Joanna

Sarah is a superb teacher and her class is unlike any I have ever taken. She asks me to understand my own body and work with it, be easy in it, and feel the movements rather than pushing them. She creates a supportive space in a peaceful, utterly serene environment to explore all the connections that exist but that most of us don’t think about: cell swarms, the life inside our bones, the fluidity of our blood, the way muscle curls around bones, to really feel our feet, to feel the way we stand, to be rooted, be easy in our skin but consciously easy.

Though we’ve all moved, or done some form of movement/body work all of our lives, Sarah asks us to question the idea of moving by muscling through as she invites us to feel and understand everything that helps us be in our minds/bodies and everything that helps us move, and she asks us to move using all of ourselves, from the inside, to understand and to try to feel all of these connections–not just how they affect the way we move, but how we move through the world too, to feel the interconnectedness of all things, to understand that we’re each a tiny cellular piece of a larger organism.

Because of Sarah’s class, because of her gentle, thoughtful, intelligent and deeply informed inquiry, I feel like I have a different relationship to my own body, and to my sense of self.