Mindful Movement

I received my yoga teaching certification in 2005 in the Hatha and Vinyasa yoga traditions. In 2018, I began offering Mindful Movement at Insight Meditation Society, a movement practice designed for people on silent retreat. The practice has evolved in the years since and I now offer it in both retreat and non-retreat spaces. 

The Mindful Movement practice I offer is a combination of yoga, qi gong and intuitive movement. It is a gentle sequence accessible to most ages and body types. It helps to soften and open the body and relieve any held stress or tension. It trains our capacity to track what is arising in the body’s field and to hear the body’s voice. It refines our attunement to our inner and outer landscape and builds our ability to harmonize our precious vehicle. 

This practice uses a style of attention called Energy Body Awareness, a way of sensing the body as a whole in space, a field of ever-changing sensations. A live, dynamic experience that has so much to do with our sense of identity, our sense of Self. A field that we are always in intricate relationship with, whether consciously or unconsciously. An experience that is a complex co-arising of outer forces and the choices we make. Mindful Movement is a lab where we study this phenomena, a place where we can watch the patterns of how things tend to unfold. As we understand more, we begin to gather what helps this body to feel a sense of alignment, ease and well-being. 

Available to individuals or groups.

Relational Practices

Do you experience social anxiety? Do you suffer from a strong inner critic?

Do you long to be seen and fear being seen?

Do you struggle to know how you’re feeling, what’s going on inside? Does this get harder or near impossible in social situations?

Do you ever feel like you need to perform or please people when you’re speaking?

Would you like to be able to be more real with people?

Do you long for more intimacy in your life?

In relational practice, we are learning to speak from a different place than the ego. Instead of telling our story of who we are, we are simply tracking our internal experience. What is happening right now? And now? As the speaker, we name the physical sensations, emotions, thoughts and energies that are continuously moving through while being witnessed. As witness, we are both receiving the other and also tracking our own inner experience. How are we impacted by what the other is saying and experiencing?

This is an awareness practice that takes mindfulness on the road. In silent meditation we learn about our patterns and how our minds work but it can be quite challenging to integrate those insights into our daily life or maintain that level of mindfulness while in connection. Because relationality is highly complex! There is a lot going on! This practice slows it down and gives it a structure within which we can observe all the movements and responses more closely. 

Relational Practice aims to create a kind space where you can speak your internal experience in a more real way and be witnessed. What if we felt more free to just be throughout our day, without so many inhibitions and fear of judgment?