About
Vessel is an intimate, healing space that offers
holistic, creative and somatic based practices
for being at home in our bodies and in our community.
This is a space for becoming more attuned to yourself, alive in your relationships, and at ease in your life.
We envision a world that values whole, embodied, creative, connected, healing humans.
Stepping Stones Summer Movement Intensive
for Kids
Upcoming Retreat Sept 2026
Held within the wild beauty of Big Springs Retreat Center, we will focus our attention on the body, our connection, and how creativity feeds the soul. We explore what happens when we bring our awareness inward into sensation, and we venture out into nature, listening for the reciprocal breath of that relationship. With tuned awareness, we open the door to creative exploration, collective inspiration, and renewal.
Through centering embodiment practices, morning Pilates, movement play and dancing, soulful singing, somatic explorations in nature, free writing and kinesthetic drawing, we awaken our untamed creative voice. What does it feel like to bring something to life? What does it take to clear the way for this to happen?
Whether you desire to move and express with more freedom, connect to your own rhythm or a current of mystery, or simply long to escape to the mountains, we welcome you. This weekend journey includes group activity and exploration as well time to be in your own process, both in the Meeting Hall and outside on the land. This retreat invites us to nourish ourselves with delicious seasonal cuisine, give in to the spaciousness of the Sierras, and gather in the warmth of our shared humanity.
Modalities
Movement Therapy for Kids
~ Juliet Lin
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Playful sensory and movement activities that build focus, calm, and coordination. Juliet helps children integrate developmental patterns, regulate their nervous system, and support learning, attention, and resilience.
Mat Pilates & Ball Rolling
~ Rebecca Seary
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Pilates for strength, alignment, and core support, combined with ball rolling to enhance bone density and body awareness. Rebecca offers group and private sessions to deepen connection and ease.
Somatic Movement & Expressive Arts
~ Azriel LaMarca
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An expressive approach combining movement, art, and writing to uncover personal themes and creative resources. Azriel guides individuals and groups to explore body wisdom and creative expression. Group classes and individual sessions available.
Authentic Movement ~ Juliet Lin
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A healing practice where movement and witnessing meet. Rooted in dance and Jungian psychology, Authentic Movement allows the body to express unconscious impulses in a safe, compassionate space. Juliet offers individual and small group sessions.
Somatic Counsel ~ Rebecca Seary
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A therapeutic space where the body’s wisdom guides conversation and exploration. Rebecca supports you in discovering personal goals and connecting with what you truly long for.
Support Groups & Workshops
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Small groups that foster connection and shared compassion. Topics include grief, perimenopause, life transitions—spaces to witness, be witnessed, and find support together.
Instructors
Each of our teachers brings unique experience and heart to this space of embodied practice.
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Rebecca offers relational, body-centered therapy and somatic practices that help people feel at home in themselves and their lives. Trained in transpersonal counseling, somatic attachment therapy, and trauma healing, she also teaches Pilates and ball rolling, weaving in ritual and creative practices for life transitions and healing.
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Azriel is a dancer, teacher, and performer with over 25 years of experience teaching modern dance and creative movement. A graduate of the Tamalpa Institute, she blends dance technique with expressive arts therapy, guiding students into alignment, creativity, and joy through the Tamalpa Life/Art Process®. Visit azriellamarca.com to learn more.
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Juliet Lin, MA in Dance/Movement Therapy and counseling psychology, has a great passion for and belief in healing through the body. As the Sensory Integration Specialist at Yuba River Charter School for over a decade, Juliet teaches grades Pre-K to 8, helping them manage sensory issues, integrate developmental movements and connect mind, body and spirit. She is trained in the Blomberg Rhythmic Movements, Body-Mind Centering, Curative Education and The Extra Lesson. She has been practicing and holding Authentic Movement groups as a healing modality for adults for over 30 years. Playful, spirited, creative, tender, Juliet builds strong trust and deeply attunes to others, inviting connection.
Contact Us
Interested in working together? Each of our instructors offers group classes and individual sessions. Fill out some info and we will be in touch shortly. We can’t wait to hear from you!