Authentic Movement

Authentic Movement is an opportunity to get more in touch with what is real and true for you through exploring how you want to move in the moment. It offers this through the combination of immediate physical experience with sharing of non-judgmental attention and intuitive reflection to foster personal discovery and integration.

In the basic form participants take turns in two roles: mover and witness.

• The mover's task is to explore how they would like to move while having the attention of their witness. Typically the mover moves with their eyes closed. The mover has an agreed-upon amount of time to explore how they would like to move, knowing that they will have an attentive witness and that they have no external obligation to entertain the witness.

• The witness' task is to watch their mover and notice their interior response to what they are witnessing.

• After the first mover has a turn the pair switch roles and the new mover has the same amount of time as the first did.

• Both then have an agreed amount of time to process their experience individually, using an intuitive activity like drawing or writing or whatever allows them time to personally reflect.

• The pair then take turns sharing what they would like to say about their experience as mover and, if invited by the respective mover, the experience as witness.
• The purpose is to share your own experience, in as much as you wish to do so, and not to try to project the experience of your partner.

There are other arrangements that build on the basic form's essential elements. Careful attention is devoted to framing the sessions and to non-intrusive sharing in order to support clear personal agency in what can be very open-ended and engaging exploration.

Particular movement skills are not needed. All that's required is curiosity and a kind of generosity – a willingness to explore and share movement and the process of personal discovery.