Embody Life Holistic Wellness

08/29/2025

Today is simply an introduction to what is coming. The Embody & Rise: Dancing in Community practice and circle has been so profoundly healing for the women who are attending consistently that I am also feeling called to expand that and create a virtual option as well.

September will be the soft launch of this community experience with 2 options to get plugged in. All dances and circles will be on Wednesday nights from 6 to 7:30 PM MST (1st and 3rd Wednesdays IN PERSON and 2nd and 4th Wednesdays VIRTUAL).

They will include a check-in circle, a long dance and rest, time for writing, and a closing safe sharing circle.

The 2 offers {Flow and Root Memberships} are linked in my bio and as a founding member I am offering 50% off your 1st month if you sign up in September. (Use the discount code: EMBODYANDRISE )

Whichever offer you choose will feed into a community platform (in the works!) where we can stay connected in the in between. This community platform will be the hub of the community and will offer bonus wellness tips, reminders, and inspiration, community support and moderated sharing, and many other gems along the way.

September is also the height of eclipse season and will, without a doubt, bring some other twists and turns. This is not to ensue fear, but rather to be proactive in our practices. To hopefully offer the inspiration and motivation to do whatever we need to stay
anchored, grounded, and connected. Join me!! 🙏🥰💃🫶🌈

✨ The Flow Membership — $47/month

- 2 dances/circles per month (choose in-person or virtual)
- One 30-minute check-in Zoom or phone call with Alison for your first month.
- Access to exclusive playlists
- A welcome gift: a journal or a bag

🌿 The Root Membership — $97/month

- Unlimited access to all in-person + virtual dances/circles
- One 30-minute check-in Zoom or phone call with Alison for your first month.
- Access to exclusive playlists
- A welcome gift: a journal or a bag
- The deep support of rhythm, accountability, and connection
- Discounts on Embody Life events, retreats, and coaching

Links in my bio for both of these membership options❣️ We begin in September💞💓🌹

08/12/2025

Finding our own flow…our own rhythm and ways of moving through the world…feeling our embodied selves from a place of acceptance and love and compassion and empathy…

I just LOVE watching my dear sister, Tara, in her flow in this video….so profoundly connected to herself in every way….you can feel it!

Thrilled to be offering a very special collaborative retreat for midlife women with this goddess at this magical space in Mexico…

Join us! October 27th-November 1st, 2025…Awakening Joy in Midlife: A Retreat for Women in the Middle Season of Life at Prana Del Mar in Baja, Mexico🌹🌈✨

💕Come home to yourself in the sacred space of midlife.

This retreat is an invitation to pause, reflect, and rekindle joy through embodied movement, deep rest, yoga, storytelling, and soulful connection.

Together we will honor the wisdom of our lived experiences, release what no longer serves, and open to the radiant vitality available at this powerful threshold.

🔥Registration is LIVE! Link is here: https://www.embodymylife.com/fall-womens-retreat 🙏 Early bird special take $200 off if register registered by August 15th 💃🏻

08/06/2025

I had the privilege of spending the majority of 5 days off of social media, mainstream media, and did not open my computer once. This is a very rare occurrence in my plugged in world which I know many, many of you can relate to.

What I will say is those days reset something in my system that was much needed.

Now, I understand completely that it is a privilege to be able to do this for 5 whole days and that many do not have that privilege for so many reasons....

My invitation to you today and with this message is to even carve out an hour a day of not picking up your phone, of not being on a screen, of not scrolling incessantly, of not reading what’s happening in the world... Even one hour a day, intentionally unplugging and disconnecting from the chaos that is swirling everywhere.

And...let yourself breathe and BE and daydream. Sit quietly with yourself...take a walk phone-free...step outside and open your eyes wide to the world around you...

We cannot stay so plugged in with the horrors and injustices that are unfolding.

We need to stay sane and grounded and connected and whole.

Take good care of YOU. Unplug to plug IN.✨✨✨

With love, respect, and in solidarity,
Alison 🙏🫶💞🥰☮️

07/31/2025

This time of midlife gets such a bad rap, as the notorious midlife crisis suggests, yet midlife can also be this potent and empowering time of our lives... this time of truly becoming all of who we are. The middle point where we have the opportunity to settle deeply into our skin and embrace every step of our journey along the way.

I am so excited and honored to be collaborating with my dear friend and colleague. Tara King, on this very special therapeutic and empowering retreat experience specifically for our fellow midlife women.

🌹Awakening Joy in Midlife: A Retreat for Women in the Middle Season of Life will be back at the incredible Prana del Mar from October 27th - November 1st, 2025. Deep into Scorpio Season and around Dia de los Mu***os, the veils are thin and the possibility of healing is magnified.

Come home to yourself in the sacred space of midlife.

This retreat is an invitation to pause, reflect, and rekindle joy through embodied movement, deep rest, yoga, storytelling, and soulful connection.

Soaking in the beauty of the land and ocean in the sweet company of other women, we pause, reflect and reconnect with Joy.

Together we will honor the wisdom of our lived experiences, release what no longer serves, and open to the radiant vitality available at this powerful threshold.

💖REGISTRATION IS OPEN!! Early bird discount of $200 off if registered before August 15th!🌟

✨Link in my bio with more information and registration. ✨

Let’s come together and celebrate and honor this badass time of MIDLIFE❣️💃🏻💓

With Love and Respect,
Alison 🙏❤️‍🩹

07/29/2025

We need people and communities where we can be our real, vulnerable, messy selves with.

Community experiences that allow us to drop the layers of armor, share our truth from our hearts, and BE exactly who we are and where we are in our lives without judgment.

To be witnessed...seen and heard...from our hearts...and to not have someone try and change us but rather allow us to BE in all of the swirls of the emotion of this human experience.

I am still digesting this incredible retreat experience last weekend and am already looking forward to the next one! 🫶

🌟The next retreat experience is October 27th - November 1st: Awakening Joy in Midlife in Baja, Mexico. Much more information to be circulated in the weeks to come but this is a call out to you MIDLIFE WOMEN for a retreat specifically around the beautiful and challenging issues that we face in this potent time of life. Link is here and $200 off if registered by 8/15: https://www.embodymylife.com/fall-womens-retreat💃💓

🌟I also have added a POP UP (by donation) event at Una Vida in Niwot in addition to the regular dances (1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month!) with the intention of staying steady in creating the opportunities for this level of connection AND really wanting to create events that are accessible to all no matter what your financial reality is. 🙏💞💃☮️

07/22/2025

I am just landing back after running my 6th retreat experience at Joyful Journey Hot Springs with an incredible group of badass women… exhausted yet beaming with gratitude. I am digesting the magnificence that unfolded and the profound transformation that circulated in the collective nervous system.

I am in awe of the fortitude that these women hold after navigating extreme hardships and challenges in their lives yet showing up with spaciousness in their hearts to look within and drop a layer of tension that has been keeping them from connection.

There is so much to say and process after these 3 and ½ days, which I will certainly be sharing snippets of in the weeks to come.

This is the last retreat at this particular venue, for the moment, which was a dream-come-true for me many years ago. Recognizing that running this powerful retreat consistently over the past 7 years (took one year off for COVID!) at Joyful Journey was a tremendous steppingstone along my professional path.

I am truly humbled and heart-filled to have shared these experiences with so many women over the years.
Women’s lives were changed.

As I close out this chapter I am holding each of their brave and beautiful hearts close to mine. It has been and remains my deepest honor to create these containers of healing. Every woman that attended over the years helped to build a sturdy and solid foundation and platform for the work to grow
and touch many more women’s lives.

As I take in the richness of each journey, I feel the deep power of dreams and visions in shaping both our lives and the ways we serve. And I’m also aware that some dreams need time—time to take form, to find their flavor, to fully land in the body of our becoming.

Each shape these dreams take—whether clear or still forming—is worthy. The path is rarely linear. But every step, every pause, every redirection lives in the body as part of the becoming. These movements shape us, inform us, and deepen our capacity to serve.

There is wisdom in the timing. When we trust in the pace of life, we allow our vision to root, to rise, and to reveal themselves in their own sacred rhythm.

Nearly 30 years ago, while seeped in my own personal addiction crisis and exploring a holistic approach to healing in a residential treatment center, I had a vision…I felt the stirrings of a calling….and, a dream.

This dream appeared in moments of lucidity over the next 10ish years as I spent much of my life force committed to my healing. I immersed myself in the path less traveled at my ripe, young age. I focused on unwinding my body and heart, studying and practicing relentlessly, and choosing day-after-day to show up with as much presence as I could muster in midst of the swirls of profound angst that I was coming up against.

No matter how loud the voices were screaming at me to do otherwise, I knew that this was my path of life and that I needed to meet it.

This path was going against the grain of what 20-somethings “should” be doing and yet, for me, I felt as though I did not have any other choice. That the only other choice was a grim existence laden with addiction, paralyzing depression and anxiety, and complete dysfunction.

This dream that shone its light to me in those moments of exhale was around bringing women together in a safe, contained, therapeutic retreat setting to do a deep dive into their healing.

An integrative, healing group process that entailed a wide array of holistically-based embodiment practices that would support women to do a full immersion into their bodies and their hearts…to unwind their frenetic nervous systems and to explore a wide array of channels and pathways towards their own unique healing needs.

To come together and release all the gunk that has kept them stuck in the spirals of outdated stories, messages, patterns, and ways of being…and, allowing them to BE exactly who they are.

To have the space to release emotions and move stagnant energy. To connect deeply with their bodies and listen and feel their hearts.

To explore their creativity and to find the words and images for their experiences of life that had perhaps been buried.

To be nourished by foods and teas and treats that helped to ground them and bring joy and satisfaction. And…hopefully provide an experience of support around the healing of their relationships to food and feeding themselves.

To be a part of a community that is safe and welcoming and accepting…that which so many women are lacking in.

To remember that they are not alone in their struggles and challenges of life.

To feel seen and heard and loved for the entirety of their humanness.

All of this to say…. dreams appear in our lives and plant seeds to bloom in their own aligned timing. Although these particular seeds were planted all along the way after the vision first entered my awareness, this body of work was not birthed until I was in my early 40s…over 20 years since the dream began.

Although this particular variation of the dream is completing, there are many more on the horizon. The dream has been birthed.

I will end with that gem…. hopefully to keep each of you inspired and hopeful on your own path of life, fulfilling your dreams, and finding your impact in this world.

Trust your timing and your process.
Open to the NEW.
Find gratitude for the simple and grander experiences, opportunities, and relations of your life.

Wishing you all an easeful and connected New Moon week ahead. As always, I am out here for support and connection. Reach out anytime!

Take good care of yourselves and be kind to each other.

More retreat experiences on my website: https://www.embodymylife.com/retreats

07/09/2025

I am in retreat prep mode. For me, that usually looks like the 2 weeks leading up to the actual retreat of head down/lots of practice and quiet/solitude when possible....and, overall focusing on my work and the retreat ahead.

By now, my family knows that this is how it goes and to have little expectations of me and my time with them as my energy is elsewhere.

Yet, this year feels different. I have a teenager struggling with himself...with his choices and his life...he needs me to be present with him...he needs time in nature and connection...he needs conversation and accountability...he needs support and love.

So, this year I am finding a new balance in my preparation time. I am holding the retreat ahead (in under 2 weeks!) with reverence and care...doing what I need to do to prepare to the best of my ability...and, also, staying connected to my son and to what he is navigating.

I feel as though these excruciating times of turmoil are shaking so many up to what is most important. I hold space for many women throughout the year and these retreats are next level. I need to be well resourced and grounded as I step into retreat time. This year, I am working with myself to tap into that in midst of my son and family’s needs. To come into alignment with myself in midst of the challenges of my teenager and to stay steady and grounded in my energy as I embark upon this retreat time.

I truly hope that each of you are faring well in yourselves...that you are riding the waves of this wild life and are staying connected to those who feel aligned for you...those spaces and places and people whom you can lean in and drop in and open and be your vulnerable and amazing selves.

I am always out here for support and/or connection.✨✨✨

With LOVE and CARE,
Alison 🙏💞🥰☮️❤️‍🩹

07/02/2025

TONIGHT!!! The 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of every month we DANCE IN COMMUNITY at Una Vida Meditation and Movement Studio in Niwot. All are welcomed!! Pre-registration is requested.

Dancing in Community A Women’s Movement Practicewith Alison Rothman MA, CYT, Emotional Doula Meet your guide, the woman behind Dancing in Community:Alison Rothman MA CYT brings to this practice as a beloved community resource. She has a passion for supporting others in growing and healing in a saf...

07/02/2025

Bringing women together to BE HUMAN in community is my passion and purpose.

So many of us are living in isolation and, I believe, that when we have the opportunity to drop the armor that so many of us carry, open our hearts with vulnerability and truth, move our bodies with consciousness and presence, laugh, cry, hug, and feel truly seen and accepted for who we are....we heal on the most profound levels.

LAST CALL for this Summer’s Women’s Retreat at Joyful Journey Hot Springs.....Ground in Expansion...July 18th - 21st! I have 2 spaces left! 💓🌈🌹

✨Registration closes this Friday.✨

If you are craving community, a deep and transformational reset, an opportunity to just BE with yourself, and SPACE to feel and heal....join us for this final retreat at this venue. I would be honored to connect if you are feeling the call!

Link is in my bio for more information! 🌟

With Love, Respect, and Unwavering Care,
Alison ❤️‍🩹💞🙏☮️🥰

06/30/2025

Relationship is such a trip. Learning (and yes, it is a learned process!) how to be with someone intimately in life and all of it’s varying flavors is no small feat. Day-to-day life can be a drag for relationships that lack in fun, play, adventure, and creative ways of connecting. This is a very common symptom of failing relationships.

With all of the gunk swirling in the world, it is easy to get bogged down by it. Coupled with the ups and downs of raising (in our case) a teenager in these confusing/overwhelming/scary times....I believe so strongly in the essentialness of adventure and fun to keep the spark of relationship alive. And...to deepen to new levels.

Michael and I are just landing back after another “couples retreat” Phish-seeing weekend in Austin. These weekends have become our medicine and an opportunity for us to drop into ourselves and our relationship on new levels. They have become the balm for the less-than-fun moments of our lives together raising a teenager.

No matter what phase of life you are in in your relationship, I firmly believe that it is critical to mix things up. To find those adventures that feed you both individually and together. To allow yourselves to exhale and let go of the BS that is swirling in the world at large and to drop down into new possibilities of relating and loving each other.

**And...if you are single....don’t wait to do the things that light you up....that is part of the journey...doing these fun and adventurous outings on your own only prepares you for doing so with another person. I spent over a decade doing so myself and those years were invaluable to my growth and preparedness to be in relationship!!

Wishing you all a connected and easeful week ahead. I am always out here for support and encouragement!

Sending LOVE near and far,
Alison 💖💓💃🏻☮️🌈✨🙏

06/27/2025

Several years ago, we had one of the most potent groups of women find their way to Joyful Journey for the July annual retreat.

By no accident, the majority of these women were in a space of their lives of being humbly ready to release what no longer was serving and holding them back in their lives and take the steps to soar. The circles were DEEP and vulnerable. They were moving and touching and heartbreaking and heart-filling. They were humble and real and profoundly anchoring and healing.

That weekend set into motion a completely new trajectory in so many lives, including mine as I held the space of the retreat. I knew that the potentiality of healing was even more magnified than I had initially anticipated and made the choice to pivot in my own work as well.

I have had the privilege of staying in close touch with many of those women in that circle both personally and professionally. I can say with confidence that each of them have continued on this journey, that seeds were planted in that magical weekend, and have continued to ripple into their lives.

These retreat experiences are not simply an escape from our day-to-day realities. They are a body, heart, and soul reset. They are an opportunity to unwind layers of gunk in one’s system so as to access new possibilities for healing.

We will gather in just a few weeks at the magical Joyful Journey Hot Springs for our final retreat experience at this venue. A deep weekend of healing, embodiment, connection, and transformation!

🌹July 18th-21st at Joyful Journey Hot Springs
🌈Ground in Expansion: A MidSummer Women’s Wellness Retreat

🌟A few spaces left! Let’s connect if you are feeling the call. **Payment plans are very welcomed! 🙏☮️

06/22/2025

The older I get the more I appreciate time with my family…even the drama and irritations and quirks…I appreciate these precious and fleeting moments immensely🙏 💞

This weekend we are celebrating my amazing Dad turning 80! 🫶🌟

Such a gift to be here….feeling so grateful. 💓❤️‍🩹