DST SOMATICS MASTER CLASS – Healing What Ails Us: Transforming The Core Experience – jan2026

Healing What Ails Us: Transforming The Core Experience

A Masterclass in Deep Somatic Inquiry

In every one of us lives an experience that has endured for years—sometimes for decades. It lives beneath the stories we tell about ourselves, beneath the roles we’ve silently carried, beneath the survival strategies that helped us make it through.
This is what we call the Core Experience.

The Core Experience goes beyond a thought, memories, or even beliefs.
It is a felt truth—the emotional, physical, and energetic signature that stays with us through every stage of life. And until it is recognized, engaged, and transformed, it continues to shape our body and mind from the inside out.

This masterclass is designed to help practitioners locate this essential layer of human experience and learn how to work with it through the precision and empathy of DST Somatic Dialogue. You will learn how to follow the body’s signals toward what is most alive, most persistent, and most ready to be healed.

Why This Work Matters

Most people live their lives circling around the edges of their own struggles—managing symptoms, stabilizing, trying to stay afloat.
But true healing happens when we learn how to recognize the deeper patterns that keeps resurfacing, again and again, in sensation, emotion, and relationship.

You don’t need to be a somatic practitioner to benefit from this work. Anyone who wants to understand the deeper truth beneath people’s struggles — or their own — can learn to recognize the Core Experience. Whether you’re a therapist, educator, bodyworker, coach, or simply someone devoted to personal growth, this training gives you the ability to follow the subtle signals that reveal what truly needs attention. You’ll learn how to sense what lives beneath the surface of a person’s story and how to approach that place with clarity, empathy, and confidence.

In this training, you will learn how to:

• Identify the Core Experience – Understand what makes this level of experience unique in somatic work and why it becomes the organizing force behind so many symptoms and patterns.
• Track the Layers Leading Toward It – Learn how to sense and follow the subtle somatic movements, emotional undercurrents, and unconscious gestures that reveal where the body wants to go.
• Stay Present in Difficult Material – Develop the capacity to remain relaxed, attuned, and purposeful in the presence of negativity, intensity, or collapse—being present for what might be beyond.
• Read the Body with Depth and Accuracy – Recognize the energetic shifts—micro-expressions, shifts in posture, breath, gaze, and tone—that communicate the state of the nervous system and the underlying emotional field.
• Guide Somatic Transformation– Learn how the body resolves long-held experience through sensation, expression, pendulation, and the reorganization that follows.
• Stay on the Somatic Track – Avoid getting lost in narrative, content, or external circumstances. Learn how to return again and again to the body—where healing actually happens.
• Practice in a Safe, Supportive Environment – Engage with skilled partners trained in DST Somatics who will support your learning with warmth, clarity, and precision.

What You Will Leave With

By the end of this masterclass, you will have:

• A clearer sense of how to identify the deeper emotional pattern clients keep circling
• The confidence to guide someone into the heart of their experience without overwhelming them
• A felt understanding of the somatic markers that signal a Core Experience is emerging
• A map for how to move from sensation → meaning → transformation/healing
• A deeper relationship to your own Core Experience and the places in you that are ready to shift

This is one of the most precise, intuitive, and transformative skills you can develop as a somatic practitioner. It brings you to the exact place where change becomes possible.