WISDOM OF THE MOVING BODY

An online, experiential class in trauma-informed movement practices
for movement educators, psychotherapists, body workers and somatic practitioners

with
Paula Josa-Jones MA, CLMA, MSME/T, SEP, TTEAM

Four Thursdays
April 30, May 14, May 28, and June 11, 2026
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM MT
LIVE Online (recording available)

Cost:
$699

This class will be offered through the
Somatic Experiencing International
Click on the link for details & registration!

Movement is our first language - one we share with all beings of all species. As Body-Mind Centering founder Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen says, "Movement is as fundamental to the body as structure. We are designed to move and through movement we develop our brains and our minds. The body creates itself through movement."

This experiential, four-module program is designed for somatic practitioners, students, body workers and psychotherapists who wish to bring trauma-informed movement practices more fully into their work.

The intention of this class is to build confidence in your ability to integrate movement as a tool for both deepening embodiment and supporting trauma recovery by expanding your somatic movement skills and understanding.

Movement allows us to sense and feel ourselves and others with greater clarity and curiosity. In connecting with the body's own innate rhythms and movement impulses, we open to deeper expressivity and vitality. Grounding experience in the moving body dissolves the separation between inner and outer experiencing through conscious movement, breath, touch, sound and imagery.

Cultivating movement awareness and becoming more comfortable with integrating movement into your practice enhances your observational, relational and attunement skills, including your ability to track your own system as you observe changes in the other person.

Playful, grounded, and deeply experiential, this course offers a rich opportunity to expand your somatic movement vocabulary and equips you with practical skills to enhance client outcomes. By participating, you can expect to build greater confidence in trauma-informed movement, foster resilience and vitality, and support more effective trauma recovery within your practice. Classes incloude demos, discussion and embodied exploration.

Participants will learn to:

  • Build skill and confidence in your ability to integrate movement into your therapeutic or teaching practice.
  • Understand how movement awareness can enhance your observational and relational skills, including attunement and co-regulation.
  • Learn how to bring both improvisational and intentional somatic movement perspectives and embodied practices to your work with clients.
  • Understand the fundamentals of Laban Movement Analysis, Body-Mind Centering and other somatic movement practices, and how they can expand movement expression for ourselves and our students or clients.

    Paula Josa-Jones brings her experience in dance, somatic movement studies and improvisation and performance to her work, weaving her knowledge of Laban Movement Analysis, somatic and embodiment practices, Authentic Movement and Somatic Experiencing®, as well as over 25 years of embodied work with horses as partners and collaborators. She says, "At the core of my teaching is a passion for movement that springs from an unpredictable, limitless aliveness in the body. Being in the body means experiencing it in a bloodful, breathing way that is transformative and improvisational - diving into the deep waters of the body and all its wild possibility." www.paulajosajones.org