Class Series

Embodied Learning, Group Dynamics, and Creative Perception
A three-part workshop series for somatic movement educators and practitioners
with Katinka Sanchez and Anna-Carina Heimer

3-class series September 10, 17, & 24, 2026 • 12:30-2:30pm EDT, 18:30-20:30 CEST
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The registration deadline is August 30, 2026.

Live participation is strongly encouraged. However, if you are unable to attend a session, recordings will be available to all who have registered for the course.

This workshop series supports somatic movement educators and therapists in deepening their understanding of embodied learning, nervous system regulation, group facilitation, and embodied perception. Participants will gain practical tools to support learning, self-awareness, and transformation in both individual and group settings.

Session 1. Embodied Learning and the Nervous System
Principles of learning in somatic movement practice
This session explores how embodied learning unfolds through the nervous system in somatic movement practice. Participants investigate how attention, sensory awareness, and variation shape movement-based learning. Through guided explorations, we examine how perception supports differentiation, coordination, and integration. The workshop offers a practical framework for practitioners interested in awareness-based learning, nervous system regulation, and transformative learning processes.

Session 2. The Group as a Living Nervous System
Facilitating relational embodiment and collective learning
Groups develop dynamic patterns of attention, rhythm, and co-regulation. In this session we explore the group as a living nervous system, supporting relational embodiment and embodied communication. Participants investigate how learning environments can be shaped to foster safety, curiosity, and experiential learning. This workshop is intended for practitioners working with groups who wish to deepen their understanding of collective regulation and group facilitation in somatic contexts.

Session 3. Perception, Nature, and Creative Embodiment
Expanding embodied perception through movement, art, and environment
This session explores how embodied perception expands in relationship with the natural world. Through somatic movement, drawing, writing, and creative embodiment practices, participants investigate how sensory awareness and body-mind integration deepen in interaction with the environment. The workshop offers approaches to integrate nature-based perception and creative processes into embodiment practice, supporting self-awareness and transformative learning.

Learning Goals
Participants will learn:
How embodied learning emerges through movement, perception, creativity and nervous system processes.
How to facilitate embodied learning and relational awareness in groups.
How to integrate creative and nature-based practices to expand embodied perception and support transformative learning.

Katinka Sanchez, born in Madrid in 1966, has been engaged with movement and dance since her early life, including flamenco, jazz dance, modern dance, and salsa, which she taught for more than twenty years. Alongside her practical work, she studied ethnology, sociology, and psychology.

She completed her professional training in the Feldenkrais Method in the United States and trained in biographical work and anthroposophical massage in Germany. For more than thirty years she has worked in the field of somatic movement, integrating awareness through movement, perception, and experiential learning in both educational and therapeutic contexts.

Over the past decade she has developed the KörperSinn Embodiment Moves training, an embodied learning approach that integrates somatic movement, perception, nervous system regulation, and creative processes to support self-awareness, differentiation, and transformative learning. Her work focuses on how embodied perception and attention shape learning, communication, and personal development.

Carina Heimer is an Embodiment Trainer, educator, and co-founder of the KörperSinn Method. She facilitates trainings, workshops, and coaching processes that integrate somatic movement, embodied learning, and nervous system regulation.

Her work focuses on supporting self-awareness, self-regulation, and sustainable transformation, particularly for individuals experiencing exhaustion and chronic conditions. Drawing from her own recovery from chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), she developed a differentiated approach to brain retraining, embodied perception, and the integration of body-mind processes.

Carina’s background includes training in embodiment coaching, biographical work, facilitation, horse therapy and Life Trust Coaching. She combines somatic movement, relational embodiment, and dialogical processes to create experiential learning environments for individuals and groups. Her work emphasizes differentiation, embodied communication, and the development of self-leadership and self-care within movement-based learning contexts.

Course Information

Cancellation Policy:
If a participant cancels their registration to any paid offering in the Professional Development Center,
they will receive the following refund:
• Full refund minus the PayPal fees, more than four weeks before the event begins
• 75% refund from 1-4 weeks before the event begins
• 50% refund from 1-6 days before the event begins
• No refund on the day that the event begins or while it is in progress
ISMETA reserves the right to cancel any offering in the Professional Development Center before the course begins due to unforeseen circumstances. In this case, a full refund will be given.