"In the Movement, there is no judgment, there is no separation, there is no right or wrong. Nothing is solid and everything becomes possible. What if our whole life could be that dance?"
- Amy Shine

I found movement in my early 20s as a way to move energy when nothing else was working.

After a very dark period, searching for something I couldn't name, I started free-form dancing at home alone, just me, music, and my body. It was the only thing that gave me comfort at that time and would allow my racing mind to slow down.

Then I found 5 Rhythms and Ecstatic Dance. And in those spaces, I found my joy again.

The movement became the one place the judgment stopped. Where I could get out of my controlling mind and connect into my body. It was the first time I experienced true ecstatic bliss in my heart. 

"You have capacity for pain. You have capacity for judgment. But do you have capacity for pleasure? Movement is how we build that." Amy Shine

I went on to train in Ecstatic Dance facilitation. Then I became a Somatic Educator, studied the nervous system, and created my own Somatic Movement classes.

This isn't exercise. It isn't yoga performed from structure and control. This is about moving freely in your body, feeling your body as you move, being completely in tune with it.

Sometimes it's slow and sensual. Sometimes it's tribal. Sometimes it's fiery, shaking loose what anxiety has built up in the tissues. But it's never a performance. It's always a conversation between you and your body.

When you move consciously, with intention, you move stuck energy. That heaviness becomes lightness. That weight becomes space. And something that was shut down begins to open.

I facilitate women to connect with their bodies, let go of control, receive connection with the Earth, and dance with the universe.

This movement is for the woman who feels like a stranger in her own body. Who's disconnected from her pleasure. Who's been going through the motions. Who exercises to shape her body but never actually feels it.

Whatever your circumstance: whether you've had children, gone through menopause, shut down your pleasure, experienced trauma, or just spent decades living from the neck up, you have a right to feel the ALIVE in your body. And this movement is the vehicle that brings you back.