asha f. passalacqua is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, integrative bodyworker, aquatic therapist, facilitator, and dancer with a somatic-oriented approach to guiding the body toward functional fluidity. His work is rooted in an ongoing apprenticeship to embodiment, liberation, and integrity in movement and connection
asha received a BA from Hampshire College in integrative psychology, medical anthropology, and cognitive science, and completed his training as a Certified Massage Therapist at the McKinnon Body Therapy Center. He is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, with his somatic work informed by SE, parts-based approaches, and Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry.
As a mover practioner, asha’s practice has been shaped by the Axis Syllabus, contact improvisation, aquatic dance and freediving, functional training, contemporary dance, Somatic Experiencing®, and Playfight. In both practice and facilitation, he invites experiences that cultivate an available, responsive body; trust in relationship to gravity and ground; and presence within disorientation and change
As an aquatic therapist, asha has studied Aguahara and Fluid Presence in Brazil, Mexico, and Spain. He offers aquatic workshops and retreats in California and Europe, and practices as a somatic counselor, bodyworker, and facilitator of psychedelic retreats. He works with clients through Sage Integrative Health in Berkeley, California, and co-facilitates legal psychedelic retreats in the Netherlands with Kiyumi.