Embodied Wellness offers groups, classes, & workshops based on the needs & interests of our community.
Upcoming Authentic Movement Offerings:
Authentic Movement and Enneagram Workshop
Embodied Exploration of Enneagram wisdom
with Rachael Bonauito and Maren Gauldin
Join us for a transformative daylong workshop led by Rachael Bonaiuto and Maren Gauldin where the practices of Authentic Movement and the insights of the Enneagram converge to foster deeper layers of self-exploration, embodied evolution, and community connection.
This workshop offers a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of self through both embodied movement and the powerful self-discovery tools of the Enneagram. Together, we will delve into the motivations and healing pathways of the Enneagarm, integrating these insights through Authentic Movement to uncover the unconscious and explore pathways to healing and growth.
In advance of the workshop, you will receive a comprehensive Enneagram Assessment from Integrative Enneagram, which will provide a personalized overview of your Enneagram type and subtype. This report will serve as a valuable foundation for the work, allowing you to begin to reflect on the overview of your type in advance and prepare for a more in-depth exploration during our time together.
The morning of the workshop will feature a collective exploration of each Enneagram type, including unconscious motivations, strengths, challenges and tendencies. The overview will be followed by a facilitated Authentic Movement session to integrate and explore the unconscious relationship and inner landscape.
In the afternoon, we will focus on the pathways to growth and integration for each type using both Enneagram teachings and Authentic Movement practice to embody and explore.
Join us to engage in a rich exploration of your inner landscape and cultivate deeper connections with yourself and others.
Date: February 1, 2025
Time: 10 AM - 5 PM
Location: Boulder
Cost: $250-$350 (payment plans available)
*Please select the rate that best honors your financial situation and the value of the offering.
Please bring: Comfortable clothes, lunch, water, snacks, journal, your Enneagram assessment
Requirement: Background in Authentic Movement not required, but some experience with conscious embodiment strongly encouraged. The Enneagram assessment through Integrative Enneagram ($60) is included in the cost of the workshop.
You will be emailed a link and asked to complete the assessment and read your report in advance.
Registration Information:
Step: 1 Please complete this Registration Form to indicate your plans to attend.
Step 2: We will follow up with payment instructions.
Step 3: Once payment is received, we will send you a link to your Enneagram Assessment to complete in advance.
Spaces for this workshop are limited.
Please email maren@seedstowholeness.com with any questions!
Authentic Movement
Facilitated by Rachael Bonaiuto
Authentic Movement is a profound practice that invites participants to connect with their inner experience and the creative life force within. Through this embodied practice, you will:
Engage in deep listening and connection within a safe and supportive environment.
Explore habitual patterns and authentic movements.
Experience the freedom to express yourself without judgment or limitation.
Build relationships within a loving community.
This practice serves as a trustworthy map for transformation, providing a space to slow down, reflect, and deepen your relationship with yourself.
Enneagram
Facilitated by Maren Gauldin
Maren Gauldin will facilitate a series of conversations focused on unlocking your potential and self-awareness using the Enneagram. Participants will:
Gain a comprehensive overview of Enneagram types and tendencies
Discover how self-awareness can deepen your personal journey
Explore the Enneagram’s growth map with tailored tools for enhanced growth
Meet Your Facilitators
Rachael Bonaiuto
Rachael holds a BA in Psychology and Philosophy from Indiana University and an MA in Somatic Counseling Psychology from Naropa University. She is a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor with over 20 years of experience in mental health. Rachael’s authentic presence fosters a deep connection with her clients, allowing for profound healing and transformation. Her approach emphasizes somatic awareness and genuine connection, nurturing the inherent wisdom within each individual.
Maren Gauldin
Maren is a certified Enneagram coach and consultant at Seeds to Wholeness, focusing on personal growth and transformation. She offers coaching and consulting services designed to uplift individuals on their journeys of self-discovery. With a nurturing and intuitive approach, Maren helps clients navigate challenges and cultivate deeper connections in their lives. Whether seeking to enhance self-awareness or explore personal goals, she is committed to supporting individuals and businesses as they thrive.
“Attending Rachael’s Authentic Movement series has forever transformed my relationship with my body and myself. Despite my background in movement practices spanning over a decade, it’s only now that I truly grasp the essence of embodiment. Through Rachael’s guidance, I’ve cultivated a deeper trust in both my body and my inner wisdom. This series offers an opportunity for anyone seeking to attune to their body’s innate wisdom. Much of my day-to-day existence is immersed in the external world, but Rachael’s Authentic Movement series provided a safe and intentional space to go inwards. In a life often characterized by busyness and rapid pace, stepping into Rachael’s sanctuary feels like time itself slows down. Authentic Movement has given me the tools to slow down, tune in, and be present in my own life. It has supported me in approaching milestones and life moments with more depth. ”
A HOME for Authentic Movement: The Sacred Returning
Authentic Movement is an awakening practice of exploring the unconscious, tending the soul and psyche, with embodiment at the center. This body-referenced awareness practice involves a witness and mover(s). With eyes closed, the mover listens to and follows inner impulse, moving in the presence of a trained, accepting, and loving witness. Movement may arise from sensation, imagery, memory, thought, and/or direct experience. This practice supports individuals to align with and move their essential truth in community, strengthening their ability to track embodied experience, and practicing self-referencing speech to bring consciousness to the body’s wisdom.
Authentic Movment provides:
• A simple yet profound practice for deep listening, connection, and alchemization
• A trustworthy map for embodied integration and transformation
• An opportunity to slow down, sequence, and be with direct and inner experience
• A deepened relationship with our habitual patterns and authentic movements
• An invitation to explore our relationship to being seen, held, and supported
• A safer space to move and express freely without judgment or limitation
• A loving community with whom to intimately relate to creative life force energy
Since she was young, Rachael would find a quiet space, close her eyes, move her body, and connect with something beyond. She danced through many forms of movement, exploring years of formal dance training, as well as the art of moving without form. She discovered the practice of Authentic Movement in 2004, while studying Somatic Counseling Psychology at Naropa University, and has been in reverence and study of the work ever since.
Rachael works with humans of many walks, primarily those that identify as women, facilitating the process of reclaiming truth, trusting self, reconnecting with our inherent worth, and finding healthy relationships with the wisdom of our bodies and souls.
Rachael also deeply enjoys integrating sacred ritual, the natural world, live music, conscious travel, and Motherhood into her exploration of returning to Wholeness. Currently, she is fascinated, and on her knees, by the heart exploding experience of Mothering and all the ways this informs her work, her commitment to service, and her devotion to waking up.
““Authentic Movement guided by Rachael was a super rich container infused with beauty, sacredness, safety, and care. Because the container felt so safe, it allowed me to explore my most raw authentic expression and deeply receive the medicine of this unique practice. I felt so cared for, seen, and held by Rachael’s space holding.””