Calling all mamas: Are you looking for the opportunity to release stress and physical tension from your body? Would you like more time for yourself? Do you want to get more exercise and connect with other moms?

In this class, we will be exploring how expressive movement can be relaxing for the body, mind, and spirit as well as a form of self-care.

Improvisational movement will be emphasized as you are guided to follow your inner impulse to move as your body would like to.

The class will include:

• Centering
• Body warm-up
• A few yoga poses
• Guided movement experience
• Final relaxation/meditation

This IS NOT a dance class and no prior dance experience is necessary, just a willingness to try new ways of moving and being playful.

• We hope you can join us in shaking off the stress!
• All moms are welcomes provided you have been approved by a mid-wife/doctor to return to exercise
• The workshop is for mamas only. Please leave your little ones at home so you can take some time for yourself!

About the Instructor

Melissa Nedza is a Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor as well as a 200 hour level Kripalu Yoga Teacher. She has a passion for dance and yoga and how these practices can be used as a form of self-acceptance and self-care. She has studied many forms of dance but has a strong connection with the power of improvisational movement.

In her clinical work, she has provided therapeutic movement experience to all age groups from children to adults and in settings such as residential homes, schools, psychiatric hospitals, and in the community mental health setting. She has provided trauma-informed yoga to veterans in yoga studios as well as the Coatesville VA. She believes in the innate wisdom of the body to heal itself and how mind/body practices can play a part in this process.

She is the proud mom of a one year old son and a rescue dog and lives with her husband in Delaware County Pennsylvania.