The Somatic Dojo is where you expand that capacity through hands-on NeuroSomatic Release Therapy™, nervous system training, embodied practice, and immersive human connection.
A stronger nervous system transforms every area of your life.
Most people try to change their lives by changing their thoughts, improving their habits, or working harder.
The Somatic Dojo begins somewhere deeper.
Over three immersive days, you’ll train the nervous system that shapes how you respond to stress, connect with others, recover from challenges, lead under pressure, and create the life you’re capable of sustaining.
Because lasting transformation isn’t simply about what you know. It’s about what your body has the capacity to hold.
To remain present under pressure. To lead without bracing. To stay connected during conflict. To recover without withdrawing. To meet uncertainty with clarity instead of survival.
True strength is not found in pushing harder. It is found in developing a nervous system that can remain open, adaptable, and resilient as life asks more of you.
The Somatic Dojo develops that capacity through the integration of hands-on NeuroSomatic Release Therapy™, embodied practice, nervous system training, and real-world application.
You know what needs to change, yet your body continues returning to familiar patterns under pressure.
You become increasingly capable of carrying more—while quietly losing flexibility, joy, and ease.
The moments that matter most become the moments your nervous system defaults to protection instead of connection.
Relationships, leadership, health, and purpose all begin reflecting the limits of what your body believes it can safely hold.
The Somatic Dojo exists to help expand those limits through immersive nervous system training, hands-on NeuroSomatic Release Therapy™, embodied practice, and meaningful human connection.
People devoted to meaningful work often become extraordinarily capable on the outside while carrying an invisible cost within.
Yet beneath that competence, many are living with chronic tension, emotional constriction, accumulated stress, and nervous systems that have adapted to survive rather than fully live.
Eventually, the cost begins to reveal itself. Success feels harder to sustain. Relationships become more difficult to navigate. Rest no longer restores. The body begins asking for a different way.
The Somatic Dojo was created for those who know they are capable of more but understand that the next chapter of their life requires a different foundation than simply working harder.
Through guided movement, breathwork, somatic practices, and experiential exercises, you’ll develop the ability to remain present under pressure, recover more efficiently from stress, and build a deeper relationship with your body.
This isn’t about learning more information. It’s about creating new embodied experiences that your nervous system can actually integrate.
Your nervous system determines how you respond to stress, connection, uncertainty, and the demands of everyday life. Through precise somatic practices and experiential training, you’ll recalibrate deeply conditioned patterns while expanding your capacity to regulate, recover, and respond with greater clarity, resilience, and presence.
As unresolved stress, trauma, and protective survival responses become embedded within the nervous system, they can continue shaping the way you think, feel, move, and relate long after the original experiences have passed. Through intentional recalibration, you’ll begin replacing these automatic patterns with greater regulation, adaptability, and embodied capacity.
Transformation doesn’t happen through breakthrough moments alone. It happens when your nervous system learns to embody new patterns in relationship, movement, communication, leadership, and everyday life.
Through guided partner work, group process, and structured integration, you’ll strengthen your ability to carry what you’ve experienced beyond the retreat and into the way you live, lead, and relate.
At the core of the Somatic Dojo is the understanding that resilience is not created by avoiding stress. It is created by expanding your nervous system’s ability to move fluidly between activation and restoration without becoming trapped in either.
When functioning well, this state allows you to perform, protect, create, and respond to challenge.
When the System Becomes Stuck
When functioning well, this state allows the body to restore, adapt, heal, and reconnect.
When the System Becomes Stuck
Most people spend their lives unconsciously swinging between chronic activation and shutdown. The Somatic Dojo helps expand the range between these two extremes, allowing your nervous system to move with greater flexibility, resilience, and responsiveness as life changes around you.
Access greater focus, intensity, and drive without anxiety, chronic tension, or burnout.
Experience genuine restoration without collapsing into fatigue, numbness, or avoidance.
Hold difficult conversations, emotional intensity, uncertainty, and responsibility without losing your center.
Increase your ability to lead, create, love, perform, and grow without your nervous system pulling you back toward familiar patterns.
This training draws from contemporary autonomic nervous system research, somatic psychology, and applied experiential nervous system conditioning.
Somatic Dojo is built upon the principles of NeuroSomatic Release Therapy™, a proprietary integrative methodology developed through years of clinical manual therapy, trauma-informed somatic work, and applied nervous system training.
Individuals who feel overwhelmed, burnt out, or stuck in stress cycles.
Those who want to feel more grounded, emotionally steady, and confident.
Therapists, coaches, or practitioners seeking deeper somatic understanding.
High performers seeking sustainable resilience (or want to sustainably perform at higher levels).
Those seeking embodied growth beyond talk-based processing.
Individuals who value community, depth, and direct experience.
Each nervous system starts and ends at baseline.
"The pace is intentional. The container is deeply supportive. The work is real, and the changes continue unfolding long after the experience is over."
The Somatic Dojo is intentionally limited to a small group because nervous systems do not change in isolation. They change through experience. Through challenges. Through being seen. Through learning to remain present with yourself while staying connected to others.
This is not simply a group of people attending the same event. It is a carefully facilitated environment where individual transformation is strengthened through shared experience, honest reflection, and meaningful human connection.
Learning to remain grounded, authentic, and connected while engaging with others in real time.
Expanding your ability to navigate challenge, feedback, uncertainty, and emotional intensity without reverting to survival.
The nervous system develops new possibilities by repeatedly experiencing what once felt impossible to hold.
Establish the foundation for lasting change by assessing your current patterns, restoring nervous system regulation, releasing protective tension, and creating the conditions for greater capacity.
Challenge and strengthen your nervous system through embodied training, movement, breathwork, partner exercises, and progressive practices designed to expand the range of what your system can hold.
Transform insight into lived experience by integrating new patterns into movement, communication, leadership, relationships, and everyday life, leaving with practical tools you can immediately apply.
Develop a deeper understanding of your nervous system’s current operating patterns, adaptive strategies, and the capacity thresholds that shape your experience of stress, connection, and performance.
Learn the foundational principles and practices that restore regulation, reorganize protective patterns, and establish the physiological foundation for sustainable change.
Movement, partner drills, somatic exercises, and experiential training designed to transform understanding into embodied skill.
Experience a live NeuroSomatic Release group session demonstrating how unresolved protective patterns begin reorganizing through nervous system recalibration.
Train your nervous system to remain present, adaptive, and responsive as complexity, uncertainty, and intensity increase.
(Guest Facilitator)
Progress into more advanced movement, partner practices, nervous system conditioning, and relational training that expand resilience under greater load.
A second immersive NeuroSomatic Release session, allowing participants to experience deeper layers of integration as their nervous systems become increasingly receptive.
Discover what becomes possible when a regulated nervous system becomes the foundation for your relationships, communication, leadership, creativity, and purpose.
Bridge the work beyond the immersion by learning how to apply these principles in your daily life, work, family, health, and long-term growth.
Create your personalized integration strategy with practices, rhythms, and frameworks to continue expanding your nervous system capacity long after the immersion.
Complete the three-day journey through reflection, integration, and a collective closing ceremony designed to anchor the work and prepare you for what comes next.
Every element of the Somatic Dojo has been intentionally designed to develop greater nervous system capacity through hands-on therapeutic work, embodied training, practical education, and meaningful human connection. Over three immersive days, you'll move through a carefully designed progression that supports lasting transformation from the inside out.
Experience Ronnie’s proprietary hands-on neuromuscular methodology designed to release deeply held patterns of stress, tension, and protective compensation, helping restore greater freedom of movement, resilience, and adaptability throughout the body.
Develop practical skills that strengthen body awareness, emotional resilience, self-regulation, and your ability to remain grounded, present, and responsive through life’s challenges.
Gain a clear understanding of how your nervous system influences your thoughts, emotions, relationships, health, and performance—and learn practical principles for creating sustainable change from the body upward.
Integrate breathwork, intentional movement, and embodied practices that help regulate the nervous system, increase vitality, improve mobility, and transform insight into lived experience.
Expand your capacity within an intimate group environment through guided partner exercises and shared experiences that cultivate authentic connection, healthy boundaries, trust, communication, and embodied confidence.
Consolidate each day’s work through guided reflection and intentional integration practices that help translate your experience into meaningful, lasting changes you can carry into everyday life.
All work is facilitated with precision, consent, and containment.
Ronnie Landis is the creator of NeuroSomatic Release Therapy™ and founder of The Somatic Dojo, an immersive methodology integrating nervous system science, somatic training, neuromuscular therapy, martial arts philosophy, and human performance into a practical system for lasting transformation.
For more than twenty years, his work has spanned elite athletics, martial arts instruction, clinical bodywork, functional health, neuroscience, performance coaching, and transformational education. As a published author of five books, educator, and practitioner, he has worked with entrepreneurs, executives, professional athletes, health practitioners, and individuals from around the world seeking to create lasting change.
The Somatic Dojo represents the integration of Ronnie’s life’s work—a synthesis of science, movement, therapeutic precision, and embodied leadership designed to help people build the nervous system capable of holding greater health, deeper relationships, meaningful leadership, and a more fully lived life.
“The Somatic Dojo exists because awareness alone is not enough.
Lasting transformation happens when the body becomes capable of holding a new way of being.”
Select guest facilitators will support specific dimensions of the immersion, including movement, energetic integration, and nervous system coherence
Alora Rose
Alora Rose is a somatic practitioner and liberation guide specializing in nervous system recalibration and ecstatic embodiment.
Her work helps participants release deep conditioning, access full aliveness, and embody freedom at the somatic level.
You’ll learn to hold ecstasy without collapse. This will be the final frontier of capacity expansion.
Tristan is a Qigong master and nervous system coherence specialist.
His work integrates ancient energetic practices with modern nervous system science such as teaching participants to regulate their energy, cultivate coherence, and access states of deep presence.
You’ll learn to direct your life force with precision.
Matteo is a movement artist and embodiment facilitator specializing in flow-state somatic integration.
His work helps participants access fluidity, spontaneity, and embodied expression for building capacity through movement rather than rigid technique.
You’ll learn to move with your nervous system, not against it.
This multi-facilitator approach ensures you receive comprehensive capacity expansion and not just one modality, but a complete somatic education.
Hear from respected leaders who have experienced Ronnie’s work firsthand, along with participants who completed the Somatic Dojo immersion. Together, their reflections speak to the depth, precision, and lasting impact of this work.
"5 STARS. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!"
Jenna Philips Ballard
Entrepreneur, Co-Founder Ascension Leadership Academy
Ronnie's work is deeply important, profoundly healing, powerful, and unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. It’s some of the best bodywork and transformational healing I’ve ever received. Maybe even the best and I have worked with some of the best healers out there.
Rainbeua Mars
International Health & Yoga Icon, Author, Echo Guardian
I am irreparably changed from day one to the end of the retreat. If you want to shift, not just for a weekend but permanently you are going to learn to skills here.
Joseph Buchoff
I feel more connected to my life force energy than I have in quite some time. We all went so deep with each other in this retreat. Ronnie holds such a powerful, grounded, research based orientation to what is often felt as these intangibles and esoteric concepts.
Alora Rose
Through this weekend I have never felt more open to be able to receive what I want, to hold deeper capacity with my clients, and more importantly learn to harness my energy. I feel more alive and connected to myself. My energy feels so magnetic.
Jessica Marie
It took bravery for me to acknowledge that I am not functioning at capacity that I am proud of. Now I understand the real success factor is in nervous system work. This is different than limiting belief work, breath work, or plant medicine work. Those modalities were not providing me the outcomes I really wanted. Transformation requires a different language and a different structure.
Dane Maxwell
I am walking away with a deeper, more grounded understanding that feels translatable into my real life. The container of the group amplified the experience. Seeing other people’s experience uplifted and validated my own.
Andria Van Gorden
The container itself crafted and held by Ronnie’s frequency is so spectacular. He is one of the most loving, powerful, grounded, stabilized embodiments of togetherness.
Solara Rose
“This container prioritizes safety, consent, and nervous system integrity.”
Investment reflects the depth of training, group size, and level of facilitation. Enrollment is limited to 20 participants to maintain containment and quality.
This pathway is designed for those seeking a deeper level of personalized support, integration, and continued transformation beyond the three-day immersion.
Applicants will complete a brief application before confirmation.
Due to the intimate nature of this experience and the limited number of participants, all registrations must be paid in full prior to the start of the immersion.
Common questions about The Somatic Dojo
The Somatic Dojo is an immersive, live training environment focused on building real, embodied capacity through direct nervous system training and somatic integration. It is a structured space where the body learns to remain regulated, present, and powerful under pressure.
This is training, not treatment, and capacity building, not catharsis chasing. It is not a workshop, therapy, or “personal development theater,” but rather a living dojo where the body is trained rather than just talked about or analyzed.
Leaders, athletes, and creators often develop impressive outer competence while their nervous systems quietly absorb the cost through chronic sympathetic activation. This training restores sustainable strength and ensures your presence doesn’t give way to reactivity or power leaks.
No prior somatic experience is required. However, participants must have personal responsibility, emotional maturity, and a willingness to engage their bodies directly.
The immersion includes guided somatic training, nervous system recalibration sequences, breath and movement practices, and hands-on neuromuscular release work. All work is conducted with precision, consent, and containment.
The immersion takes place on August 30th-Sept. 1. It is located at Awaken Ranch in Austin, Texas. Specific food and lodging details are provided upon enrollment. Amenities: Infrared Sauna, Cold Plunge, and Hot Tub
The group size is intentionally limited to 20 participants. This selectivity ensures the integrity of the field and allows for the high level of facilitation required for this depth of training.
