2025 - 2026 FACTORY student led: How to Move Your Body Without Losing Your Mind

Healing is a creative act. Grief is alchemy—forever dissolving, recombining, becoming. Our inner worlds move with us: rage, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and tenderness live not only in the mind but travel through the body, occupying corridors of the chest, hips, spine, and hands. Rage coils in the belly, sorrow pools in the neck, fear flickers through spine. This session asks what happens when we stop moving against these internal forces and begin moving with them—listening to how emotions want to shift, pulse, resist, or soften through movement. We engage in play.

How to Move Your Body Without Losing Your Mind invites you to enter the body as a living temple of mental and emotional states. Through guided somatic and improvisational movement, participants are supported in relating to their inner worlds as collaborators and teachers, and in moving alongside others in shared, emotional space. Moving alone and together, we practice listening to what stirs beneath language, allowing shared movement to become a technology of moving what is within us. 

You can bring an object that connects you to an emotion or state of being, and some clothes for movement.