A 3-Day LIVE Online Retreat

with Richard Strozzi-Heckler

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January 7-9, 2022

Friday @ 5pm-8pm Pacific
Saturday @ 9am-5pm Pacific
Sunday @ 9am-1pm Pacific

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Learn to recognize times of change as a profound invitation for spiritual transformation.

Receive somatic practices to help you let go of patterns and beliefs that no longer serve you — and allow your body’s wisdom to act as your guide.

As this era of transition continues in our larger world, how do we skillfully end one phase of life and begin a new one?

You might be feeling a stirring inside you…

… signaling a profound invitation for spiritual transformation inside the unfolding unknown.

It’s a new chance to discover how you’re being called to grow, what you’re meant to do differently — and discern your life purpose, asking bold questions about whether it might be different now….

Join us for a 3-day New Year’s Retreat with a true pioneer in the field of somatics, lead teacher, and bestselling author Richard Strozzi-Heckler, PhD. and allow your body to be your guide as you uncover the person you’re being called to become.

There’s an innate intelligence that modern life slowly prunes out of us — and Richard will guide you to reactivate this inner knowing through the wisdom of your body.

Through meditation, somatic practices, and wisdom teachings as transformational tools, Richard will guide you to contribute to collective positive change — as you allow your body’s wisdom to move through you and reframe how you see yourself in these pivotal moments.

This upcoming new year holds unlimited potential… 

Join Richard to reimagine how you can put your longings into action and become fully aligned to your purpose.

During this 3-day retreat with Richard,
you will discover:

  • Somatic practices to support you as you skillfully move through transitions

  • Contemplative practices to help calm your mind and allow you to drop into deeper connection with your body’s wisdom

  • How to reframe change and recognize the possibilities in times of transition

  • Beliefs and patterns you can now let go of — especially to move toward the self that’s calling in times of transition

  • Deep practices for inquiry to explore what new future you’re moving towards

  • How to navigate the unbounded spaces of life and access the wisdom held in times of transition

  • Somatic practices to cultivate sustainable change as you step into who you’re meant to be in this new era

  • Align with a community of like-minded practitioners that can support you in moving through the unknown spaces of transition

  • And more…
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Join Richard for this powerful long weekend and master somatic practices to support you through times of transition and change in the new year and beyond.

Plus you’ll discover ways we can navigate change together for the bringing healing to the collective.

Rare Opportunity to Join Richard LIVE for 3 days! 

What You’ll Discover During This Powerful Retreat

In this 3-day transformational retreat, Richard will guide you step-by-step as you deepen your understanding of somatic practices that will guide, support and sustain you through times of transition and change.

Through Somatic awareness (becoming aware of sensations), Somatic opening (bodywork to release held patterns in the body) and Somatic practices (meditation, movement, and being present in everyday life) Richard helps you integrate body-oriented somatic practices to help you dissolve habits, behaviors, and beliefs about yourself and our world — that are preventing you from moving forward through these times of global transition.

You’ll become reacquainted with your body as your guide and the portal for your spirit — as you take skillful action that’s grounded in compassion and pragmatic wisdom.

Each session features LIVE, in-depth teaching, guided exercises, interactive training, and practices you can apply right away. 

Richard Strozzi-Heckler

Friday, January 7 
5pm-8pm Pacific/8pm-11pm Eastern

Saturday, January 8
9am-5pm Pacific/12-8pm Eastern 

Sunday, January 9 
9am-1pm Pacific/12-4pm Eastern

Join Richard via Live Streaming Video

You will easily connect with Richard (and your new global community!) face-to-face via video. Joining the sessions online is easy with your favorite device — phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer.

We see community interaction as a valuable part of this experience, and we encourage you to participate as much as you’re comfortable with. You’ll always have the option to observe if you feel it’s more suitable for you at the time. This online medium helps us create a safe space to support our participants and community and meet their needs.

And, don’t worry if you can’t join live — you can catch up anytime with recordings! 

You will receive lifetime access to streaming video recordings of each session. You can refer to them time and again to capture the teachings and practices at a time and pace that works for your schedule. 

Day 1

Entering into the Potential of Transition
(Friday, January 7 from 5pm-8pm Pacific)

On your first day together, Richard will guide you into a reinterpretation of the body. 

You’ll learn to transition from concepts into a feeling and sensing that leads to an emotional and spiritual awakening.

In this retreat, you’ll be introduced to the map and the practices of moving from the known to the unknown and to a new way of being.

On this opening session, you’ll discover:

  • How to reframe change into a profound opportunity for transformation

  • Body-based practices to drop into sensation and access what you long for and care about most

  • How to reinterpret the body to give rise to a whole new way of being — embracing life’s constant changes, and the unknown

  • Begin to embody your vision for your time with Richard and your new community during this retreat

  • How to “enter” as an embodied skill that brings you into deeper relationship with ALL of life

  • How to align your connections between awareness and sensation

  • And much more…

Day 2

Blending & Moving with Transitions & Change
(Saturday, January 8 from 9am-5pm Pacific)

During day two, you’ll learn to cultivate the Self by working through the body — as you move with change rather than resist it…

Richard will guide you to become intimate with your conditioned patterns of reacting to change and lead you into practices to help waken the wisdom of the body. 

You’ll discover the inherent kindness and generosity you hold for yourself as you recontextualize fear from foe to friend.

During these sessions and throughout this entire retreat weekend, you’ll begin to build a trust into the arc of your life. Transitions and change are nodules that point to the next level of transformation, a catalyst for the step on your next arc of transformation. The more you’re connected to the potential wisdom your body offers, the more you’re connected to the greater wisdom.

In these sessions, you’ll:

  • Release the thoughts and behaviors that no longer serve you

  • Become familiar and more aware of your unconscious conditioned patterns

  • Connect with longing as a guide to manifesting your vision

  • Drop into deep inquiry into which practices are most useful in awakening the wisdom of the body

  • Connect with the inherent kindness and generosity you’re holding for yourself

  • Engage in practices to reinterpret your fears so they can become useful allies

Day 3

The Importance of Allies & Support in Times of Change
(Sunday, January 9 from 9am-1pm Pacific)

On Day One, you began the inquiry of seeing the wisdom of your body as a guide. On Day Two, you learned to cultivate the Self by working through your body…

Now on Day Three, you’ll explore the importance of aligning with a community of like-minded practitioners that can support you in moving through the unknown spaces of transition; and becoming a support for others who are going through similar transitions.

We are social beings and require others’ support and guidance as we grow, change, and face the unknown.

In this final session, you will celebrate the immeasurable gift of having masterful teachers, guides, coaches, therapists, friends — and everyone else in your community of support and practice.

Richard will share how you can stay connected to this experience you’ve already opened yourself up to. 

You will move through guided practices to distill what you’ve learned — and share with your classmates, if you’re feeling called.

You’ll have the chance to share what’s come up for you during the retreat, which practices you want to commit to going forward — and how your ideas about yourself and your role in this new world of transition have shifted and evolved.

In this closing session, you’ll explore:

  • Empowering guidance from Richard as you take what you’ve learned and move with courage into the world

  • Ways to feel the power of practice community

  • How to cultivate your own community of practice and support

  • Embodied skills necessary to collaborate more harmoniously with others in our life

  • How to stay connected to your virtual community of practice and continue the conversation as you step more fully into the new year

REGISTER NOW and receive THREE
EXCLUSIVE Bonuses:

Exclusive New Year’s Meditation Circle December 31!
Special LIVE Event with Richard 

Start your retreat early! Connect with Richard and your community as you prepare for the upcoming retreat and the year ahead. Richard will guide you through meditation and teaching to help you begin creating your internal container for the transformative power of the retreat.

December 31, 2021 at 10:00am Pacific Time 

  • Save $50.00 — Register today for only $347!
  • Access our 2-pay plan — 2 payments of $173.50!

Here’s What You’ll Receive When You Register for Embodying the Wisdom of the Soma

  • Twelve Hours over Three Days of LIVE online retreat sessions with Richard

Receive depth teachings, guided practices, demonstrations, and interactive Q&A — accessible on your favorite device, in the comfort of your own home.

  • Depth Practices & Exercises

In addition to the guided interactive sessions during the retreat, Richard will share practices, exercises, and “assignments” for you to apply in between sessions to deepen your retreat experience.

  • Three Video Recordings of Retreat Sessions

Soon after each retreat session, the video will be available for you to stream in high-quality format. Should you miss a session, you can catch up when you watch the recording, anytime and anywhere — on any connected device.

  • Three Audio Recordings of Retreat Sessions

After each session, the audio will be available via high-quality MP3. Should you miss a session, you can listen in and catch up at your convenience.

  • Private Online Learning Community

You will be invited to join the private Online Learning Community where you can access all the recordings, practices, and other information for the retreat.

Save $50.00

Full Tuition: $397

Register today for
only $347!

Register Now

Registration is now closed.

Please explore our course calendar and our in-person & online offerings for more opportunities to get involved.

 

Save $50.00

Full Tuition: $397

Register today for
only $347!

Register Now

2-Pay Plan

Full Tuition: $397

2 payments
of $173.50

Register Now

Your Satisfaction is 100% Guaranteed!

Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. If this retreat isn’t a great fit for you, for whatever reason — refunds will be issued up until 8:00 PM Pacific Time on January 7, 2022.

Here’s what Richard’s students are saying:

“To relax into full learning mode as a student is a true delight.”

As someone whose life passion is teaching and learning, I am grateful and appreciative beyond words to have Richard as a teacher of such extraordinary calibre…. To have a level of trust to be able to relax into full learning mode as a student is a true delight.

— Billy Strean, PhD

“He illuminates the smallest, almost invisible ways in which the culture shapes people to live at a distance from the body…”

“Richard has spent nearly half a century as one of the few agents of transformation who has succeeded in carrying his work and explorations far from quiet meditation halls and therapy offices and out into the borderlands with warriors and entrepreneurs. He illuminates the smallest, almost invisible ways in which the culture shapes people to live at a distance from the body… He puts forward a model of somatic coaching with easy-to-implement strategies that seamlessly weave practices of sensitive attention, conversation, breathing, touch, movement, and gestures.”

—Don Hanlon Johnson, PhD,
founder of the Somatic Psychotherapy graduate degree program at California Institute of Integral Studies

“…helped transform my relationship to yearning…”

[Richard led] a physical experience of my deep yearning — and that yearning itself is a source in the mystery. To feel this in my heart center, solar plexus and belly — each at different times — helped transform my relationship to yearning from one of vulnerability and shame to one of exultation.

— James Shaffer

REGISTER NOW and receive THREE
EXCLUSIVE Bonuses:

Exclusive New Year’s Meditation Circle December 31!
Special LIVE Event with Richard 

Start your retreat early! Connect with Richard and your community as you prepare for the upcoming retreat and the year ahead. Richard will guide you through meditation and teaching to help you begin creating your internal container for the transformative power of the retreat.

December 31, 2021 at 10:00am Pacific Time 

  • Save $50.00 — Register today for only $347!
  • Access our 2-pay plan — 2 payments of $173.50!

Save $50.00

Full Tuition: $397

Register today for
only $347!

Register Now

Your Satisfaction is 100% Guaranteed!

Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. If this retreat isn’t a great fit for you, for whatever reason — refunds will be issued up until 8:00 PM Pacific Time on January 7, 2022.

Registration is now closed.

Please explore our course calendar and our in-person & online offerings for more opportunities to get involved.

 

FAQs

It’s a powerful way to experience live and pre-recorded teachings from home! To view or listen to the event, you’ll only need a computer, mobile device, or telephone. (If you feel called, you might also grab a notebook for writing down your reflections.)

You’ll need a computer, mobile device, or telephone. We use Zoom video conferencing to make it just like an in-person event — you can engage with instructors (and in some cases your fellow participants) ask questions and deepen your retreat experience.

  • Friday, January 7
    5pm-8pm Pacific/8pm-11pm Eastern
  • Saturday, January 8
    9am-5pm Pacific/12-8pm Eastern 
  • Sunday, January 9
    9am-1pm Pacific/12-4pm Eastern
  • Twelve Hours over three Days of LIVE online retreat sessions with Richard
  • Depth Practices & Exercises
  • Three Video Recordings of Retreat Sessions
  • Three Audio Recordings of Retreat Sessions
  • Private Online Learning Community

If you are unable to attend the live session the video and audio recordings of the live sessions will be made available within 24 hours of the live session. 

Yes, to help everyone get the most out of the live and recorded content, we offer live closed captioning and rough transcriptions (AI generated with 90% accuracy) for all of our online workshops.

Course materials will be available to you for one year after the course ends.

Course Materials are shared on a rolling basis through our online learning platform, with new material released with each live session. Each session’s chapter will start with a Zoom link or recording of the 90-minute live training session and include any supporting readings, handouts, worksheets, and assignments.

Yes. We send an email before the retreat, sharing all the pre-retreat logistics. We ask all participants to review the retreat materials and complete a pre-course student agreement and survey BEFORE the fist live training session.

No. We ask that you do not share the retreat materials and content with folks who have not enrolled. Strozzi Institute wants to make the retreat materials accessible to you and we ask that you honor the copyright and student agreement that you sign at the start of the course.

Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. If Foundations of Strozzi Somatics isn’t a great fit for you, for whatever reason — refunds will be issued up until 8:00pm Pacific Time on January 7.

About Richard Strozzi-Heckler

Richard Strozzi-Heckler, PhD is founder of Strozzi Institute. He has spent over five decades researching, developing and teaching Somatics to business leaders, executive managers, teams from Fortune 500 companies, NGOs, technology start-ups, non-profits, the U.S. government and military.

He was named one of the Top 50 Executive Coaches in The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching, and in Profiles in Coaching. He is the co-founder of the Mideast Aikido Project (MAP), which brings together Palestinians and Israelis through the practice of Aikido.

Richard is the author of eight books, including The Leadership Dojo, In Search of the Warrior Spirit, The Anatomy of Change, Holding the Center and The Art of Somatic Coaching: Embodying Skillful Action, Wisdom, and Compassion. From 2002 to 2007 he was an advisor to NATO and the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe (SACEUR) General Jim Jones, formally the National Security Advisor.

Richard has a PhD in Psychology and is a Shihan seventh degree black belt in the martial art of Aikido.

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