authentic movement
deepening connection through embodied relationship
Authentic Movement is the process of inner body awareness that is communicated through embodied relationship. There is a mover and a witness. This practice is intended to slow us down, increase internal focus, and heighten our inner awareness. Through this noticing, we reclaim our body’s sensations through the impulses we feel that arise from deep inside ourself, that is not stimulated nor created by external influence.
Embodiment is to deepen and maintain connection with our inner experience. When we expand our internal awareness, we have the opportunity to feel more deeply into who we are from the inside out. As we relate with ourselves, with another, and with the world around us, we shift on a spectrum of embodiment that determines the nature and quality of our interactions.
When we are embodied, we expand into the intrinsic part of our being, and make ourselves known to one another at the deepest, most intimate level.
Authentic Movement is the practice of Embodied Relationship.
The Practice: Mover & Witness
The Mover: Focuses on an image, symbol, word, feeling, or affirmation with the gaze focused inward. The mover engages in “free association,” allowing the body to move itself through inner bodily sensations (impulses) that are evoked from the image, symbol, word, feeling, or affirmation held through internal focus by the mover.
The Witness: Provides an unconditional, non-judgemental, holding space that focuses their attention on the mover. They witness and track through their body movements, the mover’s inner sensations / impulses. While focusing on the mover, the witness equally holds attention on their own bodily sensations and inner impulses that are present when watching the mover.
In this workshop we will: explore authentic and embodied relationship through movement in depth, held in connection with a partner as we strengthen our capacity for embodiment. We will meet via zoom, and utilize breakout rooms as we work in dyads as well as in the large group. Through self-reflective movement, experiential dyads, and group integration, we will explore the meeting of inner body awareness through somatic, non-verbal and verbal ways of actualizing embodied intimacy through relationship with ourselves, with another, held in community.