Dimensions of Movement: Sense Your Self
I'm so excited to be returning to the Natural Living Expo this November! It's an event I look forward to every year, and I'm excited to once again be part of this incredible weekend as both an exhibitor and workshop facilitator. This year, I'll be offering something a little different with my workshop: Sense Your Self – A Somatic Movement Experience. As I've been preparing for the Expo, I've been reflecting on my lifelong relationship with movement, the ways it's supported me through different seasons of life, and how essential it has been in helping me connect with and understand myself more fully. Movement has been part of my world for as long as I can remember. From choreographing dances in my living room as a kid, to spending all of my free time at the studio, to teaching dance classes as a teenager, movement was always a natural part of how I expressed myself. After an ankle surgery my junior year in high school, I stopped dancing abruptly, without really recognizing how significant that loss was. It wasn't until I discovered Nia in my 30s that I began to reconnect with this part of myself again. As I began to slow down and create space for movement, I started to recognize just how disconnected I'd become from myself, my emotions, and my needs. Movement gave me a space to process and integrate what I was experiencing without needing to understand it all or even have words for it. Through listening to sensation and following my body's impulses, I began to wake up to myself in ways I hadn't experienced in years. This is what we're exploring in this episode. We spend an enormous amount of time in our heads, thinking, planning, analyzing, trying to understand what's happening within us and around us. We're navigating relationships, responsibilities, expectations, emotions, and all the complexity that comes with being human. Along the way, we develop patterns of holding ourselves, responding to others, and moving through the world that can disconnect us from our own needs, desires, and authentic expression. What happens when we create space to simply be with what's present? What if we didn't have to know exactly what we're feeling, why we're feeling it, or what it all means? What if we could allow our bodies to move, express, process, and integrate without needing to figure everything out? This is one of the things I love most about intuitive movement. It offers us an opportunity to follow the body's natural impulses, to allow energy and emotion to move, and to create more space within ourselves for all that we're experiencing. Tune in to hear more. Links: Check out the Natural Living Expo Learn more about how you can work with Sara Connect with Sara on Facebook Follow Sara on Instagram Subscribe to Sara’s newsletter

