DESCRIPTION:
Out of Your Head, Into Your Body is a movement-based dance class series designed to help participants reconnect with their bodies as sites of joy, curiosity, and aliveness. In a culture that prioritizes productivity, cognition, and constant stimulation, many of us experience disconnection from physical sensation, pleasure, and spontaneous expression. This series offers an invitation to soften the grip of the mind and re-enter the body through music, play, repetition, and embodied exploration.
Rather than teaching choreography to be memorized, each class centers on guided prompts that encourage participants to listen inwardly and allow movement to arise organically. Practices include closing the eyes to heighten sensation, repeating simple or “mundane” movements to access flow state, allowing stretches to organically evolve into dance, and experimenting with opposite or unfamiliar movement pathways. Participants are encouraged to ask: What if I moved this way instead? What happens when I let the music move through me rather than trying to perform?
Joy is treated as both a practice and a birthright. Through smiling, jumping, shaking, and embodying the inner child, dancers are invited to remember the simple pleasure of being alive in a body. The series emphasizes presence over perfection, sensation over aesthetics, and freedom over form - creating a space where movement becomes a form of emotional release, self-trust, and embodied remembering.
LEVEL: Beginner- Intermediate
This is for all levels - the focus will be to connect to our bodies and find joy
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
INSTAGRAM: @serjaine
MASKING: Masks will be optional.
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