With COVID-19 many of us are going online to commune.

As someone who teaches touch and physical connection, it’s not my favorite place to work, but I’ve actually found it pretty effective.  I’ve done somatic movement therapy sessions with people thousands of miles away in their living room.  I’ve even taught some college dance classes from my living room.  Here’s a few guidelines I’ve found:

-Trying to imitate someone’s exact movement by watching it on a screen is not much fun.

-Being guided through improvisatory movement using auditory cues works well.

-Witnessing each other in movement and making meaning of what we see is transcendent.

-Connecting with people I otherwise couldn’t connect with feels worthwhile.

-Recorded work can be independent of time but lacks community, while live work (via video chat) generates community, but can be hard to commit to or coordinate

I’d like to offer two invitations.  

1. This Monday March 16th at 4:30-5:30pm MST (3:30 Pacific/6:30 Eastern)  I’d like to try offering BraveSpace online.  BraveSpace is a place to step into our vulnerability together, allowing ourselves to move and feel, to witness, and to make meaning together.  Always an experiment, our bodies will guide our sovereign individuality into simultaneous group consciousness.  You need zoom and a quiet place you can move on the ground.  Here’s the link:  https://zoom.us/j/4493544722
2. I created an online class a few years ago called Physical Freedom Method.  It’s still up and running.  The difficulty with it was always that as a recorded class it lacked community.  Yet, in this time of intentional isolation it may serve you well.  It is a somatic journey into the body and self.  You can find it at https://physicalfreedom.thinkific.com

Both offerings are given as a gift.  If you would like to offer a gift in return you can do so via

https://paypal.me/thewnelson or on venmo @Matthew-Nelson-180

And, if you would like to experience a 1-on-1 session using the movement meditation and therapy method I call Somatic Ideation, please reach out.

May you and your loved ones be healthy and well.

Matthew