Moving Beyond Core: A Somatic Exploration Through Whole Body Relationships
Fri, Jun 19
|Emberlight Lighthouse
Wendy will invite you into a dynamic relationship with your body's innate wisdom, by sensing “core as relationship…with gravity, ourselves, one another and our living environment”.


Time & Location
Jun 19, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Emberlight Lighthouse, 83 Sanctuary Rd, Swannanoa, NC 28778
About the Event
Moving Beyond Core: A Somatic Exploration Through Whole Body Relationships
With Wendy LeBlanc-Arbuckle
Friday, June 19th from 3pm-5pm
in the Lighthouse at Emberlight
What to Expect:
In this dynamic workshop, you will explore your body as a living process that knows innately how to self-heal, self-organize, and adapt within social and natural environments. Wendy will invite you into a dynamic relationship with your body's innate wisdom, by sensing “core as relationship…with gravity, ourselves, one another and our living environment”.
Through this powerful exploration, you will discover a felt sense of your body as a living instrument which is tuned by your unique biointelligence. As deeply held tension patterns begin unwinding, the embodied approach in this workshop will support you in feeling more physically grounded, mentally centered, and emotionally calm.
Why at Emberlight?
This workshop embodies the Emberlight values of Curiosity and Deep Listening as we turn inward and listen to our body's signals at a deeper level. As we learn to listen inward with curiosity, noticing what the body holds, what it needs, and how it communicates, we cultivate the skills of attentiveness and deep listening.
With practice, what we cultivate inward becomes the presence we offer everywhere else in life, to ourselves, and to one another.
Your Host:
Wendy LeBlanc-Arbuckle is a master teacher and movement educator with decades of experience at the intersection of somatic science, embodied anatomy, and relational movement practice. She is the creator of the 3CoreConnections Embodied Awareness method, a body-centered approach that moves beyond conventional "core training" to explore how the whole body organizes itself through gravity, breath, and relationship. Her work draws on fields including developmental movement, fascia science, and nervous system regulation. She teaches internationally and has trained movement professionals, yoga teachers, bodyworkers, and healthcare practitioners across many disciplines.
Her newly published book, Moving Beyond Core: A Somatic Exploration Through Whole Body Relationships (Handspring Publishing, 2026), extends her teaching into accessible written form. Signed copies will be available at the event.
Many people are called to attend her workshops because her approach produces tangible results: reduced physical tension, greater ease in the body, and a felt sense of calm that is hard to access through talk or intellectual understanding alone. For anyone navigating stress, loss, caregiving, or simply the accumulated weight of being human, an afternoon with Wendy tends to shift something real.
Website: wendyleblancarbuckle.com
100% of proceeds donated to support the mission and vision of Emberlight: Center for Conscious Living and Dying
No one turned away for lack of funds. Please email events@emberlightway.org for scholarship opportunities if you would like to attend but are not able to afford the cost.
