Join us on Sunday March 28th for a journey into your feeling body. Through movement and the expressive arts, and supported by the voice of the cello, participants will be guided to listen and creatively explore matters of the heart.

Music has the power to move us, helping our hearts to open up. Movement and the arts become the language that help us to give expression and shape our feelings, allowing us to reflect, process and work on themes that are important to us. No art or dance experience needed.

***Please prepare a comfortable space to move & have art supplies ready at hand for drawing activities.

***Using wireless headphones or good speakers will greatly enhance the music & movement portion of this workshop.

About The Facilitators

Dr. Rosario Sammartino is a leading therapist and educator in the intersecting fields of depth psychology, expressive arts, and somatic psychology. With over fifteen years of experience, her work explores the relationship between body, emotion and imagination.

Dr. Sammartino offers Somatic Expressive Arts individual and group therapy with an approach that engages movement, arts, dream work, and other creative therapeutic modalities, facilitating healing and transformation. Her resource-oriented therapeutic work holds a special focus on stress management, loss and grief, life transitions, and personal growth.

Rosario leads numerous lectures & workshops nationally and internationally. She has taken her work to healing and educational centers, bringing innovative models for health and creativity to diverse populations.

Joshua McClain is a renowned cellist, composer, artist, and filmmaker based in Oakland, CA. He is best known for his unbridled style of cello playing which, using a looping pedal and effects processor, creates intense, otherworldly soundscapes. Joshua created a highly popular free live stream concert series during the Pandemic of 2020, called "Morning Cello," which has reached millions of people all over the world.

Joshua released his most recent album, Coming Home, in February 2018 with critical acclaim. Coming Home is a concept album based on the archetype of the "Hero's Journey". The album was inspired by a month long ayahuasca retreat with Shipibo shamans in the jungle's of the Peruvian Amazon for the treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress. Joshua has since focused his approach on how music and sound can be a catalyst for change.

Joshua's style is deeply influenced by the music of Andrew Bird, Zoe Keating, Mark Summer, Yo-Yo Ma, Sigur Rós, Dirty Three, Jimmy Hendrix, Max Richter, Yann Tiersen, and Hans Zimmer, among others.

Joshua has toured and performed extensively in North America as well as Germany, France, Japan, West Africa, and Argentina.