WHOLE SOMA LAB

A community for movement, development, and lifelong learning.

Driven by curiosity and built on purpose, this is where bold thinking meets thoughtful execution. Let’s create something meaningful together.

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Movement. Development. Embodied learning. Community.

Whole Soma Lab is an ongoing learning community where movement, developmental practice, experiential anatomy, and embodied inquiry come together.

Part classroom, part movement studio, and part community of practice, it is a place for curious people who want to continue exploring themselves and the world through lived experience.

Your lived experience shows up in your body, your history, your creativity, your relationships, your instincts, and your very way of surviving.

It shapes how you move, perceive, relate, express yourself, and make meaning of the world.

Whole Soma Lab is a place to explore that relationship through movement, experiential anatomy, developmental practice, psychophysical inquiry, and shared learning.

Together we move, learn, ask questions, experiment, discover, and celebrate by dancing.

What We Explore

Whole Soma Lab is an ongoing learning community where movement becomes a way of understanding ourselves and the world around us.

Drawing from Body-Mind Centering®, developmental movement, experiential anatomy, somatic movement, expressive movement, psychophysical practice, attachment theory, and decades of studying human development, we explore how our bodies organize experience throughout our lives.

Together we investigate:

  • Developmental movement patterns and their lifelong influence

  • Experiential anatomy and the body's living systems

  • The relationship between movement, perception, sensation, and meaning

  • Nervous system regulation and resilience

  • Expression, creativity, and embodied communication

  • Adaptation, self-protection, and self-discovery

  • The body's ongoing capacity for learning, growth, and transformation

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This is not about performing movement correctly.

It is about becoming curious.

Curious about how you are organized.

Curious about how you learned to survive.

Curious about what supports growth, expression, resilience, and connection.

What's Included

Monthly Movement Labs

Live guided explorations in developmental movement, experiential anatomy, psychophysical practice, and embodied learning.

Information Labs

Conversations and teachings that deepen understanding of movement, development, anatomy, embodiment, attachment, and nervous system regulation.

Q&A and Integration Gatherings

A place to ask questions, share discoveries, and deepen your understanding of the work.

Get Your Dance On Sessions

Opportunities to move for the joy of it, reconnect with creativity, and celebrate through dance.

Classroom Portal

Access to recordings, resources, and previous sessions.

If you miss a gathering, recordings are available through the portal so you can participate at your own pace.

While recordings are available, Whole Soma Lab is designed as a living community of practice. The heart of the experience is gathering together to move, learn, explore, and connect in real time whenever possible.

Gathering Times

Whole Soma Lab meets twice each month.

Core gatherings are held on Thursdays at:

9:00 AM Pacific
11:00 AM Central
12:00 PM Eastern

Additional pop-up gatherings, dance sessions, and special events may be offered throughout the year at varying times.

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Who It's For

Whole Soma Lab is for curious people who want an ongoing relationship with embodied learning.

You do not need movement experience.

You do not need to be flexible, coordinated, athletic, or knowledgeable about anatomy.

You simply need a willingness to explore, learn, and discover through direct experience.

Some people come for the movement.

Some come for the developmental learning.

Some come for the community.

Most discover they need all three.

Membership

$47 per month

Membership includes:

  • Two live gatherings each month

  • Movement Labs

  • Information Labs

  • Q&A and Integration Gatherings

  • Get Your Dance On Sessions

  • Classroom Portal access

  • Session recordings and resources

  • Occasional pop-up events

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A community for movement, development, and lifelong learning.

Because there is always more to discover.

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  • “Margery Segal’s practice is therapy and touch akin to washing in a mountain spring. I experience no separation between the words, the seeing, and the nourishing beat of my heart. I know when I walk from her doors, we have dissolved the boundaries between careful attention and action. My life is now more than I could expect.”

    — Tim H.

  • “What a lovely experience! Margery created a magical place where I immediately felt safe to explore my connection with self and others through movement.   It was fun and profound.   I am forever grateful.”

    — Jackie B.

  • “Margery has a beautiful gift for creating safe, sacred space to help others drop deeply in with themselves. She brings a loving, compassionate presence, a playful spirit and a creative passion to all she does. Margery’s wealth of knowledge, skill and expertise has offered me many opportunities for new insights, discoveries, and wisdom that has inspired many areas of my life.”

    — Elissa Shapiro, LCSW and Movement Facilitator

  • “Margery has given me great insights into what motivates my daughter and what triggers some of her behaviors - because, as parents of special needs children - sometimes we lose perspective of our own children in the  face of day-to- day struggles.”

    — Lizzie M.

  • “The Family Somatic program (a training for professionals taught in Brazil) is a very complete methodology of working with family from a somatic and psychological perspective. Connecting very efficient technics of perceptions of the family’s body, with tools that are very efficient to help kids in their developmental process. All this with the background of perinatal psychology, attachment theory and embryology. This course forms people to meet family with their needs and to provide somatic support with the idea that the family is a system to be taken care of, as a whole.”

    — Mariana Camerote

  • “Margery offers a unique chance to reflect, process, and experience in such a beautiful way. The high level of possibility of exploration within a relatively short time is refreshing and elegant. Anything I brought with me during the days of meeting was perfectly ok, be it silly, frenetic, peaceful, small or big. I so appreciate her guidance and space setting for a group process like this”

    — M.B.

  • “Beyond her education and professional experience, Margery is insightful and thoughtful in her approach to working with moms. I’ve participated in similar programs and was particularly impressed with her offerings – especially the journal topics and third-party resources she provided. Highly recommend!”

    — Jennifer Shaw Bonessi

  • “I came to Margery with knee and hip pain that expensive physical therapy hadn’t helped with at all. Working with Margery, I saw enormous improvement, and am now able to sleep, walk, and practice yoga again without pain. For that alone, I’m extremely grateful. But I also got much more that I never expected – a greater connection with and understanding of my own body; awareness and release of old physical and emotional habits and patterns that were causing me pain, and just a greater confidence and presence in my body. It’s been a revelation. I recommend her to everyone.”

    — Katherine Catmull, Writer & Actor

  • “Margery’s work is transformative. She began working with my son (who was born with an airway malformation and underwent many surgeries) when he was nine months old. We have seen incredible development not only in how he is able to move his body but in his confidence to do so and therefore, his pride and happiness. Margery has taught me how to listen to and help my son in ways I never could have on my own. Her work has helped me help him grow, and helped feel connected to him. For that I will remain deeply grateful and inspired by her work.”

    — K.R.

  • “It has now been 8 weeks since our first session. I’m continuing to taper as before, yet my mental well-being is unmistakably better. These movements are simple and easy! I spend 15 minutes in my backyard every morning doing them, sometimes combining them with yoga movements.”

    — J.J

  • “On the mornings I wake up anxious, they typically reset my mind and body, and I carry on with my daily life. I have done other things that have helped, but I am certain that these movements, and the loving way that Margery taught me them, is the core reason for the marked improvement in my daily experience.”

    — J.J

  • "I'd heard wonderful things about Margery's work and knew she was in demand, so I was grateful when she found a space for me. It turned out to be exactly what I needed."

    — S.J