This free event is offered as part of Bay Area Dance Week 2025.
Breema relates to the body as a vehicle for entering into the present moment. Through presence, we can experience the innate intelligence and instinctive wisdom of the body, which connects us to our deeper nature. This class explores how the nurturing and dynamic movements of Self-Breema exercises and Breema bodywork support coming to body-mind connection and create an atmosphere of aliveness we can bring to all our activities.
No prior bodywork experience is necessary, but please be comfortable sitting and working on a padded floor. Dress comfortably and wear long pants, socks, and be fragrance-free.
10:00-11:30am Class
11:30am-12:00pm Mini-sessions for new students
Instructors
Ariadne Thompson
Ariadne is a Somatic Psychotherapist, with a private practice in the Rockridge area of Oakland.
Her therapeutic style has been most informed by the practice and personal study of both Breema Bodywork® and Formative Psychology®. Breema supports using body-mind connection to begin to come out of unconscious and reactive movement through life, and instead live with more choice, availability, and an inner authority with which we can to respond to life. Formative Psychology has supported her...
Elaine Pendergrast
Elaine started studying Breema in 1991, and soon became a Certified Practitioner and Instructor. On staff at the Breema Center, she teaches classes there regularly, and has presented Breema at many outreach events to new people at workshops, conferences, health fairs, retreat centers, and other venues around the country. She has also been a Practitioner at the Breema Clinic for many years and enjoys working with new and established clients.