Movement
“The way you move and the environments you move through impact every part of you. When you are moving well, you are surrounded by opportunities for delight.” – Chandler Stevens
MOVEMENT MATTERS
I am a “movement activist” as well as a movement artist and educator.
I draw from a wide variety of experience and weave together my formal training with years of movement exploration to design and teach community classes, small group classes, and one-on-one movement sessions.
Check out what others are saying, a few classes I've taught recently, and the organizations I've partnered with below.
Interested in partnering? Send me an email at samuel.c.beecher@gmail.com
COMMUNITY CLASSES
Mixed Methods Movement
This class is structured in a way that leads the students through a variety of movements from different disciplines. I teach them in a progression of isolation, integration, and then improvisation. We begin this class with joint exercises and explorations then follow this by isolating and drilling specific floorwork, ground-based movements, and hand-balancing skills. We then integrate these movements into a sequence that takes them to the floor, in the air, and around the room with opportunities to improvise and explore. I finish the class with body weight strength movements and somatic practices to help them connect with strength and ease.
Embodiment Exploration
This class integrates intuitive and improvisational movements with embodiment practices and structural exercises to support our body organization, spatial orientation, emotional awareness, and resilience as we find resources in deeper embodiment. I lead participants through a series of gentle and nourishing movement explorations that help them awaken, inhabit, and explore different regions of their body. Each class has a somatic theme which helps students integrate the physical and emotional body and I weave in anatomy, ecology, music, and poetry to connect the movement explorations with the somatic theme.
Dynamic Aging
Our bodies are ever changing and ever evolving. In our culture there is a trend toward a more sedentary lifestyle and exercise machine culture. When we orient toward safety and joy in movement, many of the inhibitions that keep people sedentary are removed. I believe that moving our bodies outdoors and in mindful ways provides benefits that extend beyond the physical. This gentle class offers safe ways to regain mobility and balance. In this class I include discussion and practices to explore how to organize a life oriented toward movement rather than exercise and the role that mindfulness and nature can play in creating a more "dynamic" life.
