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Hello from Soma Herd: Nia, Zephyr, Cha cha, Spirit
The Guardian Heart
This week at Soma has carried a beautiful sense of presence, connection, and quiet reflection.
We recently had the joy of welcoming Mary Scott to stay with us at Soma for a couple of days, and the experience reminded me how meaningful simple moments of spaces, rest, movement, conversation, and shared presence can truly be.
There is something deeply nourishing about slowing down enough to connect in a more personal way.
Serving in this way felt deeply aligned with the heart of Soma Ranch.
It reminded me how much I value creating spaces where people can feel seen, supported, restored, and reconnected to themselves through embodied practice, reflection, nature, movement, and rest.
This experience has inspired me to continue exploring the possibility of offering more intimate personal retreats and small-group experiences in the future. To create retreats centered around embodied spirituality, healing movement, contemplation, nourishment, and meaningful connection.
More on that soon.
This Saturday morning, I’ll be teaching both our Soma 5 Stages class and Soma Faith Movement class with the shared focus of:
The Guardian Heart : The Devotion Warrior
Together we’ll continue exploring the evolving Warrior archetype. Moving beyond force and survival, through grounded protection into compassionate leadership, resilience, and embodied devotion.
The Guardian Heart reminds us:
True strength does not require hardness.
Part of being a warrior is learning how to fall.
Learning how to rise again.
Learning how to remain open-hearted through life’s challenges without losing groundedness or courage.
This week’s movement journey will move through the developmental stages we all moved through to become a walking human: embryonic, creeping, crawling, crouching, and walking. Both classes invite us to embody listening, awareness, carrying wisely, grounded protection, and ultimately devotion in motion.
The music accompanying this practice feels especially meaningful.
We’ll be moving with Tim Wheater’s Heartland, whose four Warrior movements beautifully complement the spirit of this class.
The music carries both strength and tenderness. The Soundscape is spacious, earthy, reflective, and deeply connected to the archetypal journey we’ve been exploring together this month.
Although dramatic, classical and rich in expression the music feels less about performance and more like a living landscape for prayer, encouraging movement, and embodied reflection.
As always, these classes are not about being perfect, they certainly are not about restricting you in any way, to move any certain way, other than your way, in the moment, for today.
Soma Faith classes are invitations:
to listen more deeply,
to soften where we’ve become armored,
to reconnect strength with compassion,
and to remember that resilience and devotion can coexist.
Thank you for continuing to walk this journey with us. I hope you can come dance
With gratitude,
Helen Terry, Soma Faith at Soma Ranch.
