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Oftentimes core work is reduced to focus on the abdominals and glutes with underlying messages around body supremacy rooted in whiteness/thinness. Large amounts of reps with a focus on intensity can exacerbate existing tensions in the body, especially if there’s a history of trauma.
What if instead we could engage core work in a way that is playful, adaptive, and incorporates the range of deep rest, full engagement, and holistic relationship within the body? Braiding together multiple movement modalities, functional anatomy, and guided imagery, Molly will share several entry points for working with our core that will hopefully invite support, possibility, and ease (as opposed to gripping tension in body, heart, and mind). We will work on the floor and in movement across the floor, with both detailed guidance and invitations for intuitive movement. (All bodies welcome. All is an invitation.)
This approach to core work might be especially beneficial for someone who dreads core work, who perhaps feels it in odd places – shoulders, jaw, knees. Additionally, for those who have complicated history with pelvis, stomach, low back, the center of you.
Molly offers this workshop as a lifelong student of embodiment, love, and healing. This offering weaves together her synthesis as student, facilitator, and survivor.
Molly Andrews-Hinders is a performance artist, creator, musician and somatics educator. Her movement practice and creative process are deeply intertwined and symbiotic. Molly braids together a multitude of modalities in her classes, incorporating yoga, Body Mind Centering, Feldenkrais, and Pilates. She has taught movement group classes at Body Technic Systems, an international physical therapy and performance arts clinic, 121 Fitness on CWRU campus, Merici Crossings (Ursuline) and former Studio 11 in Tremont, as well as private movement offerings all around Cleveland. As an artist, Molly creates music that questions how we become fully embodied, empowered, and organized in a messy, dysfunctional, and often cruel world.
Abide West is located in the studio space located behind Willow Room in Lakewood. The address is 15801 Detroit Avenue. There is free parking behind the building off Brockley Ave, and there's a cute li'l Abide West sign above the correct door towards the back of the building.
You'll have to climb just a few steps to get into the building. You can leave your shoes in the hall. The space has a private bathroom, cold water for drinking, and hot water for making tea.
Cleveland Embodiment is reserving a portion of available tickets on a pay-what-you-can basis for this event. If you need a free or discounted ticket please send us an email or message us on Insta.
