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Primal Trust
Small Group Mentoring
with Candace Moss
Gentle Somatic Dance
Bring Healing Movement into Your Daily Life
Current Group SOLD OUT
Next group likely to start Late Fall or Early Spring 2026
Dates/Times TBD
Meet with me once a week for a month, in an intimate group of 8. Receive personal mentoring within the group, and benefit from witnessing others as well. Five 75-min sessions.
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This series will help you cultivate deep connection and trust between you and your body.
This Gentle Somatic Dance series will calm and nourish your whole Self: body, heart, soul, and spirit. As you create a gentle familiarity with your body and its needs, you are creating powerful neural pathways of trust. This is profoundly nourishing for the nervous system, and lays the foundation for healing and growth.
We will use gentle music and simple, guided, pleasure-based movement. We will also have Q&A time. These personalized discussions about your somatic experience will help your mind relax and your body soften, so that you can receive the nourishment you deserve.
STUDENT EXPERIENCES
“Candace’s somatics classes have been one of the few times in my life that I have felt positive sensations in my body. After being guided in gentle movement, I feel a deep sense of relaxation, radiating warmth, and ease in my body. Candace's confidence, joy, and optimism are contagious, and her classes are empowering. She’s teaching me a new, exciting way to be in my body and move.”
~ Carrie
“Candace, you have this way of being- you are just so joyful and it's radiating out of you, like a light. I want more connection with that. Your way of being is, I think, instrumental to people understanding the healing journey- how you could go from being really sick and feeling so crappy every single day to being so joyful and so vibrant. Being able to look at you as an example and see that it is possible for me is inspiring in and of itself."
~ Shannon
Soothe your system with slow, delightful movement and music.
Gentle somatic dance is one of the easiest and most efficient ways to calm your nervous system and build inner trust.
In this five-part series, we’ll explore…
🍯 cultivating sensations of ease and delight within your body
🍯 allowing yourself to feel emotions without being overwhelmed
🍯 how to connect with your intuition and deeper self through movement
🍯 real-time guided practices using simple movements and a gentle approach
Together, we will find easy, creative ways to weave your customized somatic practice into your real life, so that the benefits can start to permeate your daily way of being. We’ll explore gentle somatic dance…
🌺 in your ABC practice
🌺 for morning and evening routines
🌺 for more patience, self-compassion, and hope
🌺 when you’re feeling more capacity and want to move your body
🌺 when you’re feeling activated or low capacity and don’t feel like moving at all
🍯🌺 BONUS: You’ll receive a playlist of songs custom-created for you and your group!
The deeper layers of Gentle Somatic Dance
In the 10 minute video below, I share a bit about what it is and what it’s not.
Spoiler: the purpose of Gentle Somatic Dance is not to get better at “dancing” or even to get better at “moving”. It’s about cultivating deep connections with yourself, within your nervous system, so that it’s easier and easier to build Primal Trust within yourself.
Other things I mention in the video:
why I named this practice Gentle Somatic Dance and what "gentle" really means
a simple example of a one-to-two inch movement that can create deep internal connection
the role of pleasure and music in this practice
how somatic listening helps you trust your body again
how the practice supports nervous-system rehabilitation
what a typical group series progression feels like
real-life benefits people notice after practicing
how to protect your system while exploring movement
Plus, I share why I almost wish I could call this practice something other than "dance" and why I keep coming back to that word anyway.
Session Details
We’ll meet on Zoom, five weeks in a row, for 75 minutes. Each session will include a combination of:
a guided somatic dance practice to begin, with soothing, inspiring music (10-20 mins)
check-in’s to help you notice what you’re experiencing, including time for your questions
a short lesson / demo for how to explore gentle somatic dance in your own body and integrate it into your daily life
a second guided practice with music (10-20 minutes)
You’ll also receive access to a group Google Doc, where I will post notes from each session within 24 hours. Here you’ll also see the link to your group playlist and options for your weekly practice.
When you register for this group, you’ll get immediate access to this doc, which also has optional exercises for the weeks leading up to our series.
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Consistent Support
A month of connection, encouragement, inspiration, & guidance.
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Personal Attention
Small, intimate group of 8, with time to answer individual questions.
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Great Value
Over six hours of mentor time at a fraction of the 1:1 price!
(5 × 75 min sessions)
What will the group sessions be like?
Watch the video below. 🙂
In this 10-minute video, I talk about:
how the small group mentoring format works for you to receive personalized guidance
how we’ll use two guided somatic practices per session (10–20 minutes each), typically one at the start and one at the end
how this group can support you whether you're just beginning body connection work or exploring deeper layers of yourself
how we’ll use gentle attention on specific body parts (e.g., head & neck, chest & belly, arms & shoulders) to build safety and trust
why approaching healing through the body can feel much less scary than going directly into emotions or memories
how GSD helps us integrate our “parts”, as presented in Level 2
potential outcomes: increased capacity, emotional regulation, symptom reduction, and greater overall ease
Plus, I talk about the difference between "protection mode" and "maintenance mode" and how that shift changed everything for me.
Enhance Your Nervous System Support
The benefits of this five-part series include…
🎁 mentorship at a fraction of the 1:1 price
🎁 carefully facilitated community connection time
🎁 weekly gatherings to remind you that you’re not alone!
🎁 a month of guidance for your personal somatic practice
🎁 get answers to your questions + learn from witnessing others
🎁 enriching your body-based (bottom-up) approach to nervous system healing
🎁 ventral vagal toning: connecting with community members in a well-guided intimate space
FAQs
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This series is about cultivating gentle, easy, enjoyable connection with your body. It’s not about being able to do any certain movement. We’ll do two 10-20 minute movement practices each session. Each of these will give you multiple options for kinds of movement and levels of capacity. There will usually be gentle music playing, and I’ll be encouraging you to follow the signals and flow of your body. And that is the practice called Gentle Somatic Dance. So, if your body is calling for a simple self-hug with a teeny tiny amount of swaying movement, that could be your whole practice for that day. If you start to sense your body wants to stretch and expand more, then you’ll follow that thread. Don’t worry, though, I’ll be giving you gentle guidance throughout the practice in help you tune in to your own guidance.
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1. Yes, you can absolutely do the whole series from bed, or on the floor, or in a chair, or lying in the grass, or anything else that feels supportive for you.
2. Candace often leads this group while she's seated on the floor. Even though she is usually standing to teach BBNR, for the longer sessions she likes to be close to the ground (and sometimes on the bed).
3. You're always welcome to turn down the volume, just be completely still and only listen, be off screen, etc.
4. Still, it's possible that the amount of time and movement will stretch the edges of your capacity. And that could be great, even though it might mean you experience some activation. There's something about stretching the capacity while in connection with others (Candace holding a strongly facilitated space + other members exploring along with you) that is different than doing it alone.
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Yes, small group series offered by Primal Trust mentors are solely for active Primal Trust members. This is one of the many benefits of maintaining your active PT membership. If you have paused or cancelled your membership, you’ll need to reactivate before joining a group.
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There will not be recordings of group mentoring available.
This provides a secure environment of privacy, so that members feel free to share anything vulnerable that will help them receive the support they need.Live sessions also encourage everyone to gather each week. This consistency and co-regulation helps the nervous system feel safety and belonging. In the groups so far, there has been a lovely sense of camaraderie, which provides a deep layer of encouragement and support. 🫶🏼
Occasionally someone has a session they need to miss, and that’s totally ok. You will have access to a group document that Candace will update after each session with a few notes and your optional practice for the week. (Practices are always small, simple, customizable, and very doable.)
With the pricing of groups about 1/4 of the price per hour of 1:1 video sessions, groups are still a great value even if you miss a session.
If there’s a topic you like but the time doesn’t work, know that I’ll likely offer most of these topics regularly, and at slightly different days/times.
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I am doing my best to provide a variety of group topics at different times. For each new batch of groups, we are aiming to offer at least one US evening option (which takes place early morning Australia time) and at least one US morning option so that members in Europe can join.
Please check back periodically to see what new groups are available. If you opt in to Candace’s Updates list here, you’ll receive an email when new group topics and dates are available.
REQUIREMENTS
You must be a current member of Primal Trust Academy. Please make sure you have completed Module 4 of Level 1, so that you have some Regulate tools available to you. I also ask that you have a basic self-regulation practice, so that you feel regulated enough to be in a small group. We agree as a group to refrain from symptom discussion and intense story-telling. I ask that everyone’s camera stay on during sessions, even if you are not on screen the whole time. Thank you. :-)
REFUND POLICY: Registrations are non-refundable.
Before you register, please take a few moments to check in with your body and your heart. Ask yourself if this Series is a strong YES for you right now. Take some time to review the description. Each session will be a nourishing real-time experience.
Make sure the dates/times work well for you. There will not be session recordings available. If you find you need to miss a session, please know it will be ok, and you will still receive a lot from this series.
My goal is to provide you with the deepest levels of presence and care. When you join this Small Group Series, I ask that you meet me and the group with a strong level of commitment, even if you also have some resistance.
I do not offer cancellations, transfers or refunds. It would be impossible to keep multiple waitlists and switch people around. Please honor this boundary of mine.
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This Series is going to be a wonderful month of wonder, connection, growth, and delight. I look forward to working and playing with you. 💫
Candace
WAITLIST
Adding your name to this waitlist will not commit you to either of these groups, and it will not guarantee you a spot.
If you are on the waitlist, you will receive an email letting you know that registration is open. The exact date and time that registration opens is listed on the top of the waitlist form below when it is posted. The first 8 people to register for each Round will be in that group. These spots have been filling quickly, so you might want to make a note on your calendar to be available to register at that time.
Gentle Somatic Dance
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STUDENT EXPERIENCE
“My somatic experience with Candace was incredible. The stretching we started with immediately softened my body and allowed for more space. I was able to feel my feelings and acknowledge sensations in my body without trying to escape them but being with them and then the movement allowed them to move and process instead of staying stuck.
I felt so much lighter and not so tense and tangled. While the music was playing I felt certain words resonate with my body and even some tears came up but they were tears of release. All of this gentle movement caused a huge shift, like this new way of healing could actually be my future. In that present moment everything didn’t feel so heavy, I actually felt free and even giggled a little which is really rare for me.
It was such an amazing experience. It feels sometimes that my mind only allows for me to remember the bad and that’s the only thing that feels familiar. But during this session with Candace my mind actually remembered the sound of laughing and the feeling of slowing down and in that moment it also felt familiar. So now I have this experience to come back to, going forward, to access something familiar that also feels good.”
~ Angela
STUDENT EXPERIENCE
“The somatic dance class has just been really remarkable for me. I like it so much. I've done it on my own, a few times each week, and I started noticing that my mood is better in the morning, which is just incredible.
And I have some more energy and motivation. I wouldn't say it lasts all day, but I feel like emotional energy is getting released, and it's just amazing to me. I really feel blown away.”
~ Alice