Expressive Movement
Kosmic Pulse
What is Kosmic Pulse?
After 20 years of training, education, and teaching in the expressive arts field, Nicole Trudel Churchill, a board certified Expressive therapist, developed Kosmic Pulse; a movement practice designed to facilitate transformational experiences. Kosmic Pulse is a vehicle that brings expressive modalities to a mainstream audience, allowing students to experience the healing nature of music, movement and expression on a daily basis. Kosmic Pulse is based on the principles that dance/movement therapy assumes that a functional unity exists between the body & mind and that health, inner vitality, insight and therapeutic change occurs through direct experience of the present moment. One of the best ways to engage the present moment is to stay awake in the body: the sensing, emoting, thinking body.
Movement provides us with a profound medium and metaphor for discovering where we are moving and where we are stuck. Kosmic Pulse guides us through our personal stories rooted deep in our body/mind and helps us unlock our inner wisdom, so that we are able to connect to ourselves and others more consciously. This is a physically active and dynamic class that blends music, movement, consciousness, expression, and community into an inspirational, life-giving, therapeutic dance experience. It emphasizes a full-spectrum exploration of physical and emotional embodiment of archetypal energies and states of consciousness through dance, somatic integration, vocalization, meditation, and tribal/community engagement. You will feel the joy of Kosmic Pulse long after the hour is over! The launch of Kosmic Pulse coincides with Nicole’s newest endeavor as an Adjunct Faculty member at Lesley University, teaching “Music, Consciousness, and Expression” Spring, 2011.
Nia
What is Nia?
Nia is a movement practice that guides the student into a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual state of energy and well-being. It combines dance and other heart-pumping movements infused with global rhythms, bringing the practitioner into the joy of life!
Through expressive movement- “The Body’s Way” - Nia empowers people to achieve physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Beginners and advanced students alike will find a place in this innovative movement class. Nia supports the Pleasure Principle: If it feels good keep doing it, if it hurts, stop!
Process-oriented, the Nia format is user-friendly. Nia empowers students and teachers to make their own movement choices by offering students a flexible structure they can personally modify to suit their needs. Nia combines a diverse blend of Eastern and Western movements, concepts and philosophies from the worlds of the healing arts (love), martial arts (mindfulness), and dance (technique). Nia reaches people emotionally, in their hearts, motivating them to get fit and healthy by creating a deep personal desire to explore their potential and love their growth.
Alchemy of Movement
What is Alchemy of Movement?
Combine the best of yogic breath, balance and stretching with the expressive art of improvisational dance and you have Alchemy of Movement. This class begins with a body-centered meditation; moves into guided, improvised floor work, progresses into standing, flowing postures inspired by dance and yoga, and concludes with a healing Sivasana. Breath, vocalizations, and an expressive world music palette provide the rhythmic back-drop for this therapeutic movement practice, bringing the student into expanded states of consciousness and well being. This class is done barefoot and is appropriate for all levels.
JourneyDance
What is JourneyDance?
JourneyDance™ is a grooving celebration that will have you loving your body and loving your life! Weaving simple, guided movement sequences and free exploration, JourneyDance reconnects you with your innate state of joyous well-being. Your mind becomes clear, free, and positive, and your body feels supple, energized, and powerful. Practiced to inspiring world music, your dance is an empowering journey to self-acceptance and transformation.