SOS CoLab
We are a trio of women, artists, advocates, scholars, and friends who have come together in the spirit of collaboration.
We developed SOS CoLab as a collaborative space to explore the depths of lived experience through soul-centered events.
Our Values
Have you ever been walking next to a friend and they stop and turn toward you to emphasize what they are saying? When you turn toward someone, you commit to engage with them. This can be experienced internally as well. We vow to begin with a Turn Toward Approach in every aspect of our work. This gesture to Turn Toward allows us to fully acknowledge self and other.
At the heart of our business is a series of commitments, beginning with the fundamental commitment to do things differently. These outlined commitments provide the foundation for our Turn Toward approach to business.
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We commit to showing up authentically—being seen and seeing each other fully—which also includes leaving space for the things that often lie in the shadows to be witnessed and acknowledged.
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We commit to leading with intention.
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We commit to ritual. Turning toward something with intention opens the door for this kind of practice. With this choice, almost everything can be ritual. Creating a ritualistic space acknowledges and honors the multitudes of life’s experiences, both big and small.
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We commit to envisioning, creating, and upholding contained spaces.
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We commit to consistently inviting Body into the collaborative process.
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We commit to listening to the needs of Body, each other, community, and beyond. This includes both hearing and following the call of soul.
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We commit to giving back. The multiplicities of advocacy is at the heart of our work.
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We commit to collaboration. Collaboration asks us to turn toward each other to both see and be seen. This relational posture invites us to initiate creating together. This engages the mutuality of conversations with each other, our participants, and psyche. We commit to collaborative dialogue (in every step we take). The collaborative process is the foundational heartbeat of SOS CoLab.
Our Name
After a few months of connecting virtually, the three of us finally had an opportunity to meet in person for the first time in years. The time we had was limited, but was spent well in connection. We explored how to conduct business in a new way, a way that felt authentic to us. We utilized tools to tap into each other and the collective, discussed messages we received, images and synchronicities, felt into our own embodied reactions and blocks, played in nature, walked, talked, shared food and stories, memories and dreams.
When we were “done working” on the first night of being together, we settled into the living room for some chit-chat before crashing in our own beds. In these liminal moments—a time when we weren’t questioning, searching, working or consciously thinking about it—the name became a clear presence. Through relaxed, easeful, and genuine connection, SOS CoLab had the space to organically emerge.
As we sat with the newly named entity, we discovered that this name holds multiple layers. SOS as a call for help, “Save our Souls,” search for soul, sisters of soul. CoLab, collaboration, co-creation, laboratory, exploration, cauldron, containment. Even in the name, SOS CoLab centers authentic collaborative exploration.
Who we are
Get to know a little bit about the members of SOS CoLab.
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She/Her
Tulani is a dancer, educator, sound therapist, advocate, and dope auntie from Oakland, CA. One of her gifts is tapping into spirit through sound and body.
Tulani is an LA based performing artist, dance educator, lawyer, and sound healer. Tulani holds a BA in dance from Loyola Marymount University and a JD from UCLA School of Law with a specialization in Critical Race Studies. She works one-on-one practicing sound therapy using tuning forks, yoga, and movement to access the body and facilitate change. Tulani aims to inspire in her students and clients joy, curiosity, authenticity of expression, and a desire to know themselves more deeply. As a choreographer, Tulani creates at the intersection of race, culture, class, and identity—often inspired by the political and social commentary of our time.
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She/Her
Layne is a Somatic Depth Psychological scholar, Jungian life coach, wine educator, arts advocate and weaver of community with a passion for helping people (re)connect with soul.
She holds a BFA in Dance from California State University Long Beach and an MA in Depth Psychology with an emphasis in Somatic Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Currently residing in Connecticut, and working as a Jungian certified life coach from CreativeMind, her embodied approach to working with people centers around the soul and how it speaks to us through dreams, symptoms and synchronicities. Passionate about bringing Somatic Depth Psychological perspectives to both local and broader communities she utilizes the bridging of art, analysis, and activism as an essential lens. You can also find her pouring wines from stellar wineries and chatting it up with locals and tourists alike on the southeastern portion of the Connecticut wine trail.
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She/Her
Jessica is a friend, writer, cool aunt, researcher, dancer, tree lover, and depth-seeker. She works in the field of Somatic Depth Psychology utilizing images, movement, and various forms of creative expressions in her pursuit of soulful connections.
Through a passion for education and an artistic connection to Body she discovered various forms of somatic education. This led to becoming a Guild Certified Feldenkrais PractitionerCM as well as undertaking graduate studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her doctoral research explored the lived experience of identity transition for dancers leaving the performing arts. She is continuing to follow this line of inquiry through further writing and publishing.