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We’re a social impact company building a new paradigm of healthy human connection on campuses, at workplaces, and in lives. Through education, speaking, coaching, and movement, we help teens and adults break free from suppression, unlock joy and fulfillment in their lives, bodies, and relationships, and create positive change in the world.

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BREATHE Somatic Movement 8-Week Group Program

Unravel what your body holds

restore the assuredness
of your inner compass & pilot light

and receive fuel to build momentum in what you care about.

 

An 8-week somatic movement immersion in repatterning your nervous system, reclaiming possibility with a greater sense of personal solidarity, and taking meaningful action toward what matters most to you

 
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A guided, online-based program with live interactive practices and self-paced curriculum you can access from anywhere

Weekly movement-based sessions (with all guidance recorded to engage at your own pace), with two focused co-working sessions to support your goals and progress.

 
A hand-written font reads, "BREATHE is an invitation to unburden your being and allow more ease, joy, and embodied aliveness to unfold."

Photo credit: David Fennig, Dance Matters

What if all the elements you know you need for your care and thriving but aren't getting around to doing could be woven into one, comprehensive program to elevate your wellbeing, evolution, and liberation? —

  • Body movement that tends to your unique needs and prioritizes FUN rather than being boring or painful

  • Adaptive practices to help you feel more grounded, confident, and energized in your daily life

  • Progress on your healing goals or trauma recovery, integrating body-mind-spirit & all the parts of who you are

  • Connection with caring people who get it

  • Edifying support, like steady training wheels, to help you take brave action and realize the things you care deeply about

 

good News.

The no-BS, radically non-judgmental, trauma-informed, and absolutely doable-no-matter-your-mood-or-mobility-needs personal care & liberation program is here!

Welcome to the BREATHE™ group program — blending movement, self-attunement, recovery, and the oomph to do your thing.

We're honored to witness your unfolding and walk alongside you every step of the way.

Could this be the season to unclench your shoulders and embark on this fortifying and generative 8-week journey with us?

 

Through trauma-conscious, neurodivergent-affirming practices grounded in somatics, psychology, neuroscience, and community care, this 8-week immersive experience will guide you in:

Photo credit: Of Breath & Bone

  • Repatterning your nervous system with more fluidity to move through survival states, expand your body-mind's sense of safety, and return to a felt sense of connection with life. This helps release the grip of subconsciously stored trauma and allows you to respond to stress and act toward what matters to you with greater adaptability and responsiveness.

  • Releasing stuck emotions, patterns, and energetic blocks that are ready to move through. In doing so, you’ll access more intuition, personal power, and alignment to fuel your meaning-filled progress and liberation.

  • Integrating all the parts of who you are. By using somatic movement to befriend your parts from various life stages in addition to heart, mind, body, and spirit, you'll reconnect to your wholeness and inner compass, reclaiming the self-acceptance and trust to weather life's challenges while honoring what's most essential for your care, sustenance, and fulfillment.

  • Taking sustainably-paced steps to re-envision your dreams and progress on your most meaningful goals. You'll develop personalized practices to anchor you and provide a sense of grounding and solidarity as you navigate change. And with our scaffolded curriculum and built-in community support, we’ll co-build capacity and momentum to advance your most meaningful aspirations.

This 8-week journey blends nervous system science with music, movement, soulful exploration, and sustenance-building tools

Through the power of somatic movement, adaptive guidance, joyful infusion of rhythms from around the globe, and community support, you’ll hone skills to:

  • Integrate more parts of your being

  • Collaborate with your inner compass

  • Mobilize for brave action while calling on your self-protection

  • And access a wellspring of resources to fuel your evolution.

This is not surface-level self-care, but a deep, community-rooted practice that opens you to the resourcing of your whole self and the world around you.

We need who you are and what you have to share.

 
 
 

What’s included in the BREATHE somatic movement 8-week journey

We support your unfolding and reinforce your learning through these Pillars:

 

Read more about our commitment to accessibility, payment plan options, and partial scholarship application — including a Supporter Level registration to help expand access — in the Pricing Options section..

 
 

There's no one-size-fits-all approach here

Folks arrive at the BREATHE™ Somatic Movement Group Program through their own unique reasons, experiences, and nervous system needs. If you're curious if the BREATHE™ group experience could be a helpful part of your journey right now, see if any of these feel like they speak to your current needs.

You might be someone who:

  • Senses energetic blocks or patterns holding you back, and wants to release what’s not helping and access more of your power and joy.

  • Craves more adaptive movement that nurtures your unique body and nervous system needs.

  • Is in therapy or pursuing other healing work, and senses that a “bottom-up,” body-based approach to address what’s stored on a cellular level and develop embodied ways to befriend your limbic brain would provide the aligned support and momentum your process needs.

  • Has creative passions and aspirations that need momentum, support, and embodied integration to flourish.

  • Feels on the verge of a breakthrough, and yearns to unclench from tension or overwhelm and reclaim a sense of freedom, pleasure, and self-integration to fuel your accomplishments and meaningful connections as you move forward.

  • Navigates neurodivergence, disabilities, or chronic pain or illness, and seeks flexibility, accommodations, and a trauma-informed, restorative space to get your needs met.

  • Is an empath or changemaker who cares deeply about things, and would benefit not only from a community reminding you that every step counts, but from welcoming FUN in your days to help you keep going.

  • Values truly inclusive spaces that honor the safety, dignity, and belonging of all people, genders, mobility types, and bodies.

  • Is curious to explore an embodied sense of safety in connection with others, so you can grow and deepen nurturing relationships.

  • Appreciates a blend of structure and freedom, where you can direct your movement and expression as the authority on what feels safe and true to you.

  • Thrives in non-performative space where your presence in any mood, state, or “didn’t feel like It today” is wholly honored as an integral part of our community.

 
 

you're invited to be, move and explore as fully, freely you.

Throughout your movement journey, you’ll be guided with the freedom to add as much gentleness or intensity as you need and adapt to what best serves YOU in each moment.
There is never a wrong way to move!

Our practices use gender-neutral language and intentionally open space for all bodies to move according to their own mobility needs. As we honor varied sensory and nervous system needs during live sessions, there are also no obligations to share, use the mic, or be on camera.

All you need to bring is yourself — in any state of being.
You are welcome and needed here.

 
 
 

what makes this program different

What sets the BREATHE program apart is the way we've woven together:

  • The rigor of brain-body science and trauma-informed principles

  • A prioritization of play and fostering your creative spirit

  • A tangible path forward to identify and act on the current aspirations of your heart and soul

  • An intimate, small-group, radically nonjudgmental setting with a whole person and humanity-centered approach — where you will be seen and heard (only if you want to be!), affirmed, supported, and celebrated throughout your process.

at the core of this unique approach are four transformative pillars:

Nervous system support, specifically a focus on fostering fluidity and harmony in the nervous system and stimulating the ventral vagus circuit to facilitate return to safety and connection.

Re-Integration, the process of tending and befriending all parts of self to restore a sense of wholeness and internal resourcing.

Inner Compass/Internal Locus of Control, using the modalities of movement, music, and guidance built into this program to facilitate the neuroplasticity needed to access and grow one's sense of true north and personal power.

Authentic Expression with Safety and Connection — practicing free expression in the safety and privacy of our movement spaces and the setting of community care, with support as you take steps toward what matters most to you.

Finally, at the heart of the BREATHE program is the understanding that true transformation happens through movement — NOT in a prescriptive way, and not just physical, but a movement of the whole self to connect with what you care about most.

 

what if you could combine your movement needs with body liberation, collective healing, and tangible progress toward what you care about most?

Imagine a movement practice that meets you exactly where you are — restoring fluidity to your nervous system, reconnecting you to your wholeness, and fueling your capacity for brave action. That's the BREATHE journey.

Through trauma-conscious, neurodivergent-affirming guidance, BREATHE is a movement journey in the truest sense. You won’t only gain collaboration with your inner compass, self-trust to navigate life’s challenges, and a wellspring of sustenance to propel your most meaningful dreams forward —

You will MOVE from where you are now to a new space.

A space where you and your nervous system are closer, more attuned friends.

A space where your capacity for self-honesty and expression can deepen intimacy and connection in your life.

A space where you’re SEEING and feeling results from the courageous steps you’re taking.

A space where the hopes and aspirations you’ve accessed in your heart align with the shaping of your days.

A space where you’ve cultivated safety to be unedited, and freely you.

This is not surface-level self-care, but a community-rooted experience that connects you with the full resourcing of your being and the life around you.

If this 8-week somatic adventure sounds like it could benefit you and your nervous system, we'd be honored to have you join us. We believe BREATHE could be a powerful part of your journey.

The authentic expression you have to share with the world around you is needed.

 

your breathe™ 8-week Program Roadmap:

Curriculum & live session dates*

*Dates to be updated when registration opens for our next BREATHE 8-week group program

Dates and times below are in Eastern US time — here’s a handy tool for converting to your timezone

Our 8-week, scaffolded structure includes ten (10) total live, interactive sessions:
- Six (6) BREATHE™ somatic movement sessions
- Two (2) free-dance parties to integrate somatic discoveries and mark milestones at weeks 4 & 8
- Two (2) focused co-working sessions to support your momentum in taking action on what matters to you

Each session has 2 hours allotted, including optional time for self-reflection and recording takeaways in your workbook, questions, discussion, and optional check-ins at the end.

You’ll receive recordings for all learning content, BREATHE™ sessions, and somatic practices shared, as well as curated playlists from each movement session. Our dance parties and co-working time will not be recorded.

Please note for your privacy, participants on camera are not included in recordings.

 

Week 1: Core Touchstones to Navigate Stress and Change — BREATHE™ session with learning content
Wednesday, September 18, 2:00pm EDT
The science behind BREATHE — the nervous system, polyvagal theory, and trauma & the brain
Refining rituals to support your wiring, needs, and neurotransmitter levels
BREATHE somatic movement practice

Week 2: Survival Reactions & Somatic Shaping — BREATHE™ session with learning content
Wednesday, September 25, 2:00pm EDT
Mixed nervous system states
Identifying your somatic shaping
BREATHE somatic movement practice

Week 3: Resourcing for Sustenance, Here and Now — BREATHE™ session with learning content
Wednesday, October 2, 2:00pm EDT
How parts work and somatics can integrate
Exploring personal declarations
BREATHE somatic movement practice

Week 4: Milestone Dance Party! — Mobilizing, Shedding, and Welcoming New Space
Wednesday, October 9, 2:00pm EDT
Anti-oppression, inclusive self-compassion practices
Drawing upon somatics to access your free expression
Practicing affirming ways to mark your milestones

Co-Working Session — Focused time to unwind, get things done, and celebrate your progress!

Thursday, October 10, 2:00pm EDT
Gentle movement warm-up with intention-setting
Pomodoro-style intervals with an option to name your goals for accountability & support
Option to dance it out as we celebrate each cohort member’s progress

Week 5: Practicing Boundaries, Expression, and Connection on the Continuum of SafetyBREATHE™ session with learning content
Wednesday, October 16, 2:00pm EDT
Types of safety and the brain
Fortifying your agency — a personal “owner’s manual,” and ways to approach re-magnetizing your compass when needed
BREATHE somatic movement practice

Week 6: Reimagining Dreams with Self-Honesty and Embodied FreedomBREATHE™ session with learning content
Wednesday, October 23, 2:00pm EDT
Confidence-building exercise
Writing and movement to access re-imagining — with no way to do it “wrong”
BREATHE somatic movement practice

Week 7: Taking a Leap with Support and Soft Landing Space — BREATHE™ session with learning content
Wednesday, October 30, 2:00pm EDT
Somatic practice: Blending
Defining your leap
BREATHE somatic movement practice

Co-Working Session — Focused time to unwind, get things done, and celebrate your progress!

Friday, November 1, 2:00pm EDT
Gentle movement warm-up with intention-setting
Pomodoro-style intervals with an option to name your goals for accountability & support, and work on your leap
Option to dance it out as we celebrate each cohort member’s progress

Week 8: Dance Party — Celebrating & Amplifying Your Magic in Connection
Wednesday, November 6, 2:00pm EDT
Somatic practice to embody and remember your “misfit” superpowers
Celebrating leap progress
Free dancing — breathing with your emergence, and honoring collective liberation

 
 
 

about the instructor — Blending Science, Soul, and an ethos of care

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Hi! I'm Lori (she/her), a somatic movement practitioner, sexuality & relationships educator, and violence prevention advocate. As a complex trauma survivor, I created the BREATHE™ practice and group program with acute mindfulness of tender and frazzled nervous systems, navigating disabilities, pain, and injuries, and the needs of neurodivergent & highly sensitive people.

After 20+ years of teaching movement and dance as a metaphor for healthy expression and connection, I wanted a practice that could tend to overloaded nervous systems, get people out of their heads and any semblance of doing it “right,” support survivors, and integrate the body/mind/heart/spirit — without such barriers as centering esoteric, extrovert-mandated, or able-bodied practices in its guidance.

With a lens of accessibility and disability justice linked with fierce resolve to never tell anyone how they should look, move, or feel in their uniquely beautiful body, I combined movement with brain and nervous system studies and experience working with pain management, trauma-informed care, and the body-mind as an ecosystem, and BREATHE™ was born.

Grounded in principles like polyvagal theory, parts work, and generative somatics, BREATHE™ weaves together intentional music, movement, and creative practices to uncomplicate embodiment and reclaim movement’s original role in our lives — exploration, linking with your inner compass and power, nervous system processing, a sense of connection, and PLAY! I’ve been honored to witness clients experience increased clarity, self-trust, and the ability to take meaningful action after engaging in this practice.

With radical non-judgment, ease, and fun, the BREATHE™ group program provides a gentle space to thaw, connect with the life force inside, and experience the profound sense of possibility that arises when you're affirmed and surrounded by community care. You’ll walk away with tangible restorative practices, more accessible movement in your life, powerful discoveries about yourself, and so much more.

I'm deeply committed to offering a truly inclusive, trauma-informed environment where all are welcome to tap into their inner superpowers, embrace all parts of themselves, and share more of their authentic self wherever safety is exchanged — without the burden of having to "do it right." I'm honored to guide you on this BREATHE™ journey and witness your unfolding.

 
 

scenes from our Community — where movement, self-discovery, and connection come together to support your whole-person wellbeing and evolution

 

Pricing & Payment Options

At the Rose Model for Healthy Relationships, we are dedicated to fostering a world free from violence and abuse, building healthy connections, breaking down systemic barriers, and advancing collective liberation. Throughout our history, we've consistently donated services and resources to make our education and guidance accessible to youth and adults in need.

Our pricing structure is designed to balance accessibility with the sustainability needed to continue serving our clients and community at the highest level. As part of our commitment to ensuring accessibility, we will open partial scholarship spots to this program if we have sufficient full-paying and supporter-level registrations to balance sustainability. We encourage you to reach out if you'd like to discuss payment plans and options for accessibility support.

Choose the level that best fits your needs, knowing your participation helps our collective create meaningful change.

  • Supporter Level — $555
    Join the BREATHE™ Somatic Movement Group Program and and contribute to a greater cause. By choosing this level, you're helping us extend the benefits of this program as well as our violence prevention initiatives and healthy self, relationships, and sexuality education to more teens and adults in need.

  • Core Level — $444
    This is the standard rate for the current cohort of the BREATHE™ Somatic Movement Group Program. It covers the full program experience and all included resources.

  • Bring-A-Buddy Discount — $369 per registrant — available for the first 5 pairs of registrants
    We believe in the power of intentional community, and are making this special discount available to our valued community members as an opportunity to engage in the final 8-week BREATHE™ Somatic Movement Group Program of 2024 together. Invite a friend, family member, or colleague to join you, and you'll both save $75 per ticket. By sharing this expansive experience, you can deepen your sense of solidarity and support throughout the process.

Additional Support
We are committed to making the BREATHE™ group program accessible. If cost is the barrier preventing you from joining, we encourage you to reach out. Partial scholarships may be available, depending on the number of full-paying and supporter-level participants.

To explore flexible payment plans, or If you have specific questions or prefer a more personal discussion, please email Lori.

To inquire about scholarship opportunities, please fill out our scholarship application form.

We appreciate your understanding and are here to support your journey in any way we can.

 
 

a message from breathe’s founder about the purpose behind this program

 

frequently asked questions

 

If you have questions that haven’t been answered, please reach out!

We’re standing for your care, and would be honored to welcome you into our BREATHE™ community.

 
 

Accessibility Information:

The session will have closed captioning in English, the font size on any slides will be 24+, Lori will read aloud what is shared for the group in the chat box on the Zoom platform, and we are guided by disability justice principles. Please contact Lori to confirm that your needs are supported and honored.

 

future movement-based programs & trainings

If this doesn’t feel like the right time for you to join our BREATHE cohort but you want to stay in the loop about future programs and trainings, you’re welcome to fill out this brief form to receive notification when future programs open for registration.