Free Spirit Sanctuary with Katherine Allen

03/26/2025

02/09/2025

I'm so grateful for the dancers who show up to move with us! Dance is one of the best ways to open the heart and free yourself. Mark your calendar for the next one on Friday 2/28 6:30-8:30pm in Avon, CT!

02/09/2025

Thank you to the beautiful hearts who joined me for our dance today. I left feeling so much joy. Let's keep dancing together friends!! We need this time to nourish our bodies and remember our connections.

02/08/2025

Join me Saturday 2/8 10-noon in Avon, CT for some free-form conscious movement! We're going to wake up the body, shake off the density, melt some ice and tend the heart. Serious times require serious dance, or so the saying goes. We need to loosen up some of those extra heavy layers we're carrying and come back to our hearts.
Join me!

10/04/2024

Last Friday I was at an Azul Conscious Movement dance retreat and there was a gorgeous mobile hanging from the ceiling and as I looked up, the first two words I saw were Embodied and Wisdom.
This was a clear wink from the Universe as I offer Dance of Embodied Wisdom, a name for the conscious movement practice I guide to invoke greater healing and love.
This Saturday October 5th, we gather in Avon, CT at 10-11:30am for another conscious movement practice to explore together - What is Embodied Wisdom?
In this class we will explore the 5 Wisdom Centers: Feet, Belly, Heart, Hands and Head. Each of these centers carries deep wisdom, but until we slow down enough to listen, allow, open and deepen with presence the wisdom contained within, we may feel disconnected from the natural and inherent wisdom.
My role is to hold space and gentle somatic guidance, inviting you to pause from the hustle and grind of life. In this sacred space we remember a more natural and healthy pace of life, moving at the speed of connection with our body, allowing our body to express.
So much is possible when we create a well held container for us to listen, feel, explore, express, release, open and drop deeper into presence and the heart-body-mind-spirit connection.
Our bodies have deep wisdom.
Are you ready to listen?
Are you ready to remember?
Join me for our Dance of Embodied Wisdom to reconnect with the truth and wisdom which is dancing you.
I hope to see you there.
with love and great respect for your embodied wisdom,
Katherine

06/13/2024

Hello local CT dancing friends,
I am gathering the music for our Saturday morning playlist in honor of Summer Solstice. It is always a rich journey to explore the energetic currents that will carry us in our dance as I weave the intentions for our gathering. I can feel the momentum growing and I hope you can feel it too and will join me if you are able to!
This Saturday June 15th 10-11:30am at the West Avon Congregational Church in Avon, CT!
This is my one summer dance offering for CT Conscious Movement as we are on summer hiatus from our weekly gatherings. So I am ringing the bell - Join us for an embodied exploration of this vibrant spring into summer season... Through glorious music and our sacred bodies we will explore the 3 Keys of Feeling, Expressing and Releasing to attune to our aliveness in each moment and invoke greater presence.
Hope you can join me, Lisa and a beautiful gathering of dancing bodies and hearts attuned to generative explorations through conscious movement!
Head to the website in the link below to save $5 and pre-register. All bodies welcome!
with love, Katherine

03/17/2024

Hello movement lovers,
I just uploaded my latest playlist for your listening and dancing pleasure: "CT Conscious Movement - Celebrating Spring Equinox - Opening to Receive" in my Mixcloud account FreeSpiritDance which you can listen to for free on Mixcloud. Here are my show notes. Enjoy and Happy Springtime!!
Deep bow to the medicine of the Spring,
Katherine

This playlist is dedicated to the celebration of Spring Equinox, where for thousands of years we gather in dance to honor the earth’s awakening into renewal, rejuvenation and creativity. It is also a time for spring cleaning, where we clear the old debris to create space for the new. We begin our movement journey with a gentle release including loving touch to brush and cleanse the body in an energetic sweep, and add the voice and breath with the repetition of mantras for release. We continue our movement journey with the orientation of Opening to cleanse and release layers of stagnation while tending to the elements of the body, invoking earth, water, fire and air in the dance progression. After clearing space and tending to the body, we inquire through the dance what is here to receive.
This playlist was lovingly crafted for our CT Conscious Movement journey on March 16, 2024. For more information and to join us in person for our weekly dance visit www.CTConsciousMovement.com

https://www.mixcloud.com/freespiritdance/ct-conscious-movement-celebrating-spring-equinox-opening-to-receive/

This playlist is dedicated to the celebration of Spring Equinox, where for thousands of years we gather in dance to honor the earth’s awakening into renewal, rejuvenation and creativity. It is also a time for spring cleaning, where we clear the old debris to create space for the new. We begin our ...

03/16/2024

“This Spring Equinox portal has been celebrated for thousands of years as a time of heightened potency where the rejuvenation, creativity and healing power of the Living Goddess is especially accessible to us.” Chameli Ardagh
There's still time to join us at 10am this morning for a Celebration of this Spring Equinox season!
One of our focuses will be on a Spring Cleanse through our dance journey!
I am so excited for the musical spiral I have crafted for our movement practice.
Come join us for your flavor of spring cleaning through movement - whether it is dynamic, gentle, energetic, or physical, in this spring cleaning with our dance we will let go, open, release, and create space for what is here to receive!
Get all the details at our website in link below!
Can't wait to dance with you this morning!
xo
Katherine

03/15/2024

Who's ready for a Spring Cleanse of the Body with Dance? Join me Saturday morning for a dance wave ~ Opening to Receive!

03/09/2024

There is still time to join us this morning 10-11:30 for my dance offering "Opening Possibilities" to attune with this season of little seeds awakening from the earth. I will guide you on an embodied journey to connect with the seed of life at the center of your being, and we will slowly add breath, feel the vibrations, add water, some heat, some shaking, and awaken what is true in your body. With the somatic cues of Centering, Opening and Expanding we will notice what is alive in the body that is ready to be expressed and moved. The process of Centering is itself a movement meditation that we will explore, and then Centering will become an internal anchor point from which we start to open and expand and connect with our environment. This movement practice supports the capacity to navigate your life, connecting through the body to open possibilities. I hope you will join me!

01/10/2024

A fresh page in 2024! We look forward to dancing into the New Year with you on Saturday, January 13 for a Free Community Dance to Celebrate the One Year Birthday of this amazing dance community!
We believe that New Years is a fresh turn of the page without pressure — no resolutions are needed! However, your inner knowing, your embodied intelligence always holds guidance for you when you take time to listen through the dance.
This Saturday we invite you into a nourishing field of moving together, where we will listen inside to what is present in the CENTER, connect to that inner wisdom, and allow the body to express what is here as we EXPAND into the dreams of the new year!
We welcome you for FREE so simply show up 5-10 minutes before 10 am! Can’t wait to see you on the dance floor!
Newcomers welcome. Every body welcome.
💗Lisa & Katherine

Here are a few photos from our first location one year ago at Bela Vida in Avon, CT to our current location at the West Avon Congregational Church Fellowship Hall at 280 Country Club Road in Avon which is a gorgeous sunny space.

If you haven't joined us yet... here's your invitation to come for free.

10/17/2023

Join us this Saturday 10/21 for our first workshop!!
Reclaiming Your Inner Compass!
It's going to be an amazing movement and somatic journey!
Hope to see you there!! Katherine & Lisa

01/31/2023

Hey free spirits, I'm loving our new weekly Saturday morning conscious movement gatherings in Avon, CT . The community momentum is growing and the nourishing and celebratory vibe is palpable. Check out our website www.CTConsciousMovement.com for details and our IG handle
If you want to check out the music playlists you can listen for free at my FreeSpiritDance Mixcloud account https://www.mixcloud.com/freespiritdance/.
Enjoy and I hope to get to dance together soon!

01/28/2023

Join me today! Let's dance!