Online Masterclass: Listening, Moving, Being: Pathways to Reconnection

Led by Dr. Rosario Sammartino, this experiential class weaves together movement, somatic awareness, drawing, and reflection.

ONLINE: Saturday, March 21st, 2026
9 am - 12pm Pacific Time
Cost (includes eventbrite fees):
$80

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MASTER CLASS. Listening, Moving, Being: Pathways to Reconnection

There are moments when connection to our bodily experience feels distant, overwhelming, or simply out of reach. We may feel too much, too little, or unsure how to begin again. After long stretches of disconnection, even the first step toward embodied presence can feel fragile, uncertain, or impossible.

In this Master Class, we explore pathways back into bodily experience—for ourselves and for those we accompany in therapeutic, educational, or creative settings. Rather than pushing or forcing reconnection, we listen for what is present and available now, allowing the process to unfold from there. Through imagination, movement, and creative expression—direct doorways into bodily experience—we gradually expand and deepen our capacity to be with what lives in us.

Grounded in the Life/Art Process, this experiential class weaves together movement, somatic awareness, drawing, and reflection as ways of meeting states of numbness, intensity, or disconnection with curiosity. Participants attend to how what is alive in us speaks through rhythm, posture, gesture, tone, and impulse, and how creative expression opens multiple pathways for engaging and shaping lived experience beyond sensing or thinking alone.

This class supports:

• Discovering creative ways of connecting with bodily experience
• Developing language and practices that honor pacing, choice, and agency
• Deepening the capacity to accompany ourselves and others when bodily experience feels hard to reach or too intense

This Master Class is an invitation to approach reconnection as a dialogue—one that unfolds over time through movement, feeling, imagination, and lived experience.

Workshops are for ages 18+ only and disability access is not provided.

To get the most out of this online class, please prepare a comfortable space to move in with access to your online device and reliable internet service. If you are using a handheld device, such as a pad or phone, please be sure to use a stand for your device so that it is held securely in place. You will want to have your hands free and be able to move freely and safely during movement exercises without worrying about your device falling. Also, have art supplies ready at hand for the drawing activity and paper and pen for journaling and creative writing exercises.

**Please Note** All workshop participants must pay the registration fee. If you will be sharing your computer with other participants during this workshop, each of you is required to pay for this workshop before it begins.

Rosario Sammartino PhDis a leading therapist and educator in the intersecting fields of expressive arts, somatics and depth psychology. With twenty years of experience, her work explores the relationship between body, emotion and imagination. Rosario is a core faculty member of Tamalpa Institute, the internationally recognized training center for movement-based expressive arts therapy, where she trains an international student body. She is an adjunct professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS); as well as the founder of Anthropos Institute, an art and self-development Center located in Buenos Aires, the founder of Anthropos Argentina, where she is originally from. Rosario leads numerous lectures & workshops nationally and internationally. She has taken her work to healing and educational centers, bringing innovative models for health and embodied creativity to diverse populations. rosariosammartino.com

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Registration will close 1 hour prior to the start time of the class.

REFUNDS: will only be given if cancellation is received at least 48 hours before the start of the first class. No partial refunds or transfers available. Eventbrite processing fees are non-refundable.