Somatic Learning® involves simple practices that take only a few minutes a day, yet promote highly beneficial and lasting changes in the brain and the whole body, reorienting a person toward ever greater freedom, joy and aliveness. Awakening Somatic Intelligence: The Art & Practice of Embodied Mindfulness (North Atlantic Books, 2012) captures the wisdom of her teachings. In addition to her work with Somatic Learning®, Kaparo is an award winning poet and songwriter. She first received high critical acclaim for her sensitive, inspirational poetry embodied in Embrace (Scarlet Tanager Press, 2006), as well as her two CDs combining a unique blend of music and spoken word. In 2007, Kaparo was awarded the prestigious Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Her writing has been described by critics "as a poetry of soul-making" and integrates the themes of both 'awakening' and 'embodiment' (CLICK HERE TO LISTEN). Kaparo integrates her transformational work with creative writing, performance art, multi-media, music, voice and dance along with expressive arts therapy. This same artistry is reflected in the writing of Awakening Somatic Intelligence: The Art & Practice of Embodied Mindfulness and the companion videos. Risa Kaparo lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Querencia, Dr Kaparo also directs Inquiry's newest program to train dancers to work with people who have survived extremity (ie. rape and sexual abuse, domestic violence, war, famine) to heal their trauma and reclaim their birthright to enjoy the gift of their embodiment. In shelters for battered women and children, they will teach dance as a social meditation in Ecstatic CoPresencing® -empowering the participants to return to the world feeling already secure and well loved from the inside/out. This is an outgrowth of GlobalPeaceUprising.org, Inquiry's art as spiritual activism program. Dr Kaparo is also a cofounder of the Bay Area Functional Medicine group of doctors BayAreaFunctionalMedicine.com. She is working on a new book and will be beginning ...
| Website | http://www.somaticlearning.com |
| Revenue | $4 million |
| Employees | View employees |
| Address | 827 Ocean Ave, Richmond, California 94801, US |
| Phone | +1 510-232-2357 |
| Industry | Hospitals & Clinics, Healthcare |
| Competitors | UMass Chan Medical School, Headspace, Calm, Insight Timer, Mindful Schools, Ten Percent Happier, The Mindfulness App, Mindsight Institute, Dr. Dan Siegel, Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute +16 more (view full list) |
| SIC | SIC Code 80 Companies, SIC Code 804 Companies |
| NAICS | NAICS Code 62 Companies, NAICS Code 621 Companies, NAICS Code 6213 Companies, NAICS Code 62133 Companies |
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The Somatic Learning annual revenue was $4 million in 2026.
Somatic Learning is based in Richmond, California.
The NAICS codes for Somatic Learning are [62, 621, 6213, 62133].
The SIC codes for Somatic Learning are [80, 804].
