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A practice for those navigating what runs beneath the surface — with Jamie Grace Davis.

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About Jamie Grace Davis
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Jamie Grace Davis

Where movement research
meets ancestral knowing

Jamie Grace Davis is a visual artist, movement researcher, and somatic practitioner with more than twenty years of professional practice. Her entry into Systemic Constellations was not a departure from her art — it was a deepening of the same inquiry: how the body holds what cannot be spoken, how systems move and repeat, how improvisation opens what structure alone cannot reach.

Informed by a lifelong practice in movement research, site-specific work, and somatic intelligence, Jamie brings to Constellations a distinctly embodied and creative orientation. This is not primarily a healing modality — it is a practice of resourcing: returning creative practitioners, makers, and people in transition to the deeper current of their own knowing.

The work is for artists navigating stuck places in their practice, for those sensing that something ancestral is shaping the present, and for anyone drawn to embodied inquiry as a method of understanding. It draws on the intelligence of improvisation — the capacity to meet what is actually happening, rather than what we expect.

Jamie offers sessions individually, in small groups, and in retreat format — in person and via Zoom.

Origins of Constellations

A practice with many tributaries

Constellations did not emerge from a single lineage. It arose at the confluence of indigenous communal practice, somatic innovation, and systemic inquiry — shaped by multiple traditions of knowing that predate any formal methodology. Understanding its roots is part of the work itself.

01

Zulu Tradition

Before Constellations took any formal shape, Zulu communities practiced communal forms of conflict resolution that recognized ancestors as active presences in everyday life — not metaphor, but living relationship. The acknowledgment of rupture, and the restoration of right order within community and lineage, are ancient practices that continue to resonate through every Constellation held today.

02

Bert Hellinger

German practitioner Bert Hellinger drew these threads together into what became known as Systemic and Family Constellations — articulating the ways in which loyalty to ancestral fate quietly organizes the present. His work is complex and has been contested and evolved by many who followed him. What endures is the essential insight: systems have memory, and that memory lives in the body.

03

Virginia Satir

American family innovator Virginia Satir brought bodies into the room. In the 1960s and 70s she developed family sculpting — placing people in physical space to make visible the invisible architecture of relational patterns. Her insistence on movement, presence, and the body as site of knowing was foundational, and her belief in the innate drive toward health runs beneath all of this work.

04

The Human Potential Movement

In the early 1960s, Esalen Institute on the California coast became the unlikely crucible for a revolution in human consciousness. Founded by Michael Murphy and Dick Price, Esalen drew together Gestalt therapy, encounter groups, somatic awareness, Eastern philosophy, and depth psychology under one roof — and gave an entire generation permission to treat the body as a source of wisdom rather than a problem to manage. Fritz Perls brought Gestalt. Alan Watts brought Zen. Ida Rolf brought structural bodywork. Charlotte Selver brought sensory awareness. What was being taught at Esalen was radical in its simplicity: that direct experience, felt in the body and in the present moment, was itself a path to transformation.

The Omega Institute, founded in 1977 in New York, carried this spirit eastward — weaving together holistic health, contemplative practice, and social justice in a setting that democratized what Esalen had pioneered. Together, these institutions seeded the somatic, relational, and experiential approaches that now run through every constellation space — the understanding that healing happens not in the head, but in the room, the body, and the field between people.

Offerings & Pricing

Ways to enter the field

Each format offers a different quality of contact with the work — from a single session of witnessing to deep immersive inquiry. All are grounded in somatic intelligence and creative resourcing.

Group · Online

Drop-In Group Sessions

An open, recurring gathering for those who wish to witness, practice, or simply be held by the field. You may come as an observer or as an active participant — either way, something moves. Held via Zoom on Tuesday evenings and Friday afternoons.

$20
Tuesdays 7:30–9:30 pm PST  ·  Fridays 4:30–6:30 pm PST
Individual · In Person or Online

Traditional Reading

A one-on-one session that uses the systemic lens to illuminate a specific question, creative block, relationship, or pattern. Less about fixing and more about seeing clearly — this session offers a felt shift in perspective and a sense of what wants to move next.

$75
Single session · In person or Zoom
Group · Working Client

Group Working Client

You bring a question — about your practice, your lineage, a creative impasse, a relationship — and the group becomes a living map of your system. One of the most powerful formats in Constellations work: something in the room moves, and you feel it.

$200
Group format · Drop-in session
Individual · In Person

Private 1:1 — Centered Space Map

A full private Constellation session using the Centered Space Map method — a slow, spacious, embodied mapping of your system. For artists, movers, and practitioners ready to work at the depth where creative and systemic intelligence converge.

$365
Private session · Centered Space Map
Individual · Embodied Practice

Walking Constellation
with One Check-In

The body is the map. A Walking Constellation takes the inquiry out of the chair and into movement — through space, through sensation, through the somatic intelligence that improvisation has always trusted. Rooted in Jamie's movement research practice, this is Constellations as a fully embodied art form. Includes one follow-up check-in to integrate what has arisen and support what continues to unfold.

$475
Walking Constellation + one check-in session included
Voices from the Field

What others have found here

I came to the work as a painter in a long creative drought. What Jamie held space for was not a problem to solve — it was a field to inhabit. Something in my making opened that I hadn't been able to reach on my own.

— Visual Artist, Private Client

The Walking Constellation was unlike anything I've experienced — fully in my body, fully present, watching my system move through space. Jamie's grounding in movement research makes this a completely different quality of work.

— Choreographer, Workshop Participant

The Tuesday group has become a consistent creative resource for me. There's a quality of collective intelligence that builds over time in that field — and Jamie tends it with both rigor and openness.

— Somatic Practitioner, Ongoing Group Member
Upcoming Retreat

Somatics & Systemics

Energetic Oceans

A four-day immersive retreat for dancers, therapy practitioners, and constellation practitioners — bringing together somatic practice and systemic intelligence in one of the most beautiful and storied healing landscapes in the American Southwest. Each day opens a different current: body flow, molecular movement, Alexander Technique, and the living field of Constellations. What moves in the room, moves in you.

Dates April 26–29 · Thursday evening through Sunday afternoon
Location Casa Escondida · Chimayo, New Mexico
For Dancers, therapy practitioners & constellation practitioners · Ages 18+
Includes Hearty breakfast & light bites daily · All sessions & materials

Co-Facilitated by

Jamie Grace Davis
Constance Clare-Newman
Visit energeticoceans.com

Schedule

Day 1 Welcome & Body Flow
Day 2 Somatic Experience 1: Molecular Movement
Day 3 Somatic Experience 2: Alexander Technique
Day 4 Systemics: Playing with Somatic Cultivation in the field of Constellations

Pricing

Early Bird

Register by April 1st

$1,550

Final Deadline

Register by April 20th

$1,750

Lodging booked & paid separately with Casa Escondida · Spaces are limited

Writing & Reflection

Notes from the field — a Substack

Jamie writes about the intersection of somatic intelligence and systemic knowing — improvisation as method, movement as inquiry, and what arises when creative practice and ancestral awareness meet. Reflections from twenty years of making and moving, offered freely.

Read on Substack
Contact & Booking

Begin your
constellation

Whether you're a creative practitioner navigating a stuck place, someone drawn to embodied inquiry, or simply curious — you are welcome here. Reach out with questions, or use the form to express interest in a specific offering.

Tuesday Group 7:30–9:30 pm PST · Zoom
Friday Group 4:30–6:30 pm PST · Zoom
Private Sessions In person & online · By appointment
Website thefieldconstellations.com
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