Join us every Sunday, 9:30-11 a.m. for Wild Souls Authentic Movement. Come get unstuck, meet like-minded women and access your innate freedom!
Details: Wild Souls Authentic Movement was created in 2020 by Renee Peterson Trudeau when she couldn’t find a conscious movement class in her town. Renee has been studying/enjoying various types of dance and conscious movement for 35 years—including all forms of yoga, Qi gong, Continuum Movement, Prana Shakti Dance, Five Rhythms, Journey Dance, Path of Azul, Let Your Yoga Dance, Dance Your Bliss, Quoya and more. Every Wild Souls class Renee facilitates is different but they are all focused on the interoceptive experience, staying wild/awake, connecting to nature’s cycles, getting unstuck, tending to your soul and connecting with vibrant community of women of all ages. Learn more about Renee.
When: Sunday mornings 9:30-11 a.m. (please arrive at least 10 minutes early); Next classes: Sept. 7, 14 and 28.
Where: Dunn’s Rock Community Center, 461 Connestee Rd., just a few miles from downtown Brevard—a great 1500 s.f. space with beautiful 100 year-old wood floors (your feet will love it!) in the forest.
Cost: $20-25 (sliding fee)/class cash or PayPal https://paypal.me/ReneeTrudeau) or Venmo-preferred (@ReneePTrudeau). Money is going towards covering our community center rent, materials and new sound system. Scholarships available. Please pay me the same day as this is my community service.
Who can attend: women at all life stages and all ages. We love an intergenerational experience. You’re encouraged to “listen to your body.”No prior experience needed. We love that women from their 20s to 80s join us!
RSVP: no need, just show up.
What We Do: Come as you are. Join us in a supportive, relaxed, warm, welcoming environment for an expressive movement class designed to help you stretch and flow, release and get unstuck, enjoy cardio movement, boost immune health, dissolve anxiety/stress and celebrate community, sisterhood, connection and fun! Most importantly your body is boss. Everything is optional. You can move wildly or enjoy gentle stretching on your mat the whole time. It’s most important for you to honor your body/heart/soul in this movement practice. Every Sunday will be completely different. We always incorporate connection, laughter, community song, Qi gong/energy medicine, Ayurveda and rest/integration in every class.
Looking for something like Wild Souls Movement in your area? Google: Quoya, Five Rhythms, NIA dance, Prana Shakti Dance, Journey Dance, Ecstatic Dance, Let Your Yoga Dance, Path of Azul, Bliss Dance and ask your local yoga studio for recommendations. There are many amazing dance forms out there that follow this “inside out” approach to therapeutic movement. The issues are in the tissues.
Bring: yoga mat/water bottle/journal and pen.
Email renee@reneetrudeau.com with questions or to be added to the Brevard-area events list and visit www.ReneeTrudeau.com/WildSouls to see WNC area events.
All events ~ Check out the Renee Trudeau & Associates events calendar to see all upcoming events!
“Preliminary evidence suggests that dance may be better than ANY other physical activity to improve psychological well-being, mental health and cognitive capacity.” -Dr. Alycia Fong Yan, University of Sydney’s Faculty of Medicine and Health and Sydney Musculoskeletal Health
Why Don’t We Dance More? | New York Times, 2023
Why Dance Makes Brains Better | Spirituality+Health, 2023
9 Ways Dancing Is Good for Your Health | Everyday Health, 2022
The Health Benefits of Dancing, According to Experts | Oprah Daily, 2022
Shall We Dance? Recreational Dance, Well-Being and Productivity Performance During COVID-19: A Three-Country Study | PMC, 2022
The Physiological and Psychological Benefits of Dance and its Effects on Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review | Fronties, 2022
‘Free Moving’ Dance has Healing Benefits for Mental Health | UCLA Health, 2021
Conscious Dance: Perceived Benefits and Psychological Well-Being of Participants | Science Direct, 2021
In new book ‘Dancing Is the Best Medicine,’ two neuroscientists examine why dance is good for heart, brain and soul | The Washington Post, 2021
Dancing Is Great for Your Mind and Body | Time, 2018
Dancing Participation and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality | American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2016
Dancing and the Brain | Harvard Medical School, 2015
Dancing Makes You Smarter | Stanford, 2010
Your GuideRenée Peterson Trudeau is an internationally-recognized transformational coach/teacher and catalyst. She is passionate about the healing power of nature (the ultimate anti-depressant) and has lived in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of CA, the rolling Texas Hill Country and the Blue Ridge Mountains of NC, where she now resides full-time. An entrepreneur/creative visionary for the last 30 years, Renee is founder/president of Renee Trudeau & Associates (RTA) and she’s author of the award-winning The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal: How to Reclaim, Rejuvenate and Re-Balance Your Life and Nurturing the Soul of Your Family: 10 Ways to Reconnect and Find Peace in Everyday Life and two other titles. On the faculty at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Omega Institute, 1440 Multiversity and Esalen Institute, she has certified hundreds of RTA-Facilitators in more than 10 countries to facilitate Personal Renewal Groups/retreats for women based on her award-winning self-care curriculum. Passionate about supporting men and women in coming into balance through practicing the art/science of self-care, Renée has been creating/leading transformational, nature-based events for 25 years and has been featured in the New York Times, Spirituality & Health, US News & World Report, AARP, Parenting and more. A recent graduate of the Wisdom Heart Mystery School, she’s thrilled be launching her latest offering: Wild Souls Nature Adventures. (Learn more about Renee’s professional background and training.)
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