Join us this Saturday at 10am for a very special Blue Monkey Soma Faith class as we celebrate the conclusion of our first Hero Month in the 365-Day Hero Journey Program. Our theme is The Innocent: the archetype of play, illusion, wonder, magic, and childlike joy.
What is Blue Monkey?
Blue Monkey is our most playful, co-creative class format. Participants bring song suggestions around the theme of The Innocent (think play, magic, illusion, imagination, and delight). Helen then creates movement on the fly, improvising with the music, the energy in the zoom room, and whatever Spirit stirs in the moment.
You can laugh with her or at her (depending on the moment), and together we co-create something beautiful and unexpected.
In this space, many things tend to appear:
✨ joy
✨ laughter
✨ creativity
✨ community
✨ fun
…and many things can disappear:
🌿 pain
🌿 tension
🌿 isolation
🌿 separateness
Theme: The Innocent
The Innocent invites us back into trust, wonder, playfulness, and hope. It reminds us how to soften, how to delight in simple things, and how to move through the world with curiosity instead of control. All music requests for this class will center around play, illusion, magic, imagination, and lightness of being.
Email helen@somaranch.com with your song suggestion before 9pm Friday 1/30/26. All we need is name of artist and name of song.
Our Shared Intent
The desired outcome for this class is to leave feeling:
💛 joyful connection
💛 inspiration
💛 hope
Helen’s Teaching Intent
Helen’s personal intention while teaching this class is to be as innocently, playfully cute as the Labrador puppy in the photo we’re including in this blog. Expect silliness, sweetness, spontaneity, and moments of pure embodied joy.
Come move, play, laugh, and wonder with us as we dance together and celebrate our 30-day journey with the spirit of The Innocent.
All are welcome. Come as you are. Leave lighter than you arrived. 🐒
“Helen brings a beautiful relaxed presence, with a grounded approach, her voice and phrases are delicious, she moves wonderfully and brings a special joy to the experience. ”
Focus: Play with wonder, magic, and childlike joy.
Intent: Joyful connection, inspiration and hope.
Experience: Blue Monkey
Teacher: Helen
When you sign up for a class you are automatically sent the Zoom link for class. The link is the same each week.
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing”
"A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men." Roald Dahl
"Play is the highest form of research." Albert Einstein
"The opposite of play is not work. It's depression." Brian Sutton-Smith
“Man is most nearly himself
when he achieves the
seriousness of a child at play”
As we close out our beautiful month with The Innocent, we now turn the page to our next chapter in the 365-Day Hero Journey: The Ordinary Man. This upcoming month invites us to celebrate the sacredness of being fully human; not exceptional, not perfected, not extraordinary, but real, relatable, and right where we are. We’ll explore the quiet power of belonging, the deep comfort of shared experience, and the surprising freedom found in healthy conformity, in choosing to participate, to fit in just enough to be held by community, rhythm, and routine. Together, we’ll honor the beauty of the everyday, the dignity of simplicity, and the grace of knowing we don’t have to stand out to be deeply seen and loved.