March Learning Cohort Open ➜

Co-Creating Communities That Heal

Re-Indigenizing learning and Relating

PROJECTS & COLLABORATIONS WITH

Meet the Founder

Dahlia Quintanilla
Dahlia is a first generation, Mexican-Indigenous educator who is dedicated to empowering communities through somatic social-emotional learning and strengthening relationships.

With strong belief in unity, love, healing, and freedom, Dahlia leads the mission to co-create healing community spaces focused on collective action. Through her visionary leadership, she inspires educators, organizations, and communities to drive positive change and foster lifelong community-based learning.

Dahlia's commitment to social-emotional responsiveness, restorative justice, and re-indigenization - reclaiming Indigenous ways of knowing and being - guides the journey towards healing-centered educational alternatives that serve life rather than systems.

Upcoming Live Events

Learning Cohort March 2026

The Transformation

Over five weeks, we’ll develop three core capacities that change how we show up in every learning space, every relationship, every moment of life…

→ Returning to Body
We’ll learn to regulate our nervous systems in real-time – to notice when we’re dysregulated, breathe ourselves back to presence, and stay grounded when conflict arises. No more running on autopilot. No more holding our breath through hard moments.

→ Returning to Relationship
We’ll practice moving toward (not away from) rupture. We’ll learn restorative language that repairs rather than defends. We’ll discover that conflict isn’t a threat – it’s a portal to deeper belonging.

→ Returning to the Web of Life
We’ll remember we’re not alone. We’ll feel our belonging to ancestors, land, community, and future generations. We’ll make decisions from interconnection, not isolation.

Our mission

Liberated Learning is a space for remembering what the body already knows.

We guide people back to their innate wisdom - unlearning generations of conditioning and reclaiming education as a practice of genuine community. We work with educators, parents, healers, and learning communities of all kinds who are ready to create environments relationships are healthy and everyone feels belonging.

Through somatic movement, restorative circles, and teachings rooted in Indigenous wisdom, we return to ourselves, each other, and the earth.

The Lighthouse Learning Model™ is our framework for this transformation.

We support young people, adults, educators, parents, leadership teams, programs, organizations, and those seeking growth, healing, and authentic community connections.

Offerings

All pathways liberate

Exhale Audios

7 days of foundational somatic audios to ground, center, and connect to your body.

Somatic Movement

1-1, groups, adults and children. Offered virtually and in-person. Guided breath, movement, & somatic techniques.

Experiential Learning

Learn through doing. Mind-body-soul connections in workshops.

Circle Facilitation

Lean into community through circle sessions. 

Co-Creative Partnerships

Let's explore what lies at the intersections of our work and how we can collaborate. 

Check-In, Reflect, Connect

Licensable program for social-emotional learning practice. For grades 5-12. This supports community regulation and connection.

Speaking Engagements

Looking for an engaging speaker? Contact us for more information.

Fully Liberated Learning Environments

We wholeheartedly embrace the cyclical nature of the learning process, moving through the phases: Knowledge, Support, Tools, and Reflection. This process is rooted in neuroscience and designed to empower communities by offering beginning-to-end support in completing a full and transformative learning cycle. This is how to fully liberate your learning environment to heal and thrive


Our Methodology

Our approach creates learning experiences that connect mind-body-soul.

When bodies feel grounded, minds can focus. When nervous systems are regulated, conflict can be repaired.

When we honor the connection between body and mind, learning becomes joyful instead of stressful.

We integrate neuroscience, somatic practices, and ancestral wisdom to reconnect what education has separated: mind from body, individual from community, knowledge from lived experience.

This evidence-based, body-centered foundation offers practical remedies to outdated learning systems that disconnect us from ourselves and each other.

When we remember that learning happens in our bodies, education becomes a practice of embodiment.

This is how we co-create communities that learn, liberated.

How We Transform Learning

We guide people to feel connected to their bodies so they can learn from that centered place.

When teachers feel grounded, they co-create settled classrooms.

When students feel centered, they can focus and connect.

When organizations operate from nervous system health, they become spaces where collaboration can thrive.
Embodied community, healing, and love are the foundation of liberation.
- Dahlia Quintanilla

Resources

DOWNLOAD: 27 Free Social-Emotional Learning Activities for Grades 5th-12th

Explore identity and build SEL skills with these ready-to-use activities. Perfect for grades 5-12. Body-centered […]

Lighthouse Learning Cohort

Five Weeks Practicing Liberation-Centered Education 5 Sundays | March 1-29, 2026 @ 11am CST | […]

🌿Check-In, Reflect, Connect™

A Holistic, Somatic SEL Solution for Schools, Homes, and Organizations CASEL Aligned • CPS Vendor […]

The Lighthouse Learning Model™

Education as Repair: Re-Igniting the Village Land and Lineage Acknowledgment This work is offered from […]

THE FUNCTION OF FREEDOM IS TO FREE SOMEONE ELSE.
- TONI MORRISON

Remember, Reclaim, Liberate.

Connect with us
Liberated Learning © 2026

FREE - 4 peace making practices for Conflict resolution

Freebie Form

FREE! 4 Peace Making Practices for Conflict Resolution

Freebie Form