Bring more embodiment, creativity, connection, and aliveness to your gathering.
Intentional Movement & Drumming Workshops for Retreats, Conferences & Events
Guest Workshop Facilitator | Retreat & Conference Experiences | Western Colorado & Beyond
Are you planning a retreat, conference, women's gathering, or transformational program and looking for an experienced facilitator to bring something meaningful, engaging, and enlivening to your participants?
I collaborate with retreat leaders, coaches, wellness practitioners, conference organizers, and organizations to offer experiential workshops that invite people out of their heads and into a fuller experience of themselves.
Through movement, embodied exploration, rhythm, and participatory drumming, I create welcoming spaces for people to reconnect with their bodies, explore their creativity, deepen connection, and experience new possibilities.
I'm Arlyn Alderdice, a SomaSource Leader, movement facilitator, musician, and certified Martha Beck Wayfinder Life Coach based in Western Colorado. I'm available to bring workshops and individual facilitation to retreats, conferences, and programs throughout Colorado and beyond. Click to learn more about Arlyn.
Somatic Movement & Embodiment
An invitation to move beyond thinking and into direct experience.
These guided movement experiences offer participants an opportunity to listen to their bodies, explore embodied expression, access creativity, and discover new ways of being.
No dance experience or choreography is necessary. Participants are invited to explore movement in ways that feel right for them.
Possible themes include:
- Nourishing the body with movement
- Moving beyond the nervous system's anxiety alarm
- Creativity, vitality, and self-discovery in the body
- Joyful Aliveness
- Exploring new ways of Being through movement
- Movement, mindfulness, and self-leadership
- Boundaries from the inside out
- Moving to Stillness
Available as a retreat session, conference workshop, experiential breakout, or longer group experience.
Participants leave with a deeper felt sense of their own body's intelligence, a greater ease in moving between activation and stillness, and a renewed sense of what aliveness feels like from the inside.
Experiential Drumming & Rhythm Workshops
Bring people together through the universal language of rhythm.
These participatory workshops invite people to experience rhythm through drumming, listening, repetition, improvisation, and playing together.
Participants don't need musical experience. The emphasis is on exploration, connection, creativity, and the pleasure of making music together.
Workshops can be adapted for:
- Women's retreats and gatherings
- Conference and event breakout sessions
- Team-building and community-building experiences
- Personal development programs
- Creative and wellness retreats
- Groups looking for an engaging, interactive shared experience
Drums can be provided, depending on the group size and event needs.
Participants leave with a sense of connection that's harder to create through conversation alone, a physical release that comes from making rhythm with the whole body, and the quiet confidence that they belong in a group without having to perform.
Embodied Coaching & Individual Integration
Group work can open things. A feeling, a question, a movement that shows up and doesn't quite have time to land before the next session begins.
I offer individual embodied coaching as an optional add-on to your event. This is a space for participants who want to stay with what's emerging, give it more time, or bring it further into their life. Sessions can be fully somatic, fully conversational, or a blend, depending on what the participant is working with.
This works as a drop-in option within a retreat, small group work, or a series of one-on-ones alongside a conference, as a resource for participants already in a coaching or transformational program. It's a way to add depth to your container without changing its shape.
The work is curious, embodied, and creative - staying with what's alive and finding out where it wants to go.
Bring an Experiential Workshop to Your Retreat or Event
I love collaborating with people who are creating spaces for learning, transformation, connection, and personal growth.
Whether you're looking for a 60-minute conference workshop, a half-day retreat experience, an ongoing movement component within your program, or an interactive drumming session, we can explore what would best serve your gathering.
Possible formats include:
- 60–90 minute workshops
- Conference breakout sessions
- Half-day experiential workshops
- Guest facilitation within multi-day retreats
- Ongoing sessions within an existing program
- Individual coaching or integration sessions
Each experience can be shaped around your group's intentions, size, setting, and schedule.
Available in Colorado & Beyond
Based in Western Colorado, I am available for guest facilitation throughout Colorado and Eastern Utah, including:
- Aspen, Glenwood Springs & Carbondale
- Crested Butte & Gunnison
- Telluride & Ouray
- Durango & Southwest Colorado
- Grand Junction
- Moab, UT
- Mountain retreat centers and destination events throughout Colorado and Utah
- Wilderness Experiences
Travel and online collaborations are also possible.