Let me move you! I offer classes, workshops, retreats and custom experiences with Somos Luceros, ArcanaDance™, QiGong for Inner Balance & Harmony, Embodied Movement Explorations for Body Wisdom and Wellness, and Somatic Dance-Yoga. I also guide transformative somatic education experiences as a somatic movement therapist.

I believe my purpose in life is to serve as a conduit for others to awaken to the wisdom and joy of the body.

I am a registered somatic therapist and educator—and I often say I’m a somatic alchemist. I create and guide embodied movement experiences that help you cultivate a more loving, kind, pleasurable, respectful, and empowered relationship with your body. My intention is to support you in feeling vital, whole, strong, flexible, mobile, stable, and in harmony with your unique body.

Whether through Somos Luceros, ArcanaDance™, Embodied Movement Explorations, QiGong for Inner Balance & Harmony, or Somatic Dance-Yoga, I bring depth, compassion, playfulness, and joy to every experience. My guidance is simple and clear, inviting you to move in ways that honor your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual capacities—so that your movement aligns with your inner truth and values.

My maiden name, Lucero, means “bright star.” I am excited to move, groove and share my light with you.

Movement Offerings

Somos Luceros – Somos Luceros is a somatic dance practice that invites you to illuminate the wisdom of your body and embody archetypal qualities that bring lightness, depth, and joy. Blending movement forms such as Nia, Shake Your Soul, ArcanaDance™, QiGong, Yoga-Dance, BrainDance, and more, each class explores a unique theme designed to deepen somatic awareness and nurture qualities like strength, compassion, resilience, freedom, and joy. This is a sacred space to release the stories your body has been holding and to reclaim the radiance within. In Spanish, Somos means “we are,” and Luceros means “bringers of light” or “bright stars.” The name honors my father, my South American Indigenous ancestry, and our oldest collective ancestors—the stars themselves. We are dancing bodies of light.

ArcanaDance™ – The tarot, embodied. If tarot cards could dance—this is what they’d look like. ArcanaDance™, created by me, is a fusion of tarot and movement that feels like dance therapy. “Arcana” means secret, and dance is movement to music. When woven together, ArcanaDance™ becomes a revelation—secrets of the self unveiled through movement. It’s tarot you don’t just read—you feel it, move it, and become it.

QiGong for Inner Balance & Harmony – A gentle, 30-minute class designed to calm the nervous system, release tension, and restore energetic balance through mindful movement, breath, and intention. Each session focuses on themes like stress relief, grounding, or emotional release, incorporating breathwork, warm-ups, stretches, and flowing movements to circulate Qi. Rooted in several classical QiGong lineages and teachers, the practice often explores the five elemental energies and their connection to the body’s organs. Set to soft music, these all-level classes offer a restorative pause for body, mind, and spirit.

Embodied Movement Explorations for Body Wisdom and Wellness  – A fusion of somatic movement practices—including dance (Shake Your Soul, Nia), yoga, QiGong, archetypal expression (primarily through tarot), and other mindfulness-based modalities that support self-awareness and embodied insight. In this class, we center the lived experience of feeling, sensing, and moving in our bodies. Through intentional movement, we explore practices that foster deep self-knowing, joy, creative expression, and restoration from stress. We nourish the body’s systems—fluid, muscular, skeletal, organ, nervous, and cellular—while honoring the interconnectedness of mind, body, heart, and soul. Come move, connect, and rediscover your body’s innate wisdom and capacity for wellness.

Somatic Interludes – A somatic interlude is a pause—a space to tend to yourself with care and presence. It’s an invitation to take a break in community, free from pressure or expectation. You don’t have to be anything other than who you are in the moment. This is a gentle, supportive container to deepen your connection to yourself and the voice of your body. Together, we explore introductory somatic therapeutic practices that offer space for self-reflection, insight, resourcing, and rest—for the mind, heart, body, and spirit. Practices include journaling, simple drawing, guided movement, mindfulness, and nervous system-supportive breath and body sequences.

Coming Home to Ourselves Somatic Dance-Yoga Practice blends movement as metaphor with the expansive wisdom of yoga, guiding us into deeper embodiment—beyond the mat. Each class weaves together simple yoga postures in dance form, mindfulness prompts, various forms of meditation, mantra (in English and Sanskrit), and mudras, all rooted in the rich philosophy of yoga. This integrated practice invites you to explore the inner landscape of your being and cultivate deeper self-knowing through intentional, expressive movement.

Stretch and Fly Yoga Dance, co-created by me and Liziah Richards (www.liziahtherapies.com) is a unique empowering movement practice that combines simple dance moves and yoga. Experience original choreography that blends flowing movement and dynamic stillness.

Movement Lineage

All of my somatic movement offerings draw from trainings and various experiences, over the course of three decades, in the following modalities: SomaSoul Somatic Therapy (Leven Institute), Shake Your Soul® the Yoga of Dance, Yoga Practices (all 8 limbs), QiGong, Nia (Classic, Moving to Heal, 52 Moves, and Nia 5 Stages), African Dance, Afro-Caribbean dance, Orixa Dance, Life-Art Process (Anna Halprin, Tamalpa Institute), and BrainDance (Anne Green Gilbert, Creative Dance Center).

With deep thanks to my many somatic movement, expressive arts, and experiential healing teachers and trainers over the past thirty years: Dan Leven, Heather Bilotta, Sage Brody, Terry Anthony, Staci K. Haines, Linda Thai, Debbie Rosas, Carlos Rosas, Britta Von Tagen, Ann Christiansen, Dr. Robert Woodbine, Daisy Lee, Gary Kraftsow, Bud Stone EdD, Shari Specland, David Darling, Thomas (Tom) Myers, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Jean Houston, Stanley Krippner, Monika Kretschmar, Barbara Sarah, Anna Halprin, Anne Green Gilbert, Dr. Giordana Grossi, Aileen Panke, Steve Rosa, Youssouf Koumbassa, M’Bemba Bangoura, Susanna Barkataki, and many more.

For more about my trainings and certifications, go to About Me.

Class Schedule

Currently all classes are held via Zoom two  Sundays per month at 10AM PDT.

See my calendar for these special classes and events.

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Upcoming classes – Class registration links are updated every Thursday. 

Join me for classes on Sundays