TESTIMONIALS ""The clearest thing to me about Soma is after each session I can hear my body dialoging with me again." M. W. "The Soma Institute shoots for the Moon. The word school falls seriously short." JT "The entirety of the experience at the Soma Institute was rich and rewarding from the farm setting, abundance of sharing to the quality of education. The combination of these made for a life-changing, memorable learning experience. We feel prepared to go out and begin practicing Soma with confidence and enthusiasm." The Dream Team Class "I really appreciated the individual attention within a supportive group atmosphere; disagreement and conflict handled with ease, and the emphasis on personal growth and overall integrity. This training exceeded all my wildest dreams!" JR "I valued the focus on community and self-reliance, not isolation and competition. I see this training as the best or most whole learning experience I’ve had. I was able to repattern negative educational experiences because of the high level of integrity and nurturance." JS "When I started the training I didn’t know what I was getting myself into and now I am so much richer with knowledge, compassion and a sense of self. I have attended and graduated from 4 other bodywork oriented schools. The Soma Institute stands aside in its approach to learning as well as its curriculum." DMR "What a special gift you have given me. I am so thankful of all you have done for me. You have handed me the pearl in 'the world is my oyster'. Endless thanks.""" TJ "In regard to my experience as a student of the Soma Institute, I would like to express my sincere thanks to the co-directors as I feel they have represented themselves with the utmost professionalism and expertise. I have never been misrepresented by the school or misinformed in any manner. I personally would highly recommend the Soma Institute to anyone who is interested the field of bodywork." ST "They are teaching us responsibility at this school. Here lies the responsibility. Not in the mundane sense of duties and obligations—these things that of necessity fall to each of us to tend—but in the larger sense of responsibility to one’s mission and to making/giving for community and one’s place within it. This responsibility is not simply some prescriptive sense of how one must behave in respect for one’s environment and fellow beings, but of one’s requisite mission of embracing and expressing the fullness of oneself as a being in experience. I am grateful and thank spirit for knowing to bring me here…..My self is my responsibility, my task, my burden, my joy, my purpose, my reward, my mission, my meaning, my dance. We are here to thrive. We can do that only in allowing ourselves to be. We can find that allowance best in mutuality, in the partnership of conscious healing—achieving it together individually, encouraging and affirming it in one another. Soma hands us this, hands to hands." GB "The teachers were grounded, credible, wise and humorous. The setting of the school was the icing on the cake and ended up being a very important component of my learning. I never felt unsupported and because of this I could thrive." LC "I needed this school like I’ve never needed anything before. It was the right decision for sure." CK "The training surpassed my expectations! Great instruction, great environment, great people. The work is way more powerful than I had expected it would be. Very well-rounded training and efficiently run. Excellent teaching." RW

Photographic artwork:  Carolyn Krieg

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