body-mind movement

movement for body, mind,
& spirit

As a Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME) I facilitate somatic, expressive, and holistic movement and dance with groups of all ages, to support the wellbeing of our body-mind-spirit selves. My work is based on the understanding that we are multifaceted creatures, with our physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual natures in a reciprocal relationship with one another. My approach includes activities that engage our sensate physicality, flowing feelings, aware and creative minds, deep intuition, and our desire to connect with others and the world.

I offer experiential classes, workshops, and courses, and guest teach on movement programs, including The Movement Arc, Laban/Bartenieff Somatic Studies International, & UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies.

somatic movement & creative dance.....

somatic movement & creative dance.....

If you wish to feel connected and creative in everyday life or develop your embodied and artistic practice as a dancer, actor, musician or other artist, this is course is for you! It will be offered through UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies this summer, with dates and times coming soon…

  • Tune into your soma and deepen your felt sense of body-mind connection.

  • Expand your capacity for exploring, creating, and expressing through the body.

  • Create movement from personally meaningful stimuli, interweave other artistic disciplines, and share ideas in a supportive group environment.

ACCESSIBLE MOVEMENT & DANCE CLASSES FOR ADULTS OF ALL AGES

Adult classes combine somatic and expressive movement and dance. Seated activities can include self-touch, simple somatic exercises, movement sequences with imagery, and guided improvised explorations. Standing activities can include collective movement danced as a group, guided improvised explorations, and movement in relationship with others.

EXPRESSIVE MOVEMENT WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS

  • Unearth our nature

    Relate with nature’s capacity to support and teach us resilience, perspective, and reciprocity. Embody the deep time of a mountain and the up-welling of life in adversity. Walk in nature, create images and poetry, and express it all through your living breathing body. We exist in an interdependent relationship with all of nature’s manifestations, and we will embody this truth together.

  • Evolution's Patterns

    Sense, visualize, and inhabit primal patterns of body connectivity. Through guided sensing, touch, and simple movement exercises, revisit movement patterns that developed in you as an infant, and which support your movement as an adult. We are miraculous beings who evolved from earlier miraculous beings, let’s celebrate the intelligence and perseverance of life on Earth together.

  • Archetypal Expressions

    Playfully connect with the archetypal realm as we move through a series of archetypes, inviting each character to emerge into physical expression. Reflect on an archetype that might serve you on life’s path, embody this archetype, and allow it’s expression through movement, drawing and/or writing. Archetypes are within us, and we will invite them to guide us together.

  • Seasonal Meditations

    Dance through the seasons and translate seasonal imagery into physical expression. Personal movement and meaning-making, and collective movement making, along with text and visual imagery will all be encouraged. Expressing the seasons through movement can connect us with nature, our inner lives, and our spirituality, let’s take a journey of discovery together.

  • We Are Three Brains

    Sense, feel, and express the imagery that arises from your head, heart, and gut brains. Move sensory and motor pathways through the body, and collect associations of each brain to translate into creative expression. How is it to move with the clarity, creativity, compassion, empathy, instinct and courage of three brains? Together we will find new ways to experience our three brains.

  • Your Elemental Self

    Embody earth, water, air, fire, and aether through movement. Engage in guided explorations of the elements as they exist in our bodies’ tissues and systems. Express qualities such as rootedness, fluidity, connection, spaciousness, perspective, energy, and unity. In this artistic and reflective practice, you are invited to include meditative stillness, expressive movement, writing, drawing, sharing and reflecting.

  • Dancing Polarities

    Engage with polarities through movement and reflect on what they mean to you. Explore how polarities such as inner/outer can be expressed through the moving body. Choosing a polarity, discover whether you move fluidly between its opposites, or notice a preference for one, or a resistance to the other. How does it feel to explore its full spectrum, dancing “both this and this together”?