Somatic Groundwork is like a movement meditation. Participants first learn how to apply movement to Restore and Regulate through yielding practices. As a whole, yielding practices are about resting into the support of the ground (or other contact surfaces) to be received by gravity. Yielding practices includes natural breathing, sounding, releasing weight and basic unwinding techniques like rolling, rocking and pandiculating. Take the Ground Touch workshop to experience the benefits yourself.

As a form of self-care, Somatic Groundwork begins with re-tuning neuromyofascial tone in order to support ease of movement and curiosity in practice. With embodied presence as a base, learning (and re-patterning) is more effective as defense responses are dampened and the individual will to do is harnessed.  The progressive movement vocabularies follow a developmental pedagogy using fundamental forces, primary movement patterns, improvisation and natural movement skills to help develop learning from the inside out and ground up. 

Somatic Groundwork improves coordination, mobility, stability and greater versatility in movement. Along the way, perceptual flexibility (ability to choose and create) improves as well. In turn, with honesty in self-research, somatic practice bolsters our ability to pattern healthy relationships with ourselves, others and our planet.

begin with inquiry and wonder, stay with the question, allow for the unfolding

experience this presence, explore resources of support, embody the felt-sense of ease and okay enough

pay attention to your body impulses, make agreements as you move and play with creative expression

stay with the process, explore new somatic channels and movement choices

listen to the spaces in between, dance with whoever arrives, particpate with the forces that be