Dancing Ourselves Home: Dance as Meditation, Restoration, and Renewal

👯 Come dance with us in a restorative, life-affirming movement class! 👯‍♀️

Led by our resident acupuncturist and lifelong dancer, Joanna, this 75-minute community class provides an opportunity to explore your body through creative movement – with curiosity and non-judgment. 💕

🌱 The class will begin with a mindful movement practice, progress through an arc of freeform dance, and conclude with stretching and a guided relaxation. Joanna will lead with gentle suggestions and creative prompts to help you tap into the dance that is dancing inside you.

The music will span an eclectic range of genres and will follow an arc of expression – from awareness and fluidity, to awakening, liberation, joy, centering, and spaciousness. The class will loosely follow the cycles found in the Taoist five elements and 5Rhythms dance. 🦋

🫂 All bodies are welcome. We will be dancing for an hour, with breaks as needed. Drawing upon her own experience with chronic pain and physical limitations, Joanna will focus on gratitude for the ways we can move and kindness toward our bodies. 💗

Please wear comfortable, soft layers you can move in. Please bring a water bottle, journal, yoga mat, and dance shoes if you would like. You may also dance barefoot or in socks. 🧦

“Crack the ice, melt the mask, feel something in your bones. Get down. Come alive.” –Gabrielle Roth 💃🕺

🌹 If you are unsure whether this class is right for you, please reach out to Joanna ([email protected]).

About Joanna Rosene-Mirvis (she/her)

I am a five element acupuncturist, East Asian herbalist, and founder of Milkweed Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine. As a five element acupuncturist, I care deeply about the wisdom we gain when we honor the body and listen to it deeply. As a lifelong dancer, I am passionate about creative movement and the ways it reveals and heals our innermost truths.

As a child, I spent countless joy-filled hours dancing around the living room, letting my body’s creative impulses guide me. More than a decade of classical ballet and artistic swimming formed the backbone of my formal dance training, but my dance studies span west African and Congolese, contemporary modern, flamenco, west coast swing, and Hindi film dance. Dance has always brought me immeasurable joy.

As a young adult, however, my body became increasingly limited due to injury and the calcifying (metaphorically) effects of hypermobility on my muscles and range of motion. I felt I was living in an ever-constricting metal cage of pain. I could no longer dance in the “right ways” and feared I was losing my ability to wholeheartedly pour myself into the music and lose myself (or rather, find myself) in it.

It’s taken me many years to find my way back to dance; to realize that we don’t need to have an “ideal,” healthy, or pain-free body to dance from our hearts – and find the joy and liberation waiting for us there.

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