Somatic Sensual Intelligence for Healing Professionals:
A movement-Based Somatic Training for those who support others--
and are ready to come home to themselves.
A 10-week online training container with an optional in-person retreat
Next cohort Begins on Sept. 14th, 2025... Join us.
Somatic Sensual Intelligence is
a transformative training...
Somatic Sensual Intelligence is a transformative training integrating movement, somatic psychology, and nervous system physiology to support helping professionals—therapists, case managers, healthcare workers, fitness professionals, educators, and facilitators—in reconnecting with the innate wisdom of their bodies.
Our bodies hold the key to moving beyond our pain and trauma...
Our bodies hold the key to moving beyond our pain and trauma, not by analyzing it, but by stepping into the joy and presence that awakens something greater in us. When we embody that aliveness, we don’t just change ourselves, we invite the people around us into a new way of being.
What’s really limiting your ability to carry others beyond their pain and into joy and empowerment?
Is it a lack of tools—or a reflection of something deeper in you?
Of course it’s both.
Many of us are drawn to helping professions not only by compassion, but by something more tender: a personal history, a wound, a longing to heal what once felt unholdable. We learn to help others through what our own wounds have taught us.
Carry people beyond pain and trauma.
It’s JOYFUL to transcend our pain and help others, but not because we’re tending the wounds. The wounds aren’t the focus, they’re just the work that needs doing on the path of our shared aliveness.
You’re here because you feel more alive when you help others.
You’re here because you’ve longed for the best methods to help people grow; because you want to have a positive impact on the people you support.
You’re a visionary!
And of course, it actually starts with you.
As healers, we always have to do the work in ourselves first.
Embodiment is BEING the tools that we share with the world.
Fully present and embodied, you are better able to serve.
But what does this mean?
Bodies both move and feel. Much of the training around somatic psychology brilliantly engages with feeling. This training will help you move in order to feel more deeply.
Through this work, your own body becomes a source of refuge.
You become a living space of authenticity that invites others to do the same.
This course is not just about learning new tools. It’s about becoming the tool. It’s about reclaiming your body as your most powerful instrument of healing, presence, and truth.
Why Movement Matters:
In many mind-body trainings, movement is the missing piece.
While somatic psychology has made great strides in cultivating awareness and sensitivity to the body, it often emphasizes passive sensation over active, conscious movement.
Movement is not just an intervention,
it’s a language.
It is how we express, release, and rewire our minds and bodies. It’s how we access choice, and agency. And, it’s therefore how we become more fully joyful in ourselves.
At the same time, many movement disciplines—such as yoga, dance, and fitness—have been stripped of their psychological depth. The emotional, relational, and nervous system intelligence that underlies movement has often been left out, leaving practitioners with powerful tools but little understanding of why they work or how to apply them in trauma-informed, therapeutic contexts.
Somatic Sensual Intelligence bridges this divide.
Somatics is an experiential study of having and being a body, through movement and awareness.
Sensuality is about sensing and feeling. The whole spectrum of sensing and feeling.
Feeling is how we know we’re alive.
Through sensuality, we connect to our pleasure through movement and awareness.
We learn to use pleasure as a resource and guide, listening to the intrinsic intelligence of our body. We use pleasure not to bypass or avoid pain, but rather to give us the strength and joy to meet it head on.
This is the deepest access to our vitality.
Let's Pause...
Let’s acknowledge that this goes directly against what we’ve been taught through many of our underlying cultural narratives.
We have learned that pleasure is dangerous, distracting, and the cause of addictions.
This is actually false pleasure, resulting from a culture of disconnection.
But just like we can move from junk food to genuine nutrition, and gain the joy of real food, we can move from distraction to feeling in the body to gain the joy of our life force.
Authentic pleasure is the form of this intelligence, and movement is the path through which we can find it.
The Connection Between Feeling and Healing
There’s a good reason why we avoid feeling.
If we’re willing to feel, we’ll have to feel both the pleasure and the pain.
Typically, we’ll avoid pain and seek pleasure.
Turning this on its head, if we’re willing to feel the pain that comes with presence, it inevitably reveals pleasure in time. Being willing to feel it all is the basis for integrity and that feels good.
So, why feel? It is the celebration of our vitality and the fuel for our individual and collective transformation.
Divine Eros--The Pulse of Life
In psychology, Eros is the drive toward life--toward connection, vitality, and creation.
Eros is the pulse of life. It animates movement, fuels connection, and brings your work alive.
Athletes channel it into flow states. Artists create from it. Helping professionals attuned to it can feel into the exact edge of what’s alive in the room.
You’ll learn to sense and engage with this vital life force—so you can move, feel, and relate with a sense of inner aliveness that is both powerful and contagious.
Let’s be clear–this absolutely includes your sexuality, but isn’t about sex. It’s about your aliveness.
Somatic Psychology & Nervous System Physiology
Somatic Sensual Intelligence is grounded in the science of movement, and connected to somatic psychology and nervous system physiology.
You’ll gain a clear understanding of:
• How trauma and stress are stored and expressed in the body
• The role of the autonomic nervous system in movement, healing and regulation
• How movement supports neuroplasticity, emotional integration, and embodied safety
This knowledge will be woven directly into movement practices, so you can feel and apply it in real time.
You’ll learn to track your own nervous system, recognize patterns in others, and use movement to support regulation, connection, and transformation in yourself and those you support.
Somatic Sensual Intelligence is for anyone who supports others; both professionally and personally. This includes but is not limited to:
Therapists & counselors
Coaches (life, wellness, leadership)
Teachers & educators
Yoga teachers & yoga therapists
Energy workers
Massage therapists & bodyworkers
Social workers & case managers
Nurses, doctors & medical professionals
Clergy, chaplains & spiritual leaders
Caregivers & Doulas
Hospice and end of life supports
Crisis responders & peer support workers
Parents
No prior experience needed—just an open heart and a willing body.
Core Curriculum Pillars:
Repattern Through Primal Movement
Rediscover your earliest movement patterns from a developmental lens—rolling, reaching, pushing—to dissolve years of chronic tension and rebuild trust in your body.
Breathe Yourself Awake
Use breathwork to awaken your nervous system for greater engagement and deepen internal connection.
Dance with Space & Energy
Learn to identify and move with the relational dynamics between us—making relationships more fluid, intuitive, and alive.
Know Your Body: Image & Anatomy
Relate to your physical body as a living whole, not a problem to fix.
Your Sensations Are a Compass
Develop attunement to your body’s cues and an inner guidance system rooted in sensation, presence, and deep self-trust.
Embody Emotion: Feeling Fully
Grow your capacity to stay present with emotion—yours and others'—through the wisdom of the body.
Contextualize What You’re Learning
You will leave this course with an understanding of why each of the above pieces matter, and how to start to bring them into your practice.
Why Learn Somatic Work Online?
Somatic Sensual Intelligence is designed to restore you, not overload you, by meeting you right where you are.
• This course is made up of both synchronous (live zoom meetings) and asynchronous (recorded content) elements. This allows you to learn from the comfort of your own space and engage when and how it serves you best.
• Learning to move on your own is often less threatening in an online space, where you can focus on yourself without worrying about others. The bridge to moving with others will be emphasized in the retreat.
• You’ll also join with people around the world in real-time, over the length of the course, to cultivate and build relationships leading up to the (optional) in-person retreat in November.
• You'll learn the skill of strengthening presence and effectiveness in an online space, which is crucial for those who host remote or online work.
We'll get you moving with:
Weekly Movement Videos
15-minute videos, 2-3x per week designed for gentle, transformative daily practice.
Weekly
Theory Explorations
Weekly theory exploration videos apply the core principles of BraveSpace (listed below), along with somatic psychology and nervous system physiology to your journey and guide you in your work with clients.
Weekly Community
Movement Sessions
These live community zoom sessions will be theory and movement focused and customized to your specific needs. We will practice and apply what you are learning each week. There will be time for questions and to integrate your learning.
Supportive
Community
You'll be part of a lively cohort walking this path together.
You will be organized into small groups that meet weekly to support each other through the journey, practice what you're learning, and gain experience in facilitating for others.
With this experience, you'll begin integrating what you're learning in the course directly into your practice with clients and have the support you need to be successful.
Recorded Community Movement Sessions
All Community Movement Sessions will be recorded and posted on a central portal.
1-on-1 Coaching
One Individual somatic coaching session with Matthew or Kristy is included in the course for personalized guidance and deeper transformation. Additional sessions are available.
Personal hands-on bodywork retreats with Matthew are also available.
Recommended In-Person Retreat, November 14, 15, 16 in Madison, WI
The retreat will be the bridge from doing this work at home to sharing it in community. We are both individual and communal beings, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the physicality of our social environment together. The retreat will take each one of the things you have learned in the course and solidify it in real-life experience. Honestly, we’ve been told by previous participants in the Sensual Intelligence class that it should be required. We’ll leave that to you, but you’re encouraged to cross the bridge.
Logistically, activities include somatic embodiment exercises, movement practice, relational exploration, and time to practice facilitation of course materials with others from the course. We will be meeting in a non-residental setting in Madison, WI. Coordination of food and accommodations will be provided, but not included.
The 10 Principles of BraveSpace
BraveSpace is not just a concept, it is a living practice that guides this journey. These 10 principles serve as touchstones, helping us cultivate embodied presence, relational integrity, and the freedom to fully express ourselves:
1. Practice Somatic Research by noticing the sensations, emotions, and movements that arise.
2. De-shame your body and life, witnessing both light and shadow without judgment.
3. Allow Trans-formation, shifting patterns that no longer serve your joy and purpose.
4. Flow through Improvisation, cultivating presence in the unknown.
5. Choose Response-ability, attuning to yourself while honoring others.
6. Move from Heart-centeredness, connecting with something greater than the individual self.
7. Strengthen Tensegrity, expanding your capacity to hold paradox and dynamic tension.
8. Embrace Risk, stepping into the full arc of your life’s unfolding.
9. Follow Eros, engaging pleasure, vitality, and longing as sacred guides.
10. Play in Interbeing, recognizing yourself as both an individual and part of the collective dance of life.
A note from Matthew:
Why I Created This Course
For years, I taught dance at the university level but.. what moved me most wasn’t performance. It was the moment when someone rediscovered their body as a source of freedom, divinity, and deep knowing. Movement has always been my gateway to spirit, my way of feeling fully alive in the world. I believe it can be that for anyone.
Our bodies hold the key to moving beyond our pain and trauma, not by analyzing it, but by stepping into the joy and presence that awaken something greater in us. When we embody that aliveness, we don’t just change ourselves, we invite the people around us into a new way of being.
BraveSpace emerged from this knowing, that when we embody our aliveness, we awaken those around us. These 10 principles are the foundation of that journey. This course is an offering of that knowing, a pathway to reclaiming our embodied authenticity, our shared belonging, and our divine erotic aliveness.
About Matthew Nelson, MFA, CLMA, LMT, Pilates Certified
Matthew Nelson is a somatic shaman. That might sound preposterous—and it should. Self-proclaimed shamanism ought to be held with deep skepticism. And yet, it’s the most direct way to describe a path that has wound through contemporary dance, choreographic practice, hands-on healing, and embodied transformation.
With over 25 years in somatic therapies and movement education, Matthew weaves together the science of movementand the mystery of presence. He holds an MFA in Modern Dance, and certifications in Laban Movement Analysis, Massage Therapy, and Pilates, along with advanced training in Craniosacral and Myofascial techniques. He spent five years in a modern mystery school, studying energy, embodiment, and the unseen forces that shape us.
Matthew has been a professional dancer, choreographer, professor, healer, father, and occasional homeless wanderer. Today, he is devoted to holding BraveSpace® where life force can move freely, where authenticity becomes healing, and where we remember that we belong.
He supports people in awakening their vitality, not as something to fix or force, but as a natural emergence of life moving through the body. His work honors the intelligence of sensation, the power of presence, and the erotic current that underlies all true aliveness. In a world often disconnected from the body, Matthew invites a return—to feeling, to flow, and to the sacredness of being fully here.
Email [email protected]
About Kristy Kuecken, MA, SAC, CYT 200, SEP-IT, Certified TRE Provider
Kristy Kuecken is a somatic practitioner and addiction counselor with over 15 years of experience in the mental health field. With a strong foundation in somatic psychology and nervous system physiology, she brings a deep understanding of the mind-body connection to her work. Kristy’s approach is holistic and compassionate, integrating movement, somatic understanding, and therapeutic insight to support healing and expansion.
Her passion for the healing journey is matched by her commitment to lifelong learning. Driven by an endless curiosity about what it means to be human, Kristy continually explores new modalities and perspectives to enrich her practice. She is committed to creating a safe and empowering space for transformation
Visit her website at: https://www.mindbodemotion.com/
Email her at [email protected]
A Message From Kristy:
I joined the most recent cohort of the Somatic Sensual Intelligence course with the intention of evolving my personal movement practice. I didn’t think I would learn much that I didn’t already know from my prior training in yoga and somatics. I was so wrong! I realized how transformative and healing sensual movement is, and how much I was doing a disservice to myself and my clients by leaving it out of my clinical practice. As I went deeper into my own body and began bringing somatic sensual movement into sessions with clients, I recognized how my background in somatic psychology and understanding of the nervous system was a useful framework for integrating movement into clinical practice. This is how a collaboration with Matthew was born. I’m so excited to share the magic of joining sensual movement and somatic psychology!
What people are saying...
"My relationship with my body has changed a lot, how I engage and observe every single moment!"
- Linsey B. ★★★★★
"Matthew helps to raise the level of connection with the self, and with the collective."
- Alex H.
★★★★★
"It's amazing the degree of connection you can feel with people you haven't ever been in the same room with."
- Ivan S.
★★★★★
Here's What You'll Receive
10-Week BraveSpace®
Somatic Sensual Intelligence Program
Next Cohort Begins Sept 14th, 2025
Your Daily Practice Support:
Weekly movement videos for 15-minute transformative daily practices
Weekly theory explorations of BraveSpace principles for your movement journey
Access to all materials through our online portal
Live Community Connection via Zoom:
Weekly Community Movement sessions (90 min)
Sundays 5pm PT/6pm MT/ 7pm CT/ 8pm ET
Weekly Pod Group Meetings for Supportive Community
Full access to all session recordings
If you are in Madison WI there may be an in-person option for weekly practice
Recommended In-Person Retreat
In Madison WI, Nov 14-16, 2025
All inclusive
$950
($750 without retreat)
Payment Plans Available
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