With Sally Haskins
Soma Mundi
Restoring the living dialogue between body and world, cultivating inward listening and outward offering, tending the place where the Earth speaks through us.
Marin County, CA
With Sally Haskins
Welcome
Soma Mundi is born from the belief that the intelligence that turns a star into a galaxy, an earthquake into a mountain range, and an acorn into an oak tree, is the same intelligence that moves through the human body. Humans are not separate from this force, but instead an extension of it—the next evolutionary frontier. The human is the place in which the Earth awakens to herself—where she shudders at her own beauty—and right now, the human plays a vital role in shaping our planetary future.
In times of immense uncertainty, Soma Mundi rests on the conviction that wisdom and guidance is available—not outside of us, but through us—coursing through our flesh, waiting to be heard. At its heart, Soma Mundi is about learning how to listen through experiential practice, supported by psychological, ecological, and cosmological insight.
This work is about embodying—feeling—again, that we, as humans, belong to this Earth and to this cosmos. It is the acknowledgement that yes, life is beautiful and also terrifying, and by choosing to feel it all, we enter into the wild, roaring, dance of life. It is here, in the waltzing, swirling, spinning dance, that life unfolds us into greater dimensions of our being.
It is here that we come to know who we are and who the Earth desires us to be.
Soma Mundi is an evolving body of work that is currently available through various modalities, including yoga classes and privates, one-on-one somatic coaching, and group work. To learn more, visit the Offerings page.
If you'd like to stay connected as this body of work evolves, please subscribe with your email here. Always feel free to reach out to Sally with any inquiries or questions.
A practice before you begin:
Because this work is about experiential embodiment, before you explore the site, I invite you to begin with a practice of embodied listening to a poem by Rainer Marie Rilke.
Find a quiet place inside to listen to the audio track below and notice how your body responds to the poem.
If you're unable to listen, read the poem below through the eyes of you heart. Notice what you notice. Feel what you feel. Know what you know. Take a deep breath, and then proceed in exploring the site.
How surely gravity's law,
strong as an ocean current,
takes hold of even the smallest thing
and pulls it toward the heart of the world.
Each thing—
each stone, blossom, child—
is held in place.
Only we, in our arrogance,
push out beyond what we each belong to
for some empty freedom.
If we surrendered
to the earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.
So, like children, we begin again
to learn from the things,
because they are in God's heart;
they have never left him.
This is what the things can teach us:
to fall,
patiently to trust our heaviness.
Even a bird has to do that
before he can fly.
- Rainer Marie Rilke