August 15th - 17th
MATKA studio space in Brooklyn
The
Embodied
Performer
How to Stay in Your Body in Front of An Audience
Registration closes on June 1st
Whether it's before, during, or after…
Performing creates charge in the body.
It’s a challenge to stay in your body while in front of others. Rather than pushing through and performing from a dysregulated state, this weekend is meant to help you access more of yourself.
This is edgy stuff. We will focus on releasing what you tend to rely on to “get through” the performance — aka the strategy — and learn to find safety in your body by being yourself in front of others.
As vulnerable as this is, it creates a powerful baseline of confidence and security from which your performances can beautifully unfurl from.
In this weekend expect to unpack:
What attachment traumas and expectations emerge from you and get projected onto your audience.
Which strategies you lean on while being seen that may cause your overwhelm and disembodiment.
How to use the somatic practice of pendulation to authentically relate to the audience and space.
What food habits and cravings you depend on before and after performing - and how they affect your capacity for embodied performing.
How to relate to the activation that comes up while being seen and ride the wave instead of it taking you over.
If you work in front of a live audience in person or online, this is for you.
Whether you’re a teacher, educator, public speaker, musician, actor or dancer, join us!
This is also for people who perform / show up on Zoom here because a lot of you have a public presence online. Learning how to become embodied while performing will make your Zoom webinars and other virtual live sessions feel even juicier and more easeful for you and those you guide.
We are capping this event at 30 people so we can go deep and create connections while expanding our capacity to be seen by them. Luis and Weena will be weaving lectures, partnered practices, and group practices, and Evan will be offering sound healings throughout.
Registration closes on June 1st
Our Itinerary
We want to eat together, experience sound together, and support each other through this weekend. It’s a deep dive into connecting, expressing, and rooting into yourself the entire time with help from Luis, Weena, Evan, and Zach.
Day 1
2:00pm - 6:00pm
Day 2
10:00am - 6:00pm
Day 3
9:00am - 1:00pm
About Your Guides…
Luis Mojica
From the first moment Luis strummed a guitar against his chest and felt the reverberations throughout his overwhelmed teenage body, he has been a performer — though at first, it was just for himself.
After a decade, he finally performed in front of a live audience — and went into collapse immediately after. This would become a familiar pattern: Become activated and adrenalized, perform and be seen, get overwhelmed and sick, then binge eat for days. All to do something he actually really loved — play and connect through music.
Then Luis discovered somatics and learned over time how to be seen in front of people. After starting Holistic Life Navigation and his Instagram page, thousands of people began to find his work — people he spoke to and educated, online, every month. In 2023, he spoke to his largest in-person audience ever (700+ people!) and felt grounded, open, and natural.
Between somatic practices and nutritional guidelines, Luis is now comfortable being seen, speaking in front of people (in person and over Zoom), and performing for crowds of all sizes while still being in his body. These are the techniques and wisdom he will be sharing with you in this upcoming weekend intensive.
Weena Pauly-Tarr
Weena Pauly-Tarr is a dancer, performer, somatic practitioner, and authentic movement instructor. She brings her beautiful work to this weekend which integrates the embodiment from somatic experiencing with the improvisational, free expression of authentic movement.
She will be facilitating these sessions alongside Luis to support the emergence of something honest and unscripted, while coaching you through her own body’s expressions.
Weena has been devoted to the fleshy experience of human movement since she could move. Weena focuses her curiosity where the somatic therapy world meets the dance world, and it is there where she developed her body of work SE+AM, the synergistic stitching together of Somatic Experiencing with Authentic Movement.
Weena’s newest work, “Monster Mourning,” premiered in NYC in 2023 with a sold out run and she is currently developing her next piece to premiere May 2025. Along with running SE+AM groups and sessions, Weena currently works as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, a dancer and dance maker, a Rooted Global Village facilitator, a movement trainer and a mother to four. She delights in the incredible range of humans bodying.
Evan Glenn Adams
As a sound healing practitioner, Evan weaves his years of experience as a composer and multi-instrumentalist with his study of somatics and trance induction to create immersive soundscapes that allow listeners to access deep states of presence, relaxation, and peace. Honoring lineages of both magic and science, Evan creates a supportive space for listeners to journey into their inner worlds, and relate with the parts, memories, and sensations that are present.
Through the weekend he will be offering music to help your body settle into the space and create an intimate, non-verbal connection between the entire group.
Zach Kalatsky
Zach works hand in hand (both literally and figuratively) with Luis and the HLN team during retreats, workshops, as well as the Embodied Masculinity slow groups.
Zach is the creator of The Forest Haven and has a background in Somatics, Authentic Relating, Breathwork, Meditation, Thai Massage, Yoga, Business, Entrepreneurship, and Community Organizing.
Register now!
The exact location address and all the other details you’ll need, will all be released to you upon registration.
Save Your Spot
$650
Elevate Your Presence, Ground Your Performance.
Step into the full potential and magic of embodied performing. Join us on August 15th - 17th at MATKA studio space in Brooklyn for an immersive experience designed to help you stay embodied while performing.
Limited spots available – register today!