What is Soma Faith Movement?

Soma Faith is a holistic movement practice that invites people of all faiths and backgrounds to awaken the sacred intelligence of their body through intentional movement, breath, and presence.

We believe the body is not separate from our spiritual journey, instead the body is our vital vessel for healing, transformation, and wholeness.

In this inclusive space, faith becomes an embodied expression of trust, resilience, and belonging, free from dogma and open to every soul.

4 Core Pillars of Soma Faith

We draw upon these 4 core pillars to anchor our values in all classes, the community culture, and offerings:

1. Embodiment

The body is not a barrier to Spirit; it is a sacred bridge. We explore faith and healing through breath, movement, and somatic awareness.

2. Inclusivity

Soma Faith honors all spiritual paths and backgrounds. Whether rooted in religion, nature, intuition, or recovery, your faith belongs here.

3. Presence

We move systemically, intentionally, and with focused attention; welcoming emotions, sensations, and insights that arise from within.

4. Transformation

We believe healing happens when we integrate body, mind, and spirit. Through movement, we release, reclaim, and reimagine what’s possible.

Founder’s Message

Soma Faith was born from a simple yet transformative realization: faith is not meant to live only in our thoughts or beliefs, it is meant to be lived in our bodies.

For much of my life, I understood faith primarily as something I believed or practiced outwardly. Over time, through movement, stillness, and seasons of both healing and unknowing, I began to experience faith as something deeper, something embodied. I discovered that the body carries wisdom, memory, prayer, and possibility. When we listen to it with care, the body becomes a sacred place of connection and restoration.

Soma Faith is rooted in my own Christian foundation and reverence for the body as a gift, created by God, with intention, capable of worship, and worthy of compassion. At the same time, this practice is intentionally open and inclusive. I believe faith is experienced in multiple ways and that people encounter the sacred in many ways: through God, through nature, through recovery, through community, and through the simple act of showing up and breathing again.

You are not asked to believe anything specific here. You are invited to bring your whole self, your body, your questions, your story, and to move with honesty and presence. Some participants experience this work as prayer. Others as healing. Others as a quiet return to themselves. All of these and more belong.

My hope is that Soma Faith offers a space where you can trust your body, honor your journey, and experience faith as something alive, moving through you, grounding you, and guiding you forward.

Welcome.
You belong here.

Helen Terry, M. Ed., R.S.A.

Founder, Soma Faith

What is 5 Soma Stages?

5 Soma Stages is a movement practice, within the Soma Faith program, that guides us through the natural, developmental stages we moved through from an infant to becoming a walking human. The 5 Soma Stages are embryonic, creeping, crawling, standing, and walking. The purpose of the class includes the intent to help improve function and bring more comfort in your body. Soma Faith founder, Helen Terry, was introduced to these 5 stages through the Nia Technique. The 5 stages are based on the work of Stanley Kellerman and referenced in his book “Emotional Anatomy”.

Through movements which mimic nature (fish, lizard, bear, monkey, human like postures), in the 5 Soma Stages, you will be guided to listen to your body, through sensation, as you move though each stage. Every level designed to facilitate well-being and optimal alignment.

Please complete the WAIVER below before attending your first class, whether it be in person at Soma Ranch, or ONLINE.