Empowering women to claim their authentic selves

Discover the therapeutic and healing power of movement-based expressive arts.

It’s a doorway to imagination, empowerment, and self-love. It is our felt experience, manifested through sense, movement, emotion, and imagery.

Through the creative and embodied healing of The Talking Body, you will claim your voice, express your vision and stand in your power. You will tap into your creativity, unlock your deepest potential, and grow more self-confidence. 

  • 1:1 Private Coaching

    Begin your creative journey of self-discovery with Maggie.

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  • Group Workshops

    Build community through movement, art, and storytelling.

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  • Retreats

    Discover how a change in scenery can bring about a chance in perspective.

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Practicing Presence: Free 5-minute mindfulness practice

Can just 5 minutes a day of mindfulness practice change your entire day for the better? YES, it absolutely can. Download my 5-minute Mindfulness Practice to help you regulate the nervous system and feel more grounded, calm, and present throughout your day. I have used this practice for years and have taught it to my clients with great success!

I see your years of a life lived with all its glory and pain. 

I see your beauty and strength and your wisdom.

I know you have something to say. 

I know you are tired of not being heard.

I see you, shy and insecure

I know you are a caretaker and a giver

I know how it feels to not be seen. 

I see you because, well, I am just like you. 

(I am the wise age of 60)

Woman, Mother, Wife, Daughter, Sister, Friend, Therapist

About Maggie

Hi, my name is Maggie, I am a certified Tamalpa Practitioner and a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist.  I started The Talking Body 7 years ago to fulfill my dream of empowering women to share their stories through embodied expressive arts. Ever since I was 3, dance, and art has been my form of communication. 

I offer simple tools and resources to build bridges and pathways forward, and to heal old thoughts and beliefs that no longer serve us.

With over forty years of education and experience working with clients, I offer a blend of healing arts such as dance, somatic movement, fine arts, expressive arts, social work, drama/theater improvisation, and a variety of touch-based healing practices.

  • "From layers of movement in body, hand, eyes, speech, and back to body...I particularly enjoyed the sensory process of drawing, the repetition of coloring, the sounds of shading my arising emotions, the visual representation of energies alive and enlivened on paper."

    Eugenia Park, Massage Therapist and Ayurvedic Practitioner

  • "The whole evening was transformative and left me with a kind of afterglow...achieved by unbundling all of the thoughts and emotions swirling around, leftover anxiety from too much news, too much worry...there was a lot of raw beauty in those two hours."

    Brian Pearson, Photographer

  • "Maggie Silverman not only walks her talk, she dances and draws it, too, and she helps others do the same in her workshops. Through gentle questions and guidance, she inspires us to integrate mind, heart, and body knowing through movement, art, and verbal sharing. Maggie creates a space of support and unconditional acceptance for whatever bubbles up, and we leave refreshed and reconnected with ourselves at the end of the experience."

    Cynthia Leslie-Bole, Poet, Writer and Life Coach