Somatic Expressive Arts
Workshops & Group Sessions
Are you looking for ways to live a more creative & embodied life?
Take a pause from your everyday life to connect,
express and create in community in a single class,
retreat, or weekly sessions.
Woo - Woo
Expressive Arts workshop
(In-Person) Portland,or.
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FEBRUARY 21ST, 2026 | 2 pm - 5 pm PT
this 3-hour workshop is grounded in the Life/Art Process®, integrating movement, somatic awareness, and creative expression as ways of exploring lived experience.
led by Dr. Rosario Sammartino, a somatic and expressive arts therapist, educator, and senior faculty member of the Tamalpa Institute, the workshop draws on more than 20 years of experience at the intersection of movement, creativity, and psychology.
through guided movement and creative exploration—such as drawing and reflection—participants will engage with how experience takes form in the body and the arts, offering space to reflect on personal and relational themes and to broaden perspective through movement and creative practice.
Online Masterclass: Listening, Moving, Being: Pathways to Reconnection
by Tamalpa Institute
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MARCH 21ST, 2026 | 9 am - 12:00 pm PT
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:
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Discovering creative ways of connecting with bodily experience
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Developing language and practices that honor pacing, choice, and agency
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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.
Online Open Studio Series
by Tamalpa Institute
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MARCH 6 TH, 2026 | 10 am - 11:30 am PT
An introduction to the Halprin Life/Art Process®, an approach to embodied creativity, movement, and art making.
This FREE ONLINE Open Studio happens on the second Friday of every month.
Led by DR. ROSARIO SAMMARTINO, core faculty of the Tamalpa Institute.
From movement to image to reflection, experience unfolds.
We follow gesture, rhythm, impulse, and pause,
What do you sense, feel, and imagine?
Staying close to what is alive in the moment,
We dance with it all.
What you may expect:
Movement/Drawing/Poetry for the creative in everyone that warms you up, physically, emotionally and mentally.
Connecting with others interested in enlivening their creativity and in the healing power of art making.
Lewis & Clark Graduate School Presents: Movement & Creativity for Trauma Resolution (In-Person)
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APRIL 10TH, 2026, 9 am -4 pm PT. | 6 CEUs
Lewis & Clark Graduate School, Portland, Oregon
Trauma lives in the body–in our sensations, gestures, movements, and in our capacity to feel and imagine. Trauma narrows our ability to express, to feel alive, and to dream. Words alone are not enough to fully capture or transform these embodied experiences.
Somatics and art-based approaches offer a unique pathway in therapy. Integrating movement, drawing, creative writing, and other holistic approaches provide an invitation to express ourselves through the language of the body, and give shape to what lies beneath the surface.Through creative exploration, participants learn to recognize and release held patterns, engage imagination as a resource, and rebuild connections with themselves and others.
Participants in this workshop will:
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Explore how trauma lives in the body, and how arts and movement can support release, regulation, and renewal
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Connect with the creative body as a resource for resilience, discovering new possibilities for expression and healing
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Engage in guided individual explorations and group processes that foster connection and creativity
This workshop is for practitioners seeking to incorporate body-based and creative tools into their practice, as well as those longing to reconnect with their bodies, creativity, and sense of possibility.
