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The Open Floor Movement Cycle
One of the anchors of Open Floor practice is the Movement Cycle which includes:
1. Open Attention: We open both our inner and outer awareness, arrive for practice, and welcome whatever is noticed.
2. Enter with an Embodied Anchor: We enter our bodies and sensation.
3. Explore: Here we deepen and broaden our awareness, expand, and experiment with guided and self-directed inquiries.
4. Settle: And to end, we slow down, integrate, and allow our nervous systems to encode new pathways.
Human Connection Heals
Human connection and a sense of belonging are vital to our well-being. Connection creates resilience. Connection heals. If you are struggling with connection or lack of belonging, Coriander Living Collective is here to support you in getting connected via psychotherapy and workshops and retreats. Just reach out!
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.
When’s the Last Time You Felt Free? Alive? Expansive?
That aliveness, I touch that when I practice Open Floor Dance. That’s the main reason, I’m called to become an Open Floor Teacher. To guide you into experiencing that freedom too, on any old day of the week.
Approach Life with More Ease, Creativity, and Flexibility! Welcome to Open Floor 101!
You’re invited! Sign up for Open Floor 101! During this 3-week series, you will be introduced through instruction and experiential exercises to the mindful movement, conscious dance practice of Open Floor International.
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
What Are You PAYING For When You Private Pay for Mental Health Treatment?
Coriander Living Collective is designed as a private pay for services business accepting credit, debit, HSA, or FLEX funds. We believe as a provider this offers you the highest level of care. For you as the client, this affords you certain advantages over using health insurance or a third party payer: greater privacy, no required mental health diagnosis, and complete control over treatment.
Life is Movement
From before birth, until our last breath, we are moving. Movement might look like our heart beating, walking, or the choices we make. We are constantly moving towards or away, with or against, and in so many other ways. Our bodies and movement are one of our greatest resources as human beings. There is a reason that throughout history and across cultures people move, people dance. It is how we live. It is how we communicate. It is how we meet needs. Emotions are energy moving in our bodies. Movement is one of our birth rights. We get to grow and change. Why not practice movement with “intention and purpose?”
Boost Your Mental Health with Experiential Diversity!
Feeling stuck? Bored? Lonely? Like you’re the star in the movie Groundhog Day? A simple way to boost your mental mood is to try something new!
Hope Can Change the World: Here’s How!
At times, the state of our world can feel hopeless: war, natural disasters, and pandemics. We as people can feel hopeless. Hope is not an emotion, but a cognitive process.
“The power to access the belief that things can get better, no matter the challenges, can quite literally change the world.” HERE ARE 7 WAYS TO PRACTICE HOPE.
The Meaning Is in the Search
“I know that you will one day be able to answer, “Who am I who sits here? What is it that I want?” Never stop asking, never stop searching, until you know the answers; the honor and the meaning is in the search.”
“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.
7 Strategies for Dealing with Panic Attacks
If you’ve had a panic attack, you know it is NOT a pleasant experience! A panic attack is a physiological experience, your nervous system is literally sounding off alarms! Alert, alert, danger, system overload!
Coriander Living Collective specializes in treating anxiety and panic. Reach out!
The Gift of Fear + Simple Strategies to Manage It
As humans we are complex, thinking, feeling, and acting beings. Many people seek out therapy when their emotions feel overwhelming. Fear and its variations are a common reason people show up in therapy.
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!
Open Floor Teacher Training = ACCEPTED!
I am honored to announce that I have been accepted from a pool of applicants for the next Open Floor Teacher Training to begin in March of 2022! I will be joining people from around the world to study embodiment, conscious dance, and Open Floor Movement practices from some of the masters in this field.
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!
Back to the Basics for Mental Health! Spotlight on NUTRITION!
If you are serious about feeling better. Get serious about caring for your basic needs and providing your body the nutrition it needs! Need support? Coriander Living is here for you.