Supple Earth: Authentic Movement Meditations, online

Dear beings, a time to gather together in movement, from wherever you live. This class offers a time to slow down and sense into the wisdom of you own body in relation with Earth and Sky. We will play with gentle curious scores for exploration, in solitudes and in relation with one another, listening in for what is real and true in the moment and giving form to that flow. Stretch out into the tides of breath, the play of rise and fall, expansion and release. Find your own edge and play that with your breath and your bones. This class offers a time to connect to your own creative wellspring, a place that exists within all living beings.

Each class begins with a time to arrive in movement and metaphor, followed by some somatic movement inquiries, woven with pockets of stillness and creative reflection, some movement passages, and ending together again in stillness. We may reflect on the unfolding currents through some in writing, simple image making, word play, or movement.

This class helps deepen and unfold embodied courage, relaxation, connection, and ease, exuberance and the magic of simple real.

Indeed, we live in a fast paced, stressed society. In addition, our living histories of collective trauma, stress, and overwhelm can also make it very difficult to be present to this moment and to feel supple in our bodies and our relational responses.

Movement is a source of healing and enlivening. Mindfulness in movement brings an interior intimacy and a soft freedom in togetherness. Movement and mindfulness are ancient practices, which humans in all cultures have made use of in various ways to feel supple, relaxed, and responsive to life, as well as to open consciousness and perception. Mindfulness and movement calm our nervous systems, support our buoyancy and resilience, and connect us to source: to breath, creative fire, Earth, and the inner river of life.

This class is rooted in the lineages of authentic movement, soul motion, movement based expressive arts, woven with somatic inquiry. Come join the play.

Next session June 12, 19, 26th and July 3rd.; 4-5:30 pm pacific/7-8:30 pm eastern, online