Somatic Wisdom Institute

Somatic Wisdom Institute OUR MISSION IS BOLD:
Personal and collective liberation.

🌹We’re thrilled to invite you to The Pleasure Event — a collaborative weekend of art, embodiment and exploration. 💗Join ...
10/09/2025

🌹We’re thrilled to invite you to The Pleasure Event — a collaborative weekend of art, embodiment and exploration.

đź’—Join us in our Eastown Studio to celebrate the beauty and power of pleasure as a pathway to healing, creativity and connection.

✨Across two days, we’ll gather for experiential workshops that invite you to reconnect with your body, your sensuality, and your joy.

🌸Friday, November 14th, Open to All — Free Admission

6:00 - 9:00pm: Hors d’oeuvres, art, and juicy conversation
Presentation: 6:30–7:30pm

Join us for an evening celebrating the art of the v***a — an art open house and presentation with Monica Vergara, Somatic S*x Educator, Organizational Psychologist and Erotic Arts Facilitator.

🌸Saturday, November 15 — Workshops - A full day of embodied learning, creative exploration and connection.

* 9:00 – 10:30am: Pleasure Is the Measure: Reframing Female S*xual Wellness with Nisha McKenzie, PA-C, CSC, MSCP, IF of Women’s+ Health Collective

* 11:00am – 12:30pm: Reclaiming Pleasure — Embodied Breathwork Session with Leah Grace of Somatic Wisdom Institute

* 12:30 – 2:00pm: Lunch Break & Yoni Steam

* 2:00 – 3:30pm: Meditation & Art Workshop: Creative Flow at the Second Chakra with Susanne Werblow of Kundalini Yoga GR

* 4:00 – 5:30pm: East Meets West: Pathways to Or**sm & Connection with Monica Vergara of Gaiavox

* 4:00pm: Yoni Steam with Megan Smit + Mary Fields of The Remedy House

This weekend is an invitation to slow down, savor, and explore the many ways pleasure lives in your body and your life.

We can’t wait to gather with you for this powerful celebration of art, embodiment, and pleasure.

Space is limited on Saturday, so we encourage you to register early!

A select number of package tickets will be available for those who’d like to experience all four workshops.

đź”—Follow the link in bio for all the details and to save your spot.

✨C A C A O✨Cacao Meditation with Ryan DeLucaFriday, October 31 9:00 - 10:00amOur heart is often seen as the seat of intu...
10/09/2025

✨C A C A O✨

Cacao Meditation with Ryan DeLuca
Friday, October 31
9:00 - 10:00am

Our heart is often seen as the seat of intuition — the place within where we can listen deeply and remember who we truly are.

Join us for a morning of connection and embodiment as you enjoy a cup of ceremonial cacao, lovingly hand-crafted by Somatic Wisdom Institute lead teacher, Ryan DeLuca. Ryan will guide you through a gentle breath and embodiment practice to quiet the mind and soothe the nervous system, followed by a guided meditation into your heart space — an invitation to reconnect with yourself and your life.

This heart-centered class is offered monthly in our Eastown studio.

✨ More info and registration in bio!

💗Awaken Your Desire: A Women’s Breathwork Ceremony💗Wednesday, October 296:30 - 9:00pmOur Eastown Studio✨This ceremony is...
10/04/2025

💗Awaken Your Desire: A Women’s Breathwork Ceremony💗

Wednesday, October 29
6:30 - 9:00pm
Our Eastown Studio

✨This ceremony is an invitation to soften into the whispers of your heart. Together we’ll explore desire as a guide, a teacher, and a sacred doorway into the life you’re meant to live.

✨As women, we are often taught to quiet our longings, to tuck away the fire of our true desires in order to fit into a box that was never meant to contain us. Yet when we are disconnected from desire, we are also disconnected from the ability to design the life we truly want. Desire is not frivolous—it is the compass of the soul.

✨And yet, we live in a world of paradox. We’re told: Be ambitious, but not bossy. Be sexy, but don’t be sexual. Be confident, but not arrogant. Be nurturing, but don’t lose yourself. Speak your truth, but don’t upset anyone. These mixed messages leave us silencing what we want most, mistrusting our own wisdom, and shrinking our lives to fit inside the expectations of others.

✨In this breathwork ceremony, we will reclaim desire as sacred. Together we’ll create space to meet the part of us that longs for more—more aliveness, more intimacy, more joy, more freedom. Through the breath, we’ll open to the possibility that our desires are not a problem to be fixed, but a powerful guide leading us home to ourselves.

✨This ceremony is for women and non-binary humans who identify with women’s containers.

✨link in bio

✨Breathing Into Brotherhood✨✨In a world that’s constantly shifting, many men are left asking: “How am I supposed to show...
09/17/2025

✨Breathing Into Brotherhood✨

✨In a world that’s constantly shifting, many men are left asking: “How am I supposed to show up?”

Tuesday, October 14th
6:30 - 8:30pm

✨Between expectations, pressures, and changing definitions of masculinity, it’s easy to lose our place—or feel like we never had one to begin with.

✨Breathing Into Brotherhood is a guided breathwork experience designed to support men in healing, grounding, and reconnecting with their true essence. This is a space to explore what it means to be a man today—without judgment, without the need to perform, and without having to explain your story.

✨Through conscious breathwork, we’ll move energy and emotion through the body—not to dissect it, but to release it. This is not about talking it out, it’s about feeling it through.

đź”—Link in bio

✨Co-Ed Breathwork✨Wednesday, September 24,6:30 - 9:00pm✨Join us for a transformative breathwork ceremony where we’ll hon...
09/17/2025

✨Co-Ed Breathwork✨
Wednesday, September 24,
6:30 - 9:00pm

✨Join us for a transformative breathwork ceremony where we’ll honor cacao and breathwork to reach a new state of awareness. This is a powerful way to release stress, let go of limiting beliefs, and clear out any stuck and stagnant energy.

✨Let your breath guide you inward to a non-ordinary state that unlocks congestion in your physical, mental and energetic body.

✨Sink into a relaxing sound bath with gongs, singing bowls and soothing percussion. The sound vibration will help you unwind, realign and find a deep sense of wellbeing. These powerful breathwork sessions are designed to help you reconnect with yourself, your body, and your intuition. It’s a chance to let go of what isn’t serving you and embrace your true self.

✨Stay after hours for community integration: a light dinner, sauna, hot & cold tubs.

✨These ceremonies offer a way home—back to yourself, your body, and the deep knowing that lives within you.

Note that this is an offsite event in Sparta, MI. Exact address will be provided upon registration.

🌙m o o n🌙✨These monthly moon ceremonies provide space for the sacred feminine to emerge from the deepest parts of our bo...
09/11/2025

🌙m o o n🌙

✨These monthly moon ceremonies provide space for the sacred feminine to emerge from the deepest parts of our body & soul.

✨Come gather in a circle of women for a moon ceremony. Kaycee Joy is thrilled to bring this offering to the community once a month. These ceremonies invite sisters to circle up and work with the moon cycles, astrology, ritual, archetypes, soul journeys, goddess traditions and so much more. Each session will be tailored around a new theme to work with throughout the month. You’ll be immersed in the divine feminine spirit, free to explore all of your parts that are asking to be tended to.

✨This is a Circle for women + non-binary humans who identify with women’s containers.

✨🌙link in bio

✨C E R E M O N Y✨Women’s Cacao, Breathwork + Sound Bath CeremonyTuesday, September 96:30 PM 9:00 PMEastown StudioThis i...
08/27/2025

✨C E R E M O N Y✨

Women’s Cacao, Breathwork + Sound Bath Ceremony

Tuesday, September 9
6:30 PM 9:00 PM
Eastown Studio

This is a space for the sacred feminine to emerge from the deepest parts of our body & soul.

This ceremony is a call to reclaim what systems, trauma, and conditioning have asked you to forget—the power, truth, and wholeness that lives within your body.

Through breath, sound, cacao, and shared ritual, you’ll be held in a somatic, earth-rooted container designed to honor the full spectrum of your experience—grief and joy, rage and tenderness, contraction and expansion. There is no ideal version of you to strive for here—only the truth that wants to rise through your breath and body. This is not about becoming something new—it’s about returning to what has always been yours.

Come exactly as you are.
Leave with more of who you’ve always been.

This ceremony is for women and non-binary humans who identify with women’s containers.






08/26/2025

✨VISION FAST✨

One week ago, six women emerged from the forest, forever changed. 4 days of fasting, prayer and solitude revealed a hunger for something deeper within them.

A Vision Quest is a sacred journey into the wild—alone, fasting, praying, listening. It’s a rite of passage where the seeker meets the mystery, calls for vision, and opens to the voice of Spirit. Rooted in Indigenous ways, it’s a ceremony of becoming.

At Somatic Wisdom Institute, we know that before there were textbooks and therapeutic labels for healing trauma…

There were circles of women, gathered in community.

There was the wisdom of the rhythm of the body, the medicine of the earth.

There was solitude, fasting, walking the wheel of life.

At Somatic Wisdom Institute, we honor both ancient and modern ways of tending to the nervous system.

Here, we remember what the body has always known: healing is embodied, sacred and in rhythm with the earth🌿

The next fast will be in summer of 2026 - reach out in the link in bio for more information.





08/25/2025

✨VISION FAST✨

One week ago, six women emerged from the forest, forever changed. 4 1/2 days of fasting, prayer and solitude in nature revealed a hunger for something deeper within them.

A Vision Quest is a sacred journey into the wild—alone, fasting, praying, listening. It’s a rite of passage where the seeker meets the mystery, calls for vision, and opens to the voice of Spirit. Rooted in Indigenous ways, it’s a ceremony of becoming.

At Somatic Wisdom Institute, we know that before there were textbooks and therapeutic labels for healing trauma…

There were circles of women, gathered in community.

There was the wisdom of the rhythm of the body, the medicine of the earth.

There was solitude, fasting, walking the wheel of life.

At Somatic Wisdom Institute, we honor both ancient and modern ways of tending to the nervous system.

Here, we remember what the body has always known: healing is embodied, sacred and in rhythm with the earth🌿

The next fast will be in summer of 2026 - reach out in the link in bio for more information.





🌙Yoga for Deep Rest🌙This class is an invitation to rest deeply and gently unwind. Through slow, mindful movement and gui...
08/25/2025

🌙Yoga for Deep Rest🌙

This class is an invitation to rest deeply and gently unwind.

Through slow, mindful movement and guided awareness, we release tension and invite the nervous system into balance.

✨ Give yourself permission to pause.
✨ Reconnect with your body’s natural rhythms.
✨ Leave feeling replenished, grounded, and renewed.

đź“Ť Somatic Wisdom Institute in Eastown
💫 No experience needed — just come as you are.

✨🎶Awaken Your Voice🎶✨Join us on Sunday, October 19 for a soulful five-hour immersion guided by Matia Kalli. Whether you’...
08/07/2025

✨🎶Awaken Your Voice🎶✨

Join us on Sunday, October 19 for a soulful five-hour immersion guided by Matia Kalli. Whether you’re new to singing or a seasoned vocalist, this workshop creates a safe, playful, and supportive space where authenticity is treasured over perfection. 

Through vocal play, group improvisation, somatic practices, and a ceremonial cacao moment, you’ll:
• Explore major-scale warm-ups, harmony, rhythm, and embodied listening
• Engage in “Sound Where It Lives”—a powerful practice of vocalizing directly from tension, fear, or silence
• Co-create living sound in circle singing and improvisation
• Conclude with a shared soundscape full of collective resonance and presence 

Ready to explore your voice as a vessel of presence and connection? Your voice is medicine. Let it be heard.

✨visit the link in bio for details and registration









✨Silence speaks. Come listen.Join us for a grounding Silent Retreat at The Hive, November 7-9. This is an invitation to ...
08/07/2025

✨Silence speaks. Come listen.

Join us for a grounding Silent Retreat at The Hive, November 7-9. This is an invitation to step away from the noise and return to your inner wisdom. Through spacious silence, time in nature, gentle somatic practices, and nourishing food, you’ll rest, reflect, and reset your nervous system.

You’re welcome to stay for one night or two, depending on what your body and heart need most.

✨ Learn more and register at the link in bio

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MISSION: This Wellness Collective GR is formed on the belief that all aspects of life are deeply interconnected and that through collaboration, education, and empowerment we can offer a new vision of wellness to our community. At The Wellness Collective we strive to provide opportunities for anyone wishing to deepen their relationship with body and soul in a compassionate, safe and confidential environment. Each practitioner brings a specialized approach and valuable insight into the wellness journey. We each offer individualized appointments along with educational classes and transformational workshops held here at our center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. WELLNESS COLLECTIVE SERVICES - The Collective features therapy rooms and a large studio space which is used for teaching classes. -The studio space can be rented for workshops, evening classes, documentary showings, yoga and evening wellness classes. - The Wellness Collective is comprised of 27 practitioners offering services such as naturopathic consultations, life coaching, energy work, massage therapy, cranial sacral therapy, to name a few.