Spirituality In Health Care Network Events
Tuning in to the Wisdom Within: The Medicine of Embodied Practice
With Wild Soma Collective
November 28, 2025 | 7:00-9:30pm
Pay what you can, Suggested contribution $20-35
Wild Soma is a collective of dancers, performance makers, and movement facilitators. We have been working together over the past four years, blending our skills to facilitate embodied experiences with diverse groups and communities.
In this workshop we will move together, play games, and weave threads of song to experience greater connection to our own hearts, to each other and to our world.
In these times of deepening divisiveness and distress, Wild Soma offers movement medicine to help illuminate our sense of interconnectedness and hope for mutual thriving. All with a spoonful of wonderment and fun!
Please wear comfortable clothing. No skill or experience necessary, and people can participate at their own level of comfort.
Location Info
Friends House 60 Lowther Ave, Toronto ON
Meeting room entrance - at left rear of Friends House.
Free parking - access from Bedford Rd., 2nd entrance north of Lowther Ave on west side.
Wheelchair accessibility - from parking lot.
Public Transit - St.
George Subway Station, exit to Bedford Rd., walk 2 blocks north (left) on Bedford Rd., turn left on Lowther
About THE PRESENTERS
Roula Said is a singer, dancer, musician, actor and poet of Palestinian heritage based in Toronto. Roula has been studying, teaching and performing Arab music and dance for over 25 years. From within her tradition as practiced here in the west (where she has also explored many other styles of movement, music, voice and dance) Roula has created original and innovative methodologies rooted in the Arab Arts and open to the world. She whole-heartedly brings the wisdom offerings of her rich lineage to Wild Soma. Roula is also a licensed minister and death doula, officiating weddings and milestone ceremonies, as well as providing loving support to individuals and families at the end of life.
Shannon Litzenberger is an award-winning dance artist, scholar and embodiment facilitator. Shaped by the borderless landscapes of her prairie homeland, she creates multi-disciplinary, sensory-rich performance experiences that draw attention to our relationship to land, community, and the intelligence of the body. Her collaborations connect art forms and people, inviting participation, imagination, and shared meaning-making. The same embodied principles that guide Shannon’s art also inform her work in leadership and systems change. She helps people and organizations reconnect with their felt experience as a way of knowing and creating together—cultivating more connected, equitable, and life-giving ways of working and living.
Julia Aplin has been studying and practicing movement for over 45 years. She has an intense curiosity about embodiment as a felt experience of being alive with the world. Julia is an multi-disciplinary artist, foundationally a dancer, also a choreographer, a theatre director, a costume designer, partly a musician, a one-time playwright, sometimes an actor, a movement teacher, a mother, a tree hugger, a fledgling poet and (soon, but not yet) an Art Therapist. Julia is particularly interested in practices of reciprocal healing with human and tree relations. Julia danced full time for 15 years with Dancemakers, under the Artistic Direction of Serge Bennathan originating new roles and performing around the world. She is an award winning choreographer and has created dances for theatres, rivers, boxing rings, wading pools, cyberspace and neuroscience labs. Julia was an artist in residence at the LIVElab a world class facility for the scientific study of music, sound and movement in relation to human health.
Andrea Nann (she/her, Tkaronto) is a contemporary dance artist, arts educator, founding artistic director of Dreamwalker Dance Company, and founder/co-creator of Conscious Bodies Methodology, an embodied community practice. Andrea dances to reach across distance and to experience herself and others in celebration of possibility, plurality, imagination, originality, and belonging. A graduate of York University’s Department of Fine Arts, Andrea was a member of the Danny Grossman Dance Company for 15 years and she has contributed to the creation of new works by over 70 dance and theatre creators from across Turtle Island. Andrea has been recognized with awards for choreography, performance, contributions to the performing arts sector and for her work in community actioning. Andrea believes that dance and embodiment can shift attitudes and ways of being, tuning us into what makes each of us distinct, to what we share, and ultimately how we can live together in wonderment and peace.