COMMUNITY GROUPS

Movement is one of the primary tools I use for gathering people together. There are a whole spectrum of approaches to movement ranging from the outwardly expressive and theatrical, to the inwardly revealing and meditative. A carefully integrated mixture of approaches can support groups in getting to know each other more deeply and in developing frameworks for their interactions that engender synergy and cohesion. Movement and embodiment practices generally abide by a very different set of rules or guidelines than the assumed social etiquette. By providing such guidelines and the space to explore them in each individual exercise or practice, the established power dynamics within a group can change considerably in a process of transformation. This, in turn, can awaken individual group members to the degree of choice and agency they have as to how they participate in the making of culture on every level -individual, group, communal, and universal.

What you’ve shared with us, and how you’ve held space and guided us through every practice, was truly beautiful. Your presence was warm, non-judgemental, supportive, attentive, yet non-intrusive. I left nurtured and lighter—in my body and soul.
— Dani Dovganych