The 10 Health Benefits of Dance

1. Lower Stress Levels 2. Protects From Heart Disease 3. Improves Cognitive Health 4. Creates Stronger Muscles and Bones 5. Improves Balance and Flexibility 6. Improves the Ratio of "Good" to "Bad" Cholesterol 7. Boosts Energy Levels 8. Promotes Longevity 9. Helps Maintain a Healthy Body Weight 10. Fosters Social Connection

Somatic Meditation - A Practice of Embodied Wisdom

Lucia Horan was born in 1976 on the sacred land of Esalen in Big Sur. She was raised in the Esalen community and taught the practices that were developed by those who came before her.  She was certified as an Esalen® Massage practitioner in 1994. She became a Hatha & Ashtanga yoga teacher 1997. Lucia received life-long direct training with Gabrielle Roth in the 5Rhythms® moving meditation practice and has been teaching 5Rhythms since 1998. She also has a BA from Goddard College, with a major in expressive art therapy.

Lucia has been practicing Theravadin Buddhist meditation since 2005. She has devoted herself to the path of insight meditation as a compliment to her moving meditation practice. Her primary learning concentration, and training transmission was given to her by Robert Hall.

Having completed training in Buddha-Dharma with ATS, Lucia is formally empowered to carry forth and teach in all capacities, the Dharma of liberation based on the teaching of the American-Buddhist lineage of Noah Levine, Jack Kornfield, and the forest masters of Thailand including Ajan Chah, Ajan buddhadasa, and the retreat masters of Burma in the lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw.

Additionally, Lucia has completed David Treleaven’s, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness training. These practices have informed all of her teachings an act as a teaching lens in which to better understand the spectrum of trauma in any given room.

Her unique perspectives on insight practice have been published in the book “Dancing with Dharma: Essays on Movement And Dance in Western Buddhism” edited by Harrison Blum, Published by McFarland & Company. Lucia offers traditional dharma teachings, not as a “master Dharma teacher”, but as a dharma sister on the path of awakening. She invites you to practice with her, not under her.

Additionally, Lucia has worked as a somatic educator for Tony Robbins, PepsiCo Latin America DEI dept. & The transformational dept. of Google X Moonshot Factory. She leads focus groups co-teaching with masters in the fields of Buddhist meditation, yoga, trauma, addiction, grief, women’s empowerment.  Lucia is a board member of The Butler Family Fund, a foundation focused on housing justice and reforming the criminal legal system through death penalty reform and juvenile justice.

Lucia teaches skills and strategies that help her students become better emotional and physical athletes of life. Her mastery is in the field of somatic meditation and dance. Her teaching is infused with her love for the dance and faith in these practices. Lucia currently resides in Big Sur, CA with her daughter and husband. She teaches from a place of love, as a fellow human walking the path towards wholeness, peacefulness and wellbeing.

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