Body as Resource
An ONLINE movement class incorporating
Open Floor & Somatic Experiencing principles
Wednesday, March 24
10 - 11:30 am California Time
Click here to see what time that is in your area.
In these extremely challenging times, we are all needing extra support. The most helpful tools for me have been the resources I've learned through Somatic Experiencing and Open Floor Movement, as well as connecting with my community online. So...I decided to provide a space where we can practice together.
In each class, we will explore different resources that will help us through these crazy times.
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-based approach that helps heal trauma in the body and restore balance to an over-stimulated nervous system. Open Floor is a healing movement meditation practice and lively dance inquiry designed to reclaim our lost embodiment. As in Somatic Experiencing, the emphasis in Open Floor is to awaken our sensate experience, emotional intelligence, and mindful awareness. These two make a beautiful combination for deep inquiry and healing.
Join us as we practice essential resources that can be used at home.
This class is not a lecture, but is an experiential class where we will be moving together. If you've never done a conscious dance class, don't let that scare you off.
All levels of experience are welcome (ages 18 and up).
Pre-registration required.
Requests to help us hold a safe container for everyone:
In each class, we will explore different resources that will help us through these crazy times.
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-based approach that helps heal trauma in the body and restore balance to an over-stimulated nervous system. Open Floor is a healing movement meditation practice and lively dance inquiry designed to reclaim our lost embodiment. As in Somatic Experiencing, the emphasis in Open Floor is to awaken our sensate experience, emotional intelligence, and mindful awareness. These two make a beautiful combination for deep inquiry and healing.
Join us as we practice essential resources that can be used at home.
- Deepen our sensate awareness of the body
- Encourage the body to move from fixed to fluid
- "Move and Include" all that is arising on all levels ~ physical, emotional, mental & spiritual
- Develop a greater sense of calm and hope
- Increase capacity to handle these stressful times
This class is not a lecture, but is an experiential class where we will be moving together. If you've never done a conscious dance class, don't let that scare you off.
All levels of experience are welcome (ages 18 and up).
Pre-registration required.
- Please register well before the class begins so you can make sure you have the zoom link and be ready to join us when class begins, as we will close the zoom room at 11:10 in order to create our online container.
Requests to help us hold a safe container for everyone:
- I ask that everyone have their video on during the class.
- If you can't for some reason and really want to attend, please contact me ahead of time to make that arrangement.
- If someone is in the meeting with no video and has not communicated either before hand or in the chat box, they will be removed from the class in order to keep the container safe for everyone.
- Please come with the willingness to fully participate and move with us, not to observe.
- I ask for confidentiality - no recording or picture taking.
How to register
Registration is a 2-step process:
1. Register through zoom with the button below.
1. Register through zoom with the button below.
- You need to register for each class you'd like to attend.
- A confirmation including the payment info and the zoom room link will be sent to you once you register.
2. Make a contribution through Paypal or Venmo. The links will be included in your confirmation once you register or you can use the links below. If you want to pay for more than one class at a time, please note in the description which dates you are paying for.
Cost:
I'm asking for a $15 - 40+ contribution per class. Pay what you can.
Regular price is $20 per class, but I realize the current crisis affects everyone differently, so no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Anything you give above $20 will help pay for someone else who can't afford it.
Cost:
I'm asking for a $15 - 40+ contribution per class. Pay what you can.
Regular price is $20 per class, but I realize the current crisis affects everyone differently, so no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Anything you give above $20 will help pay for someone else who can't afford it.
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What you need to know:
- You'll need a computer and a good internet connection.
- If you absolutely need to use a phone or iPad, you can, but you won't be able to use some of the functions we use in class on those smaller devices, so a computer is highly recommended.
- If you absolutely need to use a phone or iPad, you can, but you won't be able to use some of the functions we use in class on those smaller devices, so a computer is highly recommended.
- Well before the class, Download the zoom app here. It's painless, fast and free.
- If you are new to Zoom, please do watch this introductory video from Zoom.
- If you are new to Zoom, please do watch this introductory video from Zoom.
- Please make sure to put your name on the zoom screen so I know who you are.
- Sign in 5-10 min early, especially if you've never used zoom before. I will have some nice quiet music on for stretching before we start.
- If you can, connect your computer/phone to an external speaker for better sound quality.
- Make some space to dance. If you are in a shared space, find a room to yourself.
- Minimize distractions (email, phone, etc) so that you can be as present as possible.
- Wear comfortable clothes to move in.
- Have a water bottle nearby.
What people are saying about the online classes:
"Stacey is the perfect mix of gentle and empowering, offering compassion from her own big, beautiful heart and teaching how to find it within one's own body and being. Her music selections are just perfect and she explains exercises/activities incredibly well. She has found many ways to make people feel included, seen and welcomed even on Zoom. Her sharing of her own experiences with the evolution of technology inspires me to realize we are all learning and still gaining so much from however much of the world around us we can find. Stacey encourages people to find comfort in objects in their own environment and to bring the outside in and let the inside come out! I have so much fun in her classes and always come away able to breathe a little bit deeper and feel a little lighter. Stacey is incredibly welcoming and inclusive to people with disabilities as well, finding ways to express things in alternate means so everyone can understand what she's inviting us to do. I love her classes!"
~ Divina L., Massage Therapist
"Stacey’s Body As Resource online dance classes have been such a gift! I truly need these classes to make it through this time in the world where I’m feeling more charged and activated because they loosen up my body, create more spaciousness, and shift my perspective. Stacey is so skilled at holding space and encouraging me to drop in, release and settle my entire being. Her classes allow me to breathe again when I may not even realize I’ve been holding my breath."
~ Kelsay Myers, Transformative Writer, Artist & Healer at Dialogical Persona Healing Arts
"I love dancing with Stacey and always look forward to her classes. Her gentle guidance brings me into the present moment with loving awareness of my body in space. She is a master at reading the room and knowing when to press on and when to retreat. She lights up when she is teaching and I always feel connected, even when dancing remotely in my living room or across the miles."
~ Marya Mayer, Student
"The silver lining of the shelter in place has been the explosion of online embodied movement classes like yours. Living in the Bay Area, drive time and parking time prevent me from taking the SF, Marin, and South Bay classes that I love. (I'm in the East Bay.) For example, to take a 7 pm class in Mountain View, I need to leave no later than 3 pm to beat rush hour traffic (and that's going against commute!) Now that there are so many online opportunities for Open Floor, Tamalpa, etc., I'm moving more than I have in 10 years. I've found that teachers are as effective online as in person -- I've been taken to new places and grown in new ways from online classes. Furthermore, I've needed Open Floor, Tamalpa, etc. 3+ times per week for the last 20 years. I'm nurtured into fuller aliveness for the first time as part of day in, day out life (as compared with multi-day retreats which are awesome but separate from day to day, ongoing work. I love the SE movement class -- it's like exploring a whole new (and vital!) dimension of myself. I sense that there is great medicine for me there."
~ Carolyn DeRoo, Transportation Worker
“Honestly, I was skeptical about dancing via Zoom. And dancing with Stacey has been a balm to my soul during these difficult times. Her deft and gentle guidance and thoughtful themes help me listen to and reconnect with myself and rebalance how I relate to the world in a way that feels centered, curious and open. With this practice, I am more resilient and better resourced at a time when that support is invaluable. Even across screens and through the aether, I feel held in community. And it turns out, there's something profoundly meaningful and grounding about dancing alone together at home. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to dance with Stacey.”
~ Kate Farnady, Chief of Staff
“After twelve years of dancing in person, I’ve found it fascinating to move into the discomfort of an entirely new platform. Since discomfort invites me to new learning and to expanding my creativity, zoom has brought me lots of both. I’m astounded at the deep work I’ve done and the connections I’ve experienced that I never would have imagined possible in a virtual setting.”
~ Eleanor Shannon
"During the pandemic I’ve been dancing in classes online. Dancing online is certainly not the same as dancing with others in person, and being able to have physical contact with other dancers. Yet, since that is now not an option, the online classes provide two things which are valuable. They make me dance, which I haven’t been
doing enough of. And I do feel a certain kind of connection with the other dancers, and I feel like I’m still a part of the dance community.”
~ Sunnie Skillman
~ Divina L., Massage Therapist
"Stacey’s Body As Resource online dance classes have been such a gift! I truly need these classes to make it through this time in the world where I’m feeling more charged and activated because they loosen up my body, create more spaciousness, and shift my perspective. Stacey is so skilled at holding space and encouraging me to drop in, release and settle my entire being. Her classes allow me to breathe again when I may not even realize I’ve been holding my breath."
~ Kelsay Myers, Transformative Writer, Artist & Healer at Dialogical Persona Healing Arts
"I love dancing with Stacey and always look forward to her classes. Her gentle guidance brings me into the present moment with loving awareness of my body in space. She is a master at reading the room and knowing when to press on and when to retreat. She lights up when she is teaching and I always feel connected, even when dancing remotely in my living room or across the miles."
~ Marya Mayer, Student
"The silver lining of the shelter in place has been the explosion of online embodied movement classes like yours. Living in the Bay Area, drive time and parking time prevent me from taking the SF, Marin, and South Bay classes that I love. (I'm in the East Bay.) For example, to take a 7 pm class in Mountain View, I need to leave no later than 3 pm to beat rush hour traffic (and that's going against commute!) Now that there are so many online opportunities for Open Floor, Tamalpa, etc., I'm moving more than I have in 10 years. I've found that teachers are as effective online as in person -- I've been taken to new places and grown in new ways from online classes. Furthermore, I've needed Open Floor, Tamalpa, etc. 3+ times per week for the last 20 years. I'm nurtured into fuller aliveness for the first time as part of day in, day out life (as compared with multi-day retreats which are awesome but separate from day to day, ongoing work. I love the SE movement class -- it's like exploring a whole new (and vital!) dimension of myself. I sense that there is great medicine for me there."
~ Carolyn DeRoo, Transportation Worker
“Honestly, I was skeptical about dancing via Zoom. And dancing with Stacey has been a balm to my soul during these difficult times. Her deft and gentle guidance and thoughtful themes help me listen to and reconnect with myself and rebalance how I relate to the world in a way that feels centered, curious and open. With this practice, I am more resilient and better resourced at a time when that support is invaluable. Even across screens and through the aether, I feel held in community. And it turns out, there's something profoundly meaningful and grounding about dancing alone together at home. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to dance with Stacey.”
~ Kate Farnady, Chief of Staff
“After twelve years of dancing in person, I’ve found it fascinating to move into the discomfort of an entirely new platform. Since discomfort invites me to new learning and to expanding my creativity, zoom has brought me lots of both. I’m astounded at the deep work I’ve done and the connections I’ve experienced that I never would have imagined possible in a virtual setting.”
~ Eleanor Shannon
"During the pandemic I’ve been dancing in classes online. Dancing online is certainly not the same as dancing with others in person, and being able to have physical contact with other dancers. Yet, since that is now not an option, the online classes provide two things which are valuable. They make me dance, which I haven’t been
doing enough of. And I do feel a certain kind of connection with the other dancers, and I feel like I’m still a part of the dance community.”
~ Sunnie Skillman
