Shake Your Soul

SHAKE YOUR SOUL® is a movement practice that reduces stress, energizes your body, and illuminates your soul through a dynamic, fluid dance repertoire set to a wide range of music. Both a health and spiritual practice, reclaim fitness as fun and your body as divine in a sacred and judgment-free zone. This energy medicine in motion transforms stagnancy to vibrancy and awakens your joy, creativity, and freedom to be you!

ARE YOU:

• Seeking a fun alternative to traditional exercise?
• Curious about “dance like no one is watching” but don’t know where to start?
• Feeling rusty, out of shape, or deconditioned in body, mind, spirit?
• Stuck in your head, even when you are working out?
• Would love a practice that supports your body and soul?
• Ready to come back to life?

FITNESS, SPIRIT, & FUN, AND MORE!

• Reduce physical, emotional, mental tension
• Relax your nervous system
• Receive benefits of “exercise”
• Expand your movement and music repertoire
• Cultivate life force energy and vitality
• Release the pressure to look a certain way
• Experience pleasure, sensuality, and joy
• Strengthen your capacity to feel, sense, and be
• Increase self-trust, self-love, self-confidence
• Connect with Spirit, commune with Soul

Wear comfortable clothes you can move in, take off your shoes, and bring water, yoga mat, journal for insights post-class (optional), open mind, kind heart, free spirit, curious soul.

NOTE: Cash is welcome at the door - as are Love Donations - pay what you are able.

FAQS

What is a typical class like?

Class begins with a gentle warm up followed by a blend of structured and freestyle movement experiences to a range of music with a relaxation at the end. Within a sacred, judgment-free zone, the focus is how your body feels when it moves, rather than how it looks, and to have fun! Participants will be on the floor, seated, and standing and may adjust any part of the class to their comfort.

Do I need any dance experience?

Absolutely none. If you can breathe, you can move. If you can move, you can dance – aka move your body and breathe! If you do have dance experience, this class will offer you ways to connect with your body on a deeper level, expand your creativity, and enhance your fluid nature. Shake Your Soul® is supportive, welcoming, and inclusive for every body and all shapes, sizes, ages, and fitness levels are invited to play!

What if I’m a bit (or a lot) out of shape?

You will fit right in! Shake Your Soul® guides you through a variety of movements, from gentle and quiet to dynamic and exuberant and within that range, you get to set the pace. The peak of the class calls for moderate level of exertion and you are free to adjust your level of intensity based on your needs and comfort.

What do you mean about “fluid dance repertoire?”

Your body is more fluid than solid; you literally are a body of water! Shake Your Soul® taps into this truth and leads participants through a movement journey based on the different fluid systems in the body, for example, the powerful circulation of your blood and playful synovial fluid in your joints. This facilitates a whole-body experience as you express diverse movement qualities and rhythms, with a range of music to support you.

What if I feel self-conscious?

You are not alone! It is normal to feel nervous or unsure about your body and what it might look like while moving in a culture that has judged, criticized, shamed, or bypassed the sacred vessel for thousands of years. Shake Your Soul® offers a much-needed remedy of sacred space for you to reclaim your body as yours and remember your magnificence. Some discomfort while you are learning anything new is to be expected and gets easier with practice. Trust me 😉

ABOUT LISA

Lisa Medley, MA, CMT believes as we create more love in the body, we create more love in the world. She has over 20 years’ experience in the healing arts and serves as a vitality expert and body relationship peacemaker from a holistic, spiritual, and soulful perspective. Lisa empowers clients to take charge of their wellbeing, reclaim their body wisdom, and create a lifestyle that sustains radiant energy, ease, and grace. She offers a range of simple tools, revitalizing practices, and transformational programs to come home to your body in a sacred, judgment-free zone. Learn more at http://www.SoulisticArts.com and Instagram, FB, LinkedIn @lisawmedley