FALL 2026
online OFFERINGs
SPECIAL EVENTS
SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2026
PROFESSIONAL MENTORSHIP – Wednesdays
MENTORIA PROFESIONAL – Jueves
OCTOBER – NOVEMBER 2026
REIMAGINING INANNA’S DESCENT
NOVEMBER
COLUMNA CONSCIENTE Y SINTONIA CORPORIZADA (CURSO DE DESARROLLO PROFESIONAL EN LINEA)
OCTOBER 2
Making Room for What Matters (IN-PERSON WORKSHOP)
NOVEMBER 14
Reimagining Demeter Online workshop presented through the International Society of Mythology
MONTHLY (4th Friday)
WOMEN’S GROUP: DEEP FEMININE CIRCLES
online woskhop series
professional mentorship
Somatic Movement, Expressive Arts, and Applied Mythology
There are moments in practice when things don’t quite flow: you might notice a hesitation where your voice once felt clear, or sense the work stuck and you get lost in over-thinking, or lose connection to your own body and struggle to be present. This mentorship is designed to meet you right there.
Over this summer you’ll be supported to regain trust in yourself, navigate uncertainty with creativity, and find the way home into your embodied and grounding presence.
This mentorship supports you in:
- Leading sessions with greater confidence: Gain clarity, trust your instincts, and articulate your unique approach.
- Staying connected to your body during sessions: so your awareness, breath, posture, and sensing body become reliable resources.
- Working with stuck moments without forcing outcomes: so you can stay present in uncertainty and recognize cues to mobilize the stagnation.
How we work:
A small, intimate online cohort (up to 8 participants) integrating:
- Somatic movement to deepen embodied awareness and presence .
- Expressive art to shift perspectives and expand possibilities of expression.
- Applied mythology to find meaning, belonging, and the larger story within your work.
Optional one-on-one sessions are available for focused support and refining your philosophy of practice: your values and approach to healing and transformation.
This mentorship is for you if you:
- Want to feel consistently more confident, grounded, and clear in sessions.
- Are seeking a more embodied and sustainable way of practicing. Find yourself getting stuck or unsure how to move the process forward.
- Value being a part of a supportive, collaborative, and creative professional community.
This mentorship is designed for helping professionals, including: Expressive Arts Therapists (and those pursuing REAT credential through IEATA), Art Therapists, Somatic Movement Educators and Therapists; as well as for counselors, coaches, and social workers drawn to embodied and imaginal approaches.
What makes this program unique:
- A focus on developing your unique voice and philosophy, not replicating a method.
- A rare integration of somatic approaches, expressive arts, and applied mythology.
- An intermodal approach grounded in both scholarship and embodied practice.
What This Is (and Is NOT)
This is a space for exploration, embodied inquiry, integration, and professional development.
This program fulfills the supervision requirements for REAT credential (IEATA).
This is not clinical supervision. Participants in clinical roles must continue supervision as required by their profession and/or licensure
Program details:
Duration: 3 months (online format)
Six group sessions:
Wednesdays:
September 23 thru December 2
11am – 1pm ET | 8am 10am PT
(Recordings available)
Optional: 2 sessions by appointment
Apply:
Complete a short application here
If we haven’t worked together, you’ll be invited to a 25min introductory call to go over my approach and clarify expectation
Investment
Full program: $775
Early bird until June 21st: $700
Includes 6 group sessions and 2 private sessions, discount of $100 for the private session available only to group participants.
Group sessions only: $525
Early bird until June 21st: $500
Payment Plans available, please inquire
reclaiming stillness, restoring flow
A sanctuary for embodiment and creativity
“What we cannot imagine cannot come into being” bell hooks
Step into a sanctuary space where stillness becomes a wellspring for embodying loving presence, courage, and creative agency.
This class series welcomes anyone seeking artful and somatic ways to navigate uncertainty and those longing for deeper connection to self and others beyond words. Whether feeling overwhelmed, creatively blocked, or simply called to listen deeply; arrive as you are to this welcoming space and:
- Reconnect with practices that enliven your body’s wisdom and resilience.
- Express and give shape to what most matters to you using dance, drawing, and creative writing.
- Replenish your capacity to be present, and reignite your ability to respond creatively.
Rooted in the Tamalpa Life/Art® methodology, Reclaiming Stillness weaves together somatic contemplative and movement practices, expressive dance, creative writing, drawing, and vocalization. These practices awaken the body’s innate wisdom, imaginal ways of knowing, and creativity. With a trauma-informed approach, aspects of Polyvagal Theory will be used to support nervous system regulation and provide a ground for creative inquiries.
Reclaiming stillness is a sanctuary of embodied presence and it is open to all.
No dance or art experience needed. Only a willingness to explore.
To get the most out of this online series, please prepare a comfortable space to move in with access to your online device and a reliable internet connection. Also, have art supplies ready at hand for drawing activities, and paper and pen for journaling and creative writing exercises.
Marialuisa Diaz de Leon, MA, REAT, MSME/T.
Dates
TO BE ANNOUNCED
Time:
10am – 12pm PT
1pm – 3pm ET
Cost: (includes Eventbrite fees)
$135- Early registration and grads anytime (grads use discount code on General Admission tickets)
$150 – after Nov. 20th
$60 drop-ins
What prior participants have said about Reclaiming Stillness:
“Maria Luisa’s poetic guidance to slow down and tune into the body is a crucial gift in a time when the world seems to be spinning out of control. By turning inward, I gained deeper clarity to ground myself as I move out into the world.” ~ Debra Stuckgold
“I treasure the safe container and creative space Marialuisa holds. Her groundedness and authenticity have helped me connect deeply with my sacred bodymind. I have found her work invaluable.” ~ Dvora Liberman
ALTARES
A Ritual of Remembrance through Embodied Creativity
Step into a sacred space of remembrance and celebration with this embodied ritual, ALTARES. This unique gathering invites you to honor the life and memory of a loved one—be it a cherished person, a beloved pet, or even someone you never met but wish to appreciate. Through the gentle power of embodied creativity, we will come together to create meaningful Life/Art offerings that pay tribute to those who have touched our hearts.
Inspired by the rich Mexican tradition of Dia de Muertos, ALTARES weaves together somatic movement, gesture, dance, drawing, and the writing of calaveritas (short, poetic tributes). Each activity is designed to help you connect with the imprint your loved one has left on your life, express gratitude, and to celebrate the qualities and memories that will always keep them close.
Marialuisa was born in Mexico and, as a young girl, she used to accompany her abuelita to the cemetery to take part in creating altars for Dia de Muertos each year. This tradition is rooted in prehispanic indigenous traditions that survived the conquista. According to this ancient tradition, the veil that separates the world of the living from the world of the dead thins out at this time each year allowing the spirits to leave Mictlán (the otherworld) and join their living family and friends. The ofrendas placed in personalized altars such as the ‘day of the dead bread’ and the smell of the marigold flowers used to decorate them help orient spirits so they can find their families and loved ones who are waiting for them to celebrate and remember the loving memories that connect them.
We hope you consider joining as no art experience is necessary.
Date: October 30
Time: 10am – 12pm PDT
Price: $50
Please note:
This workshop is a gentle, heartfelt, and uplifting ritual inspired by the imagery and spirit of Mexican altares. While it may offer creative support for those navigating grief, our focus is on honoring, remembering, and celebrating the lives of those who have crossed over. If you have any questions about this, please contact Marialuisa at mythiclifecenter@gmail.com before signing up.
A safe space to share the ways you embody the archetypal energies of the feminine in your mythic journeys and life cycles.
The circle will have an opening and a short guided somatic movement practice with a central theme or question for the day. Following that, the space will be open for speaking and listening from the heart. Aesthetic interventions and responses are offered from witnesses. As we close the circle we harvest the learnings, insights, questions that each participant has identified.
Space limited to 12 participants per session. Application required.
Fourth Friday of the month.
Time: 12pm ET – 2pm ET – Other time zones please look here.
Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.
– Meister Eckhart
Rondas lunares de mujeres creativas
Cultivando y fortaleciendo la sabiduría femenina a través del movimiento somático, la mitología, arquetipos y las artes expresivas.
En estas rondas mensuales cultivamos un círculo íntimo, seguro y poderoso de co-creación para situarnos en el momento en que estamos viviendo a nivel personal e identificar retos, oportunidades y recursos para seguir avanzando en nuestro caminar.
Cada Ronda se abre con una práctica guiada de movimiento somático alineada con la fase lunar de ese día y que nos introduce al tema central de la sesión. El espacio se abre para hablar y escuchar profundamente con y desde el corazón. Atestiguamiento compasivo, acuerpado y libre de crítica nos permite ofrecer un reflejo y sostener la sabiduría que nace en cada una.
Dirigido a toda mujer hispanohablante que tenga experiencia en escucha profunda y respetuosa.
Cupo limitado a 12 participantes para lograr una mayor conexión y atención a los procesos personales.
Hora:
7pm – 9pm CDMX – Colombia
5pm – 7pm California
Busca tu hora local aquí: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html
Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience we just need help in learning how not to run away.
– Pema Chödron
CARRYING TRUST
AFTER MISCARRIAGE
AN 8-WEEK SOMATIC AND EXPRESSIVE ARTS HEALING PATH FOR WOMEN
Two days after having had a miscarriage I barely felt my pelvic area. I was teaching my weekly Somatic Dance class and when I tried to do some movements like rolling the hips, I could not do them. It was as if my uterus, bladder, cervix were all hardened making a fist. I was scared, disappointed, angry, and sad. I decided to let my body lead the way of my next steps, I needed to come to terms that I was pregnant and then I wasn’t. It sounds simple, but it was complex: something in me was alive and then something in me was dead.
For many women, miscarriage is a wounding experience of loss for which they need adequate support to heal. Healing from miscarriage entails a grieving process often accompanied with symptoms of PTSD, including numbness, hypersensitivity, or pain often localized in the pelvic area. Health care professionals and family members usually downplay the effects that miscarriage has on women and overlook the emotional pain. Women are left to their own to deal with a sense of mistrust, guilt, and shame over their body. How does somatic movement and expressive arts support women in healing after having a miscarriage and regain trust and vitality in their body?
Pelvis is associated with the cycles of birth/death/rebirth. With miscarriage, the pelvis goes from being a fertile womb to a cold tomb. A frozen pelvis is experienced as lack of sensitivity, mobility, hypersensitivity, or pain. I desinged this 8-week program to support women in completing and integrating the grieving experience of miscarriage and reclaim trust and joy in their body.
Throughout the program I will hold space for you, support you, guide you and offer you effective tools so you can:
- Encounter and express your grief, and the variety of feelings that you are experiencing.
- Identify parts of your body that have gone numb or are hypersensitive, and recover sensation and mobility.
- Guide you safely into creative ways to express your story.
- Create your own healing ritual(s).
Pre-requisite:
Please schedule a 20min conversation to determine if this program is right for you.
Contact me for more information, availability and fees: mythiclifecenter@gmail.com
SOMA’S MYTHIC PATHWAYS SERIES
Pelvic Wisdom Series: Embodying the Cycles of Life and Death
How are ancient myths rooted in particular body experiences? How does somatic movement help us become aware of our shared humanity? And how can myth be used in somatic movement practices as a tool to better develop this awareness?
Ancient myths sprang from the body experience. Myth and somatic movement are two ends of a spectrum and metaphors are the vehicle to travel between the two. Both, somatic movement and myth are modalities of the imagination –for image is not just visual but it is also a felt sensation. From an archetypal psychology perspective, somatic movement is a myth making and soul tending practice. Somatic and expressive movement takes us across into the phenomenology of myth and leads us to an embodied understanding of our life as a unique and living expression of a larger myth.
