Everybody, Love Your Body

03/08/2025

Our Dance Into Ancient Wisdom Retreat in Tuscany retreat special runs through tomorrow - Saturday March 8th.

We have a group of amazing women joining us and we have a couple of more spots that we'd love to fill.

To celebrate International Women's Day, we're offering €100 off, if you register by March 8 (International Women's Day).

There are 3 spots left. These can be single/private bath, single/shared bath, or double. So you can come with a friend :)!

We have three spots left for our Dance Into Ancient Wisdom retreat in Tuscany.

We have an amazing group of women joining us!

And, to celebrate International Women’s Day, we are offering €100 off registration as long as you register by International Women’s Day on Saturday March 8, 2025.

The three remaining spots can be single/private bath, single/shared bath, or double.

Whether you need to lighten your heart, tap into your wellspring of inner peace—or just have a wonderful vacation—we welcome you to our Dance into Ancient Wisdom retreat!

In a magical setting in Tuscany, you’ll explore the deep wisdom of your own body as we dance through the wisdom traditions of Tarot and Kabbalah.

Guided by two master teachers, you’ll experience joyful body-mind-spirit classes and prompts for reflection and creative expression. Discover how these ancient ways of knowing will enrich your life.

Plan to have fun! You'll feast on locally sourced meals prepared by a private chef, accompanied by lively conversation and laughter.

There will also be ample contemplative, restorative time to relax in the spa and rainwater pool, take walks in the stunning setting, and “let the soft animal of your body love what it loves” (Mary Oliver).

See the full retreat description and register here: https://danceintoancientwisdom.wetravel.com/trips/dance-into-ancient-wisdom-2025-jennifer-and-janice-retreat-in-tuscany-54398852

03/01/2025

We have three spots left for our Dance Into Ancient Wisdom retreat in Tuscany.

We have an amazing group of women joining us!

And, to celebrate International Women’s Day, we are offering €100 off registration as long as you register by International Women’s Day on Saturday March 8, 2025.

The three remaining spots can be single/private bath, single/shared bath, or double.

Whether you need to lighten your heart, tap into your wellspring of inner peace—or just have a wonderful vacation—we welcome you to our Dance into Ancient Wisdom retreat!

In a magical setting in Tuscany, you’ll explore the deep wisdom of your own body as we dance through the wisdom traditions of Tarot and Kabbalah.

Guided by two master teachers, you’ll experience joyful body-mind-spirit classes and prompts for reflection and creative expression. Discover how these ancient ways of knowing will enrich your life.

Plan to have fun! You'll feast on locally sourced meals prepared by a private chef, accompanied by lively conversation and laughter.

There will also be ample contemplative, restorative time to relax in the spa and rainwater pool, take walks in the stunning setting, and “let the soft animal of your body love what it loves” (Mary Oliver).

See the full retreat description and register here: https://danceintoancientwisdom.wetravel.com/trips/dance-into-ancient-wisdom-2025-jennifer-and-janice-retreat-in-tuscany-54398852

01/24/2025

Is Italy calling you? A few spots have opened up for our 2025 Dance into Ancient Wisdom retreat!! Join me and Janice!

What's included:
• 6 nights accommodation in a lovingly restored 16th century complex with storybook rooms
• Joyous body-mind-spirit practices, adaptable for all levels
• Three locally-sourced, homemade meals per day: sumptuous breakfast, buffet lunch, seated dinner; special diets won’t just be “accommodated,” you'll receive gourmet meals
• Full use of property amenities: swimming pool, terraced gardens, private spa facility (whirlpool bath, hot-stone hamman, infrared sauna)
• Special group cooking class and dinner
• Guided day-long excursion to Orvieto, including a tour of the ancient Etruscan underground city
• Half-day Magical Mystery tour
• Artisan visits to a master jewelry maker and a ceramic artist

Find out more at our WeTravel site: https://tri.ps/SQgHw

05/25/2024

If you are in or around Chapel Hill, North Carolina or know someone in the area, I am super excited to be teaching a Yoga Dance class in person next Saturday June 1st!

Yoga Dance: A Joyful Journey of Embodied Creative Self-Expression

Date: Saturday June 1, 2024 at 6:00PM EDT

Class Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT

Location: Carrboro Yoga Company, 101 Two Hills Drive, Unit 150, Carrboro, NC 27510

Payment: $40

Register via the Carrboro Yoga Company website: https://www.wellnessliving.com/rs/event/carolinayogacompany?k_business=130621&k_class_tab=38335&uid=0&id_class_tab=2

Yoga and dance have many embodied qualities in common, including unity, liberation, embodiment, nervous system regulation, and authentic self-expression. Yoga provides profound tools for self-transformation that are ancient and timeless. Dance brings forth longstanding ancestral alchemical sparks of creative expression, joy, playfulness, celebration, storytelling, and connection to self, spirit, music, movement and community.

During this yoga dance experience you will move to simple embodied movement prompts that are accessible to all because dance is a universal language that doesn’t require fancy moves or special skills. Sometimes we will move together in community and other times you will be invited to go deep into your own experience. This is about you tuning in to what lights you up and allows you to express a fuller range of your unique spirit.

Your guide is Jennifer Lucero-Earle, a trauma-informed registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator who has been teaching dance as healing classes for over 20 years. She is looking forward to dancing with you!

Wear comfortable clothes to move in. No shoes required. Feel free to bring a yoga mat for floor-based practices.

02/18/2024

I am teaching two live in person classes in Chapel Hill/Carrboro North Carolina - at Carrboro Yoga Company - the first class is coming up on Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 6:00PM EST. Join us and please share with anyone on the triangle area :)! Squeals! Let's dance! 😍

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Yoga and dance have many embodied qualities in common, including unity, liberation, embodiment, nervous system regulation, and authentic self-expression. Yoga provides profound tools for self-transformation that are ancient and timeless. Dance brings forth longstanding ancestral alchemical sparks of creative expression, joy, playfulness, celebration, storytelling, and connection to self, spirit, music, movement and community.

During this yoga dance experience you will move to simple embodied movement prompts that are accessible to all because dance is a universal language that doesn’t require fancy moves or special skills. Sometimes we will move together in community and other times you will be invited to go deep into your own experience. This is about you tuning in to what lights you up and allows you to express a fuller range of your unique spirit.

Your guide is Jennifer Lucero-Earle, a trauma-informed registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator who has been teaching dance as healing classes for over 20 years. She is looking forward to dancing with you!

Follow the link in bio for Workshops to register!

02/16/2024

Hello everyone! It's been awhile 😁 Is this thing still working? 🤣

Sharing an exciting announcement - I am co-facilitating (with Janice Steinberg) a live retreat in Tuscany....Dance into Ancient Wisdom this May 2024 and we'd love for you to join us.

Join us in a magical setting (Terzo di Danciano) to explore the wisdom traditions of Tarot and Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), as well as the deep wisdom of our own bodies. Our intimate group will enjoy daily movement classes and prompts for reflection and creative expression, as we investigate how these ancient ways of knowing may reverberate in our lives. Excursions and special ceremonies will offer an invitation to go deeper.

Movement, Tarot, Kabbalah, Community Join us in a magical setting in Tuscany to explore the wisdom traditions of Tarot and Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), as well as the deep wisdom of our own bodies . Our intimate group will enjoy daily movement classes and prompts for reflection and creative expressi...

04/01/2023

In the week ahead I will be teaching Shake Your Soul dance classes. I am reviewing the fluids/movement repertoires associated with the fluids of the body, ahead of my Shake Your Soul Level 2 training in April.

Shake Your Soul is a movement/dance practice, developed by the Leven Institute, designed to relax your nervous system as it energizes your body. The practice is largely based on the fluid systems of the body; grounded in Body-Mind Centering - the work of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.

As part of my training to become a Somatic Movement Therapist & Educator, I have been learning these movement repertoires for the major fluids systems of the body: synovial, intercellular, arterial blood, venous blood, and cerebrospinal fluid. These are the patterns we will be dancing with in the week ahead!

Join us this Sunday (April 2) 💃🏽 for Relaxed, Fluid, Rooted & Resilient: A Shake Your Soul Dance Class (via Zoom)

Date: Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 10:00AM PDT

Time Zones: 10:00AM PDT | 11:00AM MDT | 12:00PM CDT | 1:00PM EDT

Pay what you can in exchange for class ($5-$25)

Register for class:
www.jenniferluceroearle.com/calendar

In this class we will be invited to sense our energy and intentionally Cultivate Power (qigong), play with Relaxed and Fluid Power (synovial and intercellular fluids) and explore bringing in Rooted and Resilient Power (arterial and venous – both blood fluids).

02/25/2023

The team of Teachers for Pull Pen Paint 2023 has been announced, and YES, YES, YES, I am one of them.

This is my second year teaching with Pull Pen Paint and I am SO excited!

Pull Pen Paint is a 10-month journey of self-discovery using signs, symbols, & systems in your spiritual & creative practice.

This year is the 7th year of the program and includes a variety of monthly sessions and virtual retreats (1-day and 3-day).

The class includes access to foundational lessons, recorded lessons throughout the year, live virtual sessions, a nurturing and welcoming community, a private discussion group (on Mighty Network) and a great deal of support and guidance to help you along the way.

We get started in March with the first retreat right before the EQUINOX on March 17-19, but it’s worth signing up now so you get started on the Foundational Lessons.

I will be teaching in the March retreat; sharing an ArcanaDance workshop guiding us on an embodied dance exploration from the Fool to the Chariot.

Head to the link to find out all about it and sign up: https://bit.ly/ppp2023somatic

06/08/2022

I am back!

Join us tomorrow for Embodied Movement Explorations for Body Wisdom and Wellness (Formerly Coming Home to Ourselves Somatic Yoga-Dance)

Wednesday, June 8, 2022, 4:00PM Pacific Time
Time zones: 4PM PDT, 5PM MDT, 6PM CDT, 7PM EDT
Class is 75 minutes.

Pay what you can in exchange for the class experience ($5-$25)

Register for class:
www.jenniferluceroearle.com/calendar

Body wisdom is being aware of and attuned to what our body needs to feel well. This somatic intelligence and tending can be accessed and cultivated in many ways.

Every week we will explore a variety of somatic movement practices that include somatic dance, yoga, QiGong, archetypal expression (mainly tarot), and other modalities that emphasize mindfulness and that guide self-knowing.

Classes for the month of June will focus on devotion to our well-being. Our guiding tarot card for this class is the Seven of Pentacles/Discs/Earth. The invitation is to practice patience, perseverance and gratitude as we take stock of our progress in the gardens we’ve planted to nourish our inner and outer lives. We take a single step towards building something that will last and devotion allows us to receive the fruits of our dedicated labor.

In this class we center the experience of living, feeling, sensing and moving in our bodies. We learn practices to know ourselves more deeply, cultivate joy, restore from stress, explore creative self-expression, and ways to nourish the various systems (fluid, muscular, skeletal, organ, nervous, and cellular) of our body.

05/21/2022

Join us tomorrow for the Dance of Relaxed & Fluid Power: An Embodied Exploration of our Synovial & Intercellular Fluids (via Zoom)

Date: Sunday, May 22, 2022 at 10:00AM PDT
Time Zones: 10:00AM PDT | 11:00AM MDT | 12:00PM CDT | 1:00PM EDT

Pay what you can in exchange for the class experience ($5-$25)

Register for class:
www.jenniferluceroearle.com/calendar

This class is a fusion of Somos Luceros and movement repertoires based on the fluids of the body from Shake Your Soul (Leven Institute).

Our invitation in this class is to move the fluid between our joints (synovial) and the fluid within our cells (intercellular) so that we feel both relaxed and fluid in the expression of our inner and outer power. What happens when we soften any areas of rigidity, tightness, clenching, and hardness?

Let’s sense and dance both our free flowing and our voluminous oceanic selves.

The dance moves are simple and guided by the language of storytelling. You are invited to receive the choreography, bring it into your body and make it your own.

05/10/2022

Our Wednesday classes are a balm of healing and community support. These classes are gentle and have historically been a fusion of somatic yoga and dance. As I continue training in Somatic Therapy (graduating in July!) and Four Seasons Medical QiGong, I am beginning to incorporate more of those practices into these classes. To that end, I am reimagining and renaming our Wednesday class from Coming Home to Ourselves Somatic-Yoga Dance to Embodied Movement Explorations for Body Wisdom and Wellness. These classes will be a fusion of somatic dance, yoga, QiGong, Somos Luceros, archetypal explorations (via tarot) and will include guided explorations that come from the Embodied Movement Oracle deck I am in the process of creating. I am excited for this new iteration of class that brings together so many wonderful practices that support my body wisdom and my capacity to be well in this body.

Our first class is tomorrow!

Embodied Movement Explorations for Body Wisdom and Wellness (via Zoom)

Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 4:00PM PDT
Time Zones: 4:00PM PDT | 5:00PM MDT | 6:00PM CDT | 7:00PM EDT
Class is 75 minutes
Pay what you can in exchange for the class experience ($5-$25)

Register for class:
www.jenniferluceroearle.com/calendar

Body wisdom is being aware of and attuned to what our body needs to feel well. This somatic intelligence and tending can be accessed and cultivated in many way

Every week we will explore a variety of somatic movement practices that include somatic dance, yoga, QiGong, archetypal expression (mainly tarot), and other modalities that emphasize mindfulness and that guide self-knowing.

In this class we center the experience of living, feeling, sensing and moving in our bodies. We learn practices to know ourselves more deeply, cultivate joy, restore from stress, explore creative self-expression, and ways to nourish the various systems (fluid, muscular, skeletal, organ, nervous, and cellular) of our body.

This is not a “fitness” class. This is a wellness class. Come to move your body, develop a deeper appreciation for the intelligence and wisdom of your body, and to learn practices to be well in mind, body, heart and soul.

Wear comfortable clothes to move in. No shoes required. Feel free to have a yoga mat, blanket or towel for floor-based practices.

03/30/2022

Join us tomorrow (Wed March 30) for Coming Home to Ourselves Somatic Dance-Yoga Practice via Zoom (live)

Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Class Time: 4:00PM PDT – 5:15PM PDT
Time Zones: 4:00PM PDT, 5:00PM MDT, 6:00PM CDT, 7:00PM EDT

Pay what you can in exchange for the class experience ($5-$25).

Class is 75 minutes.

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEuc-2vqjoiEtXNxgoVsQnBbcfA-Naqi8eF

Coming Home to Ourselves Dance-Yoga Practice is a somatic dance yoga practice that brings together movement as metaphor and the expanse of yoga with the intent to guide us to deeper embodiment beyond the yoga mat. This practice is about befriending your body and reuniting with it as a sacred beloved and noticing how your mind and body work together to create harmony in your life.

The focus/theme of this class is Welcoming the Energies of Spring.

The seasons have changed and for this class we will welcome and embody the qualities of spring.

We will be guided on an exploration of balance (as the day and night are at equal length), increasing warmth, embodying greater light(ness), emergence, awakening, blooming, delight, and renewal.

This class includes simple yoga postures in dance form (alternating fluid movement and stillness), mindfulness prompts, various meditation practices, the application of mantra, mudras, and the weaving in of the rich and deep yoga philosophy that guides us into deeper levels of self-knowing and unity of mind and body.

Wear comfortable clothes to move in. Make sure you have a yoga mat or towel. Feel free to also have a blanket or pillow to sit on for the seated portion of class.