Hello there, I'm Ashleigh

A Bit About Ashleigh

Ashleigh is trained as an Open Floor Movement Teacher and also a devout student of the natural world, devoted to the work of Nature Connection and remembering our kindredness with and responsibility to all life across species. Open Floor is a lively movement inquiry with curiosity at its core. A moving meditation practice, we come together to feel, to experiment, to encounter, to resource ourselves, to cultivate the art of attention, to study our relational patterns and brave creative shifts, to remember the wild intelligence of the body and unlock the untold longings begging for our attention. We come together to cultivate sensitivity - the ability to feel the world within and without - and to stay in creative relationship with whatever arises: grief, joy, connection, collision, pain, pleasure, stuckness, fluidity - everything is creative fuel. We learn to move and include it all, physically, emotionally, mentally and soulfully. We learn to inhabit paradox. To be embodied is to come to our senses, more fully alive, awake, and aware in the world. On the Open Floor, we believe that when we more fully and sensitively inhabit our bodies, we can participate in more regenerative, resilient and creative relationships with ourselves, each other, and the planet.  Breath by breath, growing our capacity to feel, to attune, to be fully alive while we are alive, and to contribute some touch of soul and beauty to the world. 

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Positionality Statement: 

Ashleigh currently lives in Santa Fe, NM in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, ancestral and current land of the Tewa people. She believes in uncovering the nuance of lineage and ancestry, especially as part of the work of Somatic Abolitionism and unlearning the internalized culture of White Supremacy, Patriarchy and Capitalism and all the ways they are intertwined.