Dance With Grief — Somatic Activated Healing Method
The past is still in your body. This is how you move it out.
Emotions have a natural cycle. When that cycle gets interrupted, the emotion lodges in the body. This is what you do about it.
HOW
Your Body Has Been Trying to Finish Something.
Every emotion that didn’t get to complete its cycle is still there, shaping your posture, your breath, your perspective, your reactions. This practice creates the conditions for all of it to finally move without you needing to talk about it, remember it, or understand it first.
RELATABLE PAIN POINTS
When the Emotions Don’t Have Anywhere to Go
It could be a song that triggers you before you’ve even registered why. Maybe there’s an emotion that keeps visiting that you haven’t quite known what to do with. Or, you might have been carrying something for a long time and you sense it’s ready to move but you haven’t found the way in yet.
Wherever you are with this, Sah’s method meets you there. It doesn’t ask you to understand what you’re carrying. It simply creates the conditions for it to move.
THIS IS HOW YOUR LIFE CAN CHANGE
What Starts Opening When Emotion Finally Moves
- You walk past the thing that used to stop you in your tracks and something is different, lighter, looser, like a frequency that's been jamming the signal has finally gone quiet
- The memories that used to have a grip on your whole internal landscape start to lose their power because you've stripped away the emotional charge underneath them
- You wake up and the heaviness that's been sitting on your chest isn't there the same way it was yesterday
- You catch yourself actually present in an ordinary moment instead of going through the motions of one
HOW PARAGRAPH
How It Works
Dance With Grief is a set of somatic movement practices using Sah’s Somatic Activated Healing Method, created specifically for this project. It moves through three phases; body keys to bring you back into your body, sensation dance to let the past move itself through and out, and trance dance to release the grip of identity entirely. You don’t need any dance experience. You don’t need to know what you’re grieving. You just need to show up and let the body lead.
THIS COLLABORATOR BECAUSE
Why Sah
Sah came to this work through his own lineage of addiction, mental illness, and the loss of his mother. He has stayed connected to that grief every day since, naming her, celebrating her, letting it visit. He understands what it actually feels like to carry something this heavy, and he has built a method from that understanding that has reached over 100,000 people and been taken into Columbia, Harvard, and Oxford’s trauma conference. I really respect his approach and I think you will too.
WHAT YOU GET
What You Get
- Body Keys a sequence of body postures combined with breath tied to specific emotions, so you defrost out of numbness and get back into your body before anything else begins
- Sensation Dance a practice of moving from the inside out where the past dances itself through and out of you, so every move and every breath is the body completing what it never got to finish
- Trance Dance a seven to ten minute practice of releasing the sense of identity entirely, so you catch a break from carrying it and land somewhere genuinely open
- A practice that processes the past without you needing to talk about it, remember it, or understand it, so the memories start to lose their grip on your internal landscape
- A practice created specifically for grief in all its forms, personal loss, collective sorrow, emotional heaviness, and the quiet fatigue of holding too much for too long
MEET YOUR TRAINER
Meet Sah
Sah D’Simone is a globally recognised spiritual teacher, somatic movement leader, author, and humanitarian whose Somatic Activated Healing Method has been brought to Columbia University, Harvard, and Oxford’s trauma conference. He has danced over 100,000 people through their past. His work weaves Buddhist contemplative practice, trauma-informed movement, and embodied liberation into something that people consistently describe as feeling like ten years of therapy in ninety minutes. He came to this work through his own lineage of addiction, mental illness, and the loss of his mother. He has lived every part of what he teaches. I really respect his approach and I think you will too.