Meditation & Embodiment Classes at Atrium
Meditation and embodiment classes help to train attention, achieve mental clarity, and support emotional stability. These practices at Atrium also help students build community and create a sense of place. Mindfulness and embodiment practices are an excellent way to get grounded, tune into yourself and the world around you, and deepen the mind-body connection.
Group Meditation
Shared Rest
Dynamic Decompression & Rest
Qigong
Embodying Queerness
Guided by a rotating set of facilitators, this class will include a lightly guided meditation followed by a group discussion about the practice. This is a space for collective learning, shared practice, and community connection—rather than a format centered around an “expert” teaching meditation.
Re-establish inner ease through sensing and relaxing your body. Find gentle movement to settle your energy, and follow with guided rest practice. In a culture that demands hyperproductivity and nonstop doing, explore what happens when we make space for slowness and tenderness in a group setting.
Utilizing the Thinking Body~The Feeling Mind Technique (TM), this class emphasizes range of motion, low-impact strength building, and muscle tension release through the core of the body as well as its extremities. Students can expect full body movement phrases done on the ground that encourage a sense of internal spaciousness through the spine and psoas muscles.
Work with gravity to relax the body with the aim of increased body awareness, a calm nervous system, and increased capacity for strength, length, engaged mobility, and joy.
Qigong is a Chinese system of coordinated posture and movement, breathing, and meditation. With roots in Chinese medicine, philosophy, and martial arts, qigong is traditionally viewed as a practice to cultivate and balance the mystical life-force qi. Qigong practice typically involves moving meditation, coordinating slow-flowing movement, deep rhythmic breathing, and a calm meditative state of mind. Expect the themes of class to change with the seasons.
So much of the way that we explore queerness is intellectual. This course facilitates a play space to get curious about how we move through the world. We will use games, hands-on support, and guided exploration of expressive movement to investigate:
- How we embody our queerness, both consciously and unconsciously.
- How to create balance through the lens of the body.
- Our potential for agency, rest, action, & expansion.
- Other themes that arise tailored to the curiosities of the group.
Come for both play and restoration, stay for the unraveling of the habitual socio-cultural costumes that we wear in our bodies.
Series material will be rooted in Contemporary Alexander Technique, body mapping, and inner-body movement research, and can all be participated in using any mobility device (the space is ADA accessible).
*This class is not currently offered on our regular schedule.
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Fitness Classes
Our bodies are built for movement! Atrium’s fitness classes are geared towards developing strength, coordination, mobility, and endurance.
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Yoga Classes
Come begin or deepen your yoga practice. We currently offer a variety of weekly yoga classes and frequent yoga workshops.
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Dance & Embodiment
Discover the joy of dance and explore expressive movement in a supportive environment. Dance and embodiment classes for every experience level.
