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The Sensual Embodied Dance® Facilitator Training
is an 8-month, online certification program for women who want to support other women to feel turned on by life, to fall in love with their body, and to nurture a deep connection to their own beauty, power and wisdom.
The training provides a library of effective embodiment practices, a proven structure to weave your own magic through and high-level facilitation skills so that you can confidently offer transformational group classes that are safe, fun and create epic community.
Sensual Embodied Dance is about cultivating an intimate relationship with your body and the aliveness that is continually flowing through it.
A well of pleasure and radiance resides in every single person, even if their mind is too busy to notice and their body too tense to feel.
Using embodied dance and movement practices that are designed specifically to unwind tension patterns in the body, generate flow and awaken the senses, this methodology invites women to experience a profound, often life-changing, connection to themselves and their body.
Curriculum
The curriculum weaves through two complementary streams that create an integrated experience:
Embodiment Stream
Learn embodiment practices, movement exercises and guided dance explorations that you can use to run your own classes, workshops or retreats. You may choose to use the practices in the Sensual Embodied Dance® format or adapt to meet a variety of different contexts, types of groups and learning outcomes.
WARM UP PRACTICES
Learn guided movements and exercises for relaxing the mind, unwinding tension patterns and sensitising to what’s present in the body.
SIGNATURE DEVOTIONAL EROTIC DANCE™️ SEQUENCES
Lead women in dance sequences designed specifically to awaken a women’s sensual & sexual energy, elicit flow states and expand her range of pleasurable experience.
GROUP EMBODIMENT EXERCISES
Whether in pairs, small groups or whole class arrangements you’ll be able to facilitate a variety of movement exercises to explore connection, vulnerability, empathy, creativity and expression.
RELATIONAL PRACTICES
Inquire experientially into the dynamic play of polarities and relating between humans (relevant to intimate relationships and everyday circumstances). Discover how to elicit depth and openness in others through your own embodiment.
BEING DANCED METHODS
There are many entry points to enter an ecstatic dance, the kind of experience where the dance is spontaneously moving through you effortlessly, when personality and time dissolves, your face glows and joy erupts from deep within. Learn some useful gateways to Being Danced and how to create the conditions in your body for this peak experience to naturally arise.
INTEGRATION PRACTICES
Learn a variety of options for integration processes vital to enhancing an individual’s base line for pleasure and freedom over time. Changes in the brain (neuroplasticity) occur not during peak experiences but in deep rest and relaxation.
Facilitation Stream
In truth, the difference between an ‘okay’ experience and a ‘WOW!’ experience in a workshop, is great facilitation. No matter how amazing the content is. Facilitation is an exquisite art. In the facilitation skills modules, you will develop the scientific understanding of transformation in the body, the inner and outer containment required for excellent facilitation, and delve into how you uniquely show up as an embodied guide.
THE FOUNDATIONS OF EMBODIMENT AND ITS BENEFITS
Understand the essential principles of embodiment so you can speak about it with clarity and confidence. Uncover the common pitfalls and misconceptions in the embodiment, sexuality and self-development industry.
THE SENSUAL EMBODIED DANCE METHODOLOGY
YOUR VOICE, HEART, ENERGY AND IMPACT
In this personal embodied inquiry you’ll delve into all the things that dictate how you show up, your habitual patterns, your unique flavour, what holds you back and how to actualise the fullest expression of who you are and the gifts you have to offer.
THE NEUROSCIENCE OF TRANSFORMATION
Recent research in the area of the brain-nervous system function provides great insight into the pathways in which the body adapts to new experiences, and how transformation occurs at a biological level. Understanding how and why people meet change differently will give you the clarity to see what’s going on in a room and how to navigate a group and individuals towards positive outcomes.
TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
A crucial understanding for providing a safe environment and experience for all individuals you may work with. Understand how trauma resides in the nervous system, how you can avoid re-traumatisation and instead support individuals to flourish in a non-therapeutic setting. Explore mirroring, projection, transference, empathy, boundaries and your role and responsibilities as an authority figure when facilitating.
PRACTICAL FACILITATION SKILLS
Learn how to improvise, practice responding to questions gracefully, manage transitions, respectfully bringing oversharing to an end, time management, room set up, logistical considerations etc…all the practical elements you need to run your classes smoothly.
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Listen To Other Women Share Their Experience
“The style of facilitation is really impeccable. There’s this holding of space in a way where each and every participant felt really, really safe, and I find that to be very unique and special in this field of sensuality because often the spaces don’t feel very safe.”
– Efrat Wolfson
“What’s unique about how Sensual Embodied Dance is facilitated is that it is truly embodied. It’s not something that you can just teach or learn from a book. It’s something that, for me, has taken daily practice within myself to really experience my own embodiment, to then be able to turn up and create a space for other people to then access those parts for themselves.”
– Felicity Meraki
“I love the flow – it is absolutely embodied. All the facilitators have an ease in that whatever is happening is the right thing to be happening. The safety, the flow, the sequencing…. You are led to dive deeper and deeper in a very natural way.”
– Alessandra Massi
You've experienced it...
You know how incredibly powerful reclaiming your sensual self can be...
Is your heart now longing to share and facilitate groups of women to deeply embody their full potential and fall in love with every part of themselves?
Do you feel like supporting women to reclaim the beauty, power and wisdom in their body might just be the meaningful work you were born to do?
Maybe you are already engaged in some kind of work with women and want to incorporate a powerful embodiment element into what you’re already doing.
Yes? Then this is for you.
The training is online and you can join from anywhere in the world.
– but don’t expect to be sitting, staring into a screen for hours, alone and disconnected whilst ‘learning’.
This is training that practises what it preaches, be prepared to move, interact, laugh and absorb the content in your body.
FORTNIGHTLY
Live Group Teaching Calls including workshops, lectures, discussions, demonstrations, and Q&A’s to keep the energy of the training alive and inspiring – so jumping online and completing each module feels less like work and more like something social, fun and interesting that you look forward to.
Download Call ScheduleFORTNIGHTLY
Live Practice Pod Calls – because your personal embodiment is essential to guiding others, and a supportive community of awesome women not only ignites your potential but is incredibly helpful to stay motivated & inspired whilst moving through online learning.
INTEGRATION WEEKS
Live Mentoring and hotseats – These optional calls are designed to keep you inspired, engaged and accountable throughout the training. Informal in nature, these calls allow the wisdom of each person’s present moment experience, natural curiosities and inquiry to be expressed. A tremendous amount of empathetic learning and friendship between women happens in these calls.
2 YEARS ACCESS
Online Training Portal – Here you’ll find high quality instructional videos of the embodiment practices being demonstrated in real life classes, short videos introducing each module, summaries, audios for those who prefer to listen to learn, epic playlists and everything you need all in one place. The portal is a specialised library of resources, not an overwhelming to-do list!
FINAL ASSESSMENT
Practicum – with all the understanding, skills and confidence you’ll develop over the eight months, the final criteria for your certification will be a practicum successfully delivered either live online or submitted as a recorded in-person class.
“When I signed up to do the facilitator training with Holly it was fairly early into my own dance journey and I remember thinking, ‘I’m so not ready for this, I love this work SO much but i’ve never taught ANYTHING before…how am I going to pull this off!?’
I was seriously lacking confidence but I trusted that 6 months of working intimately with this incredible woman was going to transform me in ways I couldn’t imagine…and it did.
Our sessions were filled with dance practices, philosophical discussions, self reflection and the funnest games! Afterwards I would be amazed how deep we would go and how much I was learning.
Hands down, I would NOT be the woman I am today – walking so fiercely, loving my self so deeply and sharing sensual embodiment so CONFIDENTLY with women everywhere….if i had not met Holly and done this training.
This training will not just be something that you do, finish and then are able to go offer classes, workshops and retreats (though you will be able to)
but an experience that reaches into your heart and soul and fundamentally changes the way you embody and perceive life.
About the Founder, Holly Wodetzki
Hey there! I’m Holly, founder of Shiva Shakti Dance and principal teacher of the Sensual Embodied Dance® Facilitator Training.
I started teaching women’s embodiment classes for sensual awakening over a decade ago. From very humble beginnings where for a while only 3 people came to my classes – and one was my mum.
Back then sensual embodiment practices were mostly unheard of but it wasn’t long before I was inundated with women joining my workshops and courses, because they’d heard from other women how much it had changed their life, or simply saw them glowing (no joke!).
The demand for this kind of work is increasing rapidly and the sensual embodiment movement gaining more and more momentum as individuals are celebrating and revelling in the transformational power it holds to fully flourish as integrated, fulfilled, modern women.
Now, with all my heart, I want to share everything I know to a group of devoted women who can continue to take this revolutionary work into the world in their own unique way. Are you one of those women?
This facilitator training is everything I wish I knew much sooner.
And everything I wish was more commonly known in the embodiment / sexuality / self-development industry – there’s potential for it to be so much better!
Upon discovering the transformative power of dance in my early twenties, I abandoned my trajectory as a scientist and dove unwaveringly into spirituality. A dedicated spiritual and dance practice, plus tending to my yearning to understand the states of altered consciousness they produced, led me all over the world for many years and I’ve had the great fortune of learning with some of the best teachers in the world in embodiment, dance & tantra.
Ironically, the more universal my perspective became, the more intrigued I was with the individual human experience, the body, brain and nervous system…. so, amusingly, I find myself back in the realms of science studying neuroscience. It delights me to no end to weave together the two domains of science and spirituality, and illuminate the earthly, everyday embodied experience of the universal and peak mystical experiences.
INFLUENCES & FORMAL STUDY
Frequently Asked Questions
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“It’s not surprising that so many women who have danced with Holly have gone on to create their own offering – not only because Holly is so inspirational as the pure embodiment of what she teaches, but also due to her extensive training & knowledge. Holly is an exemplary facilitator who creates lasting value & change in women’s lives – I would literally follow her work anywhere. Anyone that is blessed to have found themselves in a position to learn under her are setting themselves up for guaranteed growth & success.
– Petra Lane, Psychosomatic Therapist, Facilitator & Retreat Leader at Global Pilgrim
“This is one of the most powerful practices I’ve found for connecting to my feminine energy, feeling sexy and alive and healing my body image issues.
I rave about it to my friends and often recommend it to my clients too. After each session, I felt ecstatic, excited about life, deeply connected to my body and grateful to be a woman.”
– Bonnie Bliss, Somatic Sexologist, Female Pelvic Wellness Specialist & Founder of Yoni Club
“A powerful sense of devotion weaves through everything Holly teaches and practices herself. Her essence is a rare combination of lightness, joy and pleasure, which made me gravitate toward her with complete ease several years ago.
When you’re with Holly, you get to live and breathe outside of the rules, in a space where time meanders, laughter bubbles and women shine.
It’s a space that’s delightfully feminine, expansive and profound. And I highly recommend anything she’s offering!
– Marcela Widrig, Trauma Therapist & Founder of Fierce Embodiment
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$6990
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"This training has been one of the best things I’ve ever done, not just for myself professionally, but personally.
It is facilitated at an easeful pace but is rich in content and experience in both delivering and receiving the work so I can confidently facilitate SED as a fully integrated body of work.
The level of support and engagement from the facilitation team is incredible, and I felt fully engaged in the training the whole time, whilst experiencing enough spaciousness to include it in my busy life.
I cannot recommend this training more highly, for its mix of professional development and personal exploration (which is all relevant to delivering SED).
The content is extremely thorough and I really valued the scientific and evidence-based style of teaching, as I believe it is uncommon in this field of work.
As an already experienced facilitator, I gained so much more foundation and increased my skill set immensely.
If you are passionate about delivering life-changing embodiment work, the SED modality and training process is absolutely in a class
of its own!
Jess MacLeish - 2021 Graduate
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Sensual Embodied Dance Facilitator Training has been transformational for me as a facilitator but, more importantly, as a woman and a human.
I feel more embodied than ever before having gone through this training, thanks to the depths, creativity, and artistry woven into this curriculum.
I have gained and am confident in facilitating so many powerful tools in embodiment and sensuality.
What is most amazing is the joy, creativity, self-discovery, and courage I've experienced and taken with me from this journey with Holly and an incredible, diverse group of women.
The realms we visited in this training left me transformed as a woman and a facilitator.
To learn such profound skills through movement, music, dance, and deep community was so much pleasure, it is beyond words. I wholeheartedly recommend this training to any woman interested in cultivating more pleasure, embodied power, and liberation, connection, and joy for herself and for those in her presence.
Freya Wolf - 2023 Graduate
A final note from Holly
Facilitating transformation for others is one of the most profoundly fulfilling gifts you can ever offer.
It’s been my absolute pleasure and privilege supporting thousands of women over the last 10+ years.
Now I sincerely want to share everything I know, so you can continue this important work and help unleash the beauty, power & wisdom in women everywhere.
The world is a better place when it’s filled with women overflowing with radiance and love.
I’m so excited to embark on this journey with you.
You’re going to learn about the function of your nervous system AND how to jiggle & isolate your butt cheeks!