Natalie Deryn Johnson

Classes

 
 

Witch Body

Enter a realm of sensory cues, invitations for embodying one’s deeper nature, summoning potency, and exalting the bodily experience. This space can be lush, subtle, grounding, and presence-full. We are snails. We feel the glimmer of the stars. We feel the winds. Here we develop the craft of listening, inviting the intelligence of the body. Let’s be cheeky and also serious. Here you are a person first, here you move even in stillness, here you get to reckon with your body’s range of expression. Here we attune to self, shift our understanding of our potency, and play with the reverie of existence. Here our softening is our power. Here we savor. 

This is an intuitively guided movement experience featuring suggested sensation cues, poetic language, gestures, and group connection. Facilitation is based on the moment, the movement of the group energy, what wishes to be summoned, and methods of movement that are akin to physical theater meets mysticism. 

Perfect for those wishing to move in primordial and decadent ways, amplify sensation from simple forms, feel our interconnectedness, and have serious fun





Past Classes:

Sensitive Strength

Wild Mindful

Conscious Partnering / Contact Improv

Contemporary / Choreo

Deviant Ballet: TBA

Soft Power

 

 My favorite teaching style is receptive. Improvisation is a deep bone in my body. My gift is spontaneity and bringing a group of individuals into a shared, yet individuated experience. Although I can prepare and guide pre-decided course material . . . I am perpetually enamored by the current moment and what arises from listening, moving, and releasing agendas.

Sometimes this approach communicates to people a lack of standard or seriousness of practice when what it really creates is a platform for sophistication, resiliency, and wildly gorgeous presence. There is a deeper structure beneath surprise, after all.

I might add that my range and contradictions unlock the prismatic nature of simplicity and also invite the complexities of life. Choreography and unlocking these principles of nature within projects and performers is incredibly life affirming and connection building.