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BodyRide - The Art of Connecting
Harmony Gates - Connection Coach
864 Walker Av.
Oakland, California 94610
BodyRide - The Art of Connecting
with yourself
with others
with life
explore, integrate, expand
BodyRide teaches personal empowerment somatically and experientially
Primary areas of focus are self-awareness and relationship building skillst: view phone510-292-7067
Harmony Gates, founder of BodyRide, teaches Personal Empowerment.
BodyRide practice invites movement that arises from attending our own physical sensations. This is meditating with movement. By facilitating solo and partner movement and connecting in dance, I help others discover how this authentically responsive action--this 'BodyRiding'-- can bring us into being, dancing, and living freely and fully in the present moment.
I offer:
Intuitive and Interactive Bodywork
Contact Improvisation Dance Instruction
Partner movement for couples
Anat Baniel Method movement sessions for self-healing & vitality
Somatic 'Exformation'
Core Movement Pattern evaluation and education
classes, workshops, events and private sessions
Located in the San Francisco Bay Area
Facilitating Personal Empowerment--Self-Awareness & Relationship Skills--through Partner Movement
"I touch people and they get it!"
A Core Integration Healing System
BodyRiding is a powerful transformation tool and practice that frees you to have a new perspective toward yourself, your relationships with others, and your world.
It is a body-activated experiential activity that accesses core beliefs and the patterns that arise from them. It holds you in a supportive spaciousness that allows you to deeply listen to your inner self, feel your feelings, recognize your conflicting needs, and release non-helpful beliefs returning you to a state of peace, ease, and well-being
This technique is especially suitable for those committed to expanding their capacity for an authentic, genuinely intimate relationship with themselves and others.
Assumptions of the healing System:
Core beliefs are encoded in our bodies and require an integrated whole-body experience to be fully accessed, recognized, and be held with empathy and understanding. Once we fully own and address theses beliefs and their underlying purpose in our lives, we are free to release and replace them.
Our body is always in the present moment—always in a particular time and space, whereas the mind is sometimes consciously connected to the living moment, and sometimes not. Our thoughts can place our attention in the future and in the past
We can anchor our awareness in the present moment by attending to what we are sensing.
It is during our earliest relationships that we make our first conclusions about who we are. babies learn who they are as they are reflected back by their cargivers. Our self-image is formed during a pre-cognitive, pre-verbal stage of our development and it is through the pre-verbal instinctive communications of touch, gesture, movement and voice tone, not through intellectual understanding, that new patterns can be established.
therefore relationship is the essencial crucible for self-transformation.
"Harmony, you've opened a whole new world of movement to me"-- spoken by a recipient of 10 minutes of spontaneous movement facilitation with me on the dance floor.Schedule / Hours of Operation
Private Sessions By Appointment
Classes, workshops and events TBALocations
San Francisco Bay Area
State of California
Photo Gallery - BodyRide Encounters
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Reviews
Kudos - 03/23/2009 11:37:23
John Kottage from Novato, CA
Harmony has demonstrated both a long-term dedication to sensing the messages our bodies give us about how we are living and an advanced knowledge of how these messages can be used to aid our greater being. These body-messages are a key to transcending the often confusing and poorly founded messages originating from our old beliefs and the thoughts that emerge from these beliefs. In turn, this transcendent body-knowledge can be used to give us a healthier life and a greater sense of well-being. Her knowledge is unique. I have not found her particular depth of insight and talent anywhere else.
One on one Brett Weinstein from Berkeley, CA
The work I did with Harmony allowed me to take my dance/meditation practice to a much deeper level. Some of the elements that she helped me with include grounding, breath, reach, boundaries, presence, communication, surrender, control, flow, strength, stillness, etc. She is gentle and nonjudgmental, yet challenged me to seek what is true and authentic for myself. Whether for deep personal growth work or coaching in art of contact improve dance, I highly recommend spending some time with Harmony.
Spiritual Taj from N/A
I went to Harmony to learn to dance, but what I learned is how to connect to my body and to have a spiritual and fun time.
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