BodyMantra is a practice for the traveling soul. One that both challenges and soothes, celebrates the essential marriage of physicality and energetics, tangible and intangible realms that serve the soul’s growth on all levels. It is an approach to life that honors depth and presence, is steeped in comprehensive, multi-dimensional tools meant to be mindfully applied and honed for balanced living in the day-to-day world as we simultaneously expand our connection to the spirit worlds.
Facilitated by founder Kimberly Jonas, BodyMantra calls for us to engage our most confronting and confounding personal work as well as our most illuminating and passion-driven insights. To remove barriers to unfettered flow and authentic responsiveness so that we might become a self-generating force of good in the world. Embody the frequency of transformation, within and without.
Each element of the BodyMantra work is crafted to assist participants in moving beyond mind limitations and linear ways of thinking and being, encouraging the best use of intuition and body awareness to foster alignment on both the human and cosmic levels.
As you align with the practices of BodyMantra, you will both transcend and descend, crafting your own formula to bring a sense of equilibrium and acceptance to every aspect of your life
from Kimberly
My heartfelt wish in sharing BodyMantra is that we may all contribute meaningfully and passionately to the wide, infinite arc of our soul’s journey while embracing the lessons of our human existence. Remember that our greatest contributions and purpose stem from the work of aligning with our best, most expanded self – again and again.
the history
BodyMantra landed on Planet Earth in 2008. After 8 years of teaching yoga, freeform movement and meditation, I was ready to channel my own body of work into the world. BodyMantra 1.0 was introduced in the form of weekly classes and weekend workshops.
About 7 years into facilitating BodyMantra, I was bursting at the seams energetically; the practice needed to expand. Extended retreats and long-form intensives focused on deeper dives into movement coupled with more focused, intentional personal reflection and healing work. I now refer to this as BodyMantra 2.0.
BodyMantra 3.0 is replete with additional layers of body-centric energy practices as well as conscious intent to link our personal work into the larger grid of planetary and collective energies.
version 3.0
If you have previously been a part of BodyMantra, be prepared for something different. A wider expression of body::spirit work that draws on my 25 years as a Reiki Master and intuitive healer, along with my extensive work as a movement and body awareness facilitator.
BodyMantra draws on an immersive library of energy and embodiment tools curated with love and intention to support participants – both personally and interpersonally – at this particular time in history.
As ever, we are being called to do our personal work, to show up as mindful, conscious beings intent on raising our vibration and shedding old patterns that hold us back from more ease and grace in life.
That said, I also feel that we are now being called to integrate our personal work more intentionally back into the larger web to meet the dysfunction and disintegration that we are facing on a global scale. To feed the greater systems of our planet – both human and non-human – with high frequency and focused intention to bring about more stability, repair and healing.
In many ways, our old tools are no longer enough.
I have found myself developing updated ceremonies and practices in the last two years in order to better meet the noise and distraction in the collective field. Not to mention the deep grief and dismay that seems to ebb and flow more regularly as the world’s energy is dramatically shifting every single day.
BodyMantra ceremonies blend movement, stillness, energy work, breath work, and conscious dialogue into an integrated, fluid format.
No one experience is the same, though every passage is designed to help participants expand their capacity for meeting the current global energetics – including the personal implications and impact – with courage, strength and compassion.
core elements of bodymantra
core elements
Energy practices
Over the course of 25 years, I have developed my own layered, meaningful methods for working with the energy body – the intangible, potent part of our body that directly impacts both physical and emotional wellbeing.
BodyMantra 3.0 is dedicated in large part to the learning and practice of these techniques in your own body, with visualization, self-palpation (touch) and breathwork acting as guides.
Freeform Movement
Moving the body to go beyond the body is the phrase I use about the movement component of BodyMantra. All movement is undirected and freeform. Intending for the participant to tap into their own natural rhythms and instincts, engaging this non-verbal realm to help move blocked energies and tender or trapped emotions. To amplify new pathways and insights that arise as energetic and physical obstacles are discovered and moved.
Journaling & Conscious Dialogue
Questions and intentional prompts deepen the BodyMantra practice. This often leads to journaling and conscious, honed group dialogue. This is not about “being a writer” or a “polished speaker,” but harvesting the power gained through intentional application of the mind. Encouraging the brain to pop out of old ruts, find thoughtful language to amplify personal growth and open up space for new ways of thinking and being.
Warm Seats
“Hot Seats” feels a little too … hot. So I call them Warm Seats.
Warm Seats invite one participant to intuitively and somatically unwind a specific energy block with Kimberly’s direct guidance while other participants absorb what insight and healing they need through witnessing the process.
Breathwork & Stillness
Moments of focused stillness and breathwork are essential elements of the practice and are sprinkled liberally throughout all BodyMantra experiences.
