Teaching & Offerings
Intersectional Embodied + Healing Arts Education
Aside from my work as a dance educator and artist, I am also an experienced Yoga Teacher and Ayurvedic Practitioner. When working privately with individuals, I lean on the wisdom of each person’s unique constitution and heritage to support them in the flowering of their most joyful and vital Self. We do this through the lens of the Trauma Informed Ayurvedic Diet, Heritage based Herbal Medicine, and the cultivation of a Yoga Sadhana. If working privately together interests you, please reach out to me here. Otherwise, I have a myriad of wonderful educational opportunities available for those interested; offered both in-person and online. Please take a look below to discover more.
The Online Studio
While there is no substitute for the intimacy of practicing movement in community, there are real benefits to cultivating the garden of your practice in the privacy of your ho(me). Self-relationship is just as essential to our wellbeing as relationship to others. Hopefully, this online sanctuary provides a cocoon for the flowering of your embodiment. In my online studio Body Poetry Space, I offer studies and courses in intersectional embodied and healing arts.
The Barn in Minturn, CO
The Barn is a movement arts sanctuary nestled in the mountain town of Minturn, Colorado, founded by Tracy Long. We offer aerial and acrobatic arts education and I serve our community as both a teacher and as the director of yoga, meditation, and conscious dance at The Barn. My online studio is an extension of our offerings and a means to build a global sangha. The Barn has been under construction and incubation since 2020 and is scheduled to open June 2024.
Online Courses
What makes my online courses unique, is that students are invited to deepen their understanding of the course material entirely through movement practice. This is a method of learning that restores autonomy and ignites agency in the student. My courses primarily focus on tending to stress, grief, and trauma through intersectional embodied and healing arts education.
"You were a guiding light for my budding practice and a nurturing influence for my seeking soul and mind. You made me look at myself and helped me have a greater appreciation of who I am. In my time with you I've learned to forgive myself along with others. I've become aware of enjoying 'this moment' and how to savor it without looking to the past or future as being better. Thank you isn't a big enough word for all you've done for me."
A.L.
Together we will explore…
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Pain
Transform physical, mental, and emotional pain into understanding and wisdom.
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Values
Clarify what matters most to you. Reclaim your attention, vitality, and time.
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Emotions
Embody and share your emotional experience. Tune your voice and regenerate your relationships through truthfulness.
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Trauma
Tend gently to your nervous system. Develop the skills to nurture yourself in times of activation.
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Identity
You get to decide who you are and how you express yourself in this lifetime.
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Ancestry
Sometimes the grief we carry isn’t ours. Restore cultural, relational, and spiritual identity through intergenerational healing.
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Mindfulness
Surrender to the power of presence. Make helpful choices. Practice acceptance of self and circumstances.
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Pleasure
You are allowed to prioritize rest, fulfillment, joy, and pleasure.
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Food + Herbs
Balance your energy, hormones, sleep cycle, and weight through a trauma informed diet and herbal medicine.
Choreographer: from the Greek; to write in a circle, dance writer.
Collage: the de-construction and re-construction of visible and invisible detritus.
Dance: following illogical, intuitive, and relational impulses through movement.
Ecology: the study of relationships between organisms and their environments.
Embodiment: bringing something into form, the creative act.
Life-Force: the charge that moves you towards or away from something.
Performance: an enactment, exertion, intervention, expenditure.
Poetry: witnessing the essence of something vital as it emerges.
Somatics: the practice of cultivating interoceptive and proprioceptive awareness of one’s body in relationship to external forces.
Trauma: the way in which a painful experience becomes a psychosomatic imprint on the body that is left unassimilated and unconscious.
Yoga: the psychosomatic and psychospiritual culture of India and its extensive contributions to the fields of psychology, philosophy, physics, medicine, and evolutionary biology.