,
​
​​​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 create classes and workshops
with people across and between
​cultures, creeds, colours,
genders, sexualities, sizes,
​life stages, (dis)abilities,
and health situations
in mind and in respect.



​
I'm a white-bodied Gen X woman (she/her).
I'm committed to ongoing learning about how to hold and tend
​good spaces and relations for all.

5RHYTHMS class info!

​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.

5RHYTHMS classes

Yoga classes

Soundscapes for movement

I'm an uninvited settler on the stolen, occupied homeland of  Quw'utsun mustimuhw (Quw'utsun people).  
Hul'q'uminum'-speaking nations have governed and cared for their territories since time uncounted. They range from Snaw-Naw-As First Nation ("Nanoose Bay") and Snuneymuxw First Nation ("Nanaimo") in the north to Malahat First Nation in the south. Cowichan Tribes, Halalt First Nation, Ts'uubaa-asatx First Nation, Lyackson First Nation, and Penelakut Tribe form the Hul'q'umi'num' Treaty Group, engaging with colonial governments over eons, determined to repatriate-rematriate and protect some of the lands taken by my society.    I witness the inalienable rights of Indigenous Peoples ​(First Nations, Inuit, Métis) including to their lands, their own governance, and genuine reparations for ongoing genocidal 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.
#LandBack

Hul'q'umi'num' language learning resource (work in early progress)