Moving Through The Energy Centers
A movement exploration to support ease, vitality  integration and wholeness
Online Workshop Open To All
Thursdays 10:00 - 11:30 AM MST
7 Weeks, drop-in's welcome
November 5 - December 17
                     (11/26 is USA Thanksgiving, we will focus on the heart chakra/gratitude that session)
 
Overview:
We will use physical/energetic/elemental centers of the body (the chakras), as the framework for embodied explorations.
We will move, open up sensory and motor pathways, use our imagination, witness and (optionally) be witnessed.
Each week we will focus on a different physical/energetic center, starting from the ground and moving up to the crown of the head.
Somatic practices that inform our explorations include yoga, pilates, Body Mind Centering, Authentic Movement, movement improvisation and inspiration from the natural world. 
Sessions include guided movement as well as time for personal movement exploration, witnessing and optional interactive improvisational movement.
Each session will end with a 15 minute guided deep relaxation.

Details:
This workshop is movement based and open to all. No experience is necessary just a desire to more fully inhabit and move your body.

Week 1: Earth
Creating and deepening a felt sense of connection and safety with the earth through yielding, grounding and rebounding. Awakening the feet, legs and pelvic floor.

Week 2: Water
Connecting with the primary element in our bodies, water, to re-member our inherent flow.  Accessing the power and fluidity of the pelvis and integrating it with rest of the body while moving with embodied pleasure. 

Week 3: Fire
Moving from our own center (the source of life energy).  Delighting in and deepening one's solo dance while being relational with space and others. Exploring the organs of liver, stomach, small intestines and kidneys as support for empowered being and moving.

Week 4: Air
Expanding the awareness of the lungs and breath as well as the arms and hands and their relationship to the heart. Developing strategies for creating lightness in the body and allowing the spectrum of heart qualities to dance us.

Week 5: Sound & Vibration
Freeing up the neck, throat and jaw and allowing sound as a means to open self expression while we move.   Integrating the head and torso though the pathway of the digestive tube, refining the ability to work with spherical space and inversions.

Week 6: Light & Perception
Using the physical eyes, both open and closed, to give us more depth and choices in our perception. Exploring how the imagination and visualizations open up new realms of sensation and what is possible in our moving mind/bodies. 

Week 7: Source
Navigating the head as a limb to find ease in aligning vertically as well as moving through spherical space. Integrating all parts of the body, mind and spirit so that the life force flows freely. Letting go of ego control and letting in Universal guidance by opening up the crown of the head to deep listening to the unknown.  
 
Registration:
$105 - $130 sliding scale for entire session
$20 drop in
Pay from the Heart Scholarship (for those in need pay what you are able to)
Sessions will be recorded and made available to participants. 
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