1:1 Body-Centered Practices
(Online or In Person)
Guided Meditation, Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra, and Conscious Dance offer an opportunity to be present with what is moving or stuck inside your body.
Before your session, we allow space for your intention to arise. Naming your intention is an act of agency that guides me in how to support you in the session. I also invite you to choose a single modality or combination of modalities for your session.
With every practice, we begin with breath—a unique aspect of the body that we can both witness and control. Then, with the tenderness and curiosity of a listening heart, we check in to hear what your body wants to say.
Body Centered Practices:
Guided Meditation
Dropping into stillness with me. Meditation is a practice of tuning into what is happening in your body—sensation, emotions, thoughts, impulse—and simply observing. Practicing presence with whatever arises. Guided meditation—being in connection and being guided—develops a foundation for your own meditation practice.
Yin Yoga
Yin Yoga is a practice for slow and gentle release of connective tissue including fascia, which encases the connective tissue around organs, muscles, bones, joints, and blood vessels. Because fascia contains highly sensitive nerves, it tightens with stress. Releasing fascia helps to release emotional tension and create openness in the body.
Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra, yogic sleep, is a state of wakeful sleep—a form of deep relaxation that develops awareness. Either on your own or in guided meditation, the practice moves you through levels of consciousness—physical, energetic, mind-emotional, intuitive—to your deepest self. It allows you to be consciously in your unconscious, where rejuvenation, transformation and healing can occur. Practicing with a sankalpa, a stated or visualized intention, offers the opportunity to plant a seed of conscious intention in the unconscious.
Come To Your Senses Conscious Dance
A practice of mindful, unchoreographed movement and dance. With or without music, it is a practice of connection to yourself and what’s moving in you. It evolved from my personal practice and training in the work of Gabrielle Roth and her 5Rhythms Dance.
For me, the dance is a path to joy, ease, healing, integration, and revitalization.
It offers gateways to awareness: What is happening in my body? What does my body have to tell me? What wants to move, be still, be seen in me? What habits are embedded and show up in my movement? What new patterns arise? Who am I alone? Who am I in relationship with others? What do I witness in myself? In others? And, it offers gateways to new ways of moving, being in relationship, and freedom.
