Reunite, Recharge, and Renew
Healing. Rhythm. Truth. Release.
The Emotional Tour™ is a transformative somatic experience that blends African drumming, guided movement, and storytelling. It is an invitation to express, release, and reconnect with your full emotional spectrum, from joy to grief, from anger to desire. No choreography. No performance. Only truth, sound, and rhythm.
About the Experience
Energy in Motion
The Emotional Tour™ is an experience that fuses primal movement, sensual dance, meditation, vocalization, creative visualization, and celebration of the human form. It is inspired by African, Tribal, and Free Dance, interwoven with the somatic and primal healing arts.
The Emotional Tour™ creates sacred, safe spaces and invites everyone to reclaim and boldly display their power.
Our emotions are meant to be expressed. Whether we deem them good or bad, it’s their nature to move us. During the experience, you’ll be guided through a somatic journey that releases constricted emotions and calms your nervous system, inviting you to step more confidently into your authentic, fully expressed self.
You’ll be empowered to embrace, embody, and express your emotions. Joy, Grief, Anger, and more. All the emotions and all of you are welcome at an Emotional Tour™ Experience.
Join together in our celebratory community to explore and express your emotions in a safe, inclusive, non-judgmental space. Things are potent. Intensified. Together, let’s breathe and unleash our personal and collective emotions so that we may live a more passionate, more authentic, and more healthful life.
“It’s your body, you can do whatever you want with it, including love it unapologetically!”
— Bernadette Pleasant
— Bernadette Pleasant
Is this for you?
The Emotional Tour™ Is for You If
- You’re dealing with a lot of anxiety or grief.
- You’re looking for constructive ways to express your anger.
- You’re struggling with self-doubt and self-loathing.
- You’re looking to release tension and stress.
- You’d like to learn how to express your emotions without fear or judgment.
- You want to feel safe expressing buried emotions.
- You’d like to release rigidity in your body, mind, and spirit.
- You want to get more in touch with your body and intuition.
- You’d like to feel like you’re part of something bigger.
- You want to feel more connected to your power and your soul’s truth.
- You’d like to experience more peace, calm, and acceptance.
What you will Experience
What Happens During The Emotional Tour™
This 90-minute journey can be experienced virtually or in person and is ideal for individuals, groups, organizations, and healing communities.
Through live drum beats, breath, sound, and movement, you will be guided through an emotional landscape. Each session is a safe space where the rhythm moves and supports you, helping release stuck emotions so you can come home to yourself.
There is no choreography to learn. There is no performance to give. There is only the invitation to feel, to move, and to be witnessed in the truth of your body.
Testimonials
From the Community
Bernadette Pleasant
“One of the lessons we learned early on was not to be messy. And the thing about emotions is: they are messy. You can’t control them. They are unpredictable. We have a lot of fear around them. That’s why I take people on an Emotional Tour, so that your emotions become less scary and more accessible.”
Frequently Asked Questions
1. I thought this experience was called Femme! Why have you changed the name?
The Emotional Tour™ evolved from Femme!™ to better reflect the inclusive, expansive nature of this work. The experience has always been about emotional freedom for all bodies, and the new name honors that evolution.
2. What is The Emotional Tour™?
The Emotional Tour™ is a somatic experience that fuses primal movement, sensual dance, meditation, vocalization, creative visualization, and celebration of the human form. It is inspired by African, Tribal, and Free Dance, interwoven with somatic and primal healing arts.
3. Who created The Emotional Tour™?
The Emotional Tour™ was created by Bernadette Pleasant, somatic healer, grief educator, and founder of The Emotional Institute. She has trained over 100 facilitators worldwide to carry this work forward.
4. I don’t have any dance experience. Can I still participate?
Absolutely. There is no choreography and no dance experience required. This is not a performance. It is a guided emotional journey through movement, breath, and sound. Your body already knows how to do this. We simply create the space for it to happen.
5. How does it work to join a class online?
Virtual sessions are held via Zoom. You’ll need a device with a camera, a space where you can move freely, and a willingness to show up as you are. That’s it. Once you register, you’ll receive a private link and simple instructions to prepare your space.
Step Into the Circle
Whether you are coming to release grief, reclaim joy, or simply remember what it feels like to be fully alive in your body, The Emotional Tour™ is waiting for you.
Every emotion and all of you are welcome here.
