about resonance movement
Resonance Movement is an initiative which provides yoga, movement, dance, and meditation classes to people who may otherwise find these practices inaccessible, whether due to imprisonment, access to transportation, funds, community barriers, or otherwise. Accessibility is facilitated through no set cost to students, as well as through bringing classes to facilities themselves, providing necessary materials, and having trauma-informed, flexible, dynamic offerings. Facilitation focuses on conscious relationships, empowerment, pain-management, and direct inquiry.
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.
Movement is my first language. I have been dancing all my life, and practicing yoga for over half of it. I use the body as a site for self-inquiry, exploration regulation, expression, and self-discovery. I am profoundly curious about this living world.
My personal meditation journey began at 16 after being institutionalized at a youth psychiatric facility. 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. My path of self-inquiry has led to experience with and training in a wide range of disciplines, including multiple yoga styles, various dance modalities (particularly improvisational and somatic techniques), vipassana and Tibetan Buddhist meditation, and trauma-informed facilitation.
Resonance Movement is an extension of these foundations, with a central purpose of fostering harmony in body-heart-mind’s of people of all experiences and life stages.
As a white-bodied settler, I recognize my responsibility to honor yoga’s lineages and cultural roots, while offering a critical perspective that names the impacts of colonization and other hierarchical systems that shape who practice yoga and how it is practiced, and the systems that have overt and underlying impacts on modern life. This understanding deeply informs my facilitation and fosters a rich and nuanced learning environment.
Whatever brings you here, you are welcomed.
I bring 15+ years of experience studying movement forms and over 7 years of teaching in various settings that deeply inform my current facilitation practice. I have over 500 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, bodywork, movement, and dance training is diverse and ever-growing, including ashtanga with iyengar alignment techniques, vinyasa, trauma-informed yoga, yin, somatics, improvisation, ZenThai Shiatsu and Traditional Thai massage. I am also a practitioner of various art modalities such as ceramics, painting, and poetry, all of which interweave into my facilitation. I am constantly learning and incorporating that learning into my facilitation.