mBODYed Community Courses
Becoming mBODYed
Community Courses
Somatic learning for musicians, educators, and artists.
Short, accessible trainings that introduce musicians to somatic breath practices, movement mapping, and nervous system regulation for artistry and resilience. Our community courses are designed to meet you where you are—whether you're recovering from burnout, seeking clarity in your body, or just curious about a new way to move and teach.
Each community course is part of The mBODYed Journey: Somatic Transformation for Musicians and Educators, a framework that helps you recognize your nervous system’s patterns of protection and find your next pathway toward balance, belonging, and creative freedom.
Our Approach to Learning
These aren’t traditional technique classes.
They’re somatic spaces for sustainable change.
We call these community courses because we learned that there needs to be a community around somatic conversations and learning in the arts.
Each class draws from the Alexander Technique, Body Mapping, nervous-system education, and somatic coaching. But more importantly, each course respects your current capacity. That’s why we offer self-paced options, gentle progressions, and clear pathways forward.
You do not need to be in pain, and you don’t need to be perfect. Just bring your curiosity and your body, exactly as it is.
If you are new to Somatics, start with The First Step Home: Begin the mBODYed Journey. Otherwise, feel free to join any course that resonates. Courses circulate and repeat throughout the year, and new offerings are added as they’re developed.
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FOUNDATION
Begin here if you’re new to somatics or returning after a long time away.
These classes help you reconnect with your body, breath, and internal cues.
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(AVAILABLE NOW — Self-paced. On-demand videos + PDF workbook)
Somatics is the art of listening to your body as a trustworthy guide. In this intro, you’ll learn how states shape performance and teaching—and how small, kind experiments create durable change.
No perfectionism required. Just curiosity, clarity, and care.Archetype Fit:Disconnected • Seeker • Over-Efforter
This course meets you wherever you are on the spectrum between overwhelm and numbness. It supports reconnection, curiosity, and a renewed sense of safety in your own system.You’ll learn to:
Recognize your nervous-system’s protective states without judgment.
Use breath, orientation, and sensory attention to come back to yourself.
Build trust through micro-practices that make change sustainable.
Tiered Pricing Explained:
Choose the investment level that fits your current capacity.
We are committed to accessibility, equity, and embodied growth. That is why we offer three enrollment tiers, allowing you to register at a level that matches your financial comfort and personal goals.Foundation: Course Only
Integration: Course + 3 Coachings at $90 each ($450 Value)
Transformation: Course + 6 Coachings at $80 each ($900 Value)
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Posture Reset: A Somatic Journey from Tension to Freedom
Next course May 18, 2026
6-Week Live Course with Replays Available
You’ve worked hard to “sit up straight,” “stand tall,” or “support your sound.”
But what if your body isn’t asking for more control—what if it’s asking for more trust?Over years of performing, practicing, and teaching, many of us begin to brace against the very support we’re trying to find. The neck tightens, the ribs lock down, the low back takes over—and balance starts to feel like a position instead of a conversation.
Posture Reset guides you back to the body’s original design for ease and support.
Through Body Mapping, somatic experiments, and gentle attention, you’ll rediscover how the head, spine, and ribs move together as one living system.
As your map updates, tension gives way to responsiveness.
Effort becomes available energy.
Balance becomes freedom.What You’ll Experience
A practical, embodied map of balance from the feet up
The felt sense of gravity as partnership, not opposition
Dynamic head–spine coordination that relieves neck and back strain
Micro-cues for practice, performance, and everyday movement
Who It’s For
Musicians, teachers, and creatives who end rehearsals with tightness or fatigue and are ready to re-pattern how they relate to posture, support, and ease.
Archetype Fit: Over-Efforter • DisconnectedCourse Schedule: March 12 - April 16, 2026 @ 12:00 PM ET and 7:00 PM ET
Community Performance Class: Fridays @ 3:00 ET
Tiered Pricing
Foundation: Course Only
Integration: Course + 3 Coachings at $90 each ($450 Value)
Transformation: Course + 6 Coachings at $80 each ($900 Value) -
Rewriting Habit Through Mapping + Nervous System Clarity
A Foundational Course in the Integration Series
Course Summary
When pressure rises, the body defaults to what feels safe—speeding up, freezing, or over-controlling. This course helps you see those patterns clearly, without judgment, and teaches you how to re-pattern them through awareness, mapping, and nervous system clarity. You’ll learn to recognize your own physiological “tells,” understand their somatic roots, and practice gentle tools to shift from survival mode to embodied presence.What You’ll Learn
How to read your body’s tells: breath holding, jaw and shoulder bracing, collapse patterns
60-second orientation and down-regulation tools for before, during, and after performance
Breath options that restore mobility instead of chasing control
A practical, repeatable pre-performance routine you’ll actually want to use
Format & Includes
6 live classes (recorded), guided audio practices, visual maps, and reflection prompts.Who It’s For
Musicians, educators, and creatives who experience jitters, blanking, or high-functioning anxiety—and want to change the pattern without fighting themselves.Archetype Fit:Over-Efforter • Impostor • Burned-Out Artist
Repatterning begins with recognition. Learn to meet your body’s protective habits with clarity and compassion—so performance becomes an act of connection, not control.Course Schedule
March 12 – April 16, 2026
Two class times offered: 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT and 7 PM ET / 4 PM PTCommunity Performance Class
Fridays, 3 PM ET / 12 PM PT
Live Courses are limited to 6 per session. Seats fill quickly!
Integration
You’ve already started your somatic journey. Now you’re ready to deepen it.
These classes offer practice-based learning, embodiment labs, and system-wide clarity.
They invite you to refine coordination, integrate awareness into artistry, and sustain ease under pressure—so somatic principles become second nature in performance, teaching, and life.
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(Next Session starts June 29, 2026 — Live 6-week class with replays + guided practices, performance class)
If your “technique work” equals more effort and less ease, this class reframes the map. You’ll clarify how the head, spine, shoulder girdle, and arm spirals coordinate so that sound and accuracy improve while effort drops. Expect clear anatomy-in-action, tiny experiments, and immediate wins you can feel.
The Neuroscience of Ease
Every movement you make refines the brain’s map of your body. When we move with awareness, we literally rewire neural pathways for freedom and precision—this is the heart of neuroplasticity.
Instead of drilling or over-efforting, you’ll practice in ways that reduce threat responses in the nervous system and invite efficient motor learning. This means faster progress, fewer setbacks, and a growing sense of confidence and flow.Archetype Fit: Over-Efforter • Integrator
This course supports musicians who’ve learned to equate precision with control. It helps you discover how structure and flow can coexist—effortless accuracy born of balanced support.
You’ll learn to:
Map the arm structure accurately for fine-motor freedom and resonance.
Replace gripping and micro-control with whole-body coordination that the nervous system can trust.
Harness neuroplastic practice principles—attention, variation, rest, and curiosity—to make new movement patterns stick.
Translate anatomical insight into phrasing and technical ease that feel natural, not forced.
Tiered Pricing:
(Same structure as above)
Only 6 seats available — [Sign up here!]
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(Next Session starts August 28, 2026 — Live 6-week class with replays + guided practices, performance class)
What is support? How do we support?
If you ask 100 people these questions, you’ll get 100 different answers. Let’s explore why.
This course clarifies how the diaphragm, ribs, and spine coordinate so that breath can respond to musical intent. You’ll trade bracing for buoyant support, expand resonance, and keep endurance—without squeezing for sound.Archetype Fit:Burned-Out Artist • Integrator
This class restores creativity through capacity. When breath becomes a conversation rather than a command, expression renews itself.You’ll learn to:
Understand the anatomical truth of the diaphragm and ribcage in movement.
Experience support as responsiveness rather than muscular effort.
Build breath capacity that sustains tone, presence, and emotional clarity.
Tiered Pricing: (same structure as above)
Seats Limited to 6, spots fill quickly!
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(Next Session January 2026 — Live 6-week class with replays + guided practices, performance class)
When habits take over, we push, brace, and hope for the best. Alexander Technique offers a kinder route: notice, pause, choose.
In this introduction, you’ll explore how awareness and direction can dissolve unnecessary effort, restore coordination, and expand expressive freedom.Archetype Fit: Over-Efforter • Integrator
You’ve accomplished a lot by effort. Now it’s time to rediscover flow through awareness—learning to move, breathe, and play without managing yourself.You’ll learn to:
Apply the principles of awareness and inhibition to movement and music-making.
Recognize and release unnecessary effort before it becomes tension.
Cultivate coordination and poise that support artistic ease and confidence.
Tiered Pricing Explained:
Choose the investment level that fits your current capacity.
We are committed to accessibility, equity, and embodied growth. That is why we offer three enrollment tiers, allowing you to register at a level that matches your financial comfort and personal goals.Foundation: Course Only
Integration: Course + 3 Coachings at $90 each ($450 Value)
Transformation: Course + 6 Coachings at $80 each ($900 Value)
Sign up here!
Live Courses are limited to 6 per session. Seats fill quickly!
Transformation
For those ready to embody this work on a deeper level.
These advanced intensives and community-based cohorts invite you to integrate somatic awareness into artistry, leadership, and cultural transformation.
Here, the practice becomes lived. The work moves from individual regulation to collective resonance—so that how you teach, perform, and lead reflects a nervous system at ease.
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(January 2026 — 6-week Beta Cohort)
This cohort reframes imposter syndrome through the lens of the body.
You’ll uncover how over-performance and self-doubt often emerge as protective responses of the nervous system—and learn to meet them with curiosity, safety, and regulation.
Through small-group coaching, guided practice, and embodied reflection, you’ll begin to inhabit your voice with confidence and authenticity.Archetype Fit:Impostor
From proving → belonging. From protection → presence.You’ll learn to:
Recognize your body’s unique “visibility response.”
Build nervous-system safety around being seen and heard.
Restore authentic self-expression through voice and resonance practices.
Special Beta Pricing:
Cost: BETA Pricing $40 Class only.
Breakthrough Tier (2 Coaching Sessions): $280;
Transformation (4 Coaching Sessions): $440
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(Spring 2026 — Live 6-week training)
Teaching is relational, and our nervous systems are always in conversation.
This course provides musicians, educators, and leaders with trauma-informed frameworks for building learning environments that foster safety, dignity, and belonging.
We’ll blend nervous-system literacy, somatic boundary work, and compassion-based leadership to help you sustain both your own energy and your students’ growth.Archetype Fit:Burned-Out Artist • Integrator • Over-Efforter
For those who give deeply, teach tirelessly, and are learning to lead from coherence instead of depletion.You’ll learn to:
Recognize trauma responses in yourself and others with compassion.
Create boundaries that protect both empathy and energy.
Redesign your teaching or leadership environment around regulation and care.
Tiered Pricing Explained:
Choose the investment level that fits your current capacity.
We are committed to accessibility, equity, and embodied growth. That is why we offer three enrollment tiers, allowing you to register at a level that matches your financial comfort and personal goals.Foundation: Course Only
Integration: Course + 3 Coachings at $90 each ($450 Value)
Transformation: Course + 6 Coachings at $80 each ($900 Value)
Coming in July, Online
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(Coming 2027 — Application + Interview Required)
A comprehensive three-year journey in somatic pedagogy, performance coaching, Alexander Technique, and Body Mapping—designed for musicians, educators, and healing professionals ready to lead this work.
This cohort integrates live training, mentorship, retreats, and performance labs within a supportive learning community.
You’ll not only refine your own embodiment but develop the tools to teach and facilitate somatic transformation with others.Archetype Fit: Integrator
From knowing → being. From practice → embodied leadership.You’ll experience:
22 live cohort sessions + mentorship + unlimited 1:1 coaching.
Annual retreats, performance labs, and certification pathways.
Professional and personal transformation rooted in belonging, not perfection.
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(Rolling enrollment — Ongoing community practice group)
A continuing space for experienced students to deepen Alexander Technique principles through a somatic, trauma-informed lens.
Together, we’ll sustain curiosity, awareness, and balance in ongoing practice—so that coordination, breath, and ease remain alive in your daily life and creative work.Archetype Fit: Integrator • Over-Efforter
For those who know the principles and want to live them—not as techniques to recall, but as ways of being.You’ll practice:
Weekly explorations and guided self-inquiry to keep the work embodied.
Somatic reflection for personal and professional integration.
Community-based support to maintain regulation and creative flow.
“I didn’t realize how much I was pushing myself until this class. I finally exhaled.”
“As a voice teacher, I now incorporate these practices into every warm-up I give my students.”
Price Tiers Explained
Choose the investment level that fits your current capacity
We are committed to accessibility, equity, and embodied growth. That is why we offer three enrollment tiers, allowing you to register at a level that matches your financial comfort and personal goals.
You may upgrade your tier at any time during the six-week course.
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Ideal for: those seeking a solid introduction to somatic education
Includes:Live cohort meetings (on Zoom)
Reflective journal prompts
Somatic micro-practices
Private community interaction
This tier provides you with everything you need to start sensing, mapping, and moving differently in your body and life.
Price: 180.00 (excluding BETA courses)
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Ideal for: musicians and educators ready to go deeper with personal guidance
Includes everything in Tier 1, plus:Three private coaching sessions with Shawn
Tier 2 supports you in making your own personal discoveries.
Pricing: $450.00
Price breakdown:
Base course price of 180.00
3 Coachings at $90.00 (discounted from $150.00)
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Ideal for: those seeking to reshape their relationship with their body, voice, history, and pedagogy
Includes everything in Tier 1, plus:Six private coaching sessions with Shawn
Deep exploration of your personal journey and performance
Tools to examine how lived experiences shape your current habits, leadership style, and self-perception
This is not just coaching. It is personal transformation through somatic insight, artistic self-inquiry, and supported integration.
Price: $660
Price Breakdown:
Base Course Price of $180
6 Coachings at $80 (discounted from $150.00)
What Makes mBODYed Courses Different
Trauma-informed pacing
Blend of science + somatic intuition
Designed specifically for musicians and creatives
Warm, live community (when you want it)
Access to replays, downloads, and lifelong updates
Grounded in real nervous system learning—not performance hacks
Three different pricing tiers to match your current capacity
Ready to move?
Gently. Clearly. With support?
Your body already knows how. We’ll help you listen.
Not Sure Where to Start?
We’ll Help You Choose!