Open Floor: Embodied Dance & Movement

About this event

We have just been asked to change from Thursday nights to Tuesday nights! **Getting Here & Parking Tips** Our dance **doors open at 6:15p** so you can settle in and stretch and take your precious time. *The entry door to the dance hall is on North Park Way.* If you can't easily find street parking, there's a parking garage one block away on North Park Way and 29th ($5 for the evening). *** **Open Floor Class Details:** This weekly 90-minute class is a space to move, groove, arrive in your body, meet yourself in the “here and now,” and cocreate community. We typically dance 6:30-8pm and have an optional integration circle 8-8:30pm afterward. We'll engage the practice of Open Floor, engaging dance, movement, and guided inquiry/reflection as a form of connection, meditation, awareness practice and learning. There are no steps to follow, no performance, no “right or wrong” — just showing up. A dance might look like wild, sweaty expression or the gentle tapping of a finger. We explore new ways of moving and responding to life with intention and curiosity. As we play with different movement options, we learn more about our patterns and expand our capacity for flexibility, resilience, and ease — both on and off the dance floor. It's like group therapy - in motion! It's how human beings have gathered since the beginning of time. **The Specifics** With music and guidance, we practice bringing attention to our physical sensations, thoughts, and feelings as we "move and include". Classes include a mix of structured exercises, verbal guidance, open dancing, and music — something different each week. We follow the gestalt movement cycle: * **Open Attention:** Arrive and warm up, preparing the body. * **Entering:** Drop into your body, the theme, and the present moment. * **Exploring:** Deepen into movement resources through guided and self-led dance. * **Settling:** Integrate and digest, supporting the nervous system to encode new possibilities and…