Body Songs, Soul Motion is Exhilarating, Joyous, Tender, & Expansive Play

Wednesdays through April, May, June

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Wednesdays through April, May, June 〰️

Soul Motion at the White Eagle Hall, in James Bay

community, playfulness, & depth…

6:45-8:45pm

Wednesday Nights: April, May, & June

Details

Body Songs, Soul Motion: Weekly classes in Victoria, BC

You and I. All of us. Together. Earth and Sky.

We’ll begin with a warm up: time to arrive, land, transition, and wake the body. We’ll spend some time in a generative somatic/movement exploration, to expand movement possibilities together. Then, we’ll enjoy a luscious passage of music, sounds, and silence currents, to move with, through, and around.

Opening and closing circles bookend the ritual of movement practice for enlivening and voyaging.

Call and response. Ebb and flow. Stillness and movement. Listening and expressing, offering movement gestures and phrases. Breath, bones, muscles, fascia, heart, soul, spirit - ripples of movement bubbling from the creative wellspring.

 

Do dress in layers, and bring water in a closed container and a snack if you’d like. Some folks also enjoy bringing a journal or simple (dry) art supplies, though this is not necessary.

Folks will be well supported to explore their own instinctive ripples of movement and play, their own creative voice, within spacious time and a kind, welcoming atmosphere of relational ecology.

"Katrina is an exceptionally gifted leader, therapist and dancer. Working with Katrina I appreciate her profound professional background, as well as the passion and humor that becomes clearly visible in her teaching.”

— Edgar Spieker, Soul Motion Teacher, Faculty in the Soul Motion School, Germany

Katrina is a great instructor who shares possibilities for movement body, ways to use space, and connect to others. Her positive energy is contagious and brings joy and brightness to her class. I highly recommend that you try her classes. Her classes have encouraged me to express my soul through body movement, explore creativity, freedom, and connecting with others”

-Rieko, Professional Dancer and participant in Soul Motion, Body Songs, in Sacramento, CA

an origin story:

The White Eagle Hall, in James Bay, was the first conscious dance floor I ever landed on in the autumn of 2005 - 20ish years ago - in a 5 Rhythms Heart Beat workshop with Kathy Altman. Through that creative doorway I found Soul Motion…

the relief of exhaling through simple body movements

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the visceral sense of freedom emerges through releasing body tension through play in dance

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the relief of exhaling through simple body movements 〰️ the visceral sense of freedom emerges through releasing body tension through play in dance 〰️

In that Heart Beat workshop I met my beloved; and, through that meeting, I moved to Northern California where I met and fell in love with Soul Motion and became a Soul Motion Teacher - participating in the very first Soul Motion Teacher Training cohort, 2007-2009, with Vincent Martinez Grieco and Zuza Engler.

After the teacher training program, I apprenticed with Vincent and Zuza for many years, assisting them at workshops at Esalen Institute, Kripalu Institute, and Madrona Mind Body Institute and regularly holding community classes at these Institutes during our programs. I was delighted to be invited to cocreate the Soul Motion Embodied Leadership Training Program with my colleague Aletia Anna Alvarez, for the Soul Motion School, 2014 - 2016, a program of somatic leadership inquiry which is still taught in all Soul Motion teacher trainings.

Moving home to Victoria, with my beloved and our children, has been a deep delight. James is also a Soul Motion teacher, and we’re so happy to be putting down roots in the community where we met and to be developing a playful and kind Soul Motion Community together in Victoria.

Body Songs Soul Motion is wild nourishment for the times we are living through.

Through this Contemplative Improvisational Dance lineage I am sharing about an emergent body of work - Relational Ecology - creative practices and maps for playing together, improvising together, the creative nourishment of releasing tension, uncrumpling, developing ease together, playing with the inherent movement artistry that lives within life that flows through each of us!