Welcome to Dancing-Tree, Somatic Coaching and Energy Healing Services.

If you’re feeling lost during (scary) changing times, there’s a place that can help you to stop spinning and find balance.

This place can teach you to listen. Become aware. Activate intuition. Clarify decisions.

This place can also become a wellspring for resilience. Trust. Inner peace. Freedom. Self-love. Creativity. Joy.

While finding this place is simple, staying there takes some commitment.

This place is your body.

If you’re lost, spinning or hitting a wall regarding an overwhelming fear, relationship or aspect of work, the first step for turning a dead end into a doorway in your life starts with your body.

Your body is the doorway. Your body holds the key.

I’m Staci Boden, somatic coach, spiritual teacher, leadership mentor, author and founder of Dancing-Tree. Many of my people call me Mama Bear;).

Dancing Tree founder and Pacifica somatic coach Staci Boden smiling at the camera.

For over 25 years. I’ve been aware that core transformation includes the mind but depends on connecting with your body and the energy that lives inside.

And so if you’re looking for traditional talk therapy, I’m not your person.

Instead, I offer somatic coaching, energy healing and dance ceremony for individuals — learners, growers, change makers — who want to do their inner work and live more intentionally through creating (magnificent!) work, lives and relationships. I also coach couples.

Body based coaching, practices and energy healing can be especially transformative for navigating:

  • Life transitions (work, life, relationships)

  • Fear and anxiety

  • ADHD/ADD

  • Codependency

  • Creativity and flow

(Note: While I have extensive experience in the above areas, I’m not a licensed therapist or medical doctor and do not diagnose or offer medical advice.)

Across all mediums, my not-so-secret special healing sauce is love. Fierce love. Gentle love. Practical love. Belly-laughing love. Wise love.

Staci Boden - Pacifica Somatic Coach offering body-based coaching - stands with a client.

My promise to you:

  • If fear or exhaustion is keeping you stuck, I’ll stay by your side as you learn to let go.

  • I’ll hold the faith when you don’t believe in yourself. Especially when you don’t believe in yourself.

  • I’ll be a pillar you can lean into as you grow a truer inner creative power.

Joy. Intuition. Trust. Self-love. I’m here to get behind your magnificence, whatever that means to you.

In fact, I believe you’re already more magnificent than you think.

Dancing-Tree offers somatic coaching and energy healing to facilitate embodied transformation

Your journey begins with a (not so simple) question: what’s one thing you wish you had — a quality — that would make you feel more capable of realizing potential in your life?

Don’t know?

My free mini course, How to Start Following Energy, can help you find out.

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  • "I trust Staci completely."

    Mel F.

  • "Individual and group experiences with Staci are gold."

    Carlee A, coach, founder of trauma literacy

  • "Staci Boden has been a steadfast guide for me over the past decade. Her skillful and compassionate insights have influenced my path greatly. She is fierce when it is called for, and a deep listener who nurtures as she teaches. I would not be the woman I am today wthout her support and love."

    Tasha A.

  • "My partner and I had been through three ‘traditional’ couples' therapists in four years by the time we started working with Staci in 2021. Since then, we have experienced a tremendous shift out of our old patterns that were keeping us stuck in familiar conflict loops. We are strong personalities who need to be held by an equally strong, compassionate facilitator. Staci has been that for us, and we are now equipped to support ourselves through conflict, unmediated. Simply-put, Staci helped us not only save our relationship, but also deepen it into the most loving iteration of our partnership yet.”

    Olivia H.

  • "Staci holds a sacred space better than anyone I have ever experienced."

    Greta V.

  • "Staci's presence in my life has been unyielding and profound. With her support, I have been able to navigate living with depression and anxiety, going through major life/work/relationship transitions, and learning to work with the unknown and the unknowable. Staci never ceases to be a source of nurturance, guidance, and deep, deep care."

    Lisa L.

  • "I'm in Michigan, so Staci and I work via Zoom but she may as well be sitting right next to me. If I'm visualizing sitting by the sea, she will, in that exact moment, mention the sea. If an animal friend or spirit guide shows up for me, Staci knows it immediately. She can detect the precise sensations in my body and intuit how to work that energy. It's uncanny. I may never understand how she does this, but I'm just so grateful for her deep, powerful work."

    Liz J.

  • "Staci Boden is a spiritual midwife, holding you in her arms as you deliver yourself from the pain of the past. I will give you this warning: Do not step into this process with Staci unless you are truly prepared to awaken that which has been sleeping, deep inside of you, for far too long."

    Gwen B.

  • "My husband and I found ourselves stuck in some patterns we were having trouble escaping. Working with Staci helped us identify the different ways in which we were effectively communicating and relating, and how we were not. She helped us gain greater understanding of our own energies and how we could create a both-and world."

    Tina S.

  • "The unique earth-based wise-woman energy healing that Staci offers has allowed me to sit with and move through some of the most difficult transitions in my life with awareness and grace. Her sessions are just the right combination of talk (checking-in), energy work and assessment. I always feel seen, held, and lighter afterwards."

    Hannah E.

  • "I started seeing Staci because I felt boxed in and trapped - literally. Staci helped me transform the box and get in touch with aspects of my life that had been long buried. She's provided the space and support to allow those aspects to thrive and flourish, which has helped me grow as a person. I no longer feel trapped and boxed in, my anxiety has diminished, and I've started writing again."

    Carey H.

  • "My beloved and I were fortunate to work with Staci over the course of 2+ years. Her skillful listening and pointed observations helped us to open to changes our relationship needed. The tools and practices along with having a place to talk it out together created a relationship container than holds us today. We would not have made it without her. Thank you, Staci for guiding and loving us."

    Teresa C.

  • "With Staci I've begun a journey into my own truth - one I've been afraid to take for this entire lifetime. But it feels as though she holds my hand and grants me space where I can come to trust my own instincts, intuition, and wisdom. When I'm overwhelmed I can rely on the tools I've found instead of various addictions. Sessions with Staci are the most worthwhile work I've ever done."

    Diana C.

  • "Staci does not lead you into deep places unattended."

    Catherine A.

  • "Staci was a clear, gentle and yet, ever present grounding force that helped me harness my own inner strength to leave an abusive relationship. From there, she's been a touchstone and guide for expanding into my own self-love and self-supportive capacity in its many permutations. I'm so grateful for the depths of Staci's innate wisdom and practical knowledge."

    Jadyn D.

  • “The opportunity to sit with the kind of people who come to Staci’s groups is a particular gift. It’s rare to get to be with the reflection and accountability and presence these folks bring. I’ve not only formed lifelong friendships but Staci’s groups have been a place I’ve wanted to bring some of my closest people. In terms of creating virtual community, Staci’s groups have an alchemy of being in village in a way we don’t get, especially in our leadership lives.”

    Carlee A.

  • "Recently I was struck by the (rather frightening) realization that, without Staci, I may have lived the rest of my life having never experienced the profound insight, awareness and healing this deep sacred work offers. Staci is the real deal. Where other practices I've tried have been more saccharine, her teaching is sweet honey, straight from the bee."

    Jenny B.

  • "I am forever grateful to Staci and her beautiful book, which came into my life at a time when I was spinning in circles. Nothing compares to the loving container she upholds, the deep energy work and her mama bear presence. Thank you Staci for the ongoing space holding and guidance as I step into my heart work. Much love!"

    Sam L.

  • "Staci's loving support and wise guidance helped me through a very challenging phase of my life. She not only helped me to make sense of a painful ending with a friend, she also helped me to 'make medicine' out of it. I feel deeply grateful for Staci's integrative approach, wisdom and loving care."

    Lindsay J.

  • "I joined Following Energy for Change Makers so I could be a better leader at work, but what I also got was how to be a better leader inside myself, and to recognize what I want and need from the leadership of others.”

    Christina, Editorial Director and Head of Creative

  • "Staci's methods helped me see that healing power is not only real, it is within all of us. Sometimes what it takes is learning a few tools and a lot of support."

    Jay J.

  • “I loved the structure and support of the Following Energy for Change Makers program. And the big surprise was the value and depth of the asynchronous mentoring between Staci and I. It became something that was special, deep, and so sweet. It’s like - oh my, just what I needed to hear, delivered from a wise and kind woman, and just for me!?! I had no idea; what a revelation - I loved it!”

    Julia, psychotherapist

  • “The one-to-one asynchronous mentoring in Following Energy for Changes Makers was outstanding. I couldn't believe I could just leave as many voice messages as I wanted, and I'd always get a response. Staci would send a message or a picture or a video of the ocean because she knew that it calms me. It's like, what? I don't know how she had the capacity to extend that much care on an individual level. That was something I've looked for and not found in other one-to-one dynamics, and it was such a gift, really healing, and tremendously valuable.”

    Christina, Editorial Director and Head of Creative

Explore Three Branches of Dancing-Tree Healing Services:

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ongoing sessions available in-person or online

For individuals or couples who want to embody awareness (somatic) for a more connected, purposeful and activated life (coaching).

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Ongoing sessions available IN-PERSON OR ONLINE

For individuals who want to transform old, anxious or stuck feelings into empowered self-love through experiencing energy.

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Women’s dance ceremony, breathwork, create your own

For seekers, learners and growers ready to dive into cathartic altered states practices to ignite potential.

Start exploring embodied transformation with Staci Boden through a free mini course delivered to your Inbox.

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