The Sky Inside is a slow and quiet spiraling into one’s body. It’s a dance that reaches into the depths of that body, to find imagination. Through sustained and thoughtful practice, the thinking mind quiets, and the intuitive mind is given space to step forward. This is the moment, when the intuitive mind and the imaginative body are working in tandem, that the dancing opens — to infinite possibility and wonder.

“My body yearns for that quiet place of the sky inside, where everything makes sense without being anything at all”. — Audrey Grace

I begin class by guiding everyone through a gentle warm-up, with a focus on listening to the breath and sensations within one's body. 

After the warm-up, I give the group an image to play with, such as: "Notice the roundness of your movement and your stillness. Notice how the roundness of your movement spills into the roundness of your stillness. Notice how the roundness of your stillness spills into the roundness of your movement."  Then I'll say: "As you drop and fall into the dance today, a dance that is already in the room, simply waiting for you to begin, notice this spilling roundness from time to time, as you also notice your breath, and as you also notice your body in space, in stillness and in movement."

After that, I won't say anything until I bring the dancing to a close.

This class is built on cultivating our curiosity about what is arising inside of us, and following that arising with ease and inquisitiveness. We follow the thread of this dance with our breath and body as our guide. 

This dance can be: scary, boring, lonely, lovely, blissful, serene, wild, disconnected, connected, delightful, sinking, rising, floating, and so so pleasurable, because this dance of the sky — it waits. Until there is no other choice but to begin.

“Only when we get to look back on this, will we really understand how The Sky Inside Dance class held us and changed us, and dare I say, loved us.” Paulette Fire

“This is the kindest place I’ve ever been.” Alana Rancourt Phinney.

“This is the dance I want to be doing when I die.”  Nancy Ruff

“While I feel The Sky Inside is medicine for what hurts, on so many levels, it is also art and magic and sustenance and ineffable.” — Gabrielle Edison