Let me move you! I offer classes, workshops, retreats and custom experiences with Somos Luceros, ArcanaDance™, 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 somatic therapist and educator, and I love to say that I am a somatic alchemist. I create and facilitate embodied movement experiences that support you in having a more loving, kind, pleasurable, respectful and empowered relationship with your body. I want you to feel vital, whole, strong, flexible, mobile, stable and in harmony with your unique body.
Whether it’s through Somos Luceros, ArcanaDance™, Embodied Movement Explorations for Body Wisdom and Wellness, or Somatic Dance-Yoga, I am a masterful embodied movement facilitator, bringing compassion, playfulness and joy to any experience. My guidance is simple, clear and will allow you to move your body in ways that honor and align with your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual capabilities 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 – We are light, embodied. Somos Luceros is a somatic dance practice designed to illuminate the wisdom of your body and cultivate deep embodiment of archetypal qualities that offer lightness, depth and joy. The dance moves are simple and guided by the language of storytelling, opening new chapters in our bodies where we can see and feel our most luminous potential. Release the stories in your body that weigh you down and reclaim your light. In Spanish, Somos means “we are” and Luceros means “bringers of light” or “bright stars.” This name honors my father, my paternal indigenous ancestors in South America, my heritage, and our collective oldest ancestor, the stars. We are dancing bodies of light.
Embodied Movement Explorations for Body Wisdom and Wellness – A fusion of somatic movement practices that includes dance (including Shake Your Soul & Nia), yoga, QiGong, archetypal expression (mainly tarot), and other modalities that emphasize mindfulness and that guide self-knowing. In this class we center the experience of living, feeling, sensing and moving in our bodies. We learn practices to know ourselves more deeply, cultivate joy, restore from stress, explore creative self-expression, and ways to nourish the various systems (fluid, muscular, skeletal, organ, nervous, and cellular) of our body. Move your body, develop a deeper appreciation for the intelligence and wisdom of your body, and to learn practices to be well in mind, body, heart and soul.
ArcanaDance™ – The tarot, embodied. If tarot cards could dance, this is what they’d look like! Created by me, ArcanaDance™ is a fusion of tarot and movement that feels like dance therapy. Arcana is defined as a secret. Dance is defined as movement to music. When fused together, ArcanaDance™ is defined as a secret that is revealed through movement.
Somatic Interludes – A somatic interlude is a pause from your day to tend to yourself. We meet once a week, for one hour via Zoom, to take a break in community. During this hour there is no expectation or pressure to be anything or anyone other than who you are in the moment. This is a no pressure container to get to know yourself, and the voice of your body, more deeply. Together, we explore introductory somatic therapeutic practices designed to offer space for self-reflection, revelations, resourcing, and respite for our mind, heart, body and spirit. Practices include journaling, simple drawing, guided movement, mindfulness practices, and nervous system supporting breath and body sequences.
Coming Home to Ourselves Somatic Dance-Yoga Practice brings together movement as metaphor with the expanse of yoga with the intent to guide us to deeper embodiment beyond the yoga mat. These classes include simple yoga postures in dance form, mindfulness prompts, various meditation practices, the application of mantra (in English and Sanskrit), mudras, and the weaving in of the rich and deep yoga philosophy that guides us into deeper levels of self-knowing.
Stretch and Fly, 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 on Sundays at 10AM PDT.
See my calendar for these special classes and events.
Upcoming classes – Class registration links are updated every Thursday.
Join me for classes on Sundays
Somos Luceros – Dance of Emotional Resilience with the Breath: Nourishing our Nervous System and Lungs (via Zoom)
Date: Sunday October 27, 2024
Class Time: 10:00AM PDT
Time Zones: 10:00AM PDT | 11:00AM MDT | 12:00PM CDT | 1:00PM EDT
Pay what you can in exchange for the class experience ($5-$25).
Class is one hour.
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsd-2uqzouHdyW096zZ0aeL8DzHnZUsAk3#/registration
Join us for the Dance of Emotional Resilience with the Breath: Nourishing our Nervous System and Lungs
In most dictionaries, resilience is defined as the ability to return to an “original form or position after being bent, compressed, or stretched.” In other words, after life throws us off center, we are able to recover, bounce back and move forward. Resilience allows us to notice and harness where we have the agency to navigate the ups and downs of life.
It’s election season and many folks are experiencing their own stress compounded by collective stress. In these times, we may forget the power of the breath to support our wellbeing.
The breath is the great stabilizer. When an emotion quickens our breath, we can practice lengthening and deepening the breath to help us move through the emotion. Breath conducts our energy. When we are feeling like we just can’t make it out of the whirlpool or stress, our breath can serve as a lifeline to guide us to a steadier shoreline.
This class is an experiential and embodied tribute to the archetype of resilience, something we all experience in some form or shape in our lives. Adversity in all its guises calls us to navigate emotional, mental, physical and spiritual stressors with a set of inner tools and resources that are varied and that ultimately allow us to find the strength to remain standing and to keep moving in this life. For this class, our primary resource will be our breath.
The dance moves are simple and guided by the language of storytelling. You are invited to receive the choreography, bring it into your body and make it your own.
Somos Luceros is a somatic dance practice designed to illuminate the wisdom of your body and cultivate deep embodiment of archetypal qualities that offer lightness, depth and joy. The dance moves are simple and guided by the language of storytelling, opening new chapters in our bodies where we can see and feel our most luminous potential. Release the stories in your body that weigh you down and reclaim your light. In Spanish, Somos means “we are” and Luceros means “bringers of light” or “bright stars.” This name honors my father, my paternal indigenous ancestors in South America, my heritage, and our collective oldest ancestor, the stars. We are dancing bodies of light.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the class/meeting.
Pay what you can in exchange for the class experience:
- Venmo: Jennifer-Lucero-Earle or https://venmo.com/jennifer-lucero-earle
- PayPal: https://paypal.me/jenniferluceroearle
- Credit Card (Square): https://my-site-105290-108786.square.site/
- Zelle: jenniferlucearle@gmail.com
What to wear and have with you:
- Have the Zoom link/meeting ID and password provided to you by Zoom (confirmation of your registration).
- Wear comfortable clothes to move in freely.
- We dance barefoot but if you need the additional support, feel free to wear flexible (and comfy!) sneakers or shoes.
- Have water nearby so that you can stay hydrated.
- Feel free to have a yoga mat, towel or chair for our last song.
- Optional: Earbuds or wireless headset. You may want to use a wireless headset/headphones – it appears to be a good way to hear the music more clearly. If not, feel free to hook up a speaker to your laptop, tablet or phone OR use the speaker in the device you are using. It’s all good! Make the choice that feels right for you.
Four Seasons Medical QiGong Six Week Series for Autumn: Nourishing the Lungs (via Zoom)
Dates: Six consecutive Wednesdays – September 25 and October 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2024
Class Time: 10:30AM PDT (45 min class)
Time Zones: 10:30AM PDT | 11:30AM MDT | 12:30PM CDT | 1:30PM EDT
Pay what you can for the series: $60 – $120
Class is 45 minutes.
*Class recordings will only be provided for people who register the six-week series. Classes are 45 minutes long.
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtd-uqpjItHtEwD1sKl413kDvhh70o1iSQ#/registration
In Four Seasons Medical QiGong, autumn is the time to nurture and build the Qi in the lungs and respiratory system and to fortify the immune system.
In the Four Seasons Medical QiGong practice that I learned from my mentor and teacher, Dr. Robert Woodbine (Doc), there are 9 movement patterns that nurture and build Qi in the lungs. These patterns both support and fortify the respiratory system for the season ahead (hello flu season!).
In this series, we will learn the nine movement patterns, breathing patterns, sound, and other techniques to support the health of our lungs for this season ahead. In addition, you may find lovely nervous system support (relaxation and calm) from the practice of QiGong 🙂
*Class recordings will only be provided for people who register the six-week series. Classes are 45 minutes long.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the class/meeting.
Pay what you can for the series: $60 – $120:
- Venmo: Jennifer-Lucero-Earle or https://venmo.com/jennifer-lucero-earle
- PayPal: https://paypal.me/jenniferluceroearle
- Credit Card (Square): https://my-site-105290-108786.square.site/
- Zelle: jenniferlucearle@gmail.com
Somatic Interludes: A Space for Reflection, Revelation, Resourcing and Respite via Zoom (live)
Weekly ongoing one-hour sessions
Note: Classes are currently on break and will resume in 2024. Dates TBA.
Time Zones: 9AM PDT/10AM MDT/11AM CDT/12PM EDT
Pay what you can in exchange for the class experience: $15-$35
Each class is one hour.
Register: Registration link will be posted here when classes resume in 2024.
Join us for Somatic Interludes: A Space for Reflection, Revelation, Resourcing and Respite
A somatic interlude is a pause from your day to tend to yourself.
We meet once a week, for one hour via Zoom, to take a break in community.
During this hour there is no expectation or pressure to be anything or anyone other than who you are in the moment. This is a no pressure container to get to know yourself, and the voice of your body, more deeply.
Together, we will explore introductory somatic therapeutic practices designed to offer space for self-reflection, revelations, resourcing, and respite for our mind, heart, body and spirit.
Practices include journaling, simple drawing, guided movement, mindfulness practices, and nervous system supporting breath and body sequences.
This is a space to learn practices and to deepen them.
We explore Somatic Awareness, Safety as an Anchor, the Lungs and Breath, the Heart and Connection, the Guts and Power, and practices that allow the Body to Speak.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the class/meeting.
Payment options:– Here is the info to make a payment of your choice, in exchange for the class experience:
- Venmo: Jennifer-Lucero-Earle or https://venmo.com/jennifer-lucero-earle
- PayPal: https://paypal.me/jenniferluceroearle
- Credit Card (Square): https://my-site-105290-108786.square.site/
- Zelle: jenniferlucearle@gmail.com
See special classes, workshops and retreat offerings here.
Bring a workshop or retreat to you
Invite me to customize an experience for your group, circle, organization, company or institution. I’ve facilitated custom movement experiences for sister circles, women’s groups, wellness groups, the University of Washington (UW), UW Medicine, Seattle Yoni Ki Baat (YKB), Northwest Tarot Symposium, and The Readers Studio, an international tarot conference. I can bring a Tarot, ArcanaDance™, Somos Luceros, or a Somatic Dance-Yoga class, workshop or mini-retreat to you.
Contact me at jennifer@jenniferluceroearle.com to discuss options.