Support as a physical principle set up by gravity.Fundamental movement actions of yield, push, reach, and pull.Repositioning themselves in proximity to others’ bodies in motion.Claiming their boundaries with touch while giving, receiving, and co-creating.Their own improvisatory movement practice.The fundamental somatic relationship between movement and awareness.The agreements and principles of BraveSpace.We establish the conditions by which we may be vulnerable together, practicing being fully ourselves in relationship with others.īy the completion of this course participants will have experience with and understanding of: The objective of BraveSpace Level 1 is establishing presence with agency-choosing to be here. I invite you to join me in reclaiming the home of our bodies together. It’s my honor to see you, and to know your divinity. I am so grateful I get to practice being myself with you. I find healing, play, and fulfillment by holding these spaces. We can forge agreements that keep us safe enough to take the risk of being vulnerable together, giving each other the permission to be our authentic selves. We are social animals, and we can learn to let go into our natural ability to BE together with a few simple tools. This is the power for me of moving together, touching each other, speaking, and listening to one another. I might even drop my shame-for my desires, pleasures, and pain. When I let you see me-when I really yield to it-I stop worrying that I’m weird or not enough. I became a dancer, bodyworker, movement therapist, choreographer, and even a college dance professor. I could inhabit a different state of consciousness by attuning to my body and movement. In fact I learned that moving and feeling are practically inseparable, and that with practice I could learn to BE differently. I had always taken the constriction and discomfort in my body and spirit for granted-it was all I knew. I studied dance and somatic practices because my life depended on it. Through movement, dance, meditation, and communion I continually find home in my heart and body.Īt 20 years old I accepted modern dance and somatics as my medicine the way some come to Jesus. I am grateful for the fierce, vital, and sometimes uncomfortable force that pours through me. I have played the sad, resentful song of victimhood. It’s easy for me to get stuck in my head, spinning myself into a wild tangle of ideas and emotions. I have been challenged-with anxiety, depression, physical pain, and loneliness. I choose to be here-in this body, on this Earth, at this time.
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