Body as Voice Series // Auckland, NZ
2020-04-24 00:00 - 2020-08-16 00:00 (America/New_York)
This innovative, polyvagal-informed approach to working with trauma and the body has been taught all over the world, and has finally come to New Zealand.
PART I: August 16-19, 2019
PART II: December 6-9, 2019
PART III: April 24-27, 2020 RESCHEDULE TBA
PART IIII: August 14-16, 2020 RESCHEDULE TBA
For more information:
Jacquelyn Wan, AKL organizer, rmpst.nz@gmail.com

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Ground in the Swirl: Embodied Movement for Uncertain Times // 1440 Multiversity Online Learning
2020-04-27 13:00 - 16:00
Amber joins the faculty of 1440 Multiversity to offer her popular class, Ground in the Swirl.
WHEN: April 27, 1-4 PM PST
WHERE: 1440 Multiversity Online Learning
REGISTRATION
Experiencing fear, worry, anxiety, overwhelm, depression, and stress is a normal response to a rapidly changing situation in which lives are threatened. Join 1440 Multiversity faculty member Amber Gray, PhD as she guides you through practices to help you find more ease and support through the grounded wisdom of your body.
In this straightforward, practical class, Amber will offer embodied, movement-based approaches to promote state shifting when a vastly evolving reality undermines our ability to be present. The COVID-19 global public health emergency is rife with unknowns and uncertainty. We are tasked with significant life change, more quickly than can be comfortable, asked to cease our usual movements, and many of us will be forced to remain in one place. Using techniques grounded in Continuum, Dance/Movement Therapy, Somatic Psychology, Polyvagal Theory, and more, this session will get “straight to the moment” and support us all to breathe, be still, move and find ground in the swirl.

Ground in the Swirl Online Series
2020-04-29 09:00 - 16:00
Ground in the Swirl Online Series
with Dr. Amber E. Gray
This virtual series is being offered following the enthusiastic response to our recent “one off” webinars.
Ground in the Swirl is a straightforward, practical class series offering embodied, movement-based approaches to promote state shifting, comfort and embodied presence when a vastly evolving reality undermines our ability to be present. Experiencing fear, worry, anxiety, overwhelm, depression, stress, etc. are normal responses to a rapidly changing situation in which lives are threatened. The practices shared in these classes will support participants to find more ease and support for everything we feel though the grounded wisdom of our body.
Practices are grounded in Continuum, Dance/Movement Therapy, Somatic Psychology, Polyvagal Theory, Mindfulness Practice, Yoga, and Amber’s extensive field experience. This series will allow more time to “elaborate” the theories, science and practical approaches shared in the 90-minute classes. Each class will offer a more in depth exploration of breath, movement, dance and creative practices to ground, calm, energize, reframe and connect. Each session will include space for optional sharing and checking in.
The COVID-19 global public health emergency is rife with unknowns and uncertainty. We are all tasked with significant life change, more quickly than can be comfortable. We are all asked to cease our usual movements, and many of us will be forced to remain in one place. This series encourages refuge and sanctuary in our bodies and our homes.
This series won’t cover information about COVID-19; it will get “straight to the moment” and support us all to breathe, be still, move, and find ground in the swirl.
Dr. Amber E. Gray is an award winning dance/movement therapist, a human rights psychotherapist, a Continuum teacher, a yoga instructor and therapist, and has over 30 years experience working with disaster, complex humanitarian emergencies, and 23 years experience working with complex interpersonal trauma. She has played a lead role in many large scale staff care programs. She originated Polyvagal-informed soma- and dance/movement therapy through long-time collegial idea-sharing with her friend Stephen Porges.
Class Dates & Times (Mountain Time/USA):
Wednesday Series
9-11am MT/USA
April 8, 15, 22 and 29
Register for the
Wednesday Series here.
Thursday Series
2-4pm MT/USA
April 2, 9, 16 and 23
Register for the
Thursday Series here.
PLEASE NOTE: You MUST register using the forms above to receive the link to the Zoom meeting. Making a donation is seperate from registration.
* This is the same series, being offered on two different days. Please select which series will work for you and register using the appropriate form.
It is also possible to sign up for individual sessions in either series. Follow the respective links above to register for a single session within the Wednesday or Thursday series.

Please register using the forms above BEFORE making a donation. Thank you.
Suggested donation for the series: USD $70-100
Suggested donation per session: USD $15-25

You can make your donation here. OR Venmo @Amber-Gray-13
If you are unable to pay, please just sign up.

You will be sent a Zoom link approximately 15-30 minutes before the class begins. It’s recommended you Zoom in from a place where you can sit, stand up and move a bit (i.e the size of your own personal “space bubble”).
It can be helpful to have multiple sitting options (a chair, a large physio ball, a cushion for the floor) as well as a yoga mat in case you need floor time, some blankets, and a few props (stretch bands, spiky massage balls, slo mo’s, dowels or sticks, etc.) NONE OF THESE ARE REQUIRED, and each session’s Zoom invitation will detail any props we might use for that particular session.

By registering through the Google Form you will also receive a link to the Zoom recording and slides after the session. The link will only stay active for 5 days after it is sent, so please download the recording ASAP if you would like access to it at a later date.

Expressive Arts Therapy and Traumatic Stress: Innovative and Embodied Approaches in the Age of COVID
2020-06-09 13:00 - 14:30
LIVE WEBINAR
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
01:00p to 02:30p CDT
Join renowned expressive arts therapy and traumatic stress experts, Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, and Amber Elizabeth Gray, PhD as they discuss how we can address these impacts with clients through innovative sensory-based and embodied approaches.
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Intimacy with the Unknown
2020-06-17 09:00 - 11:00
Intimacy with the Unknown: A Ground in the Swirl Sequel
“When nothing is sure, everything is possible.”
Margaret Drabble
The Ground in the Swirl series was a heart offering response to the immediacy of the COVID-19 crisis. Intimacy with the Unknown is an invitation to deepen the practices and processes explored in this series. As our global community enters into varying types of transition—the space between, rich with the fertile ground of uncertainty—mastering our bodies’ abilities to practice deep listening can anchor us. This Ground in the Swirl sequel is an invitation to engage practical, embodied strategies for self-regulating and adapting, while finding support through the ritual and ceremony of connection: Connection to our selves, one another, and the natural environment. As we embody strength, flow and ground, we expand our spheres of connection to weave support.
This series draws from practices and processes shared in the original series (likely with a few new ones as well 🙂) and “unfolds” them in the context of ritual and ceremony. These practices promote access to our bodies’ ability to be both physiological predictability and sacred refuge. Intimacy with the Unknown is an opportunity to dive deeper into the heart and soul of this work.
Times & Dates
Offered Wednesdays:
May 27 – June 17, 2020
9-11 AM MDT/USA; 11 AM-1 PM EDT/USA; 4-6PM Central Europe Daylight Time
Offered Thursdays:
May 21 – June 11, 2020
4-6 PM MDT/USA; 8-10 AM Australia EDT; 10 AM-12 PM New Zealand Daylight Time
NOTE: You can select your time zone on the registration form to confirm your local meeting time. See details below for registration.

Donations
Suggested donation for the series: USD $70-100
Suggested donation per session: USD $15-25

You can make your donation here. OR Venmo @Amber-Gray-13

Donations are separate from registration. You must register using the links below to receive the Zoom links.
Registration
You must register for each individual session you want you attend using the links below. If you wish to attend the entire series, you must complete the registration forms for each date listed. You will receive a confirmation email upon registering, and a second email closer to the date with any additional information for the upcoming session.
Recommendations
It is recommended you have the following available when we meet:

Candle and matches to light
Earth—either be near an outdoor place if you can; if not—have a potted plant or a bowl of dirt/sand/clay available
Sculpey, Play-Doh, or clay
Journal/notepad and pen/pencil
Things to draw and color (colored pencils, crayons, etc.) and something to draw on
Favorite moving/stretching/dancing music cued up (or at least know what song you feel like hearing)
A variety of sitting/lying down props (physio balls, mats and blankets, cushions, comfy chairs, stools, etc.)

Be in a space where you can move, even if from a chair and even if it’s just a little. Everything we do is adaptable to indoor/outdoor and small to big spaces, urban and wild places—just like we human animals.
We will not use these in every sessions and it is very likely you will be invited to gather other objects on a class by class basis. This is a beginning list for what we will want to access during out time together.

"Right to Embody" // Embodied Psychology Summit
2020-07-23 14:00 - 15:00
Join Amber and her beloved colleagues for the Embodied Psychology Summit. Amber will be presenting “Right to Embody” on Thursday, July 23, 2020 at 2 PM EDT.
This is a wonderful opportunity to learn with over 40 world renowned teachers and therapists to optimize humanity, connection, and well being.
The intention of the summit is to empower our world community with the wisdom of body and potency of somatics as a process for deep healing. We are specifically focusing on somatic therapy for healing trauma, stress relief (including race-based somatic stress relief), attachment and intimacy, embodied social justice, psychedelics in therapy, spirituality and healing, applied polyvagal theory, mindfulness, resilience, inner connection work, and so much more.
We all need this now more than ever.
Reserve your spot for FREE & immediately receive 10 bonus items.
REGISTER HERE

What the Spine Knows // CONNECTED
2020-08-08 00:00 - 12:00
Amber will be sharing her wisdom in Yoga for Humankind’s “Connected” on August 8. Learn more here.

Integrating the Body in Psychotherapy // Live Online Summit
2020-09-25 14:45 - 15:45
Amber is a featured presenter at PESI’s upcoming “Integrating the Body in Psychotherapy” live online summit. View the PDF here.
Trauma and The Moving Body
The most essential ingredient for client co-regulation is therapist self-regulation. That’s why this presentation will share embodied breath, somatic and movement practices that offer stabilization, grounding, and state-shifting for both client and therapist well-being.

Using Restorative Movement Psychotherapy and Polyvagal-informed Dance/Movement Therapy in clinical practice
Practices for regulation and reciprocity

Grounding and stabilizing practice
Enhancing interoception practice

Register for the event here.

Polyvagal-informed Dance and Movement Therapies // Barcelona
2020-09-26 00:00 - 2020-09-27 00:00
RESCEDULE 2021
Amber Gray bringing Polyvagal-informed Dance and Movement Therapies to Barcelona, September 2020
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Spiralling Inward // DTAA Online Event
2020-09-27 09:30 - 12:30
Spiralling Inward: Interoception as a Dance and Somatic Movement Therapy Practice and Process
Date: Sunday, September 27, 2020
Time: 9:30am to 12:30pm AEST
Venue: An online workshop by Zoom Webinar
Open to: All qualified and student Dance/Movement Therapists, and Body-oriented psychotherapists, counsellors and psychologists interested in the practice of dance/movement therapy.
Dance movement therapy’s power lies in many aspects of the mind-body connection. As a psychotherapy, its unique emphasis on bridging the implicit and the explicit, the internal and external, makes it uniquely positioned to support clients enduring the effects of stress, uncertainty and trauma, and for our own embodied self-care.
This 3-hour workshop will combine science, spirit and experiential processes to refine and enhance our interoceptive abilities, a radical act of micro-empowerment. Micro-empowerments, a polyvagal-informed DMT principle and practice, are essential to restoring agency and relative safety for survivors of trauma. Likewise, therapists micro-empowerment practice promotes resiliency to counter burn-out and vicarious trauma.
Download the full Event Brochure here.
REGISTER HERE

Continuum & Continuurhythm® // Human Movement Conference
2020-10-02 08:15 - 11:30
Bathing the Bones: An Introduction to Continuum
Friday, October 2, 8:15-10:15 AM MT
Continuum is “moving medicine”. It is a movement and life practice originated by Emilie Conrad
that uses breath, sound and movement to awaken our innate, primal movement. Emilie Conrad
taught that all fluids are basically one element, resonating with all other fluids. They function as
a kind of umbilical cord supplying us with the pulsing undulations of life. Continuum movement
increases flexibility, motility, wellbeing, creativity, innovation, adaptability and vitality.
Our movement patterns have origins in the sea. Connecting to this fluid system offers levels of
nourishment, liberation and healing that restore, youthfulness, playfulness and ease. This
introduction to the Continuum will weave breath and sound together with movement sequences
to invite free-flowing, organic movement. Bringing fluid movement into other movement practices
can increase their potential for healing, strengthening and diversifying movement range.
Continuurhythm®
Friday, October 2, 10:30-11:30 AM MT
Continuurhythm® integrates Continuum, a fluid embodied practice inspired by the undulations of
human movement, Polyvagal-informed dance and soma-movement therapies, and sacred dance. Continuurhythm® offers a rhythmic, physically strengthening and spirit nourishing “workin” for whole body fitness. It is appropriate for movers and dancers of all levels of experience and fitness who want to connect to the deep roots of all movement, the ease and flow of wave motion – our inner choreographer.
View the schedule and buy tickets here.
Learn more about the Human Movement Conference here.

Right To Embody // The Embodiment Conference
2020-10-15 13:00 - 23:59
Amber is once again presenting her “Right to Embody” work at The Embodiment Conference on October 15 at 1 PM Mountain Time, USA.

This conference will be a rich opportunity to come home to your body, in our chaotic world. Many of the planet’s best teachers will be there, and it costs nothing to be a part of.
Reserve your FREE space at The Embodiment Conference

Spiraling Into the Wild // Online Advanced Workshop
2020-10-30 09:30 - 2020-11-01 13:30
Spiraling Into the Wild: Integrating Psoas & Polyvagal-Informed Continuum & Dance Therapies Advanced Collaboration with Amber Gray & Liz Koch
Dates: October 30 – November 1, 2020
Time: 9:30am – 1:30pm CT
Cost: $285.00 – $320.00
INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
Delve a bit deeper into the entangled dynamics of somatic psychology, movement therapy, and core integrity within an embodied dynamic nervous system and primal core psoas.
PREREQUISITE: This is an advanced collaboration course for professionals and is only for those already with a firm foundation in somatic explorations. Participants need to know they have the confidence, physical centering, and psychic anchoring to hold them in time and space. A clear sense of containment and a fluent practice in grounding is required. This course is not a fit for those who may be currently feeling destabilized, traumatized, struggling to heal, or in need of reestablishing basic nervous system or life coherency. We will be going deep in this course, not only conceptually but truly into the live wilderness of psyche and soma.
Photo: Kevin Bergen

Dreamscape: A Continuum Moving Inquiry // Online
2020-11-07 13:00 - 18:30
Art Credit: The Pitjantjatjara Community
WHEN: Saturday, November 7, 1:00-6:30 PM CT
WHERE: Online at home via Zoom
COST: $100 (inquire for student & COVID hardship rates: registration@ambergray.com)
This is an invitation to virtually explore Continuum for those who are new and those with experience. This dive is in preparation for “The Serpent’s Dream”, a depths retreat at Wood Haven ATX in Austin, TX coming this Spring. It’s also a thorough and complete stand alone Continuum mini immersion.
Continuum is a moving practice that invites embodied self-reflection, deep assimilation, and deep rest. In a world that moves quickly and is often impatient of our inner guidance and wisdom, we can lose the heartbeat of our own rhythm. Coupled with the current global environment spanning uncertainty, collective loss and fear, and the challenge and possibility of BIG CHANGE, we can lose our sense of center. Gathering wisdom about body knowing through our own deep listening in a breath, sound and movement- scape, this 1 day introduction to Continuum is inspired by earth, ocean, and a vast field of stars, inside and around us. This class will focus on sound, spirals, and stillness as medicine.
REGISTER HERE
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Radical Freedom: A Continuum Approach to The Restorative Process with Survivors of Trauma // Embodied Yoga Online Immersion
2020-11-21 12:00 - 13:15
Saturday, November 21
12:00 – 1:15 pm (ET) // Translate into your Time
Free & Online
Continuum is a movement and life practice that invites inquiry and curiosity in mind, heart and movement. Radical Freedom is Continuum teacher, Human Rights Dance/Movement Therapist and Yoga Instructor Dr. Amber Gray’s polyvagal-informed adaptation of Continuum specifically for working with survivors. This session will integrate Yogaballah (Continuum-infused Asana practice) into an experiential exploration combining yoga Asana with Continuum breath, sound and fluid, moving explorations. Please have a mat, 1-2 blankets, cushions/bolsters as needed, water and something to write in and with, available. A small squishy ball (like a slo-mo) will also be helpful.
REGISTER FOR FREE HERE

The Potent Edge: A Creative Arts Solstice Ritual for Therapists
2020-12-21 18:00 - 20:00
Monday, December 21, 6-8 PM EST
With Dr. Amber Elizabeth Gray & Marianne Moskowitz
We live equally in the light and in the dark. Many of us live in contexts which privilege the light, and where darkness is frequently shunned. Just as the tiniest of seeds needs to bed down in the darkness of earth to grow, humans require resting into a fertile, dark void to regenerate, and foster creativity.
This two hour virtual ritual will equally honor dark and light through a reflective creative process. This ritual offering is an opportunity for therapists, healers and anyone confronting the suffering of others through their work to gather in a shared liminal space.
COST: $50 ($25 for Kint graduates)
DETAILS & REGISTRATION

Body as Voice Series // ATX
2021-06-03 00:00 - 2021-11-07 00:00
Body as Voice:
Polyvagal-Informed Movement Therapy for Trauma
Amber’s Body as Voice Series is coming to Austin, TX in 2021:
PART I: June 4 – 7, 2021
PART II: September 16 – 19, 2021
PART III: November 4 – 7, 2021
NOTE: Part I pre-requisite is required for parts II & III.
This intensive trauma and polyvagal-informed course series for clinicians and alternate route students provides a thorough introduction and strong attentional skill refinement for the clinical use of Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) with survivors of complex and interpersonal trauma. This course is an amalgam of structured practices, somatic and movement processing, and grounded theory, based on the instructor’s 25 years of ongoing work with survivors of war, torture, and political, racial, ethnic, historic and collective trauma who seek refuge. This course is an in process evolution of a moving, breathing, engaged approach to DMT and soma-movement therapies organically developed through a reciprocal alliance with clients who come from globally diverse socio-economic, socio-political, geographic, socio-cultural and socio-spiritual contexts.
This embodied human rights framework integrates the latest neuro-scientific wisdom with ancient traditional dance and rhythm-inspired healing practices from the instructor’s ancestral lineage. This approach to facilitating the restorative process for survivors of complex interpersonal and violence-based trauma has been described as “truly accessible for all cultures, with deep respect for all people” as shared in “a compassionate, humanitarian trauma-informed DMT course”.
Part I can be taken as a stand-alone course that provides DMTs (both experienced DMTs, and alternate route students) with the foundational skills to address the unique clinical needs of survivors of trauma. It also serves as the first in a three-part series on working with trauma. The series emphasizes dance/movement therapy and soma-moving therapies as a self-compassion practice for DMTs working with trauma; DMT practices to support safety, stability and reconnection, and embodied depth trauma processing, all based on a contemporary, evidenced-based approach to working with complex and interpersonal trauma.
For registration information, visit Embodied Neurobiology.
Learn more about this series.

Dancing the Wild Home 2022 // Tonga
2022-08-23 00:00 - 2022-09-01 00:00
When: August 23 – September 1, 2022
Where: Ha’apai, Tonga
Questions: restorativeresources@gmail.com
REGISTRATION
The Ocean is home. Considered the mother of us all in many sacred traditions, she absorbs more carbon dioxide than anything else on our planet. For every breath we take, we have the ocean to thank for offering the gift of oxygen, and therefore, of life. In these times of profound climate crisis, our health depends on planetary health. Planetary health depends on ocean health.
Whales are magnificent wisdom carriers of the ocean, with much to share about compassion and generosity. Our own bodies are 70-80% water; the remnants of oceanic living, still inside us and available to teach us about flow, creativity and resiliency. This restorative eco-somatic retreat combines daily whale and other ocean dwelling creature encounters (dolphins, turtles, manta rays), with movement, dance, breath and sound practices, explorations, and deep “dives.” We also support Tonga, an island threatened by rising and polluted waters, through inspired action to help us steward mother earth.
Amber Elizabeth Gray is an award-winning dance movement therapist, an authorized continuum teacher, a hatha yoga teacher and long-time student and teacher of Haitian sacred dance. Her expertise is in working with survivors of traumatic life experiences, and this retreat is an opportunity to heal and restore for those of us who feel strain from the busy-ness and demands of the world; affected by stress and trauma; concerned about climate change; or just wanting to connect to the wild and the magical. Each day will be a journey into the wildzenness of the sacred through continuum, restorative movement, yoga, sacred dance and whale encounters.
Cost & logistical information:
Double/shared rooms are USD $2875.00 per person. Singles are USD $3725.00 per person.
These costs cover accommodation; meals; daily (except Sunday) whale swims, boat and guides; daily (except Sunday) Continuum/mindful movement classes; and RT airport transfer with the group.
Initial non-refundable deposits of USD $500.00 per person for double/shared and single occupancy, are due upon registration.
Second payment of USD $1000.00 for doubles per person and USD $1500.00 for singles per person is due May 15, 2022.
The remaining balances of USD $1375.00 for doubles/shared; USD $1725.00 for singles is due July 15, 2022.
Refunds minus the non-refundable deposit are 100% refundable up to May 15 2022; 50% up to June 25, 2022 (60 days) and 25% up to July 25, 2022 (30 days). No refunds after July 25, 2022.
Singles will be released on June 15, 2022 and cannot be guaranteed after that date.
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Sitting Alongside: A Multidimensional & Multiversal Framework for Movement Observation & Assessment // ATX
2023-01-13 - 2023-01-16
Dates: January 13-16, 2023 • 9:00am-5:00pm (15 hours online after weekend to be scheduled with class)
Where: Live in Austin, TX
Instructors: Amber Gray, PhD, BC-DMT & Selena Coburn, LPC, BC-DMT
3 credits, 45 hours (Alternate Route & DMT CEUs)
Registration

Dancing The Wild Home 2: Writing the Waves // Tonga
2023-08-08 - 2023-08-15
Where: Ha’apai, Tonga
Questions: restorativeresources@gmail.com
For those of you who hoped to join Dancing the Wild Home, which sold out, Amber is offering another retreat August 8-15, 2023!
If you are interested in holding a place please register for these dates.
A non-refundable deposit of USD500.00 is required to hold your place. Please send via PayPal to restorativeresources@gmail.com
Costs:
Singles: USD 3200.00 PP.
Doubles/shared: USD 2400.00 PP.
Payment Schedule:
FOR ALL: 500 USD non-refundable deposit due upon registration.
FOR SINGLES: USD 1350 is due June 5 and again on June 30th.
FOR DOUBLES/SHARED: USD 950 is due June 5 and again on June 30th.
Whales are magnificent wisdom carriers of the ocean, with much to share about compassion and generosity. Our own bodies are 70-80% water; the remnants of oceanic living, are still inside us and available to teach us about flow, creativity, and resiliency. This restorative eco-somatic retreat combines daily whale and other ocean-dwelling creature encounters with movement, dance, breath, sound, and engaged writing practices, explorations, and deep “dives.” We also support Tonga, an island threatened by rising and polluted waters, through inspired action to help us steward mother earth.
Amber Elizabeth Gray is an award-winning dance movement therapist, an authorized Continuum teacher, a hatha yoga teacher, and a long-time student and teacher of Haitian sacred dance. Her
life’s work is supporting survivors of traumatic life experiences to reconnect to themselves and the world.
Laura Teachout has a JD from the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law and a BA in English and Biology from Hiram College in Ohio. From community farming to enterprise IT procurement, Laura has worked in diverse environments. An avid writer, she has edited several books and articles, contributes to writers’ groups, and wrote many short stories to keep alive her mom’s memories through a twelve-year battle with Alzheimer’s.
This retreat is an opportunity to heal and restore for those of us who feel strain from the demands of the world. Each day will be a journey into the wilderness of the sacred through movement, writing and whale encounters.
Registration
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Dancing the Wild Home: Writing the Waves // Tonga
2024-08-15 - 2024-08-22
When: August 15 – 22, 2024

Where: Ha’apai, Tonga
Questions: restorativeresources@gmail.com
REGISTRATION FOR THIS RETREAT IS CLOSED
About: The Ocean is home. Considered the mother of us all in many sacred traditions, she absorbs more carbon dioxide than anything else on our planet. For every breath we take, we have the ocean to thank for offering the gift of oxygen, and therefore, of life. In these times of profound climate crisis, our health depends on planetary health. Planetary health depends on ocean health.
Whales are magnificent wisdom carriers of the ocean, with much to share about compassion and generosity. Our own bodies are 70-80% water; the remnants of oceanic living are still inside us and available to teach us about flow, creativity, and resiliency. This restorative eco-somatic retreat combines daily whale and other ocean-dwelling creature encounters with movement, dance, breath, sound, and engaged writing practices, explorations, and deep “dives.” We also support Tonga, an island threatened by rising and polluted waters, through inspired action to help us steward mother earth.
Amber Elizabeth Gray is equally artist, author, therapist, advocate, mystic, dancer, and lover of all things wild.
Laura Teachout’s wildly non-linear career path, education, and life choices have given rise to BIG love and compassion as well as rich, thoughtful writing.
Learn more about the facilitators here.
Cost & logistical information:
Cost of the retreat for 7 days includes accommodation, meals, RT boat transfer if traveling with group, daily whale swims/guides/boat. Airfare and incidentals are not included. Non refundable Deposit of $500 USD per person due upon registration. This holds your place.
Singles: USD $3195.00 per person
Doubles: USD $2495.00 per person

Payment Schedule:
Singles: Non refundable deposit of USD $500 due to register.
IN USD:

$1000 due by May 1, 2024.
$1000 due by June 15, 2024.
$695 due July 15, 2024.

Shared: Non refundable deposit of USD $500 due to register.
IN USD:

$1000 due by May 1, 2024.
$995 due by June 15, 2024.

Please note our cancellation policy:
In case of cancellation, all but deposit is refundable through May 1, 2024. 50% of retreat cost minus deposit refundable until June 1, 2024. 25% of retreat cost minus deposit refundable until July 1, 2024. After July 1, no refunds possible.
To reserve your space, please complete the following information and send a USD $500 non refundable deposit.
Accepted payment methods, in order of preference:

Zelle – amber@ecentral.com
Venmo (@Amber-Gray-13)
Wise -Amber has Wise accounts in AUD, NZD, Euros, and CAD. If you would like that information please email restorativeresources@gmail.com.
PayPal (due to increasing fees, this is not a highly preferred payment method)

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To Dance is Human, and More than Human
2024-10-01 - 2024-10-22
When we dance, we connect with a profound wisdom that has traversed through all forms of life for millennia. From the intricate movements of bees to the graceful glides of whales, and from the gentle sway of trees to the ever-changing flow of clouds, dance is a universal language. Rituals and ceremonies centered around dance have been integral to countless cultures, although many have been disrupted or concealed through colonization. Dance as ritual, ceremony, therapy, and engagement with life serves as a gateway to transformation, healing, and emergent consciousness through state-shifting.
In this course, we will immerse ourselves in the medium of our bodies, movement, and dance. Our exploration will be guided by the Polyvagal-informed Dance/Movement Therapy© (PVIDMT) framework, which intertwines Polyvagal Theory with sacred dance and movement. This approach blends client experience, mentorship, and deep immersion in both Polyvagal Theory and personal sacred dance practices.
By integrating principles from this framework, which honors both scientific and spiritual dimensions of human healing, we will delve into somatic pathways for state-shifting. Through structured somatic and movement-based practices, theoretical insights, and experiential dance, we will engage with the PVIDMT concept. We will embrace and illuminate our inner darkness, allowing it to shine forth as a testament to our transformative journey.
Register for this event HERE.

The Untamed Body - Rewilding with Continuum
2025-03-15 - 2025-03-16
Golden Bay Aotearoa, New Zealand
The human world is often synonymous with the modern, civilized world – a world of walls, schedules, and speed. Our evolutionary ancestors slid across the earch, swam in the sea, and rested their bellies on the earth. Our own bodies remember this wildness: Our bio-intelligence.
Continuum is a movement practice originated by Emilie Conrad that uses breath and sound to awaken our innate, fluid movement. This 2-day immersion combines explorations rooted in the imaginal and inspired by nature to invite our wild bodies home. All are welcome, no prior experience needed.
Time: 10am -4:30pm each day
Location: Golden Bay Aotearoa
Venue: The Sandcastle 32 Haile Lane, Pohara, Takaka, New Zealand
Cost: $300 NZD by February 10th – then price increases to $375 NZD
Dr. Amber Elizabeth Gray is a licensed human rights psychotherapist, innovative movement artist, board certified dance/movement therapist, master trainer and educator, Continuum teacher, and public health professional.
Register for The Untamed Body Here

The Wholeness of Oneness
2025-04-11 - 2025-04-13
A Continuum Moving Inquiry with Amber Gray,
Oskaloosa, Kansas ~ April 11-13, 2025
What do Wholeness and Oneness really mean? In this 3-day Continuum and mindful movement immersion, we will play in the laboratory of our own bodies with our ideas about these oft-used concepts. Our bodies are like a web that is constantly being woven from interoceptive and exteroceptive inputs and influences. Using the flow of our breath, simple sound streams and inspired by our own unique way of moving, we will explore the embodied meaning of these concepts through the immediate and direct experience of our bodies, in relationship.
Continuum is a movement and life practice developed by Emilie Conrad, renowned movement innovator. It is accessible to all bodies, and all levels of experience. Continuum inspires a range of movement, from meditative stillness to wild, earthy undulations. All movement is self referenced and every sequence is adaptable for your body. It promotes well-being, relaxation, energy, rest, connection and vitality. It’s a very powerful practice for exhausted minds and grieving or scared hearts. See the Continuum Teachers Association website (www.continuumteachers.com) for more information about this dynamic, soothing, liberating and contemplative movement practice.
10am-5pm Daily; Light lunch and teas provided
Cost: $575.00 USD
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Amber Elizabeth Gray moves from a diverse landscape of experience. Yoga, sacred dance, dance/movement therapy, bodywork, and Continuum are all the body’s languages she listens to and creates from. She has worked with survivors of extreme interpersonal violence since 1999 and these are her teachers of movement as liberation. As an educator, clinician, mentor and changemaker, she incites resilient embodied revolution so that we can liberate ourselves from our own constraints.

Expressive Arts Therapy in Santa Fe
2025-05-15 - 2025-05-17
Resetting the Nervous System through Expression, Creativity, and Imagination
May 15-17, 2025 – Santa Fe, New Mexico
Join Us for a Three-Day Learning Experience!
With Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy Institute Faculty Dr. Cathy Malchiodi, Dr. Elizabeth Warson, and Dr. Amber Elizabeth Gray
Welcome to a one-of-a-kind in-person event in Santa Fe, New Mexico (The Land of Enchantment). This 15 hour continuing education offering is being held 10 minutes by car or Uber from downtown Santa Fe at a lovely high desert facility. The focus of the training is on the intersection of expressive arts therapy practice and how we can repair and restore through creative approaches and the imagination– movement, mark-making, playfulness, curiosity, “sounding,” writing, and more. And on how we can repair, rejuvenate, and restore ourselves via self-expression and through a variety of hands-on experientials and practices.
This special course is part of our programming for those who are interested in working toward your EXAT, EXA-CE, or REAT designations. But the course also welcomes all practitioners, coaches, and facilitators who are interested in experiencing and adding expressive arts therapy to your work or self-care. We hope you join us!
Please register earl as this course has limited seating. Upon registration, you will receive a Welcome Letter with the details of the exact location and the venue.
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Faculty:
Cathy Malchiodi, PhD
Elizabeth Warsen, PhD
Amber Elizabeth Gray, PhD

Stirring the Stars - A Continuum Immersion
2026-01-15 - 2026-01-18
Continuum is breathwork, creative movement and living inquiry. It reclaims the movement we naturally are through a collective, sound-inspired songscape that invites flow and ease in our bodies. Continuum acknowledges our connection to the primordial and cosmic origins of life, and as we move beneath our body’s constraints and patterns, we explore our individual and collective history as a trilogy of embodied memory.
What is the Trilogy? It is our primal roots in the wild world, the vast expanse of the galaxy and stars, and the human movement that connects us all. In Continuum, we are connected through movement, co-creating a field of embodied inquiry that amplifies and unifies the potential for healing, connection, and liberation
Continuum teacher Amber Gray’s work traverses many interconnected heartlines: Somatic and movement arts and therapies, international humanitarian work, sacred dance, planetary and human rights activism, nature-based healing and wild wisdom. She facilitates with passion, humor and a fierce commitment to embodied justice.
Dates:
January 15-18, 2026
Venue:
Wood Haven ATX Somatic Arts and Training Center
11008 Tangleridge Circle, Austin, TX 78736
Schedule:

Thursday 1/15/26; 6-9 PM – Bowing In
Friday 1/16/26; 11 AM – 5 PM – Flesh is Love Made Real
Saturday 1/17/26; 11 AM – 5 PM – Welcoming our Evolutionary Ancestors
Sunday 1/18/26; 11 AM – 5 PM – Stirring the Stars

Cost: $500.00 USD
What to Bring:

Bring your cozy blankets, mats, cushions for nesting materials
A pen/pencil and a notebook or journal to take notes in is very helpful
And if you like to doodle and draw bring things that make color and shape

Woodhaven has a wonderful kitchen space so please bring what nourishes you for snacks and a lunch break.
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Bringing the Body Home: Working with regulation and relationship - Non-Clinical Track Sydney
2026-05-01
One Day Training – Friday 1 May 2026 | Sydney
9:30 am to 5:00 pm
We know that relationship is the heart of healing, restoration and reciprocity. The question is: how do we access what is already intuitive to us? Whatever our role is in stewarding another person’s healing process, relationship is key. When there is trauma, dis-ease and suffering, engaging with clients can be challenging to say the least. When people have experienced relationship ruptures and betrayal, how do we join them in a meaningful relationship that facilitates repair?

Bringing the Body Home. Harnessing the bio-intelligence of regulation and relationship

Bringing the Body Home will help you demystify regulation and create safe and effective partnerships with your clients. In this workshop there will be information and concepts, experiential processes and opportunities for reflection. You will benefit from having two highly experienced and engaging teachers.
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What you will learn:

Apply polyvagal theory to enhance communication with your client and promote reciprocity in the relationship
Cultivate somatic curiosity: learn to listen to your own body, to better understand your client
Be more attuned to, and able to influence your own level of regulation
Refine your capacity for co-regulation to support your client
Bring somatic wisdom to managing involvement and boundaries

Who is this workshop for?

For Case Managers, support workers and other non-clinicians who need to manage relationships with clients to be able to work safely and effectively
No clinical training is required.

Location:
Loft at The Dale
24/27-39 Abercrombie St,
Chippendale, NSW, Australia
Cost:
Early Bird Price – $A285.00 plus GST Total $313.50 (on or before March 29, 2026)
Standard Price – $A340.00 plus GST Total $374.00 (after March 29, 2026)
What else you need to know:

There are a range of food options near the venue, or feel free to bring your own.
Please wear comfortable clothing suitable for gentle movement.
Please bring what you need to take notes for some of the exercises
Sydney and Melbourne venues are wheelchair accessible

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Who is Amber Gray

Dr. Amber Elizabeth Lynn Gray is an award-winning dance movement therapist, human rights psychotherapist, author, yoga instructor and Continuum teacher. She has worked for 28 years with survivors of human rights abuses, war, torture, oppression, collective and historical trauma globally. Equally artist, advocate, author, educator, mystic and therapist, she, her clients and mentor co-created Survivor- & Spirit-centered, Polyvagal-informed approaches to Somatic & Dance/Movement Therapy for trauma that are holistic and emergent. A lover of all things wild, Amber regularly facilitates eco-somatic-dance retreats for survivors and caregivers. She consults to organizations world-wide on staff care programming, and is a fierce advocate for self-care, self-compassion and self-respect.

Who is Conrad Aikin?
Conrad has more than three decades of experience as a psychologist and counsellor. Conrad’s work is founded on basic principles of human rights and social justice. He worked at the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture for 18 years, initially as a counsellor advocate assisting survivors of torture and trauma, and subsequently in roles focused on case supervision and professional development. As the Principal Practice Leader at Sacred Heart Mission, Conrad was responsible for the support and development of people in all supervisory and management roles within Client Services.
Conrad has a consultancy practice in Melbourne focusing on supporting professionals who respond to people who have experienced psychological trauma. His professional development of people who work with survivors of severe and complex trauma supports them to understand and manage the emotional effects of that work. Conrad is highly skilled in the design and delivery of professional development programs, facilitation, leading reflective practice, Psychological First Aid, debriefing, supervision, and leadership coaching.

Dancing the Wild Home: Rewilding our Grief (August 2026)
2026-08-12 - 2026-08-20
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Dancing the Wild Home: Dreaming our Origin Stories (August 25 – September 3, 2026)
2026-08-25 - 2026-09-03

Dancing the Wild Home: Dominica (November 28 – December 5, 2026)
2026-11-28 - 2026-12-05
