the slowest dance

This is facilitated group dance for moving at the pace of being, feeling.

The intention is to slow down enough so everything can be onboard, moving together. Our awareness, attention, intention, attunement, connection, care all here, in each moment.

Often, this involves completely resting - resting in ourselves, resting together. Often, this involves meeting what’s here and allowing it here - perhaps our vulnerability, yearning, fascination, uncertainty, boredom, sorrow, intimacy, resistance, tiredness, silliness, frustration, tenderness, or something unnamed, or something not captured by words.

I love The Slowest Dance because the simplest things can be felt deeply, intensely. The meeting of a fingertip, an open gaze. Just being here, and feeling how that matters. I love reveling in the infinite interestingness of existing together - in a familiar movement together stretched out over time, in the most gradual pouring of weight, the felt sense of our presence, the specificity of touch without physical contact, the dance of moving as the whole space, the fine-tuned matching of resistance, the permission to be where we are, the subtle shifts we can sense in a partner, the music of our natural breath and rhythm, the support of a shared earth, the staying in the not knowing so that we emerge into the next moment together.

There is silence in the center of every song, I believe. That even the wildest, most complex, fastest music, has space in the center, a stillness. That inside and around and in between all of the sound is the slowest part.

I will offer invitations via voiceover in open/group integrative spaces, and via focused explorations solo/duet/trio/quartet for new possibilities. With accompanying music. There tends to be waves of exploration, integration, rest. Everything is an invitation, and you are at choice. Slowing down, pausing, softening, & resting are always welcome and wonderful defaults. Questions for me 1:1 is invited.

This is a space for attunement, nourishment, co-regulation, rest. Receiving each other, receiving ourselves, being with, meeting and being met, at our pace. Finding that it’s easy. Finding that it’s challenging. Letting it in. Letting it go. Allowing what’s here to be enough.