Move From Your Heart | Somatic Freestyle Dance Practice

What happens when movement begins from your heart?

In this Deep Embodiment dance practice, you'll first bring your awareness into your physical heart, noticing its beating, rhythm, sensations, and whatever thoughts, feelings, or images arise. Then you'll allow movement to emerge from that connection.

Rather than deciding how to dance, the invitation is to let your heart initiate the movement. Your body follows.
Part of the

Deep Embodiment Series, experiential practices designed to help you move beyond thinking about your body and into directly experiencing it.

Transcript

We are going to tap into our heart space. And let our intuitive movement emerge from there. Let's start. Place your hand on your heart and feel your heartbeat. Feel your feet on the floor. And allow a little bounce. This is a movement exploration. What would it feel like to move from your heart space? Let's move our spine forward and back. Side to side and in circles. As you're moving, Feel your heartbeat. Ask yourself, What would it be like? To move from your heart. Allow your arms and head to join in this movement. Sway. Varying your movement. So that it feels just right for you. Feel your heartbeat. Let your heart be the rhythm of your movement. What is it like to move from your heart space? What are you noticing? Any impulses. Let yourself be moved by your heart. Now imagine that you had eyes on the inside. And you could see your heart. Imagine coming in closer. Now you are. Your heart. Imagine you are this muscle organ beating. As you move, Feeling your pulsation. Vibration. Move into the aliveness that is your heart. Feel your beating. You are circulating. You are sending and receiving. Letting yourself go deeper, Deeper inside. This experience. You as your heart. You as this intelligent. And knows exactly what to do. You are the rhythm of the movement. And noticing what it's like. To move as your heart. What are you aware of from here? What is it like to move from this place? From this pulsation. You know exactly what to do, How to move. Moving as your heart. Allow your movement now to slow down. To get smaller. If you'd like, Place a hand on your heart space. Feel your hand. Touching this part of your body. Feel your heart space. Being touched. Notice anything that feels different from the beginning. And know that you can always return to this place. Thank your body. Thank yourself. Thank you.