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I offer spaces for movement and dance
in Quw'utsun territory where I'm settled and beyond.
My responsibilities in these spaces include healing
my self and my ways through study, reflection, and action.
I offer spaces for movement and dance
in Quw'utsun territory where I'm settled and beyond.
My responsibilities in these spaces include healing
my self and my ways through study, reflection, and action.
Hello, and thank you for pausing here.
As far as I can tell, living one life involves dying back and resurfacing many times.
Embodied practices support me to encounter life on its own terms.
Voluntary breathing, dancing with attention, stretching my core and limbs with curiosity,
and moving and resting outdoors offer me permission to be with things as they are.
They help me to first feel and then take responsibility for my sensations, emotions, mentalities, and mysteries.
They help me become more aware of what's happening–and more likely to be responsive rather than defensive, reactive, or shut down.
Body-based practices help me slow down and adjust my relating to the world.
They're accessible methods we can put in our own hands in service of self knowledge, well being, and helpful engagement.
I offer movement practices in acknowledgement of our human condition and creativity in unstable times.
My classes are invested in deepening realism, responsiveness and balance in our personal and communal life.
We can cultivate our capacity to know ourselves, be basically well, and deliberately direct our attention.
Awareness directed inward prepares ground for extending care and engagement to extend outward.
We can show up, decompress, relate, and leave strengthened and sparkled. We carry potential for positive movement.
You don't need to feel strong or energetic to join my movement spaces, but you can! You don't need to be able to stand up to move, stretch and decompress.
No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please talk to me about any accessibility concerns. If you're breathing, you've got all you need.
I'm a settler on the stolen, occupied homeland of Quw'utsun mustimuhw (Quw'utsun people). I create classes and workshops with people across and between cultures, colours, sizes, life stages, (dis)abilities, health situation, genders and sexualities in mind. I'm a white-bodied GenX woman (she/her). I'm committed to ongoing learning about how to hold and tend good spaces and relations for all. Hul'q'uminum'-speaking nations have governed and cared for the territories I work in since time uncounted. They range northward from Snaw-Naw-As First Nation ("Nanoose Bay") and Snuneymuxw First Nation ("Nanaimo") and southward to Malahat First Nation. Cowichan Tribes, Halalt First Nation, Ts'uubaa-asatx First Nation, Lyackson First Nation, and Penelakut Tribe form the Hul'q'umi'num' Treaty Group and have engaged for eons with colonial governments to protect some of their alienated lands. I witness the rights of Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Inuit, Métis) including to their lands, their own governance, and genuine reparations for ongoing assaults by Canada. My classes, workshops, and community engagement include learning how to take real steps to integrate realities of broken relationships and invest in just relationships where we practice.
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