ESSENTIALS

• Music for inspiration
• Movements based on anatomy, activating core, allowing free and natural breath
• Words to guide inner-awareness
• Community for support and connection
• Presence, experiential, responsive to aliveness
• Joyous, playful, fun
• Space for whatever has not been allowed 
• Pause for discovery of habits and possibilities

SECTIONS OF A CLASS

A basic one-hour class is comprised of five sections:

1. Warm-Up:  mid-range movements of the joints in their anatomical directions;  activating core muscles and diaphragm
2. Stretch:  end-range movements of upper body to encourage inner-awareness and freedom in diaphragm
3. Circle:  bigger, more complex leg movements holding hands for support and to play with balance
4. Across the Floor: put it all together to play with dance and have fun
5. On the Floor:  movements for the spine, rest, relaxation,  awareness, and integration

All of the sections are done to music that

• supports and
• inspires the movements. 

All of the sections cultivate and encourage

• awareness,
• natural breathing, and
• moving from the core.

• Agility, mobility, flexibility, and balance
• Natural breath – beyond conscious control
• Direct experience of limits and possibilities
• Relaxation,  peacefulness, aliveness
• Inner awareness and Inter-connection
• Appreciation of body-mind linkage
• Graceful aging
• Preparation for more strenuous activity
• Pleasure and trust in the body