Moveshop: Finding Flow with Rachael Sharkland
Schedule
Sun Nov 23 2025 at 11:00 am to 01:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
The Alembic | Berkeley, CA
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In this movement-based practice we explore the water element and fluid embodied states as sources of support, ease, and inspiration. Through guided solo and collective experience we find a sense of flow within our bodies that moves us through states of freeze and stuckness back into our organic and essential nature as coherent and creative beings. This practice draws on a variety of modalities including Continuum, Noguchi Taiso, Feldenkrais, Body-Mind Centering, and contemplative movement.I would love to live
Like a river flows,
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.
– John O’Donohue
About Moveshops
Moveshops are in-person, movement-based gatherings exploring embodiment as a pathway to expression, connection, and liberation. Through guided solo and group experiential and improvisation-based practices, we cultivate an expansive and creative partnership with our breath, voice, and body. Moveshops are playful, body-positive, and meant for every body — no prior movement experience necessary. Each gathering is responsive to the group and follows a loose structure:
-Welcoming circle & theme introduction
-Experiential warm-up for the voice, breath, and body
-Solo and group embodied exploration (scores, body puzzles, creative play)
-Closing circle
Rachael Sharkland is a Certified Hakomi Practitioner (CHP), Certified Mind-Body Coach, dancer, and movement educator. She offers individual and group embodiment and expressive arts sessions that are nourishment-based and trauma-informed, combining psychotherapeutic frameworks with hands-on, somatic support. She is dedicated to embodiment as a creative and healing force on the path toward liberation and wellbeing for all life. More about her somatic and expressive arts coaching practice here: https://rachaelsharkland.com/
As a life-long dancer, Rachael brings a reverence for the body to all her endeavors. Her experience includes formal training in contemporary dance and performance, improvisation, West African dance, Body-Mind Centering, Feldenkrais, Pilates, Qi Gong, and professional bodywork. Her performance work considers constellations of being (more than) human, exploring questions of power, identity, intimacy, wilderness, and belonging.
As an entrepreneurial mother of two, Rachael has a depth of knowledge about recovering from burn-out and cultivating balance. Rachael studied ecology and landscape architecture at the graduate level and worked for over a decade designing and managing large-scale urban design projects. She firmly believes that it is within the context of our built environment and its legacies of discrimination that we must negotiate and actuate matters of human health, safety, and dignity. Rachael is a student of wilderness, and offers her practice in honor of all her teachers, ancestors, and our living earth. Rachael was born and raised in Oakland, on unceded Ramytush Ohlone land, and continues to call this place home.
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Where is it happening?
The Alembic, 815 Heinz Ave, Berkeley, CA 94710-2754, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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