Resonance & Dissonance

(Connecting with the music - wk 3) The past couple of weeks of connecting with the music as we dance (aka vibin’) has been so great, friend. Thank you so much for joining me. I can’t wait to hear more about what you’ve been noticing, observing, and sensing with it all. We’re going to continue with this focus again, but with just a bit more specificity this week……. One of the things that really came up for me last week, was noticing the spectrum of sensing resonance vs dissona

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Connecting with the music (vibin’ - wk 2)

Happy Monday, beautiful soul! This week we’re simply continuing our focus of really listening to and connecting with the music as we dance. We’re just gonna keep the blissful “vibing” going, friend. As always, can’t wait to see what we discover. See you soon! Much love, 💛 Dani

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Connecting with the music.

One of the things I love so much about dancing, is that even if we are dancing by ourselves, we are never alone. We always are connecting with something outside of ourselves: the music. As we tune in and dance, our body is connecting with the drums… the bass line… the melody… the shakers… the violin… the vocals… the chords of the piano… the high hat… the harmonies… and so much more… We’re listening and joining in with the vibrations. And that connection feels so gooooooooood.

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Breaking free of self-imposed limits (week 2!)

Last week was all about stretching out into larger (metaphorical) shoes… and it was so wonderful! Thank you so much for joining me and sharing your thoughts & experiences. With spaciousness in mind, one thing we discussed is the idea of giving ourselves more time and space to explore each Aya focus. I’m excited to share that (thanks to your enthusiasm for the idea) we’ll now have (at least) TWO weeks to dive into each focus together (rather than one). No matter how many times

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Breaking free of self-imposed limits.

Heya friend! This week, we’re trying on new shoes as we dance……….. I’ll explain. :) Back when I first began to study mind-body dance, I learned a lot about how beneficial it is to be barefoot. And though there is no pressure to be barefoot in Aya (shoes are always welcome), I’m a big fan of being barefoot as much as possible (if it feels good to your body). So much so, that for over fifteen years I’ve primarily worn shoes that mimic being barefoot. I absolutely love how they

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Looking up

This week, let’s explore how we’re using our eyes. In class (and throughout life) we can simply be curious and notice things such as: Where am I looking? Up? Down? Around? Out? Are my eyes open? Closed? What am I aiming at? Where am I headed? Is my vision more focused? Blurry? Zoomed in? Zoomed out? What am I looking at? Or looking for? What am I seeing/connecting with? How am I orienting in the world around me? And then, how does that orientation feel (in my body, mind, hear

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Circles, spirals, and rotation (oh my!)

Ooh, friend. I think this focus is going to feel so good! This week as we dance, we’ll simply tune into our body and explore what it’s like to play with circles, spirals, twists, and rotation as we move. We’ll experiment with how it feels to reach, flow, stretch, and wiggle in ways to help keep our joints, muscles, and fascia all healthy, free, functioning well, and feeling really great. • We’ll spiral our arm bones & feed our shoulder joints nourishing circles… • We’ll gift

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Ease & just being here now.

After three beauuuuuutiful explorations, it's time we come back home to rest within our integration practice of “ease & just being here now.” This delicious focus always has 2 parts: 1) Ease We’ll move our body and invite the sensation of ease into our dance. Ease in our shoulder joints... Ease in our spine... Ease in our facial muscles... etc... We’ll still be welcome to move as vigorously as we’d like moment to moment— we’ll simply also invite ease into that vigor. Easy doe

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