Awaken whole body aliveness. Inspire health and resilience.
Positionality:
Amanda is a 5th generation US born white, queer, abled, AFAB, settler of Slavic and Germainic descent. Amanda grew up working class in the rural Midwest on lands of the Osage, Kickapoo, Peoria and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ peoples and has lived as a renter in the unceded territory of the Western Abenaki since 2007. As a somatics and trauma educator, body worker, embodiment activist, community organizer, witch, and tender of the Alive (food, medicine, relationships, non-human kin, community culture), Amanda is committed to learning and unlearning the lived and woven places of privilege and oppression, embodied and enacted through each of these roles. Guided by their positionality and through trauma informed/resilience oriented, anti-racist and decolonial practices, Amanda is invested in re-culturing whiteness, redistributing power, and re-centering relationship to address the past and present harms they, and their ancestors, have perpetuated. |
Bio:
Amanda is a politicized somatics educator, embodiment activist and changemaker working at the intersections of somatics, the trauma informed movement, social justice, environmental justice and cultural co-creation. They/She is a certified Somatic Body Practitioner and is an ISMETA certified Somatic Movement Educator, as well as a certified Level II Collab trainer and facilitator. She/They collaboratively run The Everything Space, a somatic education studio weaving together personal growth and dynamic social change, co-creates/facilitates curriculum on Growing Resilience through being Trauma Informed, and co-leads a collective community Garden Project that reimagines community through tending the non-human Alive and growing food and medicine together. Amanda Franz has been a student, an educator, and a performing artist of various somatic movement modalities since 2000 throughout the United States, and in Canada and Russia. Her work weaves together many revolutionary forms as threads of a deep listening to the self as body in service of the Great Turning. She holds a BA in Visual Arts from Oberlin College and forever holds Missouri(lands of the Osage, Kickapoo, Peoria and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ peoples), the place of her birth, dear to her heart. |
Amanda Franz offers somatic movement education
for individuals, professionals and organizations through:
private sessions of movement repatterning & bodywork,
classes & workshops,
retreat facilitation,
coaching for collaborators, and
organizational consultations.
I look forward to working with you soon.
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Services for Individuals
Every thought and experience we have is experienced through the body, including sensation, emotion, and movement.
Somatics is the act of listening to the body, which allows the wisdom of the body to be heard.
Somatics is a practice and skill set that can be learned.
Let us support you to access more of your body’s intelligence, discover more ease in movement, and boost your resilience.
Somatics is the act of listening to the body, which allows the wisdom of the body to be heard.
Somatics is a practice and skill set that can be learned.
Let us support you to access more of your body’s intelligence, discover more ease in movement, and boost your resilience.
Somatic Movement Education Sessions:
Our bodies are our first homes, from which we move, act, feel and engage with the world around us. Our connection to ourselves as body is impacted by our life experiences and directly influences our ability to have healthy relationships, homes, communities and cultures.
By cultivating a whole body awareness and living from and within that embodied experience, we begin to notice the patterns of stress and trauma in our lives and start to process them in different ways.
Sessions with Amanda:
This is for individuals, couples, partners, or families.
Sessions may include movement repatterning, bodywork or even a contact improv lesson.
Learn more.
5 session package
10 session package
"Amanda is gifted in her ability to convey healing and understanding through touch, word, and movement. She offered me solace and support through a difficult time and instilled more capacity in me to listen to and care for myself." -C.G., Collab Facilitation Co-founder
"I had the great pleasure of working privately with Abbi. As someone who loves dancing but is not comfortable with a lot of contact, i needed to approach the practice of contact improvisation and touch gently. I could not have asked for a more skillful, compassionate and attuned guide. She led me through experiences that opened doors, possibilities, and deepened my connection to myself, to gravity and to other. I walked out of the beautiful Everything Space feeling greater ease, peace and openness." ~Fearn Lickfield, Green Mountain Druid School
Our bodies are our first homes, from which we move, act, feel and engage with the world around us. Our connection to ourselves as body is impacted by our life experiences and directly influences our ability to have healthy relationships, homes, communities and cultures.
By cultivating a whole body awareness and living from and within that embodied experience, we begin to notice the patterns of stress and trauma in our lives and start to process them in different ways.
Sessions with Amanda:
This is for individuals, couples, partners, or families.
Sessions may include movement repatterning, bodywork or even a contact improv lesson.
Learn more.
5 session package
10 session package
"Amanda is gifted in her ability to convey healing and understanding through touch, word, and movement. She offered me solace and support through a difficult time and instilled more capacity in me to listen to and care for myself." -C.G., Collab Facilitation Co-founder
"I had the great pleasure of working privately with Abbi. As someone who loves dancing but is not comfortable with a lot of contact, i needed to approach the practice of contact improvisation and touch gently. I could not have asked for a more skillful, compassionate and attuned guide. She led me through experiences that opened doors, possibilities, and deepened my connection to myself, to gravity and to other. I walked out of the beautiful Everything Space feeling greater ease, peace and openness." ~Fearn Lickfield, Green Mountain Druid School
Services for Professionals and Organizations
Re-Embodiment Training: Re-patterning through Cultivating Somatic Intelligence:
with Amanda Franz, RSME
Re-Embodiment Training is a 20 hour personalized somatic training and coaching program, offered by Amanda Franz,RSME, to guide and educate individuals in developing somatic intelligence. Applicable to people of all professions and walks of life, you will learn skills of building embodied resilience, why this is vital in creating change, and how to apply those skills in your workplace, communities, and organizations. Pulling from many different fields of knowledge and somatic modalities, this training provides an embodied lens for making change in the world from the inside out.
Learn more.
"I just completed the Re Embodiment Training with Amanda Franz and I could not recommend this course enough. Amanda holds amazing space and offers an incredible amount of information and resources to allow the information of study around the nervous system to sink in and land in the body. I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to understand why they feel the way they do in their body, anyone who wants to understand how to support others going through traumatic experiences or people processing past experiences. I feel this is information that is helping me feel more comfortable in my body and in supporting others on a energetic and emotional level. ~S.K, doula, and personal trainer"
Coaching for Collaboration:
From co-workers and co-teachers to people in marriages, we use somatic practices and facilitation expertise to support people who work together to find more connection, understanding, ease and flow.
Organizational Education, Consultations and Retreats:
We develop somatic embodiment curriculum specific to the needs of your organization or school and are also available to implement that curriculum. This can happen through long term collaboration, class series, workshops and lunch and learns.
Examples from organizations we have worked with so far:
What is Somatics? for Northern Vermont University
Embodied Knowing: Listening from the Inside Out for Goddard College
Embodiment as Revolutionary Action for Goddard College
Listening to Bones, Breath and Blood for Goddard College
The Somatics of Collaborative Facilitation for Round Sky Solutions-
Teaching Presence and Inquiry for Central Vermont Montessori School
Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Training for Middlebury College-
Blurring Environment and Self for Sterling College Performance Ecology class
Cost Structure
Personal Somatic Movement Education and Collaborative Coaching Rates:
$85/hr, with a sliding scale of $55-
$120 for 90 minute sessions, with a sliding scale of $85-140
Cancellation policy: We request 24 hour notice to cancel your appointment
$85/hr, with a sliding scale of $55-
$120 for 90 minute sessions, with a sliding scale of $85-140
Cancellation policy: We request 24 hour notice to cancel your appointment
Money is one of the languages of our culture. We acknowledge that living in a capitalist economy shapes our access to the many services and resources that sustain our lives. We acknowledge the various forms of systemic oppression and their impact on bodies. We hold accessibility as a core value and strive to make our services and classes as accessible as possible in multiple ways. And, we still live inside the capitalist economy, and also need to feed into that system at times to pay for the resources that sustain our lives. Here are some ways that we are relating to cost structure that attempts to hold a balance between the work that goes into offering you high level services and the access we believe in.
Service and classes are offered on a sliding scale.
Often, but not always, work trade or scholarship geared towards diversity are available.
Sometimes external grant options like VSAC are available.
How to interpret our sliding scale:
We state the cost of the class/service while offering a sliding scale.
For example: Class series = Cost: $240 ($160-320 sliding scale available)
We believe the true cost of the course is $240, and we offer a sliding scale with a low range to make it accessible and a high range for community members who are able to give more to do so, to support those paying on the lower end of the scale. Please pay at the highest level of the sliding scale that you can afford. This supports others to access our services.
Service and classes are offered on a sliding scale.
Often, but not always, work trade or scholarship geared towards diversity are available.
Sometimes external grant options like VSAC are available.
How to interpret our sliding scale:
We state the cost of the class/service while offering a sliding scale.
For example: Class series = Cost: $240 ($160-320 sliding scale available)
We believe the true cost of the course is $240, and we offer a sliding scale with a low range to make it accessible and a high range for community members who are able to give more to do so, to support those paying on the lower end of the scale. Please pay at the highest level of the sliding scale that you can afford. This supports others to access our services.
The Everything Space: 64 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Montpelier VT 05602
