Presence in Motion with Mira Barakat

The Berkeley Alembic Foundation aims to facilitate, teach, and cultivate awakening and liberation for everyone and function as a force for peace, kindness, and good in the world. We envision a world where every human being has a community for practice, education, and connection.

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Presence in Motion is an opportunity to explore, practice, and deepen awareness and embodiment in the shared space of community.

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Somatic Movement at Alembic

Somatic movement classes explore our conscious awareness through sensation and movement.

Presence in Motion is an opportunity to explore, practice, and deepen awareness and embodiment in the shared space of community. Each week we will explore different modes of presence — guided sitting, walking meditation, and a variety of movement practices, explored with both silence and music. The evening will be woven throughout with invitations to experience groundedness, embodied presence, and various subtle qualities of movement, as we deepen somatic awareness and explore the vibrations of being. We will guide and nourish our moving bodies while returning to explore our changing inner landscape. The practice is a chance to show up for ourselves, and be just as we are, allowing our bodies and beings to unfold organically. This class is open to mindful explorers and movers of all levels, no prior experience required. Please come as you are, with a heart and mind open to whatever ways your experience unfolds. We practice together, nurturing connection to ourselves, others, and the broader world of beings.. Mira Barakat is a dancer and mindfulness practitioner — she has been meditating almost as long as she has been dancing. She is primarily a teacher of Argentine tango, also a mindfulness teacher and practitioner of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychology. Her practice draws on Vipassana meditation, Argentine Tango, Contact Improv, modern dance and improvisational dance, partner dance, fusion, Hakomi, and yoga.