My Offerings
In Person Summer Workshops
“The imagination is not a place we go to—it’s a place that moves through us when we make space.” — Bobbie Ellis
NO ART OR MOVEMENT EXPERIENCE NEEDED, COME AS YOU ARE
$90 by 8/1 - $105 after (art supplies included)
Space is limited to ensure an intimate, nourishing experience.
Questions? Contact Bobbie
Global Body
Awakening the Imagination
A One-Day Creative Workshop with Bobbie Ellis
Movement • Drawing • Writing • Nature
Date: August 16,2025
Time: 11:00am-4:00pm
Where: indoor/outdoor: Greenhouse Loft/Donaldson Park - Highland Park NJ
11-1:30 - Greenhouse - 2-4 Donaldson Park
Awaken your imagination through the deep intelligence of the body, the rhythms of nature, and the mystery of creative expression
This workshop offers a sanctuary for those longing to reconnect with their inner wellspring of creativity and aliveness
Join Bobbie Ellis, somatic movement guide and creative mentor, for a day of embodied exploration where movement, mark-making, collage building, diving into the wisdom of nature and poetic language converge.
What You’ll Experience:
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Guided somatic movement to ground and awaken the body
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Intuitive drawing practices inspired by sensation and gesture
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Writing prompts that arise from inner listening and outer landscapes
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Nature immersion to rekindle wonder and deepen presence
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A supportive, open space to explore, express, and be witnessed
Whether you're a seasoned artist or simply curious, this day invites you to slow down, listen, and let something unexpected move through you.
What to Bring:
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Comfortable clothes for movement
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A journal or notebook
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Water bottle and lunch/snacks
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An open heart and curious spirit
Workshops and Series classes online
online Fall 2025 with Bobbie Ellis
Great News! Bobbie is partnering with Kripalu to offer an online series!
Somatic Yoga: Awaken to the wisdom of the body with Bobbie Ellis
online
Mondays 9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/6
6:00–8:00 pm EST
Reserve your space in September & early October online with Bobbie & Kripalu
For information and to register, click the link below:
https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/awakening-wisdom-body-somatic-yoga-journey
Questions? call 732-266-1468
Please email Bobbie: somawithbobbie@gmail.com
Once you make payment and email me, you will receive a link for your
online paid class or workshop or you will receive an email with further
participation guidance for in person.
Make your payment for classes :
Venmo: Roberta-Ellis-4
Zelle: persada@aol.com
If you need another mode of payment, please reach out to Bobbie via email of phone
The Mysterious Map to Clarity
online series
Saturdays
November 8-15-22
December 6-13-20
11:00am to 1:00pm
When someone can’t rotate, side bend, or stabilize through the pelvis, it’s easy to assume it’s a strength or mobility issue. But often, it’s something else entirely,
perhaps its a directional gap. A whole plane of movement . . . sagittal, frontal, or transverse . . . that’s simply not being accessed. And when a plane is unavailable,
the body doesn’t stop. It reroutes. Other planes step in to pick up the load, until they can’t.
Do you experience:
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Shoulder tension
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Hip gripping and/or pain
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lower back overuse instead of pelvic stabilization
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A general state of dis-ease in your yoga practice
These aren’t mistakes!
They’re brilliant solutions, adaptive, creative, efficient. Because the body is creative.
It’s always solving. And when we understand movement through the lens of planes and fluidity, we don’t fight those solutions, we work with them. What we often label as a “weak core” or “tight hamstrings” is often the body avoiding a direction it doesn’t yet trust or know... it's like a part of the body has gone missing in awareness and movement and then you have compensation...
What you will learn and Explore:
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The relationship between planes of movement and compensations
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How to rebuild your asana through awareness and direction, by sensing where you have gone "missing" and clarifying support and fluidity
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How breath, awareness, and subtle sensory awareness restore a missing plane before you ever have to strengthen it. And sometimes when we bring those planes back into awareness and the orchestration of movement, the wisdom of the body knows what to do in terms of strength
When you are guided this way, when you invite clarity instead of forced control, you become more articulate, fluid, mindful and creative in your movement and everything just feels better, more graceful perhaps, filled with ease..
$225 by 10/1/25 - $250 after
pre-registration required to attend
CEU's available for Yoga Teachers with a 200 hour or more certification
Movement &
the Creative Process
Movement ~ Imagery ~ Drawing ~ Writing
for personal & global transformation
Check out my summer workshop in person in August above!
Yet, despite our need to break things down, the unity of life remains the foundation of all relationship. In the Yoruba language, spoken in West Africa, there is one word for being and doing, iwa (Ee-wah). The word means all that informs our existence. Beauty is part of your iwa, and relationship and community are part of your iwa. If I were to say I know your iwa", it means I know your history, your dreams, your strengths, and your frailties. It means I know what waits under your words and between your hesitations. It means I know the unity of your life. Iwa refers to an all-embracing way of relationship. Iwa evokes a quality of care that connects us to everything.
__Mark Nepo
Explore the creativity of life! GlobalBody is a creative process that explores movement, drawing, writing, witnessing, enactment and group or private session expression. Vibrant health and/or healing operates on many dimensions simultaneously by attaining a state of emotional, mental, spiritual and physical awareness to transform and expand the quality of life no matter what is happening.
Sensations ~ Moving~~ Feeling ~ Imagining ~
In truth, these 4 components cannot be separated. Movement affects the way we feel, the way we feel affects the way we move. This feeds the images and words that get evoked and worked with through drawing and writing. One does not have to have an art background or be able to move in any specific way to gain insight about a deeper way of living through creativity and understanding ones self in an integrated holistic process. These tools help access our life stories as ground for moving, feeling and creating art. As life experience deepens, personal art expression expands, and as art expression expands, life experiences deepen.
Group Session in August 2025
FOR PRIVATE SESSIONS IN GLOBALBODY
Please contact Bobbie directly for more information and possibilities
732-266-1468 or somawithbobbie@gmail.com
Continuum
Continuum is an approach to exploring how we live in, and move through, our bodies. It is a portal to a deeper awareness of, and connection to, embodiment, movement, learning, growth, well-being, and creativity. Attention to internal experience through breath, sound, meditative awareness, and fluid movement expands our experience of embodiment and opens us to new possibilities of inhabiting our bodies and expressing ourselves through them.
Emergent ideas, potent images, and interesting themes set the ground for movement exploration. Different movements are combined with breath and sound to encourage embodied, mindful exploration of the idea, image or theme. We often change our relationship to gravity to invite new internal feedback and information. The pace of this series will be at times very quiet, slow, and meditative, with participants exploring nearly invisible micro-movements. We will also explore fast and lively movements in large wave-like, spiraling motions. This way of being helps us to move well.
Private sessions, small group classes available upon request
Public, in person and online classes and workshops coming soon!
Get a link to a class or private online session
If you wish to join a class with me, please send an email and once registered, I will send you a link
To register please pay through
Venmo: Roberta-Ellis-4 or Zelle: persada@aol.com
$25 drop in ~ 10/$225
If you have interest in private/semi private sessions please email me to set up a time to chat.
Pricing varies depending upon how frequent and how many sessions you wish to purchase. I offer a sliding scale fee on a limited basis.