8 WEEK PROCESS GROUPs for helping professionals

The Artistry of Embodied Relationships

with somatic psychotherapists, TAJAH SCHALL & rachael collins

The Counseling Paradigm Is Changing—Are You Ready to Embody the Shift?

Being a helping professional means navigating the paradox of holding what you know—while sitting fully in the unknown. This group invites you into a deeply embodied exploration of what it means to be in authentic, healing relationships—with yourself, your clients, and the world around you.

We engage in weekly ritual gatherings w/ asynchronous integration offerings each week to support your ongoing practice.

Through rhythm, connection to land, animistic spirit, and ritual space, we’ll explore how to:

  • Trust and act from your intuition as a helper

  • Sit with discomfort, not just fix it

  • Challenge and confront with embodied integrity

  • Reclaim ancestral wisdom and animistic connection

  • Expand beyond colonized models of healing

  • Use rhythm as a gateway to deeper relational presence across sociocultural differences

  • Access a place for your human self to be held in a community of other helping professionals

Listen to Tajah & Rachael share more about the group…

Artistry of Embodied Relationships

8 Week In Person Experiential Groups

Dates & Time

Summer 2025 Group:

August 8th - September 26th Fridays 10am-1pm MT

Fall 2025 Group:

October 24th - December 12th Fridays 2-5pm MT

Location

On beautiful land in the
foothills of Golden, Colorado. Roughly 30 minutes from downtown Boulder & Denver.

 exact address given
upon registration

Investment

Total: $1600

 Weekly and Monthly Payment Plans Available


*limited scholarship options available - please inquire!

Artistry of Embodied Relationships

8 Week Virtual Experiential Groups - Coming Soon!

Who This Circle is For

This is for you if you are a therapist, healer, coach or helping professional who:

  • Feels the distance between clinical training and your deeper sense of wholeness

  • Wants to weave together somatic presence, spiritual connection, and relational courage — across difference

  • Is ready to move beyond burnout and disembodiment into grounded, embodied resonance

  • Craves space to practice real-time rupture and repair, not ideals or theory

  • Seeks a diverse, justice-centered container — where difference is embraced, not erased

  • Is longing for not just knowledge, but felt transformation and soul-alignment

  • Trusts your felt sense enough to invest in a deeper group experience — you know the healing begins in how you show up

  • Is interested in weaving interconnection to land and spirit into your work with others or how you carry yourself within your professional work

If any of that echoes your longing — even softly — you’re exactly who this circle exists for.

What Grounds Our Work

These are the relational roots of our space — the truths that shape how we show up, how we stay, and how we grow together. They ground our facilitation, not as rigid rules, but as living commitments. In our circles, we return to these rhythms again and again — to hold space that is honest, embodied, and spacious enough for complexity, nuance, and transformation.

1. Embody Wholeness

We welcome all parts of ourselves and our clients — grief and joy, doubt and knowing, rage and reverence. Healing emerges when we stop fragmenting and begin to live in the fullness of our bodies, stories, and spirit.

2. Honor the Sacred

We invoke and collaborate with spirit, ancestry, land, and unseen forces. We recognize healing as both material and mystical, and we walk with reverence for the more-than-human world.

3. Lead with Presence

We root our work in the present moment: tracking sensation, noticing shifts, and naming what arises. Presence is our portal — to connection, to transformation, and to truth.

4. Move Through Discomfort

We practice staying when things get tender. Discomfort is not a problem to fix but a signal to explore. We trust it as the birthplace of intimacy, clarity, and growth.

5. Share Power, Not Perfection

We refuse perfectionism and expert posturing. We model transparency, relational repair, and mutual care. Power is shared, not imposed.

6. Reflect with Curiosity

We track, narrate, and mirror experience — not to diagnose or fix, but to deepen understanding and weave connection across difference. Reflection is a sacred art.

7. Center Interconnectedness

Our roots stretch wide — into earth, lineage, and collective experience. We reject the myth of individualism and return to interdependence as truth and practice.

8. Cultivate Sacred Rebellion

We disrupt systems that sever, pathologize, or dehumanize. Our work is an offering to what could be: a healing profession grounded in justice, spirit, and collective liberation.

9. Tend the Fire & the Mud

We follow the fire of righteous passion and the mud of deep feeling. Fire clarifies. Mud connects. Together, they alchemize vision and embodiment.

10. Walk With, Not Above

We are not here to be above others, but beside them. We teach by living, not performing. We lead by listening, not controlling. We mentor by walking with.

This is about being in deep embodied connection with self, others, the natural world and Spirit.

It is about remembering and reconnecting to what makes us human as well as what makes us divine.

It is about honouring our differences, and making space for rupture, repair, and our shared humanness.

It is about moving with our collective grief, as oppressive systems begin to crumble around us.

Meet your Guides

Rachael Collins

Rachael Collins, LPC, ACS, BC-DMT is a cisgender, autistic, queer white woman. She is a mother, a weaver and ritualist, a teacher, a somatic psychotherapist, shamanic practitioner, and former Lead Clinical Instructor for Naropa University’s Somatic Counseling program. Rachael specializes in utilizing body based, relational and creative approaches with folks experiencing complex trauma and neurodiversity.

As well as mentoring other clinicians in truly taking their seat, her current area of exploration is in bridging the seen and unseen within our bodies and oppressive systems surrounding us in order to support folks in finding more integration, wholeness and integrity.

Tajah Schall

Tajah Schall, LPC, R-DMT is a cisgender, Black, queer woman with roots in Philadelphia (Lenni-Lenape land). She is a dancer, musician, song catcher, poet and mama.

Professionally, Tajah is a somatic psychotherapist, dance/movement therapist, and former chair of Naropa University’s Somatic Counseling program. As a social justice counselor and consultant, she is deeply committed to examining her own identities, both of privilege and marginalization, in a loving and embodied way. Tajah works to uplift the experiences of folks in marginalized bodies, and to support folks in privileged bodies recognize their privilege without getting stuck in shame or savior complex.

  • "I've been gifted a drum and holy shit the immediate intimate reflection of the drum has me shook and hooked! I see and feel myself with clarity. Thank you for sharing your humanness. Thank you for lifting up healing, processing, and honoring through rhythm. Thank you for sharing relationship is everywhere all the time. "

    The Artistry of Embodied Relationships Group Member

  • " I am learning how to hold myself through difficult times, process, call on spiritual support and be able to better show up in my counselor seat with clients and to hold space for them through their journey. I cannot put into words the positive impact this group has had on not only my counselor-in-training journey but my life as a whole. My connection to ritual, spirit and intentionality has taken off exponentially in terms of how I am building these aspects into my daily life."

    The Artistry of Embodied Relationships Group Member

  • "If you are looking for a deeply held and easeful space to connect to your spirituality and inner strength in relationship with others, this is the group for you."

    The Artistry of Embodied Relationships Group Member

  • “Rachael guided me home to my own wisdom and seat as a therapist. She holds compassionate space while gently steering others into what is living unspoken in the body or in the systems around us. I felt held and seen by Rachael in a way that stretched my growth and increased my groundedness.”

    Mentorship for Healing Practitioners & Therapists

  • “Rachael has been a tremendously positive force in my life. Her kindness, understanding, gentleness, patience and belief in me has helped me through chronic life challenges. She has helped me find my own guiding light again. I’m grateful that I have had her as an ally throughout my healing journey.”

    Spiritual-Somatic Psychotherapy Client

  • "Rachel is connected to herself and the world in such an embodied way. She pairs directness with kindness (and humor!), and knows where to push me, when to wade in deeper, when to invite gentleness. She helped me embrace my neurodivergence and meet myself exactly where I am."

    Somatic Psychotherapy Clinical Supervisee

  • “Rachael is an incredible therapist and caring individual. She encompasses unparalleled attunement, empathy, and connection with not only her clients, but all people in her life. She has a gentle ability to create substantial, long lasting change based on the individual goals of each client.”

    Spiritual-Somatic Psychotherapy Client

  • “It is rare to find a spiritual practitioner that is also a licensed therapist. Rachael’s combines her deep connection with nature and the spirit world, with years of training in traumas, triggers, and how to safely hold space for a client through their spiritual healing. Her quiet confidence feels safe and clear. ”

    Spiritual-Somatic Psychotherapy Client

Questions

  • Yes. Please book a discovery call with us to determine fit and availability.

    To work with us individually, you can reach Tajah here, and reach Rachael here.

  • You can use Alexis J Cunningfolk’s Green Bottle Model below to guide you. This model “relies on the principles of truthfulness, respect for complexity, and accountability.” We trust you to be truthful in your self-assessment:

    Pay it Forward

    • I am comfortably able to meet all of my basic* needs

    • I may have some debt but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs

    • I own my home or property OR I rent a higher-end property

    • I own or lease a car

    • I am employed or do not need to work to meet my needs

    • I have regular access to health care

    • I have access to financial savings

    • I have an expendable** income

    • I can always buy new items

    • I can afford an annual vacation or take time off

    Pay in Full

    • I may stress about meeting my basic needs but still regularly achieve them

    • I may have some debt but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs

    • I own or lease a car

    • I am employed

    • I have access to health care

    • I might have access to financial savings

    • I have some expendable income

    • I am able to buy some new items & I thrift others

    • I can take a vacation annually or every few years without financial burden

    Pay Less

    • I frequently stress about meeting basic needs & don’t always achieve them

    • I have debt and it sometimes prohibits me from meeting my basic needs

    • I rent lower-end properties or have unstable housing

    • I do not have a car and/or have limited access to a car but I am not always able to afford gas

    • I am unemployed or underemployed

    • I qualify for government assistance including food stamps & health care

    • I have no access to savings

    • I have no or very limited expendable income

    • I rarely buy new items because I am unable to afford them

    • I cannot afford a vacation or have the ability to take time off without financial burden

    * Basic Needs include food, housing, health care, and transportation.

    ** Expendable Income might mean you are able to buy coffee or tea at a shop, go to the movies or a concert, buy new clothes, books, and similar items each month, etc.

  • Yes. They are held in a non-traditional space in the beautiful mountains of Golden, CO.

    Half-day retreats typically range from 3-5h, depending on what we are co-creating. Pricing varies accordingly and can be paid in instalments.

  • Please book a 30min Discovery Call with us so that we can get to know each other, and make sure we’re a good fit. If we’re happy to move fowards, we’ll send you more detailed next steps.