Come Find Your Center: Where Do You End and Others Begin? Where Do You Go When You Move Away from Pain?
Life is constantly happening in and around us. As one of my great teachers, Kathy Altman says, “Whether disastered or delighted” we can get knocked off our center. Our center is our internal point of balance, where we feel steady, present, and clear minded. When we act from our center, we can resolve conflict, be resourced, and stay calm.
I am honored to be hosting a special one evening workshop with Healing Roots Wellness Center, The Center Will Hold on Friday, May 5th, 2023. Come explore your sense of center and find and feel your edges using the mindful movement, conscious dance practice of Open Floor International. What we practice on the dance floor cultivates awareness and insight that informs how we move through life off the dance floor.
Open Floor, ecstatic dance, free-form intuitive movement, and authentic movement, empower people of all backgrounds, shapes, and sizes to courageously express themselves in a safe container. By engaging our senses and listening to our bodies, we are able to connect deeply with ourselves, others, and spirit.
Where do you end, and others begin? Where do you go when you move away from pain? What are you vulnerable to? Borrowing from Brené Brown, who states in Atlas of the Heart “The center will hold. I believe that in the midst of struggle, the center will hold if, and only if, we can feel the edges.” Come feel your edges.
Preregistration is required and can be done here. Contact Cori Hildebrandt, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN, Open Floor Teacher-in-Training with any questions.
"Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence... So many of us are not in our bodies, really at home and vibrantly present there. Nor are we in touch with the basic rhythms that constitute our bodily life. We live outside ourselves - in our heads, our memories, our longings - absentee landlords of our own estate. My way back into life was ecstatic dance. I reentered my body by learning to move my self, to dance my own dance from the inside out, not the outside in." ~ Gabrielle Roth
