Get Out of Your Head
And Into Your Body

Embodied Groove was created by Dr. Leah Taylor and designed to enhance consciousness, connection and embodiment, integrate mind-body-spirit, release stress and somatically held trauma, and connect you to pleasurable ways of moving your body.

Moving and grooving to live music can have lasting effects on body, mind, and soul, making it a fully integrative practice. We are born with the natural ability to move to music. But, years of social conditioning can make us feel awkward and self-conscious. Embodied Groove helps you discover your own unique groove and feeds you with the joy of moving to live music.

Embodied Groove is a full mind-body-spirit experience combining the powerful integrative practices of movement, mindfulness, and music to activate the release of the body’s natural “happy chemicals,” also known as dopamine, endorphins, oxytocin, serotonin, and endocannabinoids. These are considered the “neurochemicals of happiness” and are important for helping you feel your best in a natural way!

Imagine joining with other movers to set your intention for what you want to feel and experience. Then having the chance to find freedom in your body while the sound waves flow through and elevate your spirit, taking you to new heights while remaining present and grounded to soak it all in.

This is EMBODIED GROOVE.

Make it part of my life!

Dancing is one of the best ways I know for aligning mind, body and spirit. Embodied Groove takes this concept to the next level by combing structure and focus with flow, movement and deep listening.Z.Gill, ALO & J. Johnson

Open Every Show

The Embodied Groove was the PERFECT way to start the show! We wish we could open every show the same way!!GrooveSession

Grounded and Ready

I found my body waking up and transitioning to playful rhythmic movement and eventual full on communal dance party with any remaining hesitations or residual self-consciousness dissolved. Ezra Lipp, ALO & MITO

A Deep & Rich Experience

Embodied Groove opens the portal to another dimension of sensation and deepens the connection between performers and audience in remarkable ways.J. Lebowitz Jenstar Productions

Melding Music & More!

My experience with Leah’s Embodied Groove was really positive. It took me from a mundane morning of plotting and planning into a blissful state of “living in the moment.”D.”Lebo” Lebowitz, ALO

Deep Connection

I saw Leah take a group of strangers and swirl them into a moving, smiling, vibrating mass. I connected with my toes, my legs, my eyeballs, my booty in ways I never had. I want to invite Leah to every party.Nat Keefe, Hot Buttered Rum

Palpable Effect!

I have to say the effect of the embodied groove set was palpable from the moment we got on stage. It felt like the crowd was fully locked in and engaged with the music.P. Sawyer, Brightshine

“I have worked with Leah and her initiative, intentions, and delivery of programs are all first rate. We have collaborated at Camp Navarro and at Camp Deep End and she always has fresh and new ideas combined with a real understanding of who her audience is and how to get maximum impact. I always look forward to collaborating with Leah!

Dan Braun, Director Camp Navarro, and Director of Camp Deep End music festival

“Leah’s guidance was non-invasive, gentle, and warm. It allowed people to experience the movement of their bodies in an environment that lacked judgment, was freeing, and fun.”

Kimmie Jones

“With steady and grounded direction, Leah guides participants to experience movement and the body in ways that lift the spirit and brings peace and gratitude to the soul.”

Marcy Irene Jenkins

"I write this on the second anniversary of my mother’s passing and two years since the world as we knew it came to a surreal standstill. My grieving remains in process, but I credit Embodied Groove and Dr. Leah Taylor with helping me, quite literally, ‘move through’ this period of trauma and loss. Just days after my mother died, I happened upon an Embodied Groove dance session online. In the safe space of an internet connection and my own living room, I began to reconnect, through music and movement, with vital energy that had waned, with hope that had seemed out of reach. I started to heal, to manifest growth, to find a path forward that included joy. It’s hard to find words for the ‘rescued’ I felt. But it was a rescue, and I am ever grateful to Leah and Embodied Groove for that light shone in the darkness."

Ramona Lappier

"When you can find freedom on the dance floor, you can experience freedom in your life."

Dr. Leah Taylor

Healing & Growth:

Teaching people to allow music to flow through them, loosening rigidity, liberating their bodies, healing somatically held trauma, and releasing unwanted somatic holding patterns. Helping participants increase their capacity to feel and hold positive emotions of love, surrender, joy, awe, and gratitude that can broaden and build their emotional resiliency and inner resources.

Integrative Medicine:

Utilizing ancient forms of healing in music, voice, and dance partnered with mindfulness and intention towards healing and growth. Live music and dance are the oldest forms of medicine. Our culture has forgotten how to dance freely, how to move to the beat without being consumed by thoughts of what it looks like. Embodied Groove helps liberate bodies in fun and joyful ways for release and renewal.

Enhancing Connection:

When we move together to live music, we can experience the process of self-other merging and collective joy. Embodied Groove helps to intentionally enhance these processes in easy and fun ways for increased empathy and compassion towards others.