Your life is a treasure trove of stories waiting to be told. Through movement, creative writing, humor, and embodied expression, transform your lived experiences into compelling personal monologues. This eight-week journey invites you to discover the wisdom, beauty, and delicious absurdity of your own story—and bring it to life on stage.
An Embodied Writing & Performance Journey
January 6 – March 18, 2027 | Berkeley, California
We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom.
Perhaps you’ve experienced a powerful revelation during a psychedelic or plant medicine journey. Maybe a life transition, spiritual awakening, personal challenge, or unexpected encounter has forever changed how you see the world. Or maybe you’d like to start writing your memoirs and life story.
What do we do with the wisdom these experiences reveal?
Integration is the process of bringing our insights into everyday life. Storytelling can be a powerful way to do just that.
Storycraft: Tales of Integration is a creative writing and embodied performance journey that invites you to transform meaningful life experiences into compelling personal stories. Through movement, expressive arts, improvisation, humor, and guided writing, we’ll explore the insights hidden within our experiences, discover what they have to teach us, and give them creative expression.
For those integrating psychedelic or plant medicine experiences, Storycraft offers a unique opportunity to revisit profound insights, ground their meaning through creative exploration, and transform personal revelations into wisdom that can be shared with others.
And because wisdom grows when it’s shared, our journey culminates in a live community showcase—an evening of authentic storytelling, unexpected revelations, laughter, and human connection.
Not another post, podcast, or digital download. Real people sharing real stories, LIVE, face-to-face, in real time.
No previous writing or performance experience necessary. All genders and all kinds of life stories are welcome.
WHAT IS STORYCRAFT?
Part writing workshop, part expressive arts laboratory, and part performance adventure, Storycraft approaches storytelling as an embodied creative practice.
We use movement exploration, expressive arts therapy work, improvisation, writing, character work, and constellation play to uncover the stories that still have something to say.
Then we look for the pearl inside them—the insight, revelation, or hard-won wisdom that transforms a deeply personal experience into a shared human story.
From there, we craft, embody, rehearse, and bring our stories to life onstage.
HOW THE HYBRID FORMAT WORKS
Weekly Zoom Sessions
Intimate, guided sessions for creative writing, story discovery, experimentation, and developing your original monologue.
Two In-Person Gatherings
At Root & Bloom Institute, we take our stories off the page and into the body through movement, expressive arts, improvisation, voice, and performance play.
Live Student Showcase
Our journey culminates in a community performance celebrating the stories, discoveries, humor, and wisdom we’ve gathered along the way.
DATES & TIMES
All dates are in 2027. All times are Pacific.
JANUARY
- January 6 • 6–8 PM • Zoom
- January 9 • 12–3 PM • In Person
- January 13 • 6–8 PM • Zoom
- January 20 • 6–8 PM • Zoom
- January 27 • 6–8 PM • Zoom
FEBRUARY
- February 3 • 6–8 PM • Zoom
- February 10 • 6–8 PM • Zoom
- February 17 • 6–8 PM • Zoom
- February 20 • 12–3 PM • In Person
- February 24 • 6–8 PM • Zoom
STUDENT SHOWCASE
Thursday, March 18, 2027 • In Person
LOCATION
Skyward Room at Root & Bloom Institute
2307 Sixth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
TUITION & REGISTRATION
EARLY BIRD — $750
Save $100! Pay in full by December 10, 2026.
The discounted rate is available only when the entire $750 tuition is paid by December 10.
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION LINK: https://square.link/u/
RESERVE YOUR SPOT — $250 DEPOSIT
Secure your place with a $250 deposit toward the $850 regular tuition.
Your remaining balance of $600 is due January 5, 2027.
Deposits do not qualify for the early bird discount, even when paid before December 10.
DEPOSIT REGISTRATION LINK: https://square.link/u/
PAY IT FORWARD — $950
Have a little extra? This option helps make a supported place available to someone else.
PAY IT FORWARD, USE DEPOSIT REGISTRATION LINK: https://square.link/u/
(pay the remaining tuition before class begins)
Important Registration Details
- December 10, 2026 — Early bird full-payment deadline
- January 5, 2027 — All remaining tuition balances due
- January 6, 2027 — First class
Zoom links are provided once tuition has been paid in full.
All tuition options include the complete workshop experience and student showcase.
ABOUT RAINA SATORI
Raina Satori is a multidisciplinary performance artist, comedian, improviser, director, producer, and expressive arts facilitator with more than 25 years of experience exploring the intersection of movement, theater, comedy, storytelling, and authentic human expression.
Her work is rooted in the belief that creativity is not simply something we produce, but something we experience through the body—and that humor, vulnerability, imagination, and play can open unexpected pathways to insight and transformation.
A Foundation in Expressive Arts & Embodied Practice
Raina holds a degree in Expressive Arts Therapy and spent four years studying with pioneering dance artist Anna Halprin, whose groundbreaking work explored the relationship between movement, creativity, community, and personal transformation.
During this time, Raina also performed with Halprin’s Sea Ranch Collective and worked as an assistant teacher, deepening her understanding of movement as a vehicle for creative expression and discovery.
She went on to teach contact improvisation for approximately 15 years, drawing from somatic movement practices, the Axis Syllabus, physical theater, and improvisational performance.
This extensive background in embodied arts informs her unique approach to storytelling, where movement, sensation, and improvisation can unlock memories, reveal unexpected perspectives, and give language to experiences that are difficult to express through words alone.
A Life in Performance, Comedy & Creative Expression
As a performer, writer, director, and producer, Raina has created and participated in a wide range of original theatrical productions blending comedy, satire, movement, music, and personal storytelling.
Her original productions include The Ridiculum Curriculum, Stairway to Haven, The Improverse, and the spiritual satire More Enlightened Than You.
She also performed in and co-produced the Nevada City production of So This Is Menopause, bringing humor, honesty, and theatrical expression to the often-unspoken experiences of midlife transformation.
Raina is the longtime captain and creatrix of the Shamanic Cheerleaders, an irreverent performance troupe celebrated for its playful collision of spiritual culture, comedy, and outrageous theatricality. The troupe was named Best of the Bay and appeared on America’s Got Talent.
Her creative work has also been featured in Yoga Journal, Conscious Dancer, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Marin Independent Journal.
She has performed and facilitated at festivals and gatherings including Oregon Country Fair, High Sierra Music Festival, Symbiosis, Lightning in a Bottle, and SoulPlay.
The Birth of Storycraft
Storycraft Sessions grew out of Raina’s lifelong exploration of the places where personal truth, creativity, embodiment, and performance intersect.
Combining expressive arts, improvisation, movement, creative writing, and theatrical storytelling, she developed Storycraft as a space where people can discover the extraordinary stories hidden within their everyday experiences.
Her approach is both playful and profound, encouraging participants to explore the full spectrum of human experience—from the heartbreaking to the hilarious, the mysterious to the mundane.
Through guided exploration, writing, embodiment, and performance, Raina helps participants find the essential insight within their experiences and shape it into something that can resonate with others.
With Tales of Integration, she brings this creative approach to the process of making meaning from profound life experiences, offering storytelling as a way to deepen personal understanding while sharing the wisdom of those experiences with a wider community.
At the heart of her work is a simple invitation:
Discover your story. Find its wisdom. Give it life. Share it with the world.
Ordinary lives contain extraordinary stories.
Discover yours. Craft it. Embody it. Share it.
Turning lived experience into shareable wisdom.
About Root & Bloom Institute:
Root & Bloom Institute (RBI) is a center for somatic practices, psychotherapy, and expanded states of consciousness in Berkeley. Our spaces are designed to support healing, learning, and community through thoughtfully curated trainings, workshops, and gatherings. Check our Transportation Guidelines and How To Arrive here.
