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Doorways to the Soul
Talking about soul and spirit touches on some of the great existential questions of life! A wonderful place to explore and investigate what soul and spirit mean to you is through your body with movement, on a dance floor! All classes over the next several months will be moving with SPIRIT and SOUL. Come checkout a SOUL MOVES class. Come investigate these on the dance floor, Sunday, February 25, 2024!
Sweet Surrender MINI RETREAT-Turn of the Year 2023>2024
Come PAUSE, REST, REFLECT, and OPEN to 2024. This mini retreat will use meditation, Open Floor movement, art, and journaling to honor the change of the year.
Pre-Registration: $97/Required online by Friday, 12/29/23/max 12 participants.
VII. Tracey Mortensen from Inspiring Actions Yoga DEFINING: A Life Well Lived
To define a life well lived, highlight local businesses, and inspire local community members to be active participants in their wellbeing and life satisfaction, we have invited local business owners to write guest blog posts. Here’s one from Tracey Mortensen, the Owner of Inspiring Actions Yoga.
Do You Know When to Reach Out? And When to Pull Back?
Think about little babies, how they cuddle and contract into tight snuggly balls, and how they cry out and expand their bodies when they need something. Or as they learn to venture out and reach for objects and people around them. How a dysregulated child might hide or lash out with hitting. Or how an adult in conflict might avoid or be aggressive. These are all examples of the Open Floor International Core Movement Resource of EXPAND AND CONTRACT. We are constantly opening and closing and extending and pulling back to center.
Do You Live Your Life with Potency and Direction?
In life, we must be able to move, think, and feel with focus and direction. Turn right, not left. Come here, not there. Run, don’t crawl. Being able to move with intention and energy serves us well in life. This is the Open Floor International Core Movement Resource of VECTOR. Come hone your sense of VECTOR:
• Open Floor Conscious Dance 101 3-Part Series starting Sunday, October 8th, 2023 at 8:30-9:30am at Inspiring Actions in River Falls, WI!
Are You Able to RELEASE Tension, Emotions, and Thoughts with Ease?
RELEASE is one of Open Floor’s Core Movement Resources. Release is about being able to release “tension, emotion, thought and the entire body to the will of life force…”
Come practice your ability to RELEASE through meditation and conscious movement with Open Floor! What you practice on the dance floor builds awareness and skills for navigating life off the dance floor.
• Moving Meditation & You-Pick Blooms! Saturday, August 12th, 2023 from 10am-12n at Two Bees & A Bud Flower Farm in New Richmond, WI!
• Open Floor Conscious Dance 101 3-Part Series starting Sunday, October 8th, 2023 at 8:30-9:30am at Inspiring Actions in River Falls, WI!
Come Retreat, Recharge, and Welcome in 2023 with Intention! Ditch the Resolutions! HELLO ANNUAL REVIEW AND MINI RETREAT!
The Release 2022, Hello 2023 Mini Retreat includes guided experiential exercises to process and release 2022 and dream and systematically plan for 2023. We’ll move, meditate, create, connect with others, self-reflect, share a nutritious lunch, and take home an Annual Review Workbook.
ABUNDANT YOGA COMMUNITY
I am honored to announce that I have been elected to serve as a Board Member-at-Large for the yoga non-profit, Abundant Yoga Community (AYC)! AYC was founded in 2019 by Tracey Mortenson, the owner of Inspiring Actions Yoga to create accessibility for all to yoga. Its mission is “Yoga is for everyone. Yoga changes lives. Community is everything. We help yoga teacher, health workers, school, and yoga studios bring yoga to those in need.”
GROUND/GROUNDING/GROUNDED
Without ground where do you stand? Come connect to what’s below you and in you, build safety, and sense support. Practice GROUNDING through meditation and movement with Open Floor! Two opportunities coming up this summer:
• Open Floor 101 3-Part Series starting Thursday, June 30th, 2022 at 9:30am at Inspiring Actions in River Falls, WI!
• Open Floor Moving Meditation & Wine Spritzer Social at Forestville Vines Winery, Sunday, August 14th, 2022!
How Good is Your SPATIAL AWARENESS?
Come practice your sense of SPATIAL AWARENESS through meditation and movement with Open Floor! What you practice on the dance floor builds awareness and skills for navigating life off the dance floor.
Do You Have a Healthy ACTIVATE & SETTLE Response?
Come try a FREE Open Floor Moving Meditation class on Saturday, May 21st, 2022 from 8-9am at Inspiring Actions Yoga in River Falls, WI. We will be exploring the Open Floor Core Movement Resource of ACTIVATING & SETTLING.
Music + Meditation + Movement = Regulation/Creativity/Connection
Open Floor classes use music, meditation, and movement to cultivate and foster whole body-mind regulation, creativity, and connection. What we practice on the dance floor builds neural pathways, skills, and resiliency for life off the dance floor.
Come try a FREE Open Floor Moving Meditation class on Saturday, May 21st, 2022 from 8-9am at Inspiring Actions Yoga in River Falls, WI. Register on www.inspiringactions.com
“Resource the Self/Revive the World”
Moving Meditation + Beer Flight Tasting @ Swinging Bridge! Saturday, February 26th, 2022 from 6-8pm
We’ll be practicing an Open Floor variation of Osho’s Kundalini Mediation. We will cycle through sitting, traveling, dancing, and resting meditations supported by a soundscape. Come connect with your body, spirit, and others. It’s what our brokenhearted world needs.
Winter Warmer Ecstatic Dance!
Feeling stagnate, isolated, depressed, anxious, disconnected, or stressed? Come move your body! Meditation, music, movement, and community are all medicine for what ails our winter bones and cold spirits.
WINTER WARMER ECSTATIC DANCE is happening Saturday, January 22nd, 2022 at Inspiring Actions!
Come Retreat, Recharge, and Welcome in 2022 with Intention! Ditch the Resolutions! HELLO ANNUAL REVIEW AND MINI RETREAT!
As 2021 comes to an end, be intentional about how you move into 2022. This is your life! Does it not deserve a little space and time set aside for you to evaluate the past year and plan for the coming one?
Come join us on Sunday, December 26th, 2021 from 11:30-3pm at Inspiring Actions Yoga Studio in River Falls for the RELEASE 2021, HELLO 2022 MINI RETREAT! Registration is open and ends Monday, 12/20/21. Claim your spot today. You deserve it!
From the “Ground Floor Lab” Onwards!
In November, I spent six days learning the core principles of Open Floor International at a Ground Floor Lab accessing movement resources and moving my body with other bodies from all around the globe! Attend a future workshop offering so I can share some of what I learned!
2-for-1 Mental Well-Being!
It’s common that I have clients show up for therapy with stress related concerns. Often these folks feel overwhelmed with all their daily responsibilities, and they come to therapy for “tools, coping skills, or strategies” so that they can manage the same number of things, but better!
One strategy that I have found myself speaking on lately is how can we meet multiple needs with one activity?
Ecstatic Dance to Engage Your Rhythm of Regulation!
MOVEMENT, NATURE, MEDITATION, and MUSIC are all tools that can increase regulation and balance our ANS. ECSTATIC DANCE is a wonderful practice because it integrates all these + it is a practice done in community!
OUTSIDE ECSTATIC DANCE is happening, Saturday, 8/14/21 at Glen Park in River Falls, register through Inspiring Actions! Those who practice ecstatic dance share about the release of emotions and stress, the sense of feeling alive, of dropping into a meditative, expansive, free space in the here-and-now. Come join us!
Cori Talking About Moving Meditation & Ecstatic Dance on Season 2, Episode 7 of the Get Out and Try Podcast!
Somehow, I missed when Katie Axel put out a “January Highlights” episode for her Get Out and Try Podcast this Spring, but my clip is as relevant now as it was then because I’m offering multiple chances for you to “get out and try” Moving Meditation and Ecstatic Dance this summer!
Take a listen here, my part starts at 02:55 and runs until 07:08: https://anchor.fm/getoutandtry/episodes/January-Spotlight---Highlight-Clips-eqhmlc
The Wellness Benefits of Moving Meditation!
Some of the wellness benefits of moving meditation include: 1) Releases Stress, 2) Lifts Mood, 3) Decreases Anxiety, 4) Offers Sense of Belonging, 5) Moves Emotions, 6) Builds Coordination, 7) Encourages Connection, 8) Regulates Nervous System, and 9) Increases Self-Awareness.
Luckily, you have several opportunities to explore Moving Meditation + Social Hours this summer at local wineries, breweries, and studios! Follow us! To stay in the loop of upcoming events! Reach out to Coriander Living Collective with any questions.