"movement is the song of the body"
Vanda Sacarvelli
WHAT IS MEANINGFUL MOVEMENT?
It's a way of approaching movement with your whole self
What if movement truly IS the song of your body? How would it look and feel to express movement in this way? Would you still attend that bootcamp 3 times a week? Would you shame yourself when you miss a workout or gain weight?
I invite you to ask yourself these two questions;
"What song is my body longing to sing?"
and
"What is the purest and most authentic expression of that song?"
Meaningful Movement is a trauma informed decolonization of the body designed to help you get free from toxic fitness culture so that you can move your body from a place of deep, personal meaning and magic.
HOW IS IT DIFFERENT?
Meaningful Movement is the antidote to false fitness narratives. It invites you to reflect on the ways that harm has been inflicted upon you in the name of health, bringing to light the decades of body shame that permeate the culture.
Meaningful Movement asks that you fully inhabit your body through movement instead of using it as a way to abandon yourself. It helps you unearth a power and a divinity in movement that transcends the mundane and incomplete health and weight loss conversation. It helps you understand at the level of your DNA that there are more important objectives for movement than shrinking yourself. And that movement serves you best and motivates you more when it is approached as a sacred act as opposed to just another check mark on your to-do list.
It helps you see that most of the incredible movement rewards go far beyond the physical.
Meaningful Movement also pushes back on inequity inviting us to remember that movement is free and accessible to all. and that the commodification of movement has unnecessarily complicated something that is a birthright. It is not a requirement that movement be overly structured, paid for or measurable.
This work imagines what movement can be without capitalist constraint, asking the most ancient part of you what activates your animal soul.
Meaningful Movement rejects militant exercise structures, discipline and stifling fitness class attendance in favour of your body taking the lead. It wants you to hear and trust what your body is asking for, be it stillness or sweat, solitude or socializing, sound or silence. It wants you to know that an ancient desire to move continues to live within you.
