with Teresa Reid | In-studio | $20 a session
Traversing the weeks between Samhain and Winter Solstice can be challenging for some folks. Holidays can fuel family wounds, more time alone can stir insecurity, the season of the West and the element of Water can lift untended emotions and grief to the surface.
Let's come together to move and include the ebb and flow of our lives!
We'll fill the darkest days of the year with our presence and attention...create a space to practice and move, alone or together...and sense and feel our way through, gathering and harvesting movement resources that can support us through the dark.
What is Open Floor?
"Open Floor is a resource based movement practice. We explore new ways of moving and responding to what is happening with intention and purpose. We learn to understand our habits and patterns for deeper insight and self awareness. The more we embody different responses in our movements, the more resources we can call on to move through life with flexibility, resilience and ease."
What to Expect?
Our Movement Cycle includes (1) Open Attention, (2) Enter, (3) Explore, and (4) Settle. OPEN ATTENTION is the time we take to arrive, warm up and prepare the body for movement. We open our senses to the environment. The facilitator will then offer prompts to ENTER your body, enter a theme and the present moment. There will be ample time to EXPLORE with guided facilitation and then on your own. This is where we broaden, deepen, expand and move with the Movement Resources. At the end of each class we SETTLE…digest, integrate. This helps re-map the nervous system and allows new embodied pathways to be encoded.
Pre-requisites:
I'm asking folks to complete the 6-week series, Fertile Ground, before attending these drop-in classes. HOWEVER...If you have an already established conscious dance or meditation practice, and are comfortable moving organically with curiosity vs instruction, you are welcome to attend and give Open Floor a try!
Investment:
$20/session
Facilitator:
Teresa Reid - Open Floor Teacher, Dancing Freedom Facilitator, Organic Intelligence Coach and steward of Rooted and Rising