The UZAZU Embodiment Practice Group
Our next round of 8 classes starts April 24th, 2026
Transformation Through the Whole Bodymind
UZAZU Embodied Intelligence helps you cultivate a full spectrum of deeply resourcing embodied states that enable you to meet each moment with greater clarity, connection, and flow.
What shifts could this help unlock for you?
Over the years, UZAZU has been the modality most involved in my deeper transformations. When I’ve identified something in my life that isn’t working, an aspect of my habitual patterns, UZAZU has been the thing that has helped.”
Beth Nolte
What is Embodied Intelligence?
You have an innate intelligence that's been looking after you long before you had words for it — your body and mind as one integrated system, alive and responsive to the world within you and around you.
The challenge is that this intelligence has also been shaped by everything you've lived through — and many of those adaptations are still running today, serving who you were, not who you're becoming. They show up as the patterns you can't seem to change, the reactions that catch you off guard, the ways you hold yourself back without knowing why. This isn't a flaw. It's how adaptive systems work.
Over 25 years, UZAZU has developed a comprehensive pattern language — mapping the typically invisible patterns that shape how we feel, relate, and show up. Through experiential learning and simple embodied practices, we help you perceive these patterns, stay present with them, and evolve them skillfully — so they can finally serve the life you're actually living.
What we Offer
Whether you want to shift some hard-to-change patterns in your own life and/or you want to work in a more holistically and consistently embodied way with clients, UZAZU has some great options to support you.
Receive 1-1 Sessions with a Certified UZAZU Practitioner
Experience the power of UZAZU Embodied Intelligence to rapidly increase self-awareness and facilitate deep transformation in your life. View our directory of certified practitioners and find the right fit for you.
Transform Patterns, Build Inner Resilience and Thrive in Daily Life
Discover UZAZU’s transformative practices to shift imbalanced patterns, cultivate inner resilience, and enhance self-awareness. Navigate challenges with clarity and ease, unlocking more potential for flow & balance.
Expand Your Capacity to Facilitate Integrative Embodied Change
Enhance your practice with UZAZU’s integrative approach to embodied intelligence. Gain tools to help your clients achieve deeper awareness, regulation, and transformation, while enriching your own capacity for dynamic, holistic facilitation.
About UZAZU Embodied Intelligence
An integrative approach for understanding and working with embodied states.
Developed through 25 years of research and practice.
This holistic approach integrates findings on human responses to vowel sounds and physical movements & postures with established models of Ego Development Theory, Phonetics, Mindfulness Practice, Taoist Yin-Yang Theory, Dynamical Systems Theory, Integral Theory, Stimulus-Response Conditioning, Polyvagal Theory, Dimensional Theories of Affect & Emotion and Attachment Theory.
Integrating these models & methods with UZAZU allows us to engage with them in a way that is directly embodied and actionable, providing tangible benefits to practitioner and clients alike.
What Makes UZAZU Unique
After 25 years of development and thousands of students and practitioners, these are the key things people tend to value most about UZAZU's approach:
Most of us sense that our bodies hold important information — but without a framework, it's hard to know what you're looking at or what to do with it. UZAZU provides a comprehensive, well-structured map of embodied states built on simple postures and movements. It connects what you feel in your body with what's happening in your emotions, your relationships, and your life patterns — making it possible to see where you're stuck, what's driving it, and where the most useful shifts are. The structure is rigorous enough to trust and flexible enough to meet you exactly where you are.
UZAZU works with two complementary directions: Bottom-Up — opening to the authentic emotions, energies, and impulses that live beneath your conscious awareness, including the ones you've learned to suppress or avoid — and Top-Down — consciously imagining new possibilities and then evoking and embodying the qualities and ways of being that can realize them. This bidirectional approach creates a synergy between the conscious and unconscious levels of your bodymind, allowing change to happen more naturally and completely than working from either direction alone.
UZAZU helps you rebalance in the moment — finding your way back to grounded, resourced states when life has pulled you off center. But the real power is in what builds over time. With consistent practice, your capacity to meet life's challenges from a centered place genuinely grows. The reactions that used to hijack you start to soften. The states you couldn't access become available. And because the framework is rooted in developmental psychology, you're not just building resilience — you're evolving the underlying patterns themselves, so they finally catch up with who you're becoming.
If you're a therapist, coach, facilitator, or body-oriented practitioner, UZAZU works remarkably well alongside and layered with your existing methods. It provides what many practitioners describe as a "language of embodiment" — a framework that can model and explore concepts from psychology, talk-centered therapy, coaching, and more in a directly embodied way. You can use it as a standalone approach, weave it into sessions with other modalities in real time, or sequence it as a complement to your existing process. UZAZU also helps surface feelings, patterns, and insights that may be below conscious awareness, which can then be worked with using UZAZU or any other approach you already trust.
Meet The Trainers & Community
We're committed to providing accessible and engaging education & training in embodied intelligence. Together with a vibrant community of well-trained helping professionals, we are continually evolving this modality.
Over 3000 people have taken trainings in UZAZU, across four continents. Our community of Certified Practitioners is spread across North America & Western Europe, and is growing each year.
Dylan Newcomb and Deb Grant serve as the principal trainers and work with several experienced UZAZU-certified Training Assistants who support our trainings.
As our community continues to expand, we're preparing to 'train the trainers', bringing UZAZU Embodied Intelligence's approach to even more helping professionals, individuals and communities around the world.
Dylan Newcomb
Founder-DirEctor & Lead Trainer
Dylan is a mind-body researcher, coach, lead developer & trainer of UZAZU for 20 years, and a former professional dancer.
Deb Grant, LCSW, RSMT
Lead Trainer & Clinical Consultant
Deb is a trauma-informed psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience integrating and teaching somatic methods.
What People Say About Practicing UZAZU
UZAZU is such a holistic and comprehensive method. Among many things, it's helped me become more aware of my body and habits, manage my energy better, and stay more grounded while working with groups. It provides a complete package of embodiment, which has helped me integrate my own experiences and find a better balance between being and doing. Whether you're a therapist, coach, dancer, or even working with children or seniors, UZAZU can be adapted to your profession and is an amazing program to enhance your facilitation skills.
Susanna Holowati
Embodied Change Facilitator, Coach, Corporate Trainer, CERTIFIED UZAZU PRACTITIONER
UZAZU is like an elegant tool that allows me to gain a fuller felt sense of what feels uncomfortable AND comfortable throughout my body in a safe way. That allows me to better relate to my personal judgments and situations and become actually curious about something that would otherwise overwhelm me. The model is so digestible and effective at helping me then choose other responses to my unconscious patterns. Highly recommend!
Rocio Solano
IFS Practitioner, Mother
I've studied a lot of the embodiment work that's out there... And UZAZU is, for me anyway, the most elegant system of embodiment that I've come across. All of the different modes, or postures, fit together in such a beautiful way. I see it as a language of embodiment, that we can use then to model our psychology and our state, and for our clients as well. So it starts to become a meta-framework I can use to translate these other frameworks into UZAZU, into an embodied language.
Khali Young
CERTIFIED UZAZU PRACTITIONER, EMBODIED & MEDITATION TEACHER; ENTERPRISE AGILE COACH
Want to experience how UZAZU works — in your own body?
In this free 90-minute live session, you'll explore how your embodied state shapes your experience, your responses, and your relationships — and practice noticing and shifting your own patterns in real time. No prior experience needed.