Embodied Emotional Wisdom

In our current uncertain times, more than ever, we need to develop our capacity to skillfully engage with our full emotional spectrum.

What would it be like to transform even your most difficult feelings into natural sources of wisdom, resilience, and authentic connection?

A 7-Week Live Online Training with Dylan Newcomb

April 22 - June 3, 2025

Tuesdays 1-3pm ET + Optional Thursday Practice Sessions 12-1:15pm ET

The Emotional Challenges We're Currently Facing

We're living in emotionally demanding times. Our current pace of change, social complexity, and global uncertainty combine in potent ways that challenge even the most grounded among us. Our nervous systems aren't yet evolved for this constant level of complex stimulation and concerns. Yet here we are—navigating it together, as best we can. ❤️

discouraged and down affect - young woman

Most of us respond to these challenges in one of two ways: either we become overwhelmed by our emotions, feeling hijacked by anxiety, frustration, or despair—or we disconnect from them, creating a numbing distance that might protect us temporarily but leaves us feeling oddly empty and ineffective. Neither path leads to the wisdom, vitality, and meaningful connection we're truly seeking in our lives and relationships.

What's missing isn't another technique for simply managing emotions or moving them out of mind. What's called for is a developmental, embodied approach that helps us mature into a fundamentally different relationship with our emotional lives—one where we neither fear nor avoid our feelings, but instead welcome and work with them as the essential guides and energies they're meant to be.

A Different Approach to Emotions: From Management to Maturation

Our emotions develop through life experience, early relationships, and the interplay between our biology, family dynamics, personality, culture, and environment. Over time, we each develop our own emotional patterns of imbalance and compensation—often by avoiding our more 'unsafe' feelings ("I can't...") and/or becoming overtaken by our more 'compulsive' feelings ("I must...").

In this embodiment-based emotions training, we cultivate a deep shift in how we engage with our emotional landscape. Rather than seeing emotions as disruptive forces to be controlled, we learn to embrace them as uniquely valuable sources of wisdom and energy. We work equally with both our personal, primary emotions (like fear, anger, joy) that connect us to individual needs, and our relational, socio-moral emotions (like shame, pride, empathy) that shape our connections with others.

This developmental approach centers around expanding our "window of tolerance"—our capacity to experience emotions without shutting down or becoming flooded. Through embodied practices that engage our nervous system directly, we gradually transform reactive emotional states into resourced expressions that provide wisdom and energy—whether it's the protective discernment of fear, the motivating energy of anger, the integrative healing of sadness, or the connecting power of joy.

A Journey of Emotional Growth in 7 Weekly Modules

This 7-week emotional development journey unfolds through a carefully crafted sequence, designed to build safety and capacity before challenging deeper patterns. Each module builds upon the previous one, creating a comprehensive pathway that helps transform reactive emotional patterns into resourced wisdom through clear conceptual frameworks, potent embodied practices, and supportive community interactions.

Module 1: Navigating Your Emotional Terrain

- Mapping the Four Core Affect States That Guide You

In this foundational module, we'll explore the four core affect states that shape our reactions and responses, giving you a practical framework for understanding why you sometimes feel overwhelmed by certain emotions while remaining largely disconnected from others.

Module 2: Expanding Your Emotional Range

- Building Safety and Capacity for the Full Spectrum

Together, we'll build your capacity to stay present with a wider range of emotional experiences without shutting down or getting flooded—cultivating what we call "affect tolerance" and widening our Window of Tolerance—laying the foundation for transforming your reactive patterns.

Module 3: Embracing the Wisdom of Slowing Down

- Finding Restorative Peace & Solace in the Quiet Emotions

This soul-nourishing module will guide you through the full spectrum of calming emotional patterns, where we'll discover together the profound wisdom hidden in our sadness, contentment, and appreciation—states that our fast-paced culture often teaches us to avoid or rush through.

Module 4: Harnessing the Power of Energetic Activation

- Finding Supportive Strength & Purpose in the Dynamic Emotions

Together, we'll harness the tremendous power residing in high-energy emotions like fear, anger, desire, and joy—exploring how to channel these dynamic states that most of us have in some ways either learned to partially suppress or become overwhelmed by.

Module 5: Opening Space for Your Silenced Feelings

- Transforming "I can't..." into "I'm ready to..."

Through gentle, body-based differentiation practices, we'll create safe pathways back to emotions you've learned to minimize or avoid, compassionately accessing their hidden wisdom while iteratively overcoming the limiting internal narratives that whisper: "I can't handle this feeling."

Module 6: Re-Centering Amidst Compulsive Intensity

- Transforming "I must..." into "I choose to..."

This module will focus on bringing balance to overwhelming emotional states—not by suppressing their energy but by skillfully integrating complementary resources that help balance and transform compulsive "I must" reactions into more authentically empowered, conscious "I choose to" responses.

Module 7: Weaving Emotional Wisdom into Your Life

- Creating Your Ongoing Practice and Growth Path

Finally, we'll explore how to apply your growing emotional wisdom across different life contexts—in your relationships, work, creative expression, and response to life's inevitable challenges—sustainable practices and personalized micro-habits that support your continued emotional development, well beyond the training,

Key Benefits of Going Through This Process...

Build emotional resilience and keep engaged without burning out

You'll strengthen your capacity to stay connected amidst today's complex realities while maintaining your center, transforming collective anxiety into grounded presence and meaningful contribution.

Cultivate boundaries that strengthen connections, rather than divide

Your relationships can flourish more as you learn to stay present with others' emotions without absorbing them, maintaining your well-being while offering authentic, sustainable support.

Break through self-sabotage and finally take more consistent action

Working directly with your nervous system, you'll strengthen your capacity to move past pesky avoidance patterns and follow through on your intentions, even when emotions run high.

Embrace challenging life transitions as doorways to profound growth

You'll develop a deeper relationship with your emotions that allows you to navigate life's inevitable changes with greater wisdom, using them as powerful guides for deep self-reorganization.

Hear from Some Previous Emotions Training Participants:

“After this Emotions Training, I am holding my emotions in a container that I didn't really have before—that I didn't see and didn't feel. And that's really powerful.

I always kind of thought emotions were just difficult things. I didn't really know why we had them.

Now, I feel like they're my friend much more than before—that they're actually helping me orient better, rather than being just something I have to manage.”

Ayisha de Lanerolle

This training has helped me tremendously. I have recognized many stuck emotions and patterns which I just couldn't see until now. Thanks to the caring, supportive, and respectful process during the training, I dared to feel, observe and shift stuff that I've never imagined was there. And that was very liberating!

I can see and feel now how my emotions connect with the energy that's wanting to move and what is truly wanting to happen. I go now into my own life and work with my own projects, or with client sessions, in a whole new way!

Reyna Pomodoro

“I learned to give value to the capacity to experience each emotion, even those that are not my natural place or a comfortable place for me. When an emotion is intense and it's very unpleasant, my natural instinct is to try to make it go away. But this Emotions Training gave me the ability to notice and recognize and verbalize to myself how I am, in the emotion.

The tools that Dylan gave us to grow our tolerance, to feel emotions that are not comfortable, it's really empowering. They gave me a real sense of safety and peace.”

Nivi Dean

“My biggest takeaway from this Emotions Training is the clarity, roadmap, and embodied experience Dylan brings to understanding, navigating and working with the emotional landscape. He has taken something that is very complex, complicated and heady, and created a framework that makes sense and shifts emotional language from the academic, and theoretical to what is accessible and relatable for all people, helping them to more robustly navigate in their day-to-day life and relationships.”

CarOline Conway

Here's what you get as part of this training

Seven 2-Hour Live Training Modules (Tuesdays, 1-3pm ET): Interactive sessions where Dylan guides you through key principles and dimensions of emotional experience, offering clear explanations and immediate opportunities for embodied exploration. Each module builds systematically on previous learning while creating space for questions and personalized guidance.
Weekly 75-Minute Practice Sessions (Thursdays, 12-1:15pm ET): Optional but highly valuable sessions that deepen your embodied experience through guided practices, partner work, and integration exercises. These sessions emphasize the experiential dimension of the work, helping you develop greater facility with the practices and refine your ability to apply them in daily life. Recordings are available if you can't attend live.
Comprehensive Learning Materials: Detailed handouts, step-by-step practice scripts, visual guides, and reflection questions support your exploration between sessions. These resources help you continue integrating what you've learned into your daily experience, providing structured guidance when you need it.
Supportive Learning Community: An engaged group of participants providing mutual support, shared insight, and the opportunity to practice in relationship. This community container significantly enhances learning while reducing the isolation many experience around emotional challenges.
Extended Access to All Materials: Two full years of access to all session recordings, allowing you to revisit concepts and practices as your understanding deepens. This extended access ensures you can continue learning and integrating long after the formal training concludes.

Your invitation to grow and transform in challenging times.

In my over two decades of teaching embodiment practices, I've never felt more strongly about the timeliness of cultivating our emotional wisdom than I do now. Today's world demands more from our emotional capacities than ever before, and our collective ability to navigate these complex challenges depends largely on how skillfully we can engage with our emotions—rather than being controlled by them.

In this training, we'll address together the root source of so many core challenges—our relationship with our own emotional landscape and limiting patterns—rather than just managing symptoms and stresses. The skills you'll develop will continue serving you long after the program concludes, affecting your relationships, professional effectiveness, capacity to contribute, and even your physical health. I rarely make strong recommendations, but I genuinely believe this kind of embodied emotional self-work and relational work represents one of the highest-leverage investments we can make in these pivotal times.

With love and support, Dylan ❤️

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Your Guide: Dylan

Dylan Newcomb is the founder of UZAZU Embodied Intelligence and has spent over 20 years researching and developing embodied approaches to personal transformation. His journey began personally—as a Juilliard-trained composer and professional dancer with the Netherlands Dance Theater, Dylan noticed that despite his artistic successes and the rich flow states he experienced while performing, these skills and states weren't carrying over into his everyday relationships and emotional life.

This tension, and the desire to overcome it, sparked multiple government-funded research projects in the Netherlands, exploring how sound and movement patterns directly influence our emotional states and nervous system regulation. Over the next 10 years, ultimately working with thousands of participants across four continents, Dylan gradually developed UZAZU through collective exploration, rigorous testing, and continuous refinement. His approach uniquely integrates polyvagal theory, Daoist & I Ching yin-yang philosophy, embodied cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, and somatic practices into an accessible methodology that honors both scientific precision and intuitive wisdom.

In his private coaching practice, Dylan has helped people navigate everything from relationship challenges and entrepreneurial obstacles to integrating early trauma, giving him iteratively deeper insight into how our emotional patterns shape our lives. He creates learning environments that feel simultaneously intellectually enriching, emotionally safe, and often surprisingly playful. Known for his warm, accessible teaching style, Dylan guides with a balance of clear structure and responsive attunement, making complex embodied and emotional concepts more immediately intuitive, 'embodyable', and applicable to everyday life.

Dylan lives in Freeport, Maine with his wife Kyung-sun and their teenage daughter. His teaching is deeply informed by his own often humbling ongoing journey with emotions—embracing the daily practice of noticing patterns, meeting challenges with compassionate awareness, and finding that the most profound growth often emerges not from 'succeeding in doing it right', but from bringing genuine, embodied presence to our perfectly imperfect, ever-evolving human experience.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is this different from other emotional intelligence or somatic approaches?

Unlike approaches that primarily focus on managing difficult emotions or immediately reframing them as positive, we embrace the full ecology of all emotional states—recognizing that even challenging emotions contain essential wisdom when properly understood and engaged. We explore how all emotions serve important functions within our larger emotional system, helping you transmute even the most difficult feelings into sources of resilience and insight rather than just trying to quickly transform them into "positive" states.

Our training gives equal weight to both primary emotions (like fear, anger, joy) and socio-moral emotions (like shame, pride, guilt)—a crucial pairing that's often overlooked in emotional development work. This balanced approach helps you understand not just your personal emotional reactions but also the complex emotions that arise in relationship with others and within community contexts, creating a more complete map of your emotional landscape.

We've developed a uniquely integrated approach that weaves together clear cognitive frameworks with immediate embodied practices, grounded in polyvagal theory and window of tolerance concepts. This integration allows you to both intellectually understand and physically experience how emotions move through your system, creating a learning experience where insights become embodied wisdom rather than just interesting concepts to think about.

Do I need previous UZAZU experience to participate in and benefit from this training?

No, this training is designed to be fully accessible to newcomers while still offering depth for experienced practitioners. We begin by introducing the underlying dimensions and their simple embodied movement principles, then use these to help you access and work with the four core emotional states and the eight personal and interpersonal emotion patterns. Everything unfolds in a grounded, logical, and practical way that builds naturally step by step. We create a learning environment where both beginners and advanced practitioners learn together, with everyone finding their appropriate growth edge.

That said, emotional development work can sometimes touch on challenging personal material. If you know you have trauma or find it difficult to re-regulate yourself when triggered, you might want to check with your therapist or healthcare provider about whether this format is supportive for your needs right now. While many find this work beautifully complements therapeutic processes, it's not a substitute for personalized work with a trauma-trained professional when that's needed.

If you have specific concerns about whether this training would be appropriate for your situation, please feel free to reach out to Dylan directly at dylan.newcomb@uzazu.org. We're committed to creating a safe, supportive environment for everyone's learning journey.

I'm interested but unsure if this is the right fit. How can I decide?

This training is likely a good fit if you've done some emotional or self-awareness work but notice a gap between your understanding and how you actually respond in daily life; find yourself caught in recurring emotional patterns despite your best efforts; or feel challenged by the emotional demands of your current situation and want more effective ways to maintain balance.

For the training to be effective, you'll need to commit to working through all sessions in sequence (either live or via replays), engage with the embodied practices between sessions, and be genuinely willing to feel your emotions in your body more deeply—not just understand them intellectually.

While we create a supportive environment and help everyone maintain regulation throughout our journey together, you should have a basic capacity to self-manage your emotional states. If you regularly experience severe dysregulation that requires several hours to recover from, or frequently need outside help to return to balance, we compassionately suggest building more self-regulation capacity through one-on-one work before joining this training.

That said, if these considerations don't apply to you and you're ready to commit the time, engage with the practices, and stay present with your emotional experience, this training can be truly transformative. If you have specific questions about whether this is right for you right now, feel free to email Dylan at dylan.newcomb@uzazu.org.

How much time should I dedicate to practice between sessions?

Participants who engage in 15-20 minutes of daily practice typically experience the most meaningful shifts, but even 5-10 minutes can be valuable when done consistently. We provide a mix of brief embodied exercises, visualizations, and self-reflection prompts that fit realistically into busy lives. Remember, consistency matters more than duration—a few minutes daily is more effective than an hour once a week.

Perhaps even most importantly, the weekly Thursday practice sessions are also designed to work well as replay practice recordings you can easily follow along with again and again, as serves you both during and well beyond the course.

Will sessions be recorded if I can't attend live?

Yes, all sessions are recorded and available within 24 hours, with access for two full years after the program concludes. While joining live creates opportunities for direct interaction and community connection, many participants successfully integrate the material through recordings. You can still ask questions between sessions via the online Heartbeat app—either to the whole group and Dylan or just to Dylan privately when necessary, and we provide structured ways for those attending asynchronously to share experiences and insights with the community.

What if I miss the optional Thursday practice sessions?

The Thursday practice sessions deepen your embodied experience of each module's content, but they're intentionally designed as optional-yet-highly-reccommended components. If you can't attend live, the recordings allow you to engage with these practices when it works for you. We also provide written practice guides that support self-directed exploration, helping you integrate the key elements even if you can't join every session.

Is this training appropriate if I'm currently working with a therapist?

Many participants find this work beautifully complements their therapy, often helping them embody and integrate the insights gained in therapeutic settings. We recommend sharing with your therapist that you're considering this training—many therapists appreciate how this approach enhances their clients' progress. However, this training isn't designed as crisis intervention or a replacement for mental health treatment or direct trauma therapy. If you're experiencing acute mental health and/or self-regulation challenges, we suggest working with appropriate clinical support as your primary resource before joining.

What happens after the 7-week training concludes?

The training is designed to provide you with ongoing practices and perspectives you can continue applying long after our formal time together ends. You'll have access to all recordings for two full years, allowing you to revisit modules as your understanding deepens. Many participants find that the embodied practices become integrated into their daily lives, creating lasting shifts in how they relate to their emotions. Some graduates also form informal practice groups to continue supporting each other's emotional development journey. While this training stands completely on its own, it also serves as an excellent foundation for further exploration of UZAZU's approach if you wish to continue deepening your embodied emotional wisdom. UZAZU also has a directory of certified practitioners, with whom you could engage to do some follow-up work on themes and patterns that emerged during this training.