The Four Core Engagement Processes
A 4-Week Live Online Training led by Dylan Newcomb, with Deb Grant
Every moment of your life, you’re engaged in one of four core embodied processes at the living edge where your inner world meets the outer world.
This training doesn’t just help you understand these processes — it helps you secure genuine felt access to each one, so that every process becomes a resource you genuinely want to draw on when life asks for it.
Tuesdays at 1:00 PM Eastern | May 12 – June 2, 2026
Something You Might Recognize
You’ve done real work on yourself — therapy, workshops, retreats, meditation, maybe all of the above. You can name your patterns. You understand your triggers. You’ve developed genuine wisdom about how you show up...
And yet — when the pressure comes, the same reactions run. The familiar anxiety rises and all that understanding evaporates. "If I know so much, why can’t I actually show up differently when it matters?"
Here’s what we’ve learned after years of teaching embodied transformation: that gap between knowing and being isn’t a knowledge problem. It’s an access problem. You don’t need more insight about your patterns — you need the ability to feel them moving in real time, and to navigate them from inside your body, not from inside your head.
That’s why this training privileges felt experience over concepts at every turn: do and feel it first, name it second, reflect on it third. That sequence grounds everything.
“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 UZAZU?
UZAZU is an embodied pattern language — a way of mapping the typically invisible ways we feel, relate, and show up.
Over more than two decades, this approach has been developed and refined into something both precise and practical: a set of patterns you can directly feel in your body, recognize in your relationships, and navigate with increasing skill. Not abstract categories imposed from outside — living patterns perceived from within.
What makes this pattern language different: once you learn to perceive these patterns, you can’t unsee them. They show up everywhere — in how you handle a difficult conversation, how you respond to stress, how you show up in your closest relationships, how you lead, how you listen.
And the same fundamental architecture plays out across every domain of your life: your emotions, your ways of engaging, your values, even how you organize your life contexts. This training gives you the foundation.
The Four Core Engagement Processes
Every moment of your life, you’re engaged in one of four fundamental processes at the living edge where your inner world meets the outer world. Most of us have strong defaults in one or two while the others stay underdeveloped or vanish under pressure.
This training doesn’t just help you understand these processes — it helps you secure genuine felt access to each one, so that every process becomes a resource you genuinely want to draw on when life asks for it.
Attending to Our Inner Experience
The ground of being you can relax into, even when everything else is moving.
The capacity to sense inward, to absorb your own experience, to check in with what you actually feel, want, and need. This is the process of turning toward yourself — not as self-absorption, but as the necessary foundation for everything else. When you can access Inner Experience, you have ground to stand on. You can feel what's true for you even when the room is pulling you in other directions. When you can't, you're navigating life without knowing what's actually happening inside you — and every other capacity suffers for it.
Mobilizing Our Self-Agency
Acting from your authentic energy and impulses, not just from what the world wants from you
The capacity to act from your own ground — to assert your truth, set boundaries, hold your position when the world pushes back. Not reactive aggression, but centered, purposeful action that comes from knowing who you are and what matters. Self-Agency is what gives your inner knowing an outer form — the process of moving from sensing what's true for you to actually living it, speaking it, standing behind it. Without it, your deepest wisdom stays trapped inside. With it, you become someone others can feel and trust.
Attuning to Our Connections
Taking in and relating to the world of others without losing your own.
The capacity to take in what's not-you — to listen deeply, to empathize, to sense into another person's experience without dissolving into it. This is how we build real relationship, read the room, and create genuine safety for others. Connection isn't merging — it's the process of opening to another while staying rooted in yourself. When it's available, you can truly meet another human being where they are. When it's not, relationships stay surface-level — or you lose yourself trying to be present for someone else.
Contributing to Our Collaborations
Where your energy flows outward and makes a tangible difference.
The capacity to act from your own ground — to assert your truth, set boundaries, hold your position when the world pushes back. Not reactive aggression, but centered, purposeful action that comes from knowing who you are and what matters. Self-Agency is what gives your inner knowing an outer form — the process of moving from sensing what's true for you to actually living it, speaking it, standing behind it. Without it, your deepest wisdom stays trapped inside. With it, you become someone others can feel and trust.
You're Not a Type. You're a Collection of Embodied Patterns.
You don't discover which process you "are." You discover how you move through all four — and in each one, you have a pattern. Sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes just right for the moment. Most of us tend to over-rely on one or two of these core engagement processes, while the others become minimalized—especially under pressure. This training develops your capacity to see those tendencies clearly — and to re-pattern how you respond, with more balance, more range, and more conscious choice.
Four Things This Training Develops
You may already invest in practices that develop your inner life — meditation, movement, therapy, coaching. What this training adds is an explicitly embodied, relational dimension: a felt framework for how you engage, practiced together in community. Through these four interactive training sessions and follow-up exercises, you develop:
A felt, embodied way of perceiving yourself and others — and precise language to go with it
Not more information about patterns — a direct capacity to recognize them in real time, in your body, not just your mind. The four processes give you words for something you've felt your whole life but couldn't articulate. That naming, grounded in felt perception, creates a kind of self-understanding that goes far deeper than intellectual insight — and gives you a shared vocabulary for talking about what actually matters with the people in your life. You can't work with what you can't feel, and you can't communicate what you can't name. This training develops both.
The ability to consciously recalibrate under pressure
The capacity to notice, in the moment, when you've collapsed into a habitual pattern — and to shift toward whatever the situation actually needs. Not forcing a different response, but feeling and subtly shifting your way into a more balanced one. This is where awareness, plus skill, translates into real choice.
An embodied pattern language that connects what you already know
If you've studied multiple modalities, practiced meditation, done therapy — this isn't another technique to add. It's a way of sensing, from the inside, how different practices and life experiences relate to each other. Many experienced practitioners say this framework finally makes intuitive sense of years of prior learning — not by explaining it intellectually, but by giving you a felt architecture you can navigate with your body.
A body-mind that learns to respond instead of react
The more you consciously practice recalibrating these patterns, the more your embodied intelligence learns what serves you better — and begins to do it on its own. Over time, what started as conscious effort becomes intuitive capacity. This training is complete in itself, and it's also the foundation of a longer developmental journey. Your investment in this foundation travels with you (more on this below).
"Practicing UZAZU has changed how I energetically interact with everything around me. I have more drive and more passion! And I feel how I can be more authentic now. The most beneficial aspect of working with UZAZU, however, was how my personal relationships have shifted!"
Ben MacIsaac
Who This Training Is For
Whether you'd be training in UZAZU Embodied Intelligence for the first time or returning to deepen your knowledge, skill, and experience, this training will meet you where you're at:
For those new to this work:
If your personal development work hasn’t fully translated into different behavior under pressure — this training bridges that gap, not with more concepts, but with embodied perception that changes what you can feel and how you can respond. You’ll leave with a navigation method you can use in real time — not just understanding of your patterns, but the felt capacity to shift them.
If you’re a helping professional who gives more than you receive — this training doesn’t ask you to do more. It helps you feel, in your body, how giving and receiving work as embodied processes — and discover that the ones you’ve been neglecting might be exactly the resources you’re most hungry for.
If you sense there’s a deeper organizing principle beneath everything you’ve already learned — this is a pattern language that connects what you already know. Simple enough to seem obvious at first, deep enough to reward years of engagement.
If you’re navigating a significant life transition and need something that addresses who you’re becoming rather than optimizing who you’ve been — the four processes provide an embodied compass for navigating uncertainty, in a more grounded way, from the inside out.
For those returning to this work:
If you’ve already learned and practiced the eight UZAZU modes or explored the Four Areas of Embodiment, you’ll recognize the territory here — the four fundamental ways you engage at the living edge where your inner world meets the outer world.
What’s different now is how deeply we’re going in. After years of teaching this work, we’ve come to see that so much of our significant patterning lives right here, at this foundational level — and that dedicated time at this depth gives you something our previous approach, which moved more quickly toward the eight modes, couldn’t fully provide. More grounding. More immediate applicability. More capacity to work with what matters most in your everyday life.
Your previous experience gives you a head start — and this training will give it deeper roots.
What You Receive: The Complete Foundation:
Package & Pricing Options
First-Time Learners
Everything described above: four live 2-hour training sessions with Dylan, all recordings with 4-year access, practice guides, and community access.
$ 327
Returning Learners
If you’ve previously engaged with any of UZAZU’s Foundations trainings in the Modes of Embodied Engagement, this discount is offered in acknowledgment of your prior investment.
$ 225
Please note: If you've completed any of our prior 9-month Practitioner Certification trainings, you'll receive a separate email with a larger discount coupon for this training.
Partial Scholarships Available:
We have a limited number of partial scholarships available for those facing genuine financial constraints. If this work speaks to you but the investment is a barrier, we'd like to hear from you. Send us an email (dylan.newcomb@uzazu.org) and let us know about your situation — we'll work with you to find a level that makes participation possible. We want this work to reach people who are ready for it.
What people are saying about doing UZAZU practices...
"(UZAZU) is a powerful way of getting in touch with all the energies in our body. The movements are simple and therefore very accessible and, at the same time, they have great depth and subtlety. Through the focus on polarities, I can understand myself and others better."
Anita Palvaast, Coach & TRainer
“It felt like UZAZU Embodied Intelligence really offered the map, the framework, the developmental structure, and then tools to really support someone. Now that I have an embodied map, I can take any issue and kind of map it with the UZAZU and get a much more well rounded view of this is what's going on, so I can get to the roots of the issue easier.”
Albert Viljoen, Executive COAch & UZAZU PRactitioner
Meet the Trainers:
Dylan Newcomb
Dylan works 1-1 with coaches, therapists, teachers, entrepreneurs, and cultural creatives of all kinds to cultivate and access the specific embodied states that help empower them more effortlessly to thrive in their personal and professional relationships and take joyful, effective action on their authentic inspirations. He has led over 200 workshops and trainings for helping professionals and laypeople, teaching about self-regulation and state-shifting.
Dylan spent the first fifteen years of his adulthood (1999-2004) as a dancer, choreographer, and composer. He studied both dance and music composition at the Juilliard School in New York City and danced with the world-renowned Netherlands Dance Theater before going on to enjoy a successful multi-award-winning career as a freelance choreographer & composer.
Driven by an interest to understand the deeper effects of sound and movement on people’s experience, behavior, and relational dynamics, Dylan co-founded the Danslab Institute for Movement Research in 2003 (today called Cloud at Danslab), generously funded by the Dutch Government and multiple other grants.
After several years of research into how vowel sounds affect people’s thoughts, emotion, and behavior, Dylan began shaping his sound-movement research findings into a model—and a method—for helping people identify various forms of embodied state imbalances and then shifting and re-patterning them. This research is what led him to what is now called UZAZU Embodied Intelligence.
Dylan also holds certifications in Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Healing from the Body-Level Up (HBLU), Psychological Kinesiology (Psych-K).
He lives with his wife Kyung-sun Baek and their 15-year-old daughter Kiana in Freeport Maine.
With Guest-Teacher: Deb Grant, LCSW, LSMT
Deb has co-presented workshops on polyvagal theory with Deb Dana, including at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts as well as at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. Among her many collaborations with Deb Dana, she co-authored a chapter in the book entitled Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-informed Therapies (Editors Stephen Porges and Deb Dana).
Deb is a Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Educator and a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, and holds two yoga teacher certifications. She teaches improvisational dance using somatic and relational approaches, offering students ways of using dance as a personal practice for health, well-being and embodiment.