practice anytime & anywhere

When you subscribe to the online practice space, get immediate access to a well organized and elegant membership site with over 100 classes categorized by specific collections and class themes. Practice anytime of day in the comfort of your home or favorite movement studio.

Somatic Groundwork uses all levels in space while spending a significant amount of time using the floor as partner. As a ground-based practice, it is important to have a clean and clear floor space the size of your body in star (laying down in the shape of X) . Both carpeted and wood flooring work well, and each provides different features. A smooth floor gives you the ability to move your body with little resistance. A carpeted floor is a bit more friendly to bony parts and tends to be warmer.

The practice does not require specialized equipment or clothing. Commonly, folks like to practice in soft, loose-fitting, breathable clothes that do not restrict movement. Any kind of exercise wear or comfy pajama-like clothing works well. Long legs and sleeves may be preferable depending on the practice. Some classes you can adapt to do outside, on your bed or in a chair.

Somatic Groundwork is a progressive practice. In the membership I take you through the steps to learn from the ground up and the inside out. Learn the ten basic patterns and then progress with the primary core support series, unwinding techniques and more..

explore natural movement skills + creative play

Each somatic movement online class is an experience of relating to the forces that move us. From yield to push to pull, within tension-compression, between arousal and depletion, and along the continuum of clarity and uncertainty, our inquiry is based in the lived experience of our body. You are also guided to tune into your inner body to track and follow sensations, feelings and impulses. The practice oscillates between specific studies of movement and organic expressions that arise from participation. In this way, Somatic Groundwork has both corrective and creative elements to support whole body organization.

The movement practice itself is a teaching for returning to what is basic and fundamental. Rocking, rolling, yielding, breathing, sounding, orienting, unwinding, pandiculating, folding and unfolding are the first techniques to explore. We remap the felt-sense of baseline: the place where tone (myofascial, vagal, autonomic, emotional) is balanced and harmonizing. These simple movements tap into patterns from our earliest development. In practice we relate with gravity, ground and space and track sensations like weight releasing, tensional forces flowing, and fluctuations between effort and ease. Our embodied research includes how we move and shape from the inside out.

These somatic refinements positively influence our proprioception and interoception. Together these sensory receptions give us the kinesthetic sense. Although Somatic Groundwork is a floor-based practice, all levels from the ground to standing are explored in the movement system. The first classes in the membership are tutorials on the Somatic Groundwork ten basic patterns.  From these fundamentals, Somatic Groundwork progresses the somatic skills gained from early developmental patterns to basic standing skills for stability, stamina and dynamic mobility. As we move between improvisation and shape-based studies we explore natural movement skills on all levels that includes swinging, bouncing, kneeling, crawling, squatting and lunging.