What is Elemental Movement?

Elemental Movement™ is a movement-centered practice based on the five Elements – Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Ether – which are primary symbols in most alchemical traditions. Using the Elements as a framework and as a set of symbolic tools, Elemental Movement™ employs movement as the primary vehicle for a wide range of personal explorations. On a physical level, the Elements provide a map for exploring different body systems and movement qualities. They are also used as instruments in the development of a high-resolution body image and an expanded movement repertoire. On a psychological level, the Elements represent different aspects of the self that can be accessed and expressed through movement. Working with the Elements as archetypes (or primal symbolic patterns of human experience), Elemental Movement™ echoes the psychological process of individuation through active imagination, expressed as movement. The improvisational movement structures also provide an outlet for creative and emotional expression. On a spiritual level, Elemental Movement™ serves as a form of moving meditation, drawing on the capacity of certain types of movement to transform ordinary states of consciousness into transcendent experience. Because the Elements have been sacred icons in many religious and spiritual systems, the exploration of them through movement can also serve a contemplative function.

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