Current Offerings
Somatic Practice for Resilience/Resistance
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January 22nd-April 23rd, 2026 Thursdays 6:30-7:45pm 13 weeks No class March 26 Facilitated by Amanda Franz Masked/Test to Unmask A weekly community of practice of gently guided body-based somatic practices to center, presence, move and grow capacity; reshaping ourselves together, within community. Integrative approach drawing from/influenced by BodyMind Centering, Contact Improvisation, Axis Syllabus, Resmaa Menakem/Somatic Abolitionism and the Strozzi Institute. |
SOMATICS FOR THE PEOPLE!
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Monthly POP-UP Somatic Support Clinic Sliding scale/Pay What You Can Somatic Bodywork A day long "clinic" offering 45-minute 1:1 somatic bodywork, nervous system stabilization tools, and care. In-Person or ZOOM options. Masking option available. Pre-registration required. Click link to learn more about upcoming clinics. |
Growing Resilience: Being Trauma Informed Course
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Facilitated by: Abbi Jaffe and Amanda Franz
BIPOC Affinity Facilitator and Teaching Assistant: Chrys Tsang Teaching Assistant: Olivia Turner WINTER 2026 Feb 7, 2026 - May 9, 2026 Saturdays, 10:30am-2pm 13 Week Professional Development Course. Join us for our 7th Annual Course. The prevalence of trauma and its effects are astounding. Join a community of professionals and other dedicated change makers for in-person experiential learning of somatics, trauma, resilience and social justice with experienced educators and practitioners. This course occurs annually each winter. |
Change Is Possible: A Body Based Approach to Healing Racialized Trauma
& Cocreating Anti-Racist Culture
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Offered Every Year
Oct-December 2025 Organized & Facilitated by: Kalé Camara, Abbi Jaffe, Amanda Franz, Hazel Turrone Join together in our annual practice groups rooted in Resmaa Menakem’s book My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies. Experienced somatic facilitators will guide important conversations, culture building and body based practices. |
Moving Possibilities through Contact Improvisation
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with Amanda Franz
October 14th, 2025 - January 20th, 2026 Tuesdays 6-8pm 13 Week Series Join us for gentle and supported practices of possibility through the foundations and exploratory practices of Contact Improvisation. |
PolyVagal for the Poly People
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with Amanda Franz, RSME/T Individualized small group course to learn and embody the concepts and practices of polyvagal theory as a support for navigating consensually non-monogamous relationships. |
Re-Embodiment Training
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with Amanda Franz, RSME/T
Re-Embodiment Training is a 20 hour personalized somatic training and coaching program 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. |
Conflict Support for the People
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with Abbi Jaffe
-Temporarily on Pause- Returning Spring 2025 Get support for a conflict in your life with Abbi. You can choose to explore the conflict through the lens of Real Dialogue, the nervous system and Polyvagal Theory or through your own somatic experience. Real Dialogue offers skills and a way of talking that can shift difficult conversations into generative conflict and understanding. The lens of the nervous system and Polyvagal Theory offers empowering information around belonging, activation/triggers, and co-regulation. Exploring a conflict through your somatic experience can support your own regulation to be able to return to the relationship with more capacity. One person seeking support, sign up for one hour. Two or more people seeing support to talk through the conflict together, sign up for two hours. To sign up: email Abbi at [email protected] Click here to learn more about Real Dialogue. |