Music mixes from Vital Moves
Welcome to my musical world - I love to create soundscapes that move people. Here is a selection for you to enjoy and if you want to hear more you can visit my mixcloud channel, where you can subscribe and be notified when I upload new mixes.
Additional mixes can be found on the Vital Moves Mixcloud channel
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Embodied Social Justice
At Vital Moves we make an effort to be inclusive and accessible in all our offerings. The pay structure is flexible, with everything offered with a sliding scale of payments. Some of my offerings you can attend freely if you identify as being part of a group that is marginalised or underrepresented in conscious dance. This is inline with the values of Open Floor International, OFI and the International Conscious Movement Teachers Association, ICMTA.
Things I’m currently inspired by
I’m full of gratitude for all the artists, writers, thinkers, and creators out there who continually enthuse me with new perspectives, visions, and joyful responses to life. Here’s a selection of what is inspiring me at the moment.
What’s inspiring me
The lyrics in this uplift my spirit, supported by an array of fantastic instruments. Same Kind of People by Bukahara.
What I’m listening to
This is one of my favourite tracks to dance to of the year so far, Apache (Let the Bass go) by Basic Rhythm
What I’m watching
I watched the film Harriet which is a biography of the abolitionist of enslaved peoples. I then bought the incredible soundtrack.
What I’m reading
Your Resonant Self by Sarah Peyton, an invitation ‘into self-warmth through a powerful healing technology called resonance’.
The latest on Deborah’s YouTube channel
For those of you who absorb information more easily by watching and listening than reading, my YouTube channel is full of videos from participants in my groups and snippets from me.
They’re all about the essential practice of embodied exploration of our responses to life events and our relationship with ourselves, other humans and the beyond human world.
Inviting Ability-Diversity to Your Dance Floor
How can we expand awareness of the diverse abilities that may be present on the dance floor. I ask myself, how can I adapt my teaching practices to be more inclusive?
In this article Erin shares valuable perspectives to promote justice, equity and diversity in conscious movement spaces with the most enormous intelligence and generosity. She's one of the people holding my hand as I increase my own learning.
Self-study - training and trainers I can recommend
Embodied Social Justice course by Embody Lab
Race Resilience training by Jedi Consultancy
I’ve been educating myself about pronouns
Here is why they are important https://gaycenter.org/pronouns/