Dancing with Challenge Practice Lab
with Nichol Chase
Dancing with Challenge: A Practice Lab for Resilience, Clarity & Well-Being
A Three-Hour Experiential Workshop
How can we meet life’s inevitable challenges with greater steadiness, wisdom, and compassion?
Dancing with Challenge is an experiential workshop for anyone seeking greater resilience, clarity, and well-being amid the complexity of modern life. Together, we’ll explore practical, evidence-informed approaches that help us navigate challenge with greater awareness, flexibility, and ease.
Drawing from yogic and Buddhist philosophy, psychology, and contemporary research on stress and resilience, this workshop weaves together movement, breathwork, meditation, contemplative reflection, and conversation—offering simple, sustainable tools for living with greater presence, purpose, and ease.
Bringing contemporary understandings of the embodied mind, emotion, and consciousness into conversation with contemplative wisdom, we’ll explore these ideas not simply as concepts to understand, but as invitations to examine our own experience and discover new ways of responding to life’s challenges.
What to Expect
Gentle movement and somatic practices to cultivate embodied awareness and release tension.
Breathwork and guided meditation to support steadiness, presence, and nervous system regulation.
Contemplative teachings drawing from ancient wisdom and contemporary research.
Journaling and self-inquiry to explore personal patterns and possibilities for growth.
Conversation and shared reflection to deepen understanding and connection.
Practical tools for bringing greater resilience, compassion, and flexibility into everyday life.
No previous experience with yoga or meditation is necessary. All practices are accessible and adaptable.
Join us in person at 2929 24th street
OR online via Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/SFDharma (password: 108108)
Nichol Chase
Nichol Chase is an educator, musician, and contemplative teacher specializing in resilience science, trauma-informed care, and embodied wisdom practices. She is a Garrison Institute Fellow and founder of the Wisdom Building Method School, where she developed a 300-hour trauma-informed yoga teacher training integrating movement, mindfulness, and music. Nichol has presented at UCSF, UC Berkeley, ACHS, Spirit Rock, Kripalu, Esalen, and BrainMind. She is the co-author of a chapter on trauma-informed yoga for the Palgrave Handbook of Third-Wave Psychotherapy, alongside scholars from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, James Cook University, Bangor University, and Santa Clara University. A classically trained ballerina and opera singer, she brings a refined aesthetic sensibility to her teaching. Her work focuses on equipping individuals and communities with practical tools to navigate stress, heal trauma, and cultivate resilient, meaningful lives.
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