inspiration
The inspiration for SOULMOVEMENT comes from Holistic Lifestyle Coach, Mark Sanchez. It has been through a combination of things that has lead him to dream up a retreat like SOULMOVEMENT. One major inspiration has been through his experience of being part of the Bay Area’s dance community and the other through his journey of education, coaching, & healing.
Mark has been a coach for the past 15 years and has had his share of challenges along the way. He has had to learn about and work through things such as autoimmune dysfunction, familial trauma, severe injury, gut biome issues, depression, & addiction to name a few.
All of these challenges have led Mark to dive deep into the basics of health, healing, and what it means to be human in todays world. He has found that the most potent medicine for our health, healing, & growth is often the most fundamental and simplest things.
Organic Food
Clean Water
Good Sleep
Nature Connection
Movement in Body, Mind, & Heart
Music, Singing, & Dancing
Connection, Support, & Love
Bringing these elements together is what SOULMOVEMENT is about
“My dream for this retreat is to simply bring people together around music, dance, singing, food, nature, expression, connection, & love. I consider all of these things medicine for the soul and we need it now more than ever”
It wasn’t just Marks personal journey that has deeply inspired this retreat. It has been the countless number of people he has met along the way as a dancer, artist, and health coach. Mark believes we all carry our own unique medicine and gifts for this world & he wouldn’t be who he is today if it weren’t for being deeply inspired by others. His dream for SOULMOVEMENT has been to create a retreat where this exchange can happen. A place where we can share our passions, gifts, and medicine with one another. A place where we can drop in to recharge, recalibrate, and reconnect with ourselves. A place where we can find our way. Together.
“By soul I mean the vital, mysterious, & wild core of our individual selves, an essence unique to each person, qualities found in layers of the self much deeper than our personalities”