Introduction to Karin and the Offerings

Live Embodied

My Offerings:

The Art & Practice of Movement

Hakomi with Internal Family Systems

About Karin:

Karin Stevens offers somatic & spiritual healing, and spiritual companionship & guidance through through a weaving of The Art & Practice of Movement, Hakomi with Internal Family Systems, and Sufi Spiritual Healing. (Clients may also choose to focus on just one modality.)

For ten year she has been assisting others on their own evolutionary and healing journeys through embodied, mindful movement in individual and group sessions. With over 25 years in embodied movement and inter-faith spiritual practices she brings robust wisdom and deep sensitivity to the needs of every unique session. As a Seattle based choreographer and dance artist she believes in the power of movement to bring us back into health and spiritual ecology within ourselves, with each other, and through our natural and built environments.

In spite of being a life-long vocational dancer, Karin had to learn to move in new ways to overcome her personal pain and challenges. She believes that if every individual began this same journey back into the body, each one of us will become a great force for collective healing and transformation.

Karin has extensive experience with transforming anxiety and depression, self-worth, grief and fear, and finding one’s voice, sense of purpose and true self. Her work with individuals and groups is gentle, slow, client-led, loving and trauma informed. Physical pain and illness are also doorways toward personal transformation. Working with Karin is a great compliment to physical therapy, medical treatment and mental health therapy. Most often the result from sessions is increasing freedom, joy, and an ecstatic, spacious, easeful sense of Self!

Through her dance company, Karin Stevens Dance (2009-present), she creates imaginative, visionary, collaborative, immersive performer and audience experiences at the interchange of movement, art, ecology and social issues. She believes we must commune, collaborate and converse through movement, sound and ideas for an equitable and sustainable future for all.

About my practice:

The three modalities incorporated in a 1:1 Session. Or a client can choose to focus in just one modality:

Hakomi with Internal Family Systems

Client-led, Loving Presence, Body-mind Holism

The body holds internalized beliefs and thought patterns that have become unconscious. Assisted self-observation through safe, gentle practices and ways of being evoke innate impulses toward self-discovery, personal growth and healing.

The Art & Practice of Movement

Accessible, Stress-relieving, Transformational

For any level of movement ability, to listen for impulses that arise within, relieving habitual patterns while simultaneously playing with new patterns of movement to inspire our potential to craft a healthier life. Accessing embodied knowing to become more attuned to thoughts, emotions, sensations, and bodily responses as a portal to new possibilities.

Sufi Spiritual Healing

Freedom, Peace, Compassion

A pathway through the heart center to reconnect the isolated parts of ourselves back into greater, loving wholeness. Learning that life is an evolutionary process of trust and uncovering our true self.

Background and training:

Shadhdhuliyyah Sufi Healing- Certified Sufi Spiritual Healing 2024; Masters of Divinity 2025

Hakomi Somatic Psychotherapy with Internal Family Systems- Level 2 Completed 2024; Level 3 Certification in-process

The Brain Dance

Dance Concepts in Time, Space and Energy

Whole Heart Connections and The 5 Elements Philosophy- Thea Elijah/Perennial Medicine

The Embody Lab- Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate 2022

Transformative Change- Embodied Social Justice Certificate 2022

Why We Dance- The philosophy of Kimerer LaMothe

Perennial Philosophy

Sacred Ecstatics- Bradford and Hillary Keeney

Body and Earth- Andrea Olsen