Enliven your radiant life-force through somatic practices and embodied ritual
Join us for a transformative weekend of Soma Alchemy, where we surrender into the sacred cycle of shedding what no longer serves and shimmering in the potency of what wants to emerge.
"Shed & Shimmer" is a ritual arc of release and renewal—an invitation to soften the armor, peel back the old skins, and awaken the glimmering pulse of your deep feminine life force. Through somatic practices, intuitive movement, and creative ritual, we enter the alchemical cocoon of becoming.
This is a space for women who are ready to:
Shed outdated patterns, grief, and tension held in the body
Shimmer in the luscious unknown—slow down, feel deeply, and reclaim inner sensual space
Move with intuitive wisdom and creative agency
Reclaim pleasure as a source of power, nourishment, and self-initiation
Shimmer in expressive authenticity, radiant presence, and embodied connection
Together, we will tend to the body as a sacred threshold—one that knows how to release, to remember, and to rebirth. As we shed what has weighed us down, we soften into the shimmering center of self: alive, potent, and unapologetically luminous.
You’ll leave this weekend reconnected to your:
Sensual vitality
Emotional and energetic clarity
Expressive radiance
Grounded inner power
Deepened connection to yourself, the Earth, and a circle of women shimmering
Come as you are. Leave more fully who you are becoming.
It all started when…
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“There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.” - Isabel Allende
Led by Alycia Scott Zollinger
Alycia Scott Zollinger is a somatic healing facilitator and educator dedicated to liberating embodied knowledge, pleasure, and cellular consciousness with creative agency and intuitive empowerment. She is a graduate of the Seattle School of Body Psychotherapy, a registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA), and a Practitioner Member of the United States Association of Body Psychotherapy. She is also an International Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga Instructor, and a Movement Integration specialist with a Masters of Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1999, she has taught somatic healing modalities, movement rituals and cathartic practices. She continually trains and collaborates with mental health professionals, somatic educators, and creative souls.
“I don’t think I could find someone more skillful in teaching these exercises - it requires vulnerability, humility, and personal expression to teach an unusual moving art / type of mindfulness. I have a VERY sensitive disposition - HSP is the Wikipedia version of my internal sensitivity. That said, I experienced the expressive portions of this class as an exercise in mindfulness that brought a distinctly different inner experience and feeling that I do not achieve in Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gong or seated meditation.”
“It’s very interesting. Alycia, you really share your knowledge with passion and love. I felt a bit unsure at the beginning, but as more moves and sounds came out of my body, and my system, little by little, let go, I gave myself entirely to the moment, to the movements and sounds. It really felt good. Leaving, I was filled with calming energy and totally relaxed. Have to let you know that I had the BEST VERY BEAUTIFUL BLESSED sleeping night in a long time (amazing 7+ hrs.) that evening... So, it is fantastic.”
“I’ve never really expressed myself through my body like this. Emotionally, it was really quite odd and uncomfortable at first. But still it was an exciting and new experience. I loved it. I love being pushed outside my comfort zone into a whole new world of possibilities and that’s really what it was; an entire world of possibilities. The possibilities of the body are endless. The principles I have learned so far in this class have been enormously helpful. I’ve loved every minute of it. It’s so cool to explore our bodies in such a way that is immensely helpful and constructive at the same time. I’ve noticed that I have become more upright and carry myself in a different way than before. I’m an entirely different person now and I like it that way.”
“Most of the shadows in this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
