“Connecting to our authenticity brings soul and meaning to our lives, whether through movement and dance or opening into the embodied experience of our feelings.”
Dan Leven
Heal yourself
Embark with us on a transformative journey to well-being, addressing your mind, body, and spirit. Experience profound healing and personal growth as you find inner harmony.
Transform others
Unlock your potential for lasting impact. Empower others to thrive and achieve their true potential through our comprehensive methods for personal and professional growth.
Join a supportive community
Join a vibrant, inclusive community valuing growth, connection, and well-being. Discover a nurturing space where individuals uplift each other on their transformative journeys.
Welcome to Life Movement
Our programs guide you to healing, greater happiness, and well-being. Our teacher/healer training programs expand and deepen your skills while also serving as a personal resource for your growth.
LIFE Movement (Leven Institute for Expressive Movement) is a teaching institute that offers somatic training programs to help enrich your talents and realize your potential as you bring healing and transformation to your clients and students!
Both SomaSoul Somatic Therapy Training and Shake Your Soul Teacher Training are suitable for individuals wanting to immerse themselves in these transformative experiences without intending to be educators or therapists for others. In particular, with SomaSoul Somatic Therapy, the Inner Development Program is designed specifically for one’s personal growth and healing during the second year.
40
years of experience
LIFE Movement Training Programs
SOMASOUL:
SOMATIC THERAPY TRAINING
SomaSoul Somatic Therapy is a healing modality in which the therapist “talks to” and “listens to” the client’s body and nervous system. The aim of SomaSoul is to heal the divide between mind and body, and to engage the client’s awareness of the body experience. The training provides for inner growth along with professional development.
SomaSoul Somatic Therapy Training is for healing professionals and humans wanting to heal, designed to deepen and expand therapeutic resources as well as one’s personal growth journey.
SHAKE YOUR SOUL:
THE YOGA OF DANCE TEACHER TRAININGS
Shake Your Soul is a movement practice that relaxes your nervous system, energizes your body, and awakens your soul through a powerful, fluid dance repertoire set to world music. Our instructors learn to create a sweaty, sacred space where participants find communion within their own bodies and souls as they join in a creative and inspired community of natural dancers.
Shake Your Soul Teacher Training educates individuals on how to facilitate a soulful dance experience that helps their students rediscover the joy and pleasure of dance.
Become a Professional in the burgeoning
field of Somatics
Our training programs expand and deepen your skills as a teacher, healer, and therapist while also serving as a resource for your personal and professional growth.
Registered Somatic Movement Therapist
Our program maintains the high standards of an Approved Training Program of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA). Our graduates meet all requirements to become Registered Somatic Movement Educators and Therapists. Graduates have two years following their graduation to complete 150 practice hours with clients and students to maintain their registration.
WHAT LEADERS IN THE FIELD OF HEALING AND PERSONAL GROWTH SAY ABOUT DAN LEVEN:
Bessel van der Kolk
MD , Trauma Research Pioneer and Author of the Body Keeps the Score
Dan Leven masterfully sets the stage for exploring what it means to be fully alive. His sincerity, dedication, and exuberance create a space that celebrates joyous transformation.
Jonathan Foust
MA, CSA, President Emeritus of Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Author of Body-Centered Inquiry
WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY ABOUT OUR TRAININGS:
The SomaSoul training has been such a huge experience for me.
It’s allowed me to deepen my work with clients as well as come from a more alive and genuine place inside myself. It IS the work I do now with my clients.
Emily Hamilton
PhD, Psychotherapist
Shake Your Soul and SomaSoul taught me to be present in our community. This supportive community helped me through difficult years, to embrace my emotions and listen to my body. After graduating from the program, I’m excited to support others in their own journeys. I am grateful for the faculty and authentic people involved.