Essential Motion Classes & Workshops
Relax & Revitalize your Body; Clear your Mind; Uplift your Spirit!
Using movement, music, words, reflection, and sharing, Essential Motion returns us to the natural wisdom of our bodies.
Ongoing Classes
Fridays 10:20 a.m-12:20 p.m
$24 drop in
Discount passes available
Vara Healing Arts
850 Talbot Ave. & Solano Ave.
Albany,CA
In childhood, we express the natural ease and spontaneous playfulness of our authentic, unique selves. Our minds may forget, and our bodies remember. Through Essential Motion, Karen Roeper's original and inspiring work, Diahna Fortuna reconnects us with the body as our source of aliveness, creativity, and wisdom. Watching us move, Diahna's perceptive and compassionate eyes observe where our bodies are stuck and support us in discovering where they are free.
Classes and workshops include mindful exercises that call us back into our bodies, reconnecting us to our own center and to the ground under our feet. In group classes, over time, participants gently expand awareness to allow mirroring, witnessing and interweaving energies in dynamic motion, practices that enrich and transform how we experience our place in the family of things. Diahna's individual coaching includes gentle queries and suggestions that lead participants to a place of internal listening, helping us discover and remember how we long to move. In this deep dialogue between the body and its expressive movement, we dissolve unconscious holdings and move past the constraining beliefs of our lives. We find the courage to express who we truly are.
Through Essential Motion, we gain access to our true source of wisdom, the body's intelligence. As we inhabit our bodies more fully, we move through our days with ease, power, and grace. We free our true selves and are able to move more wholeheartedly and powerfully towards our vision, goals, and dreams.
Diahna Fortuna
Essential Motion Instructor
As founder of Fortuna Life Bodywork & Movement, Diahna Fortuna supports clients and students of all ages and physical capacities, teaching individuals and groups ways to embody their creative power as they strengthen and transform the mind-body connection. In private practice since 1994, Diahna is a certified Breema instructor and practitioner, a Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner, an Essential Motion Instructor, and a Somatic Coach. She has been performing in theater and dance since she was four years old and holds a BA in dance from UCLA (1992). In 1998 she began studying with Karen Roeper, founder of Essential Motion, and currently teaches Essential Motion classes in the Bay Area.
"Diahna's energy is buoyant and inspiring. Her strong support for however I am moving or feeling is steady and aware. Her Essential Motion classes never fail to loosen and free my body and let me inhabit space with more aliveness and confidence. Over time, the work has given me countless moments of connection and revelation -- I count her work among my most valued therapies." Catharine Lucas, Retired English Teacher & Writer
History of Essential Motion
Essential Motion was developed by Karen Roeper, a Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner and senior teacher. She has synthesized her work as a dance therapist with a deep understanding of the mind/body connection to create a movement practice that is powerful and a synthesis of all the disciplines Karen has experienced in her life.
Essential Motion seminars have been conducted nationally and internationally for over eighteen years, and currently two and four-year Essential Motion leadership certification courses are offered in the U.S. and Sweden.
For More information about Essential Motion contact me.
I am now offering Somatic Coaching. This is a one-on-one process that assists you to drop into yourself more authentically through movement. Contact me for more information or to arrange for a session.
