Fire Horse Body Alignment
A guided movement, meditation & sound experience
After voting day, come shake off the election, ignite your fire horse & come back to your body. We'll get a little silly, a little serious, connect with our internal currents, and leave with warm hearts & practical embodiment skills to help us through the cold, dark months ahead.
In this movement class, we'll learn about Chinese five element theory while being accompanied by live looping instrumentation by Father Otter (Nash Atkins). The movement exercises will focus on each of the five elements of Chinese medicine - water, wood, fire, earth, and metal - and the live music will respond to each elements' nature to help us align more deeply with our whole, balanced beings.
For this guided physical journey, bring things to make yourself comfy/warm at the start/end, wear clothes you can move freely in, and a journal/notebook.
Card to Culture tickets available.
This program will be led by Gretchen Dizer with Father Otter.
Gretchen Dizer brings over 20 years experience teaching others to connect with their internal sensory experience, creating spaces of practical embodiment.
She holds an MA in Ethnochoreology, the study of dance & movement in culture, owns a clinical bodywork practice, and is an NYS professional massage therapy educator.
Drawing on her history as a professional bodyworker, performing artist & competitive athlete, she has created a series of tools & visuals which facilitate the development of an enhanced mind/body awareness.
Over years of work with students & clients, she has noticed developing this enhanced awareness is a key factor in achieving profound change & connection to our body & being.
Father Otter (Nash Atkins) Father Otter tends the roots and reaps the fruits of cathartic, awakening, energizing, medicinal, blissful, and connective beats from around the earth and throughout time. A curated arc of tension and release, intensity and joy, drops your awareness down into the body while simultaneously blasting your spirit into hyperdrive. Be prepared to travel the wilds of your consciousness with a fusion of organic and electronic sounds.
