CLASS PAUSED!
Explore and discover a new frontier of holistic exercise with universal principals of dance, somatic movement, creativity, energy practices & relational play
Aimed at embodied resonance, this pleasurable practice promotes Body/Mind/Spirit connection by actively moving attention between how movement is sourced and experienced, as the dance unfolds.
This weekly holistic health ritual invites you to engage in individual and group focused territories.
While practicing, you’re asked to shift your attention from inner to outer and outer to inner sources of information and inspiration, in an exploration of mechanics and imagery, that helps to build a foundation for experiential movement, regeneration and healing.
What to expect:
❤️ Be moved by music and let sound support movement explorations
😀 Have fun with imagery as a way to develop strength, work on coordination, access fluidity and unfold artful movement
🌁 Bridge your fluid system and the subtle (where the creative spirit is most at home)
🧖♀️ Get to know systems and parts of your body and their potentials
3️⃣ Develop your “kinesphere” by using vision to support proprioceptive mechanics, particularly how you shift weight and orient as a three dimensional body in space
⚪️ Practice body-field and unified field awareness
👍 Create in the space and explore collaborations between body-mind, fields, the floor, space and others
And what UNFOLDs in you and we that’s unique to each session 😊
Some benefits of this practice explained through the lenses of neuroscience, physiology and embodiment coaching:
✨ Brainwaves shift from beta to alpha and theta in deeply creative states
✨ Feel good neurotransmitters release when we: connect to the felt sense of touch (oxytocin), we play (serotonin), we’re tickled by surprise (serotonin) , we exercise the fluid system and touch into subtle energy (oxytocin and dopamine), we complete the practice (dopamine)
✨ A more fluid state of the fascia tissue = a more conductive body for intelligent movement connected to fields, expressing from your spirit and feeling more youthful and elasticity and mobility in your body
✨ Giving permission to ourselves to be creative, embodied humans open the space to potentials for inventing, communing and even problem solving (in our lives)
✨ The Presence we grow and take into other arenas of our lives can make the world a better place
Leralee Whittle has been involved in art and healing for over 30 years. She’s a Creative Unfolding coach, a multidisciplinary artist and a dance and embodiment teacher. Leralee trained extensively in Santa Cruz and San Francisco, Ca where she also held a private practice for 15 years, working with clients with hands on healing and through rituals for embodied creativity, based in her studies of dance genres-Modern, Postmodern, Contemporary, Senegalese and Improvisation, Somatic Movement Research, Action Theater, Qigong, Contact Improvisation, Energy Medicine, Process-Oriented Psychology and Relational Aesthetics. For over a decade, she was immersed in Nita Little’s Mind in Motion research in relational presence and dance improvisation. She also performed with experimental theater ensembles, some of which were with her direction while also choreographing solo and ensemble dance works. She left the Bay Area upon receipt of grants and residencies that supported her to tour as a performer, choreographer, video artist, and served as a guest teacher at university and arts organizations, often collaborating with her musician/composer husband, Paul Sprawl. This led to semi-nomadic living in variety of cities in-between tours, building-off-grid in the Chihuahuan desert and sabbatical in Berlin, Germany. Leralee now lives in Chico, Ca with her husband and regularly makes videos and prints and is excited to be teaching and working with clients to unfold their creative genius, liberate body-mind and to know and love themselves more.