Dance

“Sweat your prayers” - Gabrielle Roth

This program blends somatics, embodied movement, and sound to guide participants in creating transformative, full-bodied experiences. You’ll learn foundational DJ and soundscaping skills, designing music journeys with intentional rise, plateau, and integration. Music becomes a language for guiding the body, shaping the emotional and energetic flow of a group, and supporting experiences of vulnerability, catharsis, and reintegration. Participants will also engage with sound therapy sessions and kīrtans, curating soundscapes that are emotionally and somatically attuned.

Through somatic principles and embodied facilitation, you’ll explore how the body mobilizes, processes, and releases stored sensation and memory. Using body-based tools, rhythmic cues, breath, gravity, and sensation, you will guide instinctual, expressive, and intuitive movement. This includes cultivating primal, untamed, and animalistic embodiment, helping participants access ecstatic states safely and intentionally. You will also learn to hold space with grounded presence, integrity, and trust, becoming a vessel for transmission, support, and deep communal connection.

The training integrates elemental embodiment—Water, Earth, Fire, Air, and Space—as archetypal maps for movement journeys, offering a framework to guide dancers through fluidity, groundedness, expansion, and spacious presence. Participants will learn to sculpt energetic journeys with intention, supporting ecstatic peaks, integration, and safe return. Emphasis is placed on tuning into the energy of the room and facilitating from embodied presence, rather than control or performance, cultivating a deep sense of flow and mutual resonance.

Additionally, this program emphasizes embodied facilitation skills and creative leadership. You will develop your unique voice and style as a facilitator, learning the subtle art of when to guide and when to step back, honoring the intelligence of the body and the collective energy of the group. By the end of the training, you’ll be equipped with practical tools, somatic insight, and sound-based skills to hold transformative, ecstatic, and liberating movement experiences for yourself and others.

What to expect, and what you'll walk away with

Basic DJ techniques for mixing tracks, with software support and recorded guidance, so you can begin straight away (this part is mostly pre-recorded). You'll learn to create seamless transitions and build sets intuitively, to design music journeys with an intentional rise, plateau, and integration, and to curate soundscapes that are emotionally and somatically attuned rather than simply trendy or "cool." Above all, you'll learn to use music as an emotional and energetic language that guides a full-bodied experience.
Understanding somatics and somatization: how the body mobilises, processes, and releases stored sensation and memory. You'll use somatic principles to access deeper presence and awareness, and learn to move beyond the DJ booth, holding space through somatic sensing rather than control. Tuning in to the energy of the room, you'll guide from embodied presence rather than performance, becoming a vessel for transmission and trust.
Body mapping to identify the physical and energetic entry points for movement. You'll lead rhythmic cues that awaken instinctual movement and expressive flow, guide from breath, gravity, and sensation, and offer verbal prompts that open the body's own intelligence.
The basic principles of music therapy, and how sound impacts mood, memory, and the nervous system. You'll choose music that supports emotional processing, trauma sensitivity, and group coherence, while also challenging and growing our capacity. You'll craft soundscapes that hold people through vulnerability, catharsis, and return, and together we'll enjoy sound therapy sessions and kīrtans.
Guiding dancers into ecstatic peaks with safety and intention, never overwhelm. You'll work with the elements, water, earth, fire, air, and space, as archetypal maps for movement journeys, explore an animalistic embodiment that invites primal, untamed, intuitive movement, and cultivate ecstatic states through breath, rhythm, repetition, and rooted freedom.
Holding a safe, grounded, and clear energetic container. You'll build transmission trust and lead with presence rather than performance, develop your own voice and style as a facilitator, and learn the subtle art of when to guide, and when to get out of the way.

To Dance is to Remember.

When held with integrity, dance becomes a threshold, a sacred place where we meet ourselves, soften our edges, and silence the inner critic. It is a living ritual, where music and movement unite in service of healing, community, and connection.

Across time and culture, indigenous traditions have honored dance as a gateway to spirit, Earth, and the unseen. Long before modern language, humans danced to pray, to grieve, to celebrate, to call the rains, to summon courage, and to mark transitions of life. Dance was, and remains, a ceremony. A communal heartbeat. A remembering of belonging.

In the circle, around fires, under stars, with drums echoing like the pulse of the land, people have always moved in rhythm with something greater. These traditions teach us that dance is not entertainment, it is embodied reverence. It is how the soul speaks through the body.

Ecstatic states have always fed the human spirit. In the dance, we remember: rapture, emotion, interconnectedness, and the vastness of our true nature. Without this access to embodied Truth, joy and release, we may seek ecstasy in ways that disconnect or harm, rather than heal.

The body longs to move, it is built for rhythm, for resonance, for release. Through somatically guided, intentional movement, we open ancestral pathways of expression and unlock each person’s unique, primal vibration.

Here, we dance not in isolation but in lineage, with those who came before and those yet to come.

We use somatization as our anchors. Our dances are not choreographed, but discovered. We let sensation lead and gravity catch us. We return to the body’s native language, instinctual, raw, real.

This is not performance.

This is not perfection.

This is remembrance.

This is Dance, as it wishes to be.

We dance.

Open to all.

You don't need previous experience with our trainings to join, everyone is welcome.
For Yoga Alliance certification you'll need an existing 200h YTT.
Dance is a standalone, Yoga Alliance-certified 100h advanced module, and can also contribute toward the 300-Hour Advanced Studies pathway.

Upcoming training

DANCE 🌀 100h Teacher Training with Satu Tuomela, Stina Strange Thue & Agnes Jovaisa

5–13 January 2027 · Samsø, Denmark

A hybrid module, partly in person and partly through recordings, held in the warm, cosy retreat centre on the most magical island of Samsø. Senior teacher Satu Tuomela leads, with professional dancer and choreographer Stina Strange Thue in person, and Agnes Jovaisa (DJ skills and sound extraordinaire) joining online.

This will be a small and intimate group by design: winter fires, nourishing food, and a sauna. Spots are limited, secure yours now.

The location:

Mellem-rummet, Samsø, Denmark

Mellem-rummet Retreat is a spiritual sanctuary. A retreat from the usual duties of everyday life, a break for contemplation and reflection. A wonderful energy-filled setting with a beautiful teaching hall and spiritual space "The Dojo". Mellem-rummet has arisen from an intention to create a life-affirming and meaningful foundation, a supportive framework and space where there is an opportunity to rediscover oneself and the world we have been given. We believe that people in the modern world need breaks for peace and quiet, where it is possible to find answers to the most essential questions in life. Answers that are far greater than those offered by everyday life. Mellem-rummet is open to everyone – people who need a special space for contemplation, reflection, change and balance. Click below to find out more.
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Trains depart hourly from Copenhagen Central Train Station to Kalundborg where the ferry leaves for Ballen on Samsø (Island)
Trains can be booked via  https://www.dsb.dk/en/
Ferry can be booked via  https://www.samsoelinjen.dk/
Ferries go twice daily (1hr 50 mins crossing) so please check the ferry schedule
MELLEM-RUMMET is situated 8 km from Ballen port (about 10 mins drive) so you will need to get a taxi from Ballen port or the Telebus is quite cheap. Call and book to match the ferry times -
https://samsoebus.dk/telebus/
Mellem-rummets address: Holmslund Holmevej 3, Tanderup, 8305 Samsø

Your teachers

Satu Tuomela

Satu Tuomela is the founder of the school and its lead teacher trainer.
She has been practicing and teaching for over 30 years and is widely known for her unique, otherworldly, and deeply authentic transmission. Her work is rooted in somatics and embodiment, offering movement as a living, relational, and transformative practice.