Somatic Wisdom Institute

Somatic Wisdom Institute OUR MISSION IS BOLD:
Personal and collective liberation.

🌿A P R I L🌿A month full of music, movement, meditation, and connection is here! Join us for experiences that nurture you...
04/01/2026

🌿A P R I L🌿

A month full of music, movement, meditation, and connection is here! Join us for experiences that nurture your mind, body, and spirit:

🎶 4/6: Song Circle
🎵 4/8: Community Kirtan w/ Bhakti Heart
💫 4/9–12: The Alchemy of Reconciliation
🌬 4/13: Co-Ed Breathwork Ceremony
🃏 4/18: Create a Personal Universe Deck
🌀 4/20: The Wisdom Circle
🧘‍♀️ 4/21: Kundalini Yoga Series Begins
🍫 4/24: Cacao Meditation
🎤 4/28: Matia Kalli, Live in Concert

Spaces are limited for some events — explore the full calendar and reserve your spot today.

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✨m a t i a✨Live in Concert: Matia Kalli!We are overjoyed to welcome our dear friend and teacher, Matia Kalli, for her ve...
03/30/2026

✨m a t i a✨

Live in Concert: Matia Kalli!

We are overjoyed to welcome our dear friend and teacher, Matia Kalli, for her very first concert in Grand Rapids!

🗓️Tuesday, April 28, 2026
⌚️6:30 PM 8:00 PM
📍1324 Lake Drive SE, Eastown

Doors open at 6:15pm | Concert starts at 6:30 🪶

Many of you know Matia through her powerful vocal workshops and in ceremony — and now we have the rare gift of experiencing her live performance as she shares new music from her upcoming album, Heart Songs!

Matia is a Greek-American singer and songwriter whose music carries the spirit of jazz, R&B, and devotional song. With roots in sacred healing songs, mantras, and chants, her voice is both medicine and celebration — spanning from ethereal whistle tones to rich, soulful depths. She has traveled the world with The Hanuman Project and inspired countless communities with her kirtan, group singing, and medicine music.

This evening will be a joyful, heart-opening gathering of song, sound, and celebration. Together, we’ll witness the beauty of her artistry and join in the collective energy of music that uplifts and unites.

✨ Come ready to listen, to feel, and to be moved. ✨

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✨gender equity retreat✨The Alchemy of Reconciliation: Awakening to the Mystery of Love between Masculine and FeminineHow...
03/25/2026

✨gender equity retreat✨

The Alchemy of Reconciliation: Awakening to the Mystery of Love between Masculine and Feminine

How can we begin to remember the real secrets of love between feminine and masculine, in a world so lost in the story of discord and division?

We start by making a place for the truth. Not the false light of our collective ideologies, but the real, more personal, intimate truth, of our own heartbreak. Women and men of all sexual orientations, coming together in the pursuit of truth and reconciliation, making a sacred space for one another, to lay down the burden of their sorrows, and walk—together—in a new way, rooted in dignity, reverence, and wonder.

Join us, April 9 – 12 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for a 4-day immersion into this experience we call Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI). Our facilitation team will guide you through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, yoga, breathwork, experiential honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.

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⭐️brotherhood⭐️🗺️In a world that’s constantly shifting, many men are left asking: “How am I supposed to show up?🗓️Tuesda...
03/17/2026

⭐️brotherhood⭐️

🗺️In a world that’s constantly shifting, many men are left asking: “How am I supposed to show up?

🗓️Tuesday, May 5, 2026
⌚️6:30 PM 8:30 PM
📍Somatic Wisdom Institute
1324 Lake Drive SE, GR

🌀Between expectations, pressures, and changing definitions of masculinity, it’s easy to lose our place—or feel like we never had one to begin with.

🪶Breathing Into Brotherhood is a guided breathwork experience designed to support men in healing, grounding, and reconnecting with their true essence. This is a space to explore what it means to be a man today—without judgment, without the need to perform, and without having to explain your story.

✨Through conscious breathwork, we’ll move energy and emotion through the body—not to dissect it, but to release it. This is not about talking it out, it’s about feeling it through.

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✨💛solar plexus💛✨A 5-Week Kundalini Yoga Series with Susanne Werblow🗓️April 21 – May 20, 2026Tuesdays & Thursdays⌚️7:00 A...
03/17/2026

✨💛solar plexus💛✨

A 5-Week Kundalini Yoga Series with Susanne Werblow

🗓️April 21 – May 20, 2026

Tuesdays & Thursdays
⌚️7:00 AM 8:15 AM
📍Somatic Wisdom Institute
1324 Lake Drive

💛Traditional yogic systems describe seven chakras, yet the dynamic bridge between the lower and upper chakras — the solar plexus — is often overlooked. While commonly grouped with the navel center, the solar plexus carries a distinctly different quality of energy.

✨As beautifully described by Guru Ratana in her book Your Life Is in Your Chakras: “Navel energy is one-pointed, defined, fiery. Solar plexus energy is deep, amorphous, watery and emotional. Our solar plexus is either a blockage or a gateway to our heart.”

⭐️The solar plexus, located between the navel and the heart, is intimately connected to our emotional body. It stores old stories, childhood imprints, unprocessed anger, grief, and vulnerability. When balanced and open, it becomes a powerful gateway to compassion, authenticity, and heart-centered living.

Each week we will:
🌟Build awareness in the solar plexus area
🌻Physically and energetically strengthen and open this center
🌙Gently release stored emotional patterns
🌼Nurture the inner child
🌕Support nervous system regulation and resilience

⭐️This series includes two hybrid live classes per week (attend in person or online):
A 5-Week Kundalini Yoga Series with Susanne Werblow
April 21 – May 20, 2026

All classes will be recorded and emailed to participants, allowing you to practice at your own pace throughout the series.

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✨c r e a t i v i t y✨🎴A Personal Universe Deck is a creative, intuitive card deck that you make yourself. It’s part art ...
03/17/2026

✨c r e a t i v i t y✨

🎴A Personal Universe Deck is a creative, intuitive card deck that you make yourself. It’s part art practice, part self-reflection tool, part poetry, part oracle. Instead of relying on a published deck with fixed meanings, you build a living deck from your own images, words, symbols, memories and inner knowing.

🗓️Saturday, April 18, 2026
⌚️9:00 AM 1:00 PM
📍Somatic Wisdom Institute
1324 Lake Drive SE, Suite 4 Grand Rapids, MI

🙏Your body has been paying attention your whole life. Before you had language, you had sensation. Light and shadow. Warmth and cold. The smell of rain. The sound of birdsong.

🌀Your lived experience has shaped how your nervous system meets the world. Over time, these sensory impressions form a kind of inner vocabulary — a personal lexicon made of sights, smells, textures, tastes and sounds.

✨In this workshop, we explore that lexicon through a creative and somatic practice known as the Personal Universe Deck.

🪶We will slow down, listen to the intelligence of the sensing body and begin creating a handmade deck of cards that reflects how you experience the world.

This workshop is for you if you......

• enjoy creative or intuitive practices
• are curious about somatic awareness
• want a reflective ritual you can return to over time
• are drawn to art-making as a form of self-inquiry
• feel interested in mapping how your body experiences the world

🎨No artistic experience is required. Just a willingness to listen, notice and allow the body’s intelligence to guide the process.

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✨the wisdom circle✨🗓️March 25, April 20 & May 18⌚️6:30 - 8:30pm📍Somatic Wisdom Institute - Eastown⛓️‍💥For most of human ...
03/09/2026

✨the wisdom circle✨

🗓️March 25, April 20 & May 18
⌚️6:30 - 8:30pm
📍Somatic Wisdom Institute - Eastown

⛓️‍💥For most of human history, people gathered in circle to speak, listen, and make meaning collectively. Most of us were never taught how to be in honest, embodied relationship — with ourselves or with others. We learned how to perform, adapt, protect, or disappear in order to belong.

🌀Wisdom Circle draws from these ancient ways of gathering as a place to practice something different.

🪶Through somatic awareness, authentic relating, and the ancient practice of circle, you’ll learn to trust your body as a source of truth, speak what is real without losing connection, and experience what it feels like to be seen and witnessed in community.

🔥Over time, this structure allows you to build trust in your body, your voice, and your capacity to be in honest relationship with others — one conversation at a time.

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🦋threshold🦋Women’s Threshold Retreat“There is a voice beneath the noise, waiting to be remembered. It rises slowly, like...
02/25/2026

🦋threshold🦋

Women’s Threshold Retreat

“There is a voice beneath the noise, waiting to be remembered. It rises slowly, like roots through the soil, like breath through the body. To find it, we must pause, walk gently with the land, and listen with our whole selves. In the sacred circle of the medicine wheel, we gather to deconstruct the stories that no longer serve and to call forth the voice that carries us into wholeness. Through nature, ceremony, and community, we reclaim what has always been ours: the courage to speak our truth and live by it.”

🗓️Dates: June 9–14, 2026
📍Location: The Cabin in Bitely, MI — 20 acres of forest and river, bordered by 800 acres of National Forest

🌀There comes a moment when a woman feels the pull to step back from the noise of her life, to walk the land with a question in her chest, and to listen for the voice inside her that has gone quiet but never disappeared.

🦋Each phase of a woman’s life asks something different of us and offers something different in return. By honoring where we truly stand in the cycle of womanhood, we reclaim the wisdom that is lost when we are asked to live out of rhythm with our lives.
For six days, we gather as women have always gathered — in circle, in story, in the presence of the earth. We walk the medicine wheel one direction at a time, allowing each shield to reveal a new contour of our becoming. We wander. We rest. We tell our stories and hear them mirrored in the eyes of others.
And then, on the fourth morning, we cross a soft threshold:

a 24-hour solo fast on the land. A day and night of being held by wind, water, trees, and sky.

A time to empty.
A time to listen.
A time to let the world speak back to you.

You will return with a fuller voice, a clearer knowing, and a story marked by the land itself.

✨This is a retreat of remembrance — of body, of voice, of lineage, of truth.
A circle for women ready to shed what no longer carries them and step toward what is quietly waiting.

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🪞mirroring🪞Colorado Mirroring Training🗓️July 25 – August 1, 2025📍Arapaho National Forest, CO✨This week-long training is ...
02/25/2026

🪞mirroring🪞

Colorado Mirroring Training
🗓️July 25 – August 1, 2025
📍Arapaho National Forest, CO

✨This week-long training is for those who have participated in a Storytelling Retreat or Vision Quest and are ready to go deeper.

⛰️Join guides Erinn Jacques and Callum Bobb in the Colorado wilderness for an immersive, embodied training in the art of mirroring — the practice of listening deeply and reflecting stories with presence of body, mind, spirit, and heart.

🧭Together we’ll weave teaching circles, solo time on the land, and story council, all within the sacred framework of the four directions/four shields.

Capacity is limited. Comfort with camping required.

🔗If you are unsure if this training is the right fit for you, please reach out by following the link in our bio.

✨vision quest✨🌀A Vision Quest is an ancient ceremony for those standing at a threshold — ready to honor what has ended a...
02/25/2026

✨vision quest✨

🌀A Vision Quest is an ancient ceremony for those standing at a threshold — ready to honor what has ended and welcome what is emerging.

🗓️August 8 - 16, 2026
📍Bitely, MI (Exact address will be provided upon registration)

⭕️For four days and four nights you will be alone in the wilderness, fasting from distraction and listening for what you are truly hungry for. Beforehand, we prepare together in circle. Upon your return, we gather again to witness and integrate your story.

🦋This is a journey for those marking transitions such as adulthood, menopause, elderhood, empty nesting, divorce, the death of a loved one, or the death of a dream. Whatever your passage, this ceremony honors the old season and calls in the new.

Space is limited. If you feel the call, the circle awaits.

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🌹Community Yoni Steam 🌹Saturday, November 15th12:30 & 4:00pmJoin Megan Smit and Mary Fields for a deeply nourishing work...
11/11/2025

🌹Community Yoni Steam 🌹

Saturday, November 15th
12:30 & 4:00pm

Join Megan Smit and Mary Fields for a deeply nourishing workshop on the ancient practice of Yoni Steaming (also known as Vaginal Steaming, V-Steam, or Bajos).

Discover how this sacred ritual supports women’s health and vitality—offering relief for menstrual cramps, brown blood, clots, vaginal dryness, hot flashes, postpartum recovery, and even bladder, yeast, or vaginal infections.

Together, we’ll explore both the wisdom and the practice of steaming. You’ll have the option to participate in a group steam (with complete privacy—no one will see your Yoni), or simply join for the knowledge and discussion if you prefer.

Come connect with your body, your cycle, and your inner power in this beautiful celebration of feminine healing.

Limited to 8 people per steam. Steams will be held at 12:30 & 4:00pm.

🌸Flower Essences 🌸

Saturday, November 15th
Throughout the day 🌸

Flower essences are gentle vibrational remedies that support emotional balance, energetic alignment, and overall well-being. Working on a subtle, energetic level, they help bring awareness to underlying patterns, ease emotional stress, and invite a deeper sense of harmony and presence. These natural allies can be powerful companions in times of transition, healing, and personal growth.

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MISSION: This Wellness Collective GR is formed on the belief that all aspects of life are deeply interconnected and that through collaboration, education, and empowerment we can offer a new vision of wellness to our community. At The Wellness Collective we strive to provide opportunities for anyone wishing to deepen their relationship with body and soul in a compassionate, safe and confidential environment. Each practitioner brings a specialized approach and valuable insight into the wellness journey. We each offer individualized appointments along with educational classes and transformational workshops held here at our center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. WELLNESS COLLECTIVE SERVICES - The Collective features therapy rooms and a large studio space which is used for teaching classes. -The studio space can be rented for workshops, evening classes, documentary showings, yoga and evening wellness classes. - The Wellness Collective is comprised of 27 practitioners offering services such as naturopathic consultations, life coaching, energy work, massage therapy, cranial sacral therapy, to name a few.