LIVE with The Famous Dr AL and Toni Bergins

Episode Title: Embodying Joy: Dance, Trauma & Healing with Toni Bergins

💫 Guest: Toni Bergins, M.Ed — Founder of JourneyDance™

🕊️ Episode Overview:

In this enlightening episode of “LIVE with Dr. Allen Lycka,” we welcome movement pioneer Toni Bergins, the visionary behind JourneyDance™. With over 27 years of experience in transformational workshops and embodiment practices, Toni shares her inspiring story and dives deep into the healing power of dance, the importance of connecting with the body, and how expressive movement helps people transform trauma, reconnect with joy, and reclaim their wholeness.

🔍 Key Takeaways:

💃 What Is Embodiment?

Toni explains how embodiment isn’t just physical—it’s about integrating the mental, emotional, and spiritual self. She highlights the contrast between being stuck in the head versus being fully present in the body, where true experience, connection, and joy reside.

🌀 JourneyDance Explained:

JourneyDance is a guided, non-choreographed practice that uses music, movement, and mindfulness to help individuals access their inner truth. Toni emphasizes that there are no mistakes—only movement that allows healing, expression, and freedom.

💔 Healing Trauma Through Movement:

Toni shares how JourneyDance supports trauma healing by inviting participants to “tell their story to the dance floor.” Movement becomes a way to process grief, release old emotions, and rewire the nervous system in a safe, compassionate space.

🖤 Embracing the Shadow Self:

Through specific techniques, Toni guides participants to face hidden aspects of themselves—anger, shame, fear—and integrate them as sources of strength and wisdom, rather than suppression.

🧠 Rewriting Thought Patterns:

Toni’s "Mind Busting" technique helps shift negative beliefs through conscious embodiment. She teaches how becoming present in the body can interrupt harmful thought loops and replace them with empowering narratives.

💡 Words for Survivors:

Toni honors the courage it takes for abuse survivors to reclaim their bodies. JourneyDance allows people to ease into embodiment gently, titrating the experience and choosing how and when to feel again—always without judgment.

🌟 Living a Fantastic Life:

For Toni, living fully means finding joy daily—whether it’s dancing, creating, or cooking for a friend. Her message: Dance every day. Change your energy. Feel everything. You are enough.

📚 Resources & Links:

• 🌐 Website: www.journeydance.com
• 📸 Instagram: @journeydanceofficial | @tonibergins
• 📖 Book: Embody – Moving Beyond Trauma Through Expressive Movement
• 🕛 Weekly Zoom Class: Tuesdays at 12 PM ET
• 🌍 Find a Facilitator: Available via her website

🎧 Tune In & Be Transformed:

This episode is a powerful reminder that healing doesn’t have to be silent—it can be joyful, expressive, and deeply moving. Let Toni Bergins guide you home to yourself, one dance at a time.

BIO:

Toni Bergins, M.Ed., is an embodiment trailblazer who has taught at the premier holistic healing centers for the last 27 years. She is on the faculty at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, and has worked there as a movement artist, dance educator, expressive arts workshop leader, and expert in creating transformational workshops.

Social Media: 

https://www.facebook.com/toni.bergins/ https://www.facebook.com/ToniBerginsJourneyDance/ 

https://www.facebook.com/JourneyDance/ 

https://www.instagram.com/tonibergins/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/journeydanceofficial/