Movement Medicine comes in many forms. Some movement medicines are spontaneous, teaching you to leap beyond your day-to-day patterns into the unknown! Some are quite methodolgical, teaching you how to study the body through mindful awareness. Movement Medicine is a powerful part of a holistic approach.

My work focuses on Somatic Dance, Somatic Contact Dance, Expressive Movement, and Guided Movement.

Somatic Dance

• Learn to let go of expectations of the outside world and go within.
• Discover the honesty of our "personal dance."
• Somatic Dance is our version of "authentic movement", with an explicit focus on sensation and breath

Somatic Contact Dance is a mindful-movement practice that is done with partners, or as a collective, guiding us to deeper nervous system relaxation.

• Somatic Contact Dance has it's roots in both Contact Improv and Authentic Movement, but Somatic Contact Dance does not focus on the transfer of weight between participants, like traditional Contact Improv does.
• It also uses the premise of authentic movement, but with partners, instead of on your own.
• Somatic Contact Dance is sensation lead, not emotionally lead.

Expressive Movement a sister practice to Somatic Dance and focused on the release of emotion and stories locked in the body.

• Because emotional expression through movement requires it's own set of containment needs, I seperate it from Somatic Dance, though the two could easily become a single practice.
• Expressive Movement will take themes such as dancing our anxiety, or dancing with feelings of worthlessness, to help us digest and release old stories that are locked within our bodies.
• Expressive movement can be done in a group setting or one:one.

Guided Movement is a foundational aspect of most ancient religious and spiritual practices, including movement teachings like Yoga, Tai Chi, Chi Gong. I focus on combining movement practices for specific outcomes such as:

• Movement for Mental Health
• Building your Movement Vocabulary
• Discovering the 5 elements within the body

I draw from teachings of the Triune Brain, Poly-vagal Theory, 5 Rhythms, Laban and Kundalini Yoga. I do not teach Tai Chi, Chi Gong, or other traditional movement arts.

I honor my movement lineage:

Developmental Movement Re-Patterning, (Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, My mother: Darlene Tataryn), B. Pat Burns, The Voice Intensive (David Smuckler, Judith Koltai, Gerry Trentham) Authentic Movement (Mary Starks Whitehouse, Darlene Tataryn), Rebecca Gibson, 5 Rhythms (Gabrielle Roth), Jeff Erbach (Chekov), Meisner, Jazz, Ballet, chi gong, Kundalini Yoga (Hari Singh, Nirmal Kaur) Rachelanne Kosatsky (My partner in this work. She is a master of her own body and sees and appreciates the depths of the body-mind exploration). Some of these folks died before I was born, some of them were people that I have studied through books or through their students.