with Teresa Reid | In-studio | $20 a session
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.
Things to know: This is a substance free space. Unless prompted, it is also a non-verbal space. We dance barefoot, but soft soled indoor shoes are welcome. We are not a contact improv group, so while consensual touch is welcome (when given freely, continuously, and consciously), practicing lifts, rolling on the floor, etc are best suited for a CI specific space.
What to Expect?
Our Movement Cycle includes: Open Attention, Enter, Explore, and 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 then offers prompts to ENTER the body, a theme and the present moment. There is ample time to EXPLORE through guided facilitation and on your own. This is where we broaden, deepen, expand and move with the Movement Resources that are offered to see how they show up in our bodies, our relations, and our lives.. 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.
When: Mondays, 7-8:25pm
March 4 - theme: confusion
March 11 - theme: numbness
March 18 - class cancelled
March 25 - theme: welcome Spring!
Where: Tula Yoga & Wellness (the back studio)
99 Snelling Ave N, St Paul MN
Pre-requisites:
Open to any and all folks, regardless of experience, who are willing and/or comfortable dancing organically with curiosity vs instruction. Come 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
March 18th class is cancelled, preregister for next week’s class!
Whether I am facilitating, coaching, mothering or mentoring, I consider myself an advocate of en-LIFE-enment. With a passion for movement and metaphor as paths of liberation, my offerings blend my love of dance, somatic inquiry, archetypal and depth psychology, earth based wisdom, and whole systems healing. Through powerful, embodied explorations of deep purpose, I support others in awakening awareness, summoning resilience and choice, and welcoming wholeness home; one step at a time.
Having lived a life guided by curiosity, wonder, and in service to the unknown, I have learned to trust in the wisdom of my body, rest in the questions rather than the answers, and ponder rather than claim to know. Free form, conscious dance is my primary practice, along with weaving ritual, connecting with nature, listening to dreams, and activating my imagination through creative writing and art.
It is my great honor to share and breathe and BE in this dance of life with you.
To learn more about my offerings, visit my website.