Free somatic dance or strength training class online and a 20-minute consultation
Please choose either a somatic dance class or a somatic strength training class to try out for free. The dance class helps counter stress, anxiety, chronic pain, and exhaustion. It gives a mental, physical, and emotional boost and reconnects you to the joy of movement. The strength training class is calming, centering, and aligning, and helps you envision and feel your muscles and bones. No previous background with movement is needed for either class. Please see my website for more information and for class times.
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Hiie Saumaa (PhD, Columbia University) is a dancer, writer, educator, and movement artist. She teaches classes in somatic dance and somatic strength training. She writes about somatics, health, creativity, and somatic choreography in international dance and alternative therapy journals. She's currently finishing a book on the creative process of the choreographer Jerome Robbins. Hiie is originally from Estonia, studied and lived in the United States for over a decade, and is currently based in Paris, where she is teaching dance and movement courses in person and online.

Learning to paint is as easy as Dip-Dab-Swoosh!

Get ready to Dip-Dab-Swoosh your unique way!

This course is for beginners and all people who tell themselves they are not creative and cannot even draw a straight line . . .

We are all creative beings, so to share my LOVE of art and creating art, I developed this fun and casual self paced course.

In the spirit of nurturing your inner 5 year old who could dance, sing, paint and experience the joy of creating without question or judgment. In this course we explore painting as process not product and how that destinction frees your creative soul.

You will learn fun tips and techniques to launch your painting practice with more confidence and wonder.

Join me, let's get painting!

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Kim Sales is an intuitive artist and creativity coach in Minneapolis, MN. She’s worked for advertising, publishing & retail companies in various creative positions throughout her career. In 2020 she took the leap to follow her heArt and started her online art business KimSales.com that features, original work, everyday art products, prints and creativity coaching to help people ignite their creative spark and start creating again! 

The artists paintings are mix media using mainly acrylic, watercolor & oils. She uses bright colors, lots of texture and layers to evoke a feeling of discovery that invites the viewer to explore and find new details each time they look at a piece. She holds a BFA from MCAD, and spends time in her studio creating everyday - it’s her happy place!

The Lady’s Year for Joy Calendar
Anchor your daily life in a practice of Joy — and gift your friends with this opportunity — with this new calendar for your daily reflections, featuring the art of Patti Kaufman, and poems from the Poets of the Sacred Theatre community. It is based on a calendar year which consists of nine months, each named for a step on the Ninefold Path, and each with 40 days. It is perennial: not tied to any particular year. Each month is divided into four weeks of ten days each, and each week is devoted to one of the elements, Earth, Water, Fire, and Air.
Email Peggy at pegrub@aol.com 

Margaret Nash (Peggy) Rubin is founding director of the Center for Sacred Theatre in Ashland, Oregon. Primary activities of the Center include the creation of workshops in Living Life as Sacred Theatre, and Sacred Studies of the Divine Feminine. Since 1987 she has also been the principal teaching associate of Jean Houston, Ph.D., in Dr. Houston’s worldwide multicultural transformational work and in her schools of spiritual studies, as well as a member of the core faculty of the School for Social Artistry, an intensive leadership training program. Working with Jean Houston, Peggy Rubin has presented classes, workshops and trainings throughout the United States, and in Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland, Sweden, Greece, Egypt, The Netherlands, India, West Africa, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Jamaica, and on behalf of the United Nations Development Programme, in Albania, St. Lucia, Barbados, Kenya, and the Philippines.

Before joining Dr. Houston’s staff in 1987, Peggy was for 14 years the Public Information and Education Director for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one of the largest classical repertory companies in the United States. Before that she was a bank executive for First Western Bank in Los Angeles. She has also been a teacher of English, a freelance writer and editor, and an actor.

She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Texas, and has taken courses, primarily in Economics, at the University of California at Los Angeles, and in the Environment at Southern Oregon University. She has studied extensively with Elaine De Beauport, Ed.D., founder of the Mead Institute, leading teacher of humanistic and behavioral applications of current brain/mind research; and with William Emerson, Ph.D., pioneer in the field of pre- and peri-natal psychology, and its importance in understanding human development. In 2019, Peggy was awarded an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Meridian University. 

Acting roles, spanning 50 years and more:

“Peggy’s presence onstage is fierce and committed. She is determined to bring emotional truth to whatever role she has been assigned or on which she is working; she also has an all-too-rare charismatic, luminescent quality that makes her portrayals seem lit and guided from within.” 

–Paul Barnes, Founding Director of the Great River Shakespeare Festival

5 Writing From the Body Exercises to Do By Yourself
Email Cheryl at cheryl@cherylpallant.com

Cheryl Pallant, PhD, is a published author, poet, energy healer, somaticist, dancer, and teacher. Her recent book is the poetry collection Her Body Listening and the nonfiction book Writing and the Body in Motion: Awakening Voice through Somatic Practice. She leads her Writing From the Body workshops internationally, is a Reiki and Healing Touch practitioner, and teaches dance and writing at University of Richmond. Her ongoing interests include embodiment, consciousness, meditation, sustainability, contact improvisation, bicycling, and yoga. She sees somatic practices as an essential component in awakening our body in interdependent relationship with the Earth as the way forward in this pivotal moment on the planet.