Shake Your Soul!

Learning to access your joy through movement gives you access to your spiritual core. The results are profound and far-reaching. Numerous research studies now demonstrate the positive healing results on our immune system and our brain's neurochemistry when we experience joy.

Loving Your Body

As you access your joy, you will expand your spirit's expression through your body in dynamic and fluid ways. You will find the authentic expression of your soul. You will gain key skills to inspire others to move with ease, joy and power! You can learn the art of teaching joy through movement in our Shake Your Soul/Kripalu YogaDance teacher training. This training supports your love for your body and inspires your love of dance! You will then be able to inspire others to experience acceptance and love for their bodies and the joy of dance as you move them toward body and soul fitness.

There's a natural joy that lives within the body and the heart is the seat of that joy. Rather than just looking at the heart as an anatomical pump, consider the energetic nature of the heart and connect the rhythmic pulsing of your own heart with your movement expression. This is the root of dance.

Try this exercise: Extend your arms straight out to your side, one leg forward, one back. Begin pulsing your arms back as your heart reaches forward, then soften your heart back towards the spine as your arms move in towards the heart. Continue this forward pulsing motion to music that moves you (think soulful or drumming). View this video to see examples of moving from the heart and more.

Joyful Work

What could be better than a dance/movement class that combines the benefits of exercise with the benefits of experiencing joy and freedom? And what better job can we have than to offer joy to others?! Visit the rest of our web site for more information.




"All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit."

~ Saint Thomas Aquinas


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