Join us for this event featuring Dan Leven

Our Topic for the Experiential

“Connecting to our authenticity brings soul and meaning to our lives, whether through movement and dance or opening into the embodied experience of our feelings.”

~ Dan Leven

Take Away

• Focus, nourishment, grounding 
• Heart opening, softening, connection
  
  

Embody Your Heart

Toning the Vagus Nerve through Mindful and Heartful Movement

Our embodied heart is a profound source of quieting the brain and nervous system as well as energizing our sense of safety and connectedness with others. In this webinar we enliven this inner resource through mindfully moving the heart towards openness and freedom.

As Dan Leven leads you in a series of mindful movements that focus on the heart and lungs (where our ventral vagus nerve communicates to and from), you will have the opportunity to cultivate a deeper sense of your heart’s presence within you. Additionally, specific qigong practices will engage your heart energy and strengthen your vagal tone.

This heartful & mindful movement practice is inspired by elements of Body-Mind Centering® and Qi Gong that inform part of Dan Leven’s work at the Leven Institute for Expressive Movement.

Experiential Flow:

• Somatic lovingkindness meditation to enhance interoception and vagal tone

• Mindful movements of the heart and lungs inspired by elements of Body-Mind Centering®

• Qigong exercises to awaken heart energy

• Healing and intuitive movements that organically emerge from your heart

About Our Facilitator

Presented By:
Dan Leven, RSMT, MPC, founding director of LIFE Movement

Dan is the Founder and Director of LIFE Movement, Leven Institute for Expressive Movement. Drawing from 40 years of experience, Dan created integrative approaches to body-mind healing and wellness: Shake Your Soul® and SomaSoul®: Somatic Therapy. As a former professional dancer and Program Director at the Kripalu Center where he co-founded Kripalu Danskinetics™ (now Kripalu YogaDance), Dan has led numerous workshops and professional certification trainings at the Omega Institute and Kripalu. Dan holds a Master’s in Pastoral Counseling and served as a faculty member of Hartford Family Institute’s Body-Centered Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Program, training psychotherapists and healers in this work.

Event Preparation Info

Prepare for movement and simple movement partner interaction
Please come dressed in loose fitting clothes and the space to move around. If you can bring a mat to lie on that would be helpful. 

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Event Format - 9:50 am PST start time

• 10 min welcome and program set up talk
• 50 min experiential
• 10 min check ins, shares, and closing
• Overtime begins

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The root of e-motion is “to move.” The same regions of the brain responsible for movement also carry out our cognitive processes. Our brain evolved from movement and still depends on it day to day. Join us to discover how conscious movement can bring nourishing restoration, playful community connection, and the understanding of how moving helps our thoughts, words, and actions.

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