Workshops
Step into spaces of healing, connection, and collective liberation. Camille offers trauma-informed somatic movement and dance workshops that honour the wisdom of our bodies and celebrate our resilience.
Drawing from Afro-cultural practices, somatic modalities, ancestral wisdom, and decades of dance experience, these workshops create sacred containers for embodied learning and transformation. Whether for community groups, organizations, or healing circles, each experience is thoughtfully curated to meet your community where you are.
Camille centres the experiences of Black women, femmes, and gender expansive individuals while also holding space for BIPOC communities, organizations committed to anti-oppressive work and all those who are looking for a socio-culturally attuned and responsive approach.
Ready to bring embodied healing to your community? Let’s create something beautiful together.
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Coming this February, in celebration of Black History Month: A Somatic Nourishment Resting Series honouring Black African Diasporic women, femmes, and gender expansive beings. Practices for deep rest and liberatory self-care—dates and descriptions coming soon.
Ancestral Hands: Somatic Nourishment
Date: Jan 25, 2026. 4pm-6pm EST
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Tickets: $35-$45 https://luma.com/f3qg9qj4
Duration: 2 hours
Winter invites us inward, to slow down, to rest, to let yourself be held. This guided somatic practice honours our collective connections to ancestors of kin, affinity, land, elements, and all beloved spirits. In this sacred virtual gathering, we explore the healing power of guided somatic, supportive touch and ancestral presence.
Through gentle touch practices—you might place a hand on your heart, touch your face, or cradle your head—we tend to our body’s innate capacity for deep nourishment and restoration. This relational practice weaves somatic modalities and spirit-guided wisdom, creating space for individual and collective nourishment.
Rooted in socio-cultural attunement, this practice centres the wisdom of Black, African Diasporic, and multicultural healing traditions. We honour touch as nonverbal communication that speaks directly to your body, supporting connection to ourselves, ancestral wisdom, and our inherent resilience.
Raqs Al Somatics
A healing-centered and somatic-based practice, integrating African dance arts of MENAHT / SWANA cultures with modern and contemporary dance. Through embodied inquiries and somatic exploration of movements, a holistic practice is cultivated. The practice is highly informed from studies and training in Raqs Sharqi (Bellydance) and integrated somatic modalities.
Soul Sessions: Somatic explorations for the soul
This unique offering is a one-on-one session supporting dancers/movers of all levels in their unique journey of gathering insight for personal/professional growth. This practice weaves together somatic movements, African Diasporic cultural practices and ancestral wisdom with contemporary understanding, creating healing-centered experiences. A container is held and invitations are offered. Somatic inquiries are suggested/guided to support embodied explorations.
No prior dance background is required.
With Heart; From the Inside, Out
This open level somatic movement & dance workshop explores our heart space from the inside, out. With guided somatic explorations, we consider what support for the inner landscape of the heart is needed to be out in the world. Holding curiosity and reverence, moving together, we embody our heart space with tenderness and care.
Innate Resilience: A somatic approach to movement and dance
This open level workshop explores how we can access our innate resilience through movement and dance practices. Slowing down from the rapid pace of our cognitive processing we learn to tune in to our sensory intelligence, intuition and body wisdom. Participants are offered a basic understanding of somatics and its effects on nervous system regulation. This will be used as a foundation for guided explorations that help us connect with our self and the environment.
Like water
“All water has a perfect memory…” Toni Morrison.
Inspired by the quote of Toni Morrison, African Indigenous spirituality and movement patterns, this open level, somatic movement and dance workshop explores the healing wisdom of water. Participants are invited to embody liberation practices, through guided movements that invoke opportunities to re-member and re-claim the whole self.
Somatic Nourishment ~ Water & Winter Solstice
Date: Dec 21, 2025. 1pm-3pm EST
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Tickets: $35-$45 https://luma.com/2uu4rwly
Duration: 2 hours total or 90 minutes of practice + optional 30 min.
Calling all Water Babies!
This is a guided somatic movement & dance experience that honours water’s intelligence and the stillness of winter solstice—the longest night before light begins its return. The extended darkness of this threshold offers us a unique container to work with water as both element and teacher, inviting us to explore the depths of what lives within our bodies.
At this particular moment in the wheel of the year, the planetary alignments create potent support for connecting with water’s elemental wisdom. This astrological backdrop invites us into the meeting place where spiritual insight and embodied form become one—exactly what somatic experiences can offer when we allow water’s intelligence to guide our experience.
The Healing Sisters Circle Retreat: Brunch & Bond: Nourishing Black Women’s Health, Sisterhood, & Self-Care
1.5 hr. Somatic Movement and Dance Workshop will be a part of The Healing Sisters Circle Retreat: Brunch & Bond: Nourishing Black Women’s Health, Sisterhood, & Self-Care
Sunday, September 15, 2024, 11:30am-5:30pm
This year’s HSC retreat is holding space with affirming Black wellness practitioners to honour the experiences of Black women’s reproductive health.
Workshop info: Within the container of community and ancestral wisdom an invitation to ‘be with’ and honour the complexity or our truth and embodied stories will be provided.
*Open to all levels of movement ability and somatic background. No dance experience is required.
Find more about the retreat and how to purchase tickets here: @healingsisterscircle_
Somatic movement & dance workshop hosted by Art + Health: Ethiopian & Eritrean Toronto Health Community
Saturday, February 25, 2023, Saturday, January 28, 2023.
1.5 hrs of Nourishing experiential practices, fostering mind-body connection for stress reduction and emotional wellbeing.
Embodied Somatic Therapy for racialized and Black bodies, hosted by CHP Alumni Healing Retreat
A 2-hour holistic practice, September 7th, 2022.
Re-membering: Afro-cultural indigenous approach to embodying liberation through somatic movement and dance explorations.
Moving our Stories: Participant Peer support circle with Adornment Stories
Centering Black women, non-binary people, and femme-identified folks. Sign up through the Adornment Stories website.
Somatic Movement & Dance Workshop Pt. 1 – Sat, October 2, 12-2PM (VIRTUAL)
This session will take participants through somatic movement exercises. Grounding tools and techniques. Practical skills for staying present and listening to the cues of our body.
Somatic Movement & Dance Workshop Pt. 2 – Sat, October 9, 12-2PM (VIRTUAL)
Re-Membering Ourselves: A Somatic Movement and Dance Workshop
This workshop is open to all levels of ability and movement backgrounds. No dance experience is required.
Re-membering ourselves seeks to assist the participant to cultivate felt sensations of wholeness, balance, and alignment within themselves. We will explore a somatic approach to dance that engages our intuition and supports organic movement pathways.
Participants will be offered a basic understanding of the practice of Somatics and how it relates to our nervous system, general biology and homeostasis. Guided explorations will be offered, providing participants opportunity to deepen felt connections within themselves, and to continuously honour their truth and embodied wisdom. Themes of felt sense of safety, discernment, and self-authority will be woven throughout the practice.
Practice Lab
The Toronto Dance Community Love-In’s Practice Lab with Camille Djokoto
Monday April 5th, 2021,10am-11:30EST
Wednesday April 7th, 2021, 10am-11:30am EST
Friday, April 9th, 2021, 6pm-7:30pm EST
Friday April 11th, 2021, 1pm-2:30pm EST
Register via the link in their bio: @tolovein
This lab is open to all levels of ability and movement backgrounds. No dance experience is required.
The lab seeks to assist the participant interested in cultivating a more holistic approach to their dance/ movement practice by focusing on movement rooted in the concept of innate resilience as support. Participants will have the opportunity to explore how they access support, their relationship to it, and how this impacts their relationship with movement.
With the use of somatic movement experientials, an invitation is offered to tune in to our sensory intelligence and the truth of our present awareness.
Participants will be offered a basic understanding of Somatics and its effects on nervous system regulation. This will be used as a foundation for guided explorations that seek to support deepening connection with the self, and our environments.
In honouring the diverse capacities present there is opportunity to engage curiosity, increase spontaneity and creativity, as well as widen movement pallets.
UNFURL: A 21 day Collective Practice by Wild Body Somatics
Wed. March 24, 2021 @ 7pm, sign up via their website.
Re-Membering: Embodying the architecture of our heart space with Camille Djokoto.
A one hour embodied exploration, engaging support, compassion, and humility.
Somatic Movement and Dance hosted by Adornment Stories
March 2nd, 2021 @ 5:30pm. Sign up on their website.
This session is for Black intersections of women, femmes, NB, and GNC folx.
A 1.5-hour holistic practice in Re-membering: Afro-cultural indigenous approach to embodying liberation through somatic movement and dance explorations.
Tenderness 101 hosted by NiaZamar
Sept 30, 2020 @ 5:30pm. Sign up on their website.
This session is for Black intersections of women, femmes, NB, and GNC folx.
A community practice in tending to one’s self through somatic movement and dance explorations.
Adornment Participant Retreat Training hosted by Adornment Stories
Sat. Aug 22, 2020
This session is for Black intersections of women, femmes, NB and GNC folx.
A 1.5-hour closed participant practice in deepening connections within ourselves through somatic movement and dance explorations
Innate Resilience: A somatic approach to movement and dance with Camille Djokoto
Sunday, Dec. 1st, 2019, 1pm-4pm hosted by The Dark Side Studio
Open to all levels of ability and movement backgrounds. No dance experience is required.
This workshop seeks to explore how we access our innate resilience through movement and dance practices. We will slow down from the rapid pace of our cognitive processing and learn to tune in to our sensory intelligence.
Participants will be offered a basic understanding of Somatics and its effects on nervous system regulation. This will be used as a foundation for all guided explorations.
This experiential opportunity allows us to gain insight into how we are moving through the world, drawing parallels between our movements and the relationships we hold on this earth: with ourselves, with others, and with our environments. You will be encouraged to engage internal connections that seek to honour your intuition and wisdom.
By engaging felt sensations of safety and curiosity we will create the opportunity for spontaneity and creativity, thereby building capacity for an authentic connection to our innate resilience.
For more information on how to register, go to The Dark Side studio website.
Young Black Women’s Project hosted by Moyo HCS
Open to all Black Women identifying & Non-Binary folks
November 9th, 2019, 9am to 5pm.
This 1.5-hour session addresses the impact stress has on our mind and body. Psycho-education and somatic tools are offered.
Embodying Liberation: A Somatic Workshop for IBPOC
Sunday, March 17, 2019
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Artscape Youngplace (180 Shaw Street) in the Movement Studio, downstairs*
Oppressive systems can profoundly affect our unconscious body, mind, and spirit as they seek to disconnect us from our bodies and one another. Over time and across generations of surviving racism, we begin to experience chronic symptoms of un-wellness that keep us from sensing our body’s wisdom and connecting wholly to ourselves.
In this workshop you will: learn to identify stress response symptoms, be provided with tools to track and observe your internal systems of safety, and explore self-regulatory resources needed to support opportunities for inner sensations of safety and security.
We are offering this workshop as a space for Indigenous people, Black people, and people of color to reclaim their bodies through embodied liberation practices of self-care. By deepening our connection to self, we can create the foundation for collective healing and to open new pathways of support within our communities.
Cost: $40-$60 sliding scale
Pre-registration is required before March 10, 2019. Limited spots are available. Please let us know if you find you are unable to attend after you have already registered so we can offer the spot to someone else.
Payment can be done by cash or e-transfer to [email protected] by March 17, 2019.
* This venue is wheelchair accessible and has a gender neutral washroom.
* Please feel free to bring any needed supports for sitting (blankets, pillows, yoga mats, chair, etc.) as the studio is unfurnished.
If you have any questions or would like to get in touch, please email us at [email protected]
The Relational Dance: Embodied Movement
Mondays, January 16-February 27, 2017. 7-9:30pm
This six part workshop explores embodied movement as a relational dance. Become dynamically present by opening to the experience of relational dance in a safe, supportive and respectful environment. Only when we are fully present to the constant dance our bodies are engaged in, can we open to the dance that we do with the other. That means becoming aware and alert to sense and feel our bodies and our responsiveness to the space, the ground, the group, and the other. Through a series of experiential exercises done in groups and dyad, we will find compassionate curiosity, and explore the joy of spontaneous and organic movement.
Come as you are. No previous dance experience required.
Soulful Movement: Connecting body and mind through dance
Mondays, August 3rd-Sept. 7th, 2015, 7:10-8:40pm.
In this unique six-part series we will experience fundamental movements rooted in Raqs Sharqi. At your own pace, you will be invited to explore a deeper sense of self through an experiential process. Engaging embodied movement, touch and sensory awareness we will seek to assimilate emotions, bodies and minds into a more integrated whole. This journey of self-exploration borrows from the holistic and therapeutic practice of Gestalt Bodywork. Bodywork honours muscular resistance by approaching it with curiosity, patience, and respect. By heightening our awareness we will practice tuning in and listening to our bodies. By supporting spontaneity and organic movement we will assist in the development of authentic style, reclaiming a fuller use of self, and moving towards integrating the mind and body.
Come as you are. Together we can explore soulful movement in a safe, supportive and respectful environment.
This class is open to all levels and backgrounds. No dance experience required.