The intention for these 30 minute sessions is to follow and explore your authentic and creative impulse to move as it arises in the present moment. Another word for that is dancing! But I am intentionally steering away from that word because for some people a whole host of complex emotions, fears, and doubts can accompany it. I hope that this practice expands your inner vocabulary of what creative movement and dance can be, perhaps in a way that might trickle into your daily life. It is a space and practice of playful inquiry into your present experience. How do you want to move? What might happen if you moved in a way you haven't before? How can you move in a way that feels good to you and how does that support you?

While Zoom is not ideal, the gift of our separate-togetherness in a virtual format is: the comfort of a familiar space to go more deeply within in these explorations. And! Perhaps the freedom to take more risks if you are shy and new to creative movement.

This is how it will work: I will send a brief invitation of ideas and topics for each week's movement exploration, prior to that week's class. We will gather on Zoom and I will guide you briefly into connection with your body and that week’s theme, before starting a 30 minute playlist of music that moves from slow and spacious rhythms, to more energetic, and ends back with slow and still. You can choose to leave your camera on or off, though I encourage you to have it on. Folks are welcome to leave at 7:45, or choose to stay for a brief 10-15 minutes of sharing and discussion at the end.

$10 drop-in, $45 for the 6 week series

Intended for all ages 12 and up

Wednesdays 7:30-8:00pm EST (plus 10-15mins for optional discussion at closing)

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While you are always free to follow your own movement interests, I will have some topics and themes for us to explore each session:

Week 1, 11/16: Turning inward

Week 2, 11/23: Surrender to Ground + Support

Week 3, 11/30: Getting Curious

Week 4, 12/7: Finding flow

Week 5, 12/14: Exploring balance

Week 6, 12/21: Reaching out

You will need: no experience, some privacy, a small amount of floor space (maybe big enough to lay down in two directions), comfortable clothes, willingness to explore/play. All bodies and any level of mobility is welcome, even sitting or laying down.

The potential benefits of this kind practice are numerous: reconnection with yourself and your authentic rhythms and expression, access to a sense of play and creativity, enlivening of physical parts of yourself that may feel numb or cut-off, arrival into the present moment, relief of chronic pain, connection to pleasure, processing and transmutation of difficult emotions.

I will be drawing on 10 years of personal practice influenced by training as an Expressive Arts Therapist, 5 Rhythms practice, Authentic Movement, and Somatic psychology. I trust that you will listen and attend to your own body's needs and limitations.