About Resonance Movement
Resonance Movement is an initiative which provides free yoga, movement, and meditation classes to people who may otherwise find yoga inaccessible, whether due to imprisonment, access to transportation, funds, community barriers, or otherwise. Accessibility is facilitated through no cost to students, as well as through bringing classes to facilities themselves, providing necessary materials, and having flexible, dynamic offerings. Currently, resonance movement offers classes at AWARE, the Lemon Creek Correctional Center, and the Forget-Me-Not Manor of the Juneau Housing First Collaborative.
Because of the unique circumstances in which resonance movement arises, the classes are adaptive and organic; meaning, they are a response to the specific environment in which they arise. All classes are trauma-informed and thoughtfully developed.
If you are interested in having resonance movement facilitate classes for your organization, get in touch.
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Hi, I’m Casey.
I have been dancing all my life, and practicing yoga for half of it. I use the body as a site for exploration, expression, and self-discovery. I am profoundly curious about this living world.
I started Resonance Movement from a place of utter joy for being in a body. From when I first started dancing, through every itterative exploration since then, I have discovered and re-discovered a viscerally connective, communicative quality to dance and movement. My personal meditation journey at 16 after being introduced by a therapist during a stay at a long-term youth psychiatric facility. Similar to dance, from my initial introduction, the expansive and opening quality of meditation was clear to me. Developing a meditation and yoga practice has been transformative and integral to healing in my own life, leading to a sustained and expanding openness and joy for living. This is something I hope to share with others.
Rhythm, cycles, sensation . . . all of these phenomena reverberate from the smallest to grandest scales. Collective movement taps into these innate wonders and utilizes them for healing.
Whatever brings you here, you are welcomed.
I bring 15+ years of experience studying movement forms and 5 years of teaching in various settings that deeply inform my current facilitation practice. I have hundreds of hours of yoga and meditation facilitation training, an extensive background in dance, and years of experience working in facilities such as prisons, sexual assault and domestic violence shelters, and schools. My yoga training is diverse and ever-growing, including Ashtanga with Iyengar alignment techniques, Vinyasa, trauma-informed yoga, yin, and somatics. I am constantly learning and incorporating that learning into my facilitation.