime access, so you can return to the practices again and again.

Real Stories of Healing through Somatic Dance

 
 
 
 

This Is For You If Youā€¦

  • Youā€™ve tried therapy. Youā€™ve done the self-help. And yetā€¦ your body still feels stuck.
  • Are ready to expand beyond your default emotional patterns.
  • Want to release grief, shame, or fear without being consumed by them.
  • Long to sleep better, think clearly, and create more freely.
  • Are ready to discover who you are without your sad stories.
  • Want a practice that heals, energizes, and awakens joy all at once.

Meet Sah Dā€™Simone

Sah Dā€™Simone didnā€™t learn somatics from a book.

He was trained by silence in Himalayan monasteries where he sat for weeks, and by tranceā€”on dance floors across Southeast Asia.

Healing didnā€™t come from theory, but from trembling, weeping, sweating, breathing, an intimacy with the body so deep it dissolved the need for words.

Before founding the Somatic Dance Institute, Sah spent over a decade immersed in Buddhist meditation, frontline humanitarian service, and global movement rituals. He cared for orphans in Indonesia. Brought hope to formerly enslaved individuals in India. Taught recovering addicts in Nepal. Offered spiritual care at Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Empowered unhoused youth in Los Angeles.

His pedagogy wasnā€™t born in comfort, it was born in survival. Forged at the crossroads of contemplative rigor, embodied liberation, and direct service to suffering.

A spiritual teacher of global reach, Sah has impacted millions through bestselling books, viral transmissions, and radical trainings. Heā€™s spoken at the DAVOS World Economic Forum, Harvard and Columbia Universities, Google, the United Nations, and received the City of Los Angeles CARE Award. His film Following the Unrieved Grief won Best Experimental Film at the Cannes World Film Festival. He also hosted the groundbreaking British television series Big Celebrity Detox.

But Sah doesnā€™t belong to institutions.

He belongs in the lineage of the wounded healer. The ones who werenā€™t trained in classrooms, but in crisis.

Who turned trauma into truth, pain into presence.

Sah is not just the founder of the Somatic Dance Institute.

He moves with the method. And lets it move through him.

What defines him isnā€™t the accolades. Itā€™s the awakening: the people who come undone in his presence, and finally feel free.

Through this devotion, heā€™s built a global fellowship of clinical psychologists, ritualists, shamans, and somatic pioneers, birthing a faculty unlike anything else in the field of embodied transformation.

The Somatic Dance Institute was born from Sahā€™s lived story, standing for an embodied, experiential truth that transcends anything books or theories could ever offer.