Find your way through change with somatic life coaching, energy healing and dance ceremony.

Welcome to Dancing-Tree Healing

I’m Staci Boden, founder of Dancing-Tree and your potential person.

Can we work together?
Can we work together?

Imagine that midnight represents the dawn of a new day in your life.

You usually find me at around 11:48pm.

You share how you’ve been wanting a different relationship with yourself or daily life but you don’t know how to get from here to where you want to be.

In fact, you don’t know exactly where you want to be. Or what will make you feel better. Or even the kind of life, work or relationships you want to have.

One thing is clear, you need something different, something more than psychotherapy or talk alone.

I get it.

The space between 11:48pm and 12:01am holds so much — unresolved emotions, experiences, relationship patterns and ancestral material — it can feel confusing and overwhelming to know where to turn.

And maybe this isn’t sexy to say but I don’t want to waste your time.

The truth is that after 25 years of supporting curious and sometimes anxious people so committed to learning and growing that they’re willing to get uncomfortable, I’ve realized there isn’t one right way to transform your life.

There’s your way. And how you find your way.

If it could be as simple as waving a wand through the airwaves: poof! It would be done.

But I think we can agree that the kind of trust, self-love, clarity, and resilience it takes to find your way much less create meaningful new beginnings doesn’t just happen. Especially amidst systemic pressure designed to keep us down.

With so many unknowns in the air, feeling rooted and ready to dance through change is a journey.

A journey which also takes practice.

But guess what?

Turning dead ends into doorways is my specialty.

I'm ready to stop going it alone

"Staci's presence in my life has been unyielding and profound. With her support, I have been able to navigate living with anxiety, going through major life/work/relationship transitions, and learning to work with the unknown and the unknowable. Staci never ceases to be a source of nurturance, guidance, and deep, deep care."

~ Lisa L

Helping countless clients and groups transform has also taught me that cultivating meaningful change can include your mind but depends on connecting with your body and the energy that lives inside.

Specifically, healing sessions with me often encompass:

  • Shifting ingrained emotional patterns and mental loops so you can love yourself more.

  • Navigating and/or freeing yourself from difficult people in your life.

  • Accompanying women through evolutionary changes with work, body, parenting and divorce.

  • Exploring the meaning of complex relational dynamics alongside practical ways to implement insight.

  • Turning fear and anxiety into sources of awareness, intuition and choice.

  • Recovering from codependency, over giving and type A tendencies.

And so, if you’re looking for traditional talk therapy or cookie cutter life coaching, I’m not your person.

Instead, I offer somatic coaching, energy healing and dance ceremony for curious people — learners, seekers, change makers — committed to finding their way through change so they can create more meaningful lives. I also offer couples coaching and facilitation.

Across all mediums, my not-so-secret special healing sauce is love. Fierce love. Gentle love. Practical love. Belly-laughing love. Wise love.

Your journey begins with a (not so simple) question: what’s one thing you wish you had — a quality — that would make you feel more powerful and peaceful in your life?

Don’t know?

Come have tea with me on zoom and let’s talk.

This is a no pressure conversation to see what you need and if somatics can support, or not.

Yes, let's meet on Zoom!
Yes, let's meet on Zoom!

Healing is not one size fits all.

Explore Dancing-Tree branches to tailor your evolution:
Somatic Coaching
Somatic Coaching
A woman rests, showing how it feels to benefit from body-based coaching in the Bay Area
Energy Healing
Energy Healing
Somatic energy healing / somatic coaching altar with candles and statues in Pacifica.
Dance Ceremony
Dance Ceremony

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  • "I trust Staci completely."

    Mel F.

  • "Individual and group experiences with Staci are gold."

    Carlee A, coach, founder of trauma literacy

  • "Staci Boden has been a steadfast guide for me over the past decade. Her skillful and compassionate insights have influenced my path greatly. She is fierce when it is called for, and a deep listener who nurtures as she teaches. I would not be the woman I am today wthout her support and love."

    Tasha A.

  • "My partner and I had been through three ‘traditional’ couples' therapists in four years by the time we started working with Staci in 2021. Since then, we have experienced a tremendous shift out of our old patterns that were keeping us stuck in familiar conflict loops. We are strong personalities who need to be held by an equally strong, compassionate facilitator. Staci has been that for us, and we are now equipped to support ourselves through conflict, unmediated. Simply-put, Staci helped us not only save our relationship, but also deepen it into the most loving iteration of our partnership yet.”

    Olivia H.

  • "Staci holds a sacred space better than anyone I have ever experienced."

    Greta V.

  • "Staci's presence in my life has been unyielding and profound. With her support, I have been able to navigate living with anxiety, going through major life/work/relationship transitions, and learning to work with the unknown and the unknowable. Staci never ceases to be a source of nurturance, guidance, and deep, deep care."

    Lisa L.

  • "I'm in Michigan, so Staci and I work via Zoom but she may as well be sitting right next to me. If I'm visualizing sitting by the sea, she will, in that exact moment, mention the sea. If an animal friend or spirit guide shows up for me, Staci knows it immediately. She can detect the precise sensations in my body and intuit how to work that energy. It's uncanny. I may never understand how she does this, but I'm just so grateful for her deep, powerful work."

    Liz J.

  • "Staci Boden is a spiritual midwife, holding you in her arms as you deliver yourself from the pain of the past. I will give you this warning: Do not step into this process with Staci unless you are truly prepared to awaken that which has been sleeping, deep inside of you, for far too long."

    Gwen B.

  • "My husband and I found ourselves stuck in some patterns we were having trouble escaping. Working with Staci helped us identify the different ways in which we were effectively communicating and relating, and how we were not. She helped us gain greater understanding of our own energies and how we could create a both-and world."

    Tina S.

  • "The unique earth-based wise-woman energy healing that Staci offers has allowed me to sit with and move through some of the most difficult transitions in my life with awareness and grace. Her sessions are just the right combination of talk (checking-in), energy work and assessment. I always feel seen, held, and lighter afterwards."

    Hannah E.

  • "I started seeing Staci because I felt boxed in and trapped - literally. Staci helped me transform the box and get in touch with aspects of my life that had been long buried. She's provided the space and support to allow those aspects to thrive and flourish, which has helped me grow as a person. I no longer feel trapped and boxed in, my anxiety has diminished, and I've started writing again."

    Carey H.

  • "My beloved and I were fortunate to work with Staci over the course of 2+ years. Her skillful listening and pointed observations helped us to open to changes our relationship needed. The tools and practices along with having a place to talk it out together created a relationship container than holds us today. We would not have made it without her. Thank you, Staci for guiding and loving us."

    Teresa C.

  • "With Staci I've begun a journey into my own truth - one I've been afraid to take for this entire lifetime. But it feels as though she holds my hand and creates a space where I can come to trust my own instincts, intuition, and wisdom. When I'm overwhelmed I can rely on the tools I've found instead of various addictions. Sessions with Staci are the most worthwhile work I've ever done."

    Diana C.

  • "Staci does not lead you into deep places unattended."

    Catherine A.

  • "Staci was a clear, gentle and yet, ever present grounding force that helped me harness my own inner strength to leave an abusive relationship. From there, she's been a touchstone and guide for expanding into my own self-love and self-supportive capacity in its many permutations. I'm so grateful for the depths of Staci's innate wisdom and practical knowledge."

    Jadyn D.

  • “The opportunity to sit with the kind of people who come to Staci’s groups is a particular gift. It’s rare to get to be with the reflection and accountability and presence these folks bring. I’ve not only formed lifelong friendships but Staci’s groups have been a place I’ve wanted to bring some of my closest people. In terms of creating virtual community, Staci’s groups have an alchemy of being in village in a way we don’t get, especially in our leadership lives.”

    Carlee A.

  • "Recently I was struck by the (rather frightening) realization that, without Staci, I may have lived the rest of my life having never experienced the profound insight, awareness and healing this deep sacred work offers. Staci is the real deal. Where other practices I've tried have been more saccharine, her teaching is sweet honey, straight from the bee."

    Jenny B.

  • "I am forever grateful to Staci and her beautiful book, which came into my life at a time when I was spinning in circles. Nothing compares to the loving container she upholds, the deep energy work and her mama bear presence. Thank you Staci for the ongoing space holding and guidance as I step into my heart work. Much love!"

    Sam L.

  • "Staci's loving support and wise guidance helped me through a very challenging phase of my life. She not only helped me to make sense of a painful ending with a friend, she also helped me to 'make medicine' out of it. I feel deeply grateful for Staci's integrative approach, wisdom and loving care."

    Lindsay J.

  • "Staci's methods helped me see that healing power is not only real, it is within all of us. Sometimes what it takes is learning a few tools and a lot of support."

    Jay J.

  • "I joined Following Energy for Change Makers so I could be a better leader at work, but what I also got was how to be a better leader inside myself, and to recognize what I want and need from the leadership of others.”

    Christina, Editorial Director and Head of Creative

  • “I loved the structure and support of the Following Energy for Change Makers program. And the big surprise was the value and depth of the asynchronous mentoring between Staci and I. It became something that was special, deep, and so sweet. It’s like - oh my, just what I needed to hear, delivered from a wise and kind woman, and just for me!?! I had no idea; what a revelation - I loved it!”

    Julia, psychotherapist

  • “The one-to-one asynchronous mentoring in Following Energy for Changes Makers was outstanding. I couldn't believe I could just leave as many voice messages as I wanted, and I'd always get a response. Staci would send a message or a picture or a video of the ocean because she knew that it calms me. It's like, what? I don't know how she had the capacity to extend that much care on an individual level. That was something I've looked for and not found in other one-to-one dynamics, and it was such a gift, really healing, and tremendously valuable.”

    Christina, Editorial Director and Head of Creative