Embodied Wellness offers groups, classes, & workshops based on the needs & interests of our community.
Upcoming Authentic Movement Offerings:
Authentic Movement Ongoing Group FALL 2025
Deepening in the embodiment practice of Authentic Movement
Join me for a transformative journey of ongoing Authentic Movement practice and study, where the mystical embodiment practice of Authentic Movement supports deepened layers of soul exploration, embodied evolution, and community connection. This ongoing group offers a unique opportunity to anchor during turbulent times, expanding and deepening your somatic understanding of self and others through inner listening, embodied movement, and the powerful container of an ongoing committed collective of movers. Together, we will delve into the layers of our soul’s expression and healing potential of our body’s wisdom. Ongoing practice in Authentic Movement allows unconscious material to surface and reveal itself through a held container and ongoing commitment.
This group will meet the first and third Wednesday of each month, September-December 2025.
We will collectively commit to 46 months of practice together, with the opportunity to recommit in the new year for an ongoing experience. The committed container will support the depths of practice and allow for the wisdom and profound healing potential of the collective to emerge over time and presence. In this container, we will practice the form influenced by the Discipline of Authentic Movement. Through the declaring circle, we will engage in the embodied experience of mover, moving witness, silent witness and speaking witness (if trained). If you feel a desire to join this group but are unsure if you are ready to be in these various roles, please reach out to discuss.
Workshop Details:
Dates: 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month, September through December 2025
(9/3, 9/17, 10/1, 10/15, 11/5, 11/19, 12/3, & 12/17)
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: Embodied Wellness Studio: 75th St and Jay Rd
Cost: $100 per group
Financial assistance available
Requirement: Background/previous experience in Authentic Movement is required.
If interested, but you have no experience with Authentic Movement, please reach out. I will hold a day long introduction with enough interest or privates can be arranged.
Registration: Click here to register
A Deeper Dive into Authentic Movement FALL 2025
A 4-session series of Teaching and Practice
This small circle will explore Authentic Movement through both practice and guided teaching. Together we’ll deepen into the mystical, psychological, and somatic dimensions of the work. We’ll practice, reflect, and learn in community, grounded in ritual and inquiry.
Teachings will include:
Developing the inner witness with nuance and compassion
Mystical pathways into embodied presence
Trauma in the body and how we gently open to it
Trusting what moves us—and how we listen
This series is for both experienced movers and new movers with prior embodiment experience who feel called to explore further.
Workshop Details:
Dates: 2nd Wednesday of each month, September through December 2025
Sept 10, Oct 8, Nov 12, & Dec 10
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Embodied Wellness Studio: 75th St and Jay Rd
Cost: $150 per group
Financial assistance available
*More details coming soon
Registration: Click here to register
Authentic Movement and Enneagram Workshop
Relational Alchemy: Enneagram & Authentic Movement
for Embodied Connection
with Rachael Bonaiuto and Maren Gauldin
Explore the transformative potential of your most meaningful relationships through the powerful lens of the Enneagram and the embodied wisdom of Authentic Movement. This immersive weekend workshop invites you into deeper intimacy, self-awareness, and connection—with yourself and others.
This workshop offers tangible tools to help you stay with sensation, emotion, and energy in real time. Through Authentic Movement, you’ll better understand the experience of witnessing and being witnessed. Through the Enneagram, you’ll gain insight into your relational patterns and blind spots. Together, these practices create the conditions for compassion, curiosity, and present moment transformation.
Whether you attend solo or with a partner, friend, family member, or collaborator, you will:
Deepen your understanding of relational dynamics
Explore patterns of connection, attachment and conflict
Build capacity to stay present in moments of challenge or emotional activation
Practice being seen, heard, and met in embodied, authentic ways
Tap into the "third body" of relationship—a shared field that holds and supports the relationship itself
Who It's For:
We are all in relationship. This work supports:
Anyone seeking more conscious connection
Romantic partners
Roommates and co-parents
Creative collaborators
Business partners and co-workers
Family members and friends
Come solo, or bring someone you’re in a close relationship with. If you attend alone, you’ll explore your relational dynamics across many contexts. If you come with a partner or connection, you’ll explore the shared alchemy between you with depth and care.
Workshop Details
Orientation (Required if new to Enneagram or Authentic Movement):
Friday, November 14 | 5:30–8:30 PM
Daylong Immersion:
Saturday, November 15 | 10:00 AM–5:30 PM
Location: Boulder, CO (Exact address shared upon registration)
Cost:
$300–$400 sliding scale per person
$500–$700 for two people ($250–350 per person)
Required: Enneagram Assessment through Integrative Enneagram ($60 per person), unless previously completed.
Included:
Two experienced facilitators
Experiential Authentic Movement sessions
In-depth Enneagram teachings
Optional mini relational overview for pairs
Recommended: Some prior experience with conscious embodiment or inner work
Space is limited to ensure intimacy and depth.
To register: Registration Link / Questions: maren@seedstowholeness.com
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.””