At homebody, we offer comprehensive and multi-faceted somatic education

Indeed, we believe this is the only way to engage in this work. Our courses are for anyone experiencing emotional, mental and physical pain or addiction, for seekers desiring to transform difficult cycles of life, as support to therapists, body workers, healers and educators, and for deep thinkers wanting to understand the creative principles of our existence.

Rooted in the body. Guided by truth.
Held in community.

+ Somatics
+ Psycho-physiology
+ Embodiment

+ The science of wellness (and the science of pain)
+ Mysticism
+ An intersectional teaching space

+ Philosophy
+ The quantum
+ Social justice

Mallorie
Director and lead educator

Meet our team

Hi! I am so happy you’ve found Homebody. For the past 20 years I have studied psychology, education (specialized Waldorf education), yoga, mysticism & philosophy, movement education, therapeutic modalities such as Compassionate Inquiry (Gabor Maté) and Somatic Experiencing (Peter Levine).

My journey as a(n):

  • Yoga teacher

  • Master/ Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist (MSME/MSMT/RSMET)

  • Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Practitioner

  • Somatic Experiencing Practitioner

  • Elementary (and Waldorf) school teacher,

  • Spiritual educator

  • Trauma educator

  • Foster + adoptive parent

  • Entrepreneur;

all coalesced into a complex understanding of the intersections between our world + social systems, our body + brain, and the greater quantum field (‘space’) of our universe.

There is a science to mysticism, a validity and precision to transformation. There is still some work involved, but you will understand the ‘why’ behind every practice, every lecture, every invitation.

My personal experience with actively reversing a Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis has offered the momentum to comprehend and apply somatic experiencing and Clinical Somatics in a new way. It has catalyzed me to dive head first into gene theory and the science of epigenetics, functional medicine, and the anatomy of pain and illness (and thus the anatomy of healing and wellness). I have been on this journey myself, transforming every facet of my inner and outer experience, and it is a great gift to walk with others as they heal, transform and create.

It is my intention to offer content that is always clear, authentic and of the most service to humanity. Utilizing daily practices and analyzing the ways in which Spiritual Laws meet and co-create with current social structures,

I am passionate about amalgamating the alchemical and the pragmatic, the metaphysical with social justice, and spiritual awakening alongside the upliftment of those living in marginalized circumstances. 

Christine
Community Support & Operations

Hi! It’s so nice to meet you. I am Homebody’s Community Support, here to help ensure your experiences with us are easeful. I am the one on the other end of the ‘contact us’ button and am always happy to answer any questions you may have :)

Having had an established movement and spiritual practice for the past 17 years, I am always interested in talking about how our relationship to practice may change over time, especially how things shift when a trauma or physiology informed approach is taken. Having struggled for years with understanding my own mental health, I truly believe that telling the truth about who we are is one of the most powerful ways to break through stigma. I will hold space to explore what that could look like for you, be it through writing, painting, voice, or movement.

I have degrees in both conservation biology and political ecology, and am always up for talking about the flora and fauna that surrounds us as well as how environmental politics are shaped by and shape the systems we live in. For the past 9 years, I have worked in the public sector, in the realm of Indigenous services/relations, and grapple daily with systems that have historically harmed and failed, while also having the honour of witnessing joy and healing. Keeping one foot in what is, while also holding all that is possible, is a daily and lifelong practice.

Above all else, I believe in living well, experiencing this world fully, and healing at a personal level in order to impact the collective.

I deeply believe that wellness spaces must be accessible for all. And that attending to the reality of what is, while actively working toward new possibilities, is the only way that we can begin to shift systems of care/wellness that are currently inaccessible and often harmful.

I have taken many trainings, courses, and workshops over the past 20 years, and the experience of community and the work on my nervous system and relationship to self have always been the most impactful and meaningful aspects. I am honoured to be a part of your journey.

Co-facilitators

  • Charlie Gates

    Creating Spaces of Care

  • Dana Rogers

    Clinical Somatic Exercises

  • Halie Devlin

    Somatics & Addiction

  • Ivanna Bilak

    Somatics & Ongoing Crisis and War

  • Rochelle Starr

    Decolonizing Wellness

  • Usha Anandi

    ADD

  • Victoria Simpson

    ADD

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At Homebody we honour the work that we do, as well as the specific lineage of our training

My lineage of learning is a combination of the mystics, the yogis, the spirituals, and the scientific resurgence, the naming and practice of ancient knowledge. And because of my privilege, I have afforded the opportunity and experience to study with prominent teachers, and travel around the world to learn from the masters.

If you were to look up the history of somatics and trauma healing, you will find the names Thomas Hanna (who coined the term ‘somatics’) and Moshe Feldenkrais (creator of the Feldenkrais method), Peter Levine (a brilliant therapist and creator of Somatic Experiencing), Bessel Van Der Kolk, Gabor Matè, and the many more names of primarily white male therapists/psychologists, sometimes neurologists ⎯ you get the gist. I have been a student of Gabor Matè’s Compassionate Inquiry training and Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing training - both of which deeply inform my perspective and support my understanding of movement, trauma, my own life, and the collective. I am so grateful.

AND, most of what we now call ‘somatics’ was known, practiced and taught by Indigenous communities and mystic/spiritual practitioners from around the world. Honouring an embodied and aware experience wasn’t a field of study, it just was. It was paradigm, perspective, the way of being.

Industrialism and colonialism all but destroyed this way of being, until the western world went ‘eureka!’, being aware of your bio-psycho-social environment is imperative to a life well lived! Indeed, it is not a good idea to be a talking head, burnt out and chasing an external, media-driven carrot! Meanwhile Indigenous communities, South Asian yogic practitioners, Qi Gong masters ⎯ the list could go on ⎯ are watching on as the western scientific world is ‘legitimizing’ that which is ancient, and was forbidden to teach and practice for at least 150 years.

I have contemplated my place in this work, and have concluded that it would not be ‘the answer’ to not share the knowledge and wisdom of transformation and healing. That being said, the imperativeness of acknowledging and repairing the white-washing of somatics, embodied-living and awakened creation (manifestation) practices remains at the forefront of our work at Homebody.

We feel it would not be appropriate to list all the ways in which we are in reparation, as it is a daily, embodied reality in our business. It is in every training, 1:1 interaction, and creative process that we consider how we are reversing the appropriative hierarchy that exists in the world of somatics. Nevertheless, we wish to be transparent.

I would also like to acknowledge my first spiritual, movement and yoga teacher, Yogrishi Vishvketu ⎯ it is because of his openness in sharing the transformative practice of yoga that my whole world turned upside-down and my heart turned towards Creation. Namaste, Guru-ji.