Body Tales®, a somatic practice developed over the past 30 years, interweaves improvisational movement and personal story for creative expression, communication and healing. Body Tales® combines elements of dance, movement, theater, therapy and expressive arts.

Body Tales® provides avenues for coming home to your body and your senses. Using movement, sound and language, participants explore and share personal and cultural stories. The stories that emerge represent a full spectrum of experience: they can be tender or hilarious, inspiring or illuminating.

"I took risks. I felt satisfaction. I was deeply moved by the power and safety of Body Tales. It suits those of us who have come home to the body, or want to."
— Malama Kae Neil, body worker, writer/poet

One participant might express the delight of working in her garden; another might share about the death of his parent; others could be contacting body resources for gaining courage, mobility, or a better sense of belonging.

In this way, people grapple with challenges — and celebrate, grieve, learn, remember, envision. Through this process we transform personal experience into community wisdom, re-sanctifying relationship with body and earth.

"Body Tales® opens up a wealth of resources. We humans have a tremendous need to share our artistry, our values, our depth of love and caring. There is something about being seen, heard and appreciated — in community — that is tremendously affirming. My joy in this work is tapping into the miracle of the body — making way for our fierce and tender stories; our touchstones, our wisdom."
— Olivia Corson, Body Tales® founder

*People come to Body Tales® to:

*Experience moving, sounding and speaking — with safety and sanctity

*Practice vital skills for self-care and stress management

*Develop expressiveness and artistry

*Be part of a respectful creative community

*Receive support for addressing personal hopes and needs

*Gain authenticity and authority

*Cultivate healthy body awareness and body image

*Discover somatic resources for navigating and healing from injury, loss, illness, trauma, day-to-day wear and tear

*Cultivate helpful and appropriate intimacy and receptivity

*Protect focused time for spontaneity, inner life and soul repair

*Reclaim the body as central in spiritual and meditative practices