🌿 Inhabit Your Body in a New Way — Video 2 | Twisting, Lengthening & New Movement Patterns I’m Leslie Field, Somatic Practitioner of Embodied Movement — helping you get out of your head and into your body in a gentle and loving way. ⸻ 🌸 What This Practice Is About In this session, we’re continuing the gentle process of letting your body lead while also offering more structure and scaffolding for new movement. Many people find intuitive or improvisational movement challenging at first. It can feel uncertain — Am I doing this right? or What should I move next? That’s completely normal. Having a little structure helps create safety and familiarity, so your body begins to recognize patterns and feel more confident exploring new ones. ⸻ ✨ About This Practice We’ll begin with familiar movements from Video 1 and then add: • Gentle twisting through the hips and spine to release tension and create more spaciousness. • Leg extensions to lengthen the backs of the legs and bring new awareness to how your body supports you. • Micro-movements and undulations through the spine — including bridge lifts and slow, wave-like releases — to awaken fluidity, relieve tightness, and deepen presence. This practice helps your body find new ways of moving, stretching, and expressing ease. 🌸 Hi, I’m Leslie Field Somatic Practitioner of Embodied Movement 🌀 I help people get out of their head and into their body. 🌿 Join my newsletter or sign up for a class: LeslieAField.com Teaching & Methodology Credit: Erin Pace — Founder of The Responsive Body Practice and creator of Sacred Embodiment Movement Practice #somaticmovement #fyp #bodyawareness #mindfulstretching #nervoussystemregulation #embodiment #stretch #somatichealing #mindfulness

✨ SACRED EMBODIMENT MOVEMENT PRACTICE ✨ Ready to reconnect with your body, release tension, and find more calm, clarity, and ease? Join me for Sacred Embodiment — a therapeutic, empowering movement practice for women that blends intuitive dance, moving meditation, and freeing the body. It’s a space to unwind, breathe, and gently move through what you’re holding — stress, fatigue, emotion, or just the weight of the week — and return to your body with compassion and presence. You don’t need any dance experience — just a willingness to show up, move slowly, and listen to what your body wants to share. ✨ Saturday, November 8th | 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM 📍 Athletic Garage Dance Studio, Pasadena, CA (Link to Eventbrite in comments or bio) ⸻ 🌸 Hi, I’m Leslie Field 💫 Somatic Practitioner of Embodied Movement — helping you get out of your head and into your body 🌿 Visit LeslieAField.com to join my newsletter or sign up for classes 🎥 P.S. Check out my YouTube channel Leslie A. Field – Embodied Movement for my new series Inhabit Your Body in a New Way ⸻ 🙏🏻 Teaching & Methodology Credit: Erin Pace — mentor, teacher, and friend; creator of the Responsive Body Practice and the Sacred Embodiment Movement Practice ⸻ #SomaticMovement #EmbodiedMovement #WomenWhoMove #SacredEmbodiment #MindBodySoul #somatichealing #embodimentjourney #mindbodyconnection #sacredbodiment

✨Video 1 of Inhabit Your Body in a New Way Video Series is now on YouTube! ✨ Search: LeslieAField_Embodied_Movement In this series, we invite you to inhabit your body in a new way — not just to “move more,” but to move differently. To come home to your body through gentle, guided movement practices that support nervous system regulation, emotional release, and embodied awareness. Research in dance movement therapy and somatic psychology shows that movement can support emotional regulation, resilience, and mind-body integration — helping us feel more grounded, alive, and whole. Through these simple, accessible practices, you’ll begin to: 🌿 Notice and honor what your body is communicating 🌸 Reconnect with your felt sense of aliveness 💫 Cultivate presence, self-compassion, and flow Come as you are. No choreography, no performance. Just presence, breath, and curiosity. — 🌸 Leslie Field Somatic Practitioner of Embodied Movement ✨ Helping you get out of your head and into your body 🌿 Join my newsletter or classes at LeslieAField.com Teaching & Methodology Credit: Erin Pace — mentor, teacher, and friend; creator of the Responsive Body Practice and Sacred Embodiment Movement Practice #somatichealing #embodiment #nervoussystemhealing #bodyawareness #fyp #embodimentpractice #healing #femininemovement #mindfulness #selfcare

When I first started teaching embodied movement, I noticed something fascinating — most people didn’t know what it meant to let their body lead. We live in a world where movement is usually about performance, progress, or perfection. But what if it was about presence? This series was born from watching people rediscover what it feels like to be moved — not by instruction or technique, but by curiosity, sensation, and the quiet wisdom of the body. Because when we start to move differently — when we allow new movement patterns to unfold — something shifts. We begin to rewire old habits, release held emotion, and remember that there’s more ease and expression available than we thought possible. As my mentor Erin Pace has shared with me, sometimes new bodies need a little more structure. They need scaffolding — gentle frameworks that help invite the body into movement. The familiarity of certain movement patterns gives a starting point, a place where the body recognizes, “Oh, I know this.” And from there, flow becomes possible. Deeper connection to feeling becomes possible. That familiarity can become the inspiration and jumping-off point for more creativity — in how you move, how you express, and how you let what you’re sensing and feeling move through you. In time, it becomes a way to express without words — a language of movement all your own. So these practices are invitations — gentle ways to expand how you inhabit your body. Try them. Notice what feels new. Let your body show you what it remembers. ✨ Has a movement surprised you? ✨ Brought relief or emotion to the surface? ✨ Helped you reconnect in a way you didn’t expect? I’d love to hear what you find. 💛 ⸻ 🌸 Leslie Field Somatic Practitioner of Embodied Movement Helping you get out of your head and into your body 🤍🌀🌿 Join a class or sign up for my newsletter for more embodied practices and somatic tools: 👉 LeslieAField.com Teaching & Methodology Credit: Erin Pace — The Responsive Body Practice and creator of Sacred Embodiment Movement Practice @erin.pace #somatichealing #embodiment #nervoussystemhealing #bodyawareness #embodiment #healing

When movement becomes a prayer… 💫 Today, I found myself moving for a dear friend who feels like a sister — she’s walking her own winding path to motherhood. As many women know, this journey isn’t always simple or smooth. And when I heard this song — a song inviting new life into the body — it moved something in me. I began to move as a blessing, as a prayer that her dream might one day come true. It doesn’t matter what you believe — religion, spirituality, or something in between — I’ve felt the power of prayer and good intention in my own healing after my kidney transplant. Now, I feel called to offer that same energy outward — through movement, through breath, through love. Because when we move with intention, we become living, breathing, moving prayers. 🌿 To all the women walking this path to motherhood — including myself — may we be gentle, may we trust the unfolding, and may we always feel held in love. 💛 — 🌸 Leslie Field Somatic Practitioner of Embodied Movement ✨ Helping you get out of your head and into your body 🌿 Join my newsletter or classes at LeslieAField.com #motherhood #baby #SomaticHealing #MindBodyConnection #MovementAsMedicine #EmbodimentPractice #ConsciousLiving #WomenWhoHeal #embodiment