Welcome home to your body!
Body Reunion
Somatic Movement Practice
Tuesdays, 9-10 AM
Vessel Movement & Healing Space
419 Broad Street, Suite C
Nevada City
$12 drop-in, $40 for 4 class card
This is an invitation to land, to feel, and to move from a place of awareness. Guided movements improve flexibility and range while expanding expressive possibilities. Informed by Anna Halprin’s practice of Movement Ritual® this class is a warmup for daily life, naturally bringing more ease, vitality, and creative possibility. Open to all levels, no dance experience required.
What is somatic movement?
Somatic movement is intended to enhance human functioning and body-mind integration through movement awareness. It’s a way of approaching movement that invites internal sensing (interoception) as well as kinesthetic awareness. You might say, it’s simply a way of moving naturally, and a way of returning to innate knowing. A somatic movement educator guides movement patterning and re-patterning, invites open exploration and discovery, and welcomes a sense of the body as home, encompassing physical processes and all of our lived experience.
Azriel LaMarca has over twenty years of teaching dance and movement. She has trained in modern dance, improvisation, yoga, creative dance, and most recently, the Tamalpa Method, a form of expressive arts therapy pioneered by Daria and Anna Halprin. As a somatic movement educator, she guides participants into deeper listening to the body where movement and creative expression become a way through to more knowing, healing, and joy.
"Azriel is offering a rare opportunity to get reacquainted with a part of the self that is often fed, put to bed but rarely asked its opinion - the body."
E. J. - workshop participant
Inhabit your body.
Azriel LaMarca
Modern Dance Technique, Fridays 10-11:30 AM at Oddfellows Hall, 212 Spring Street, Nevada City.
Classes and workshops at Vessel, 419 Broad Street, Suite C, Nevada City.
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