Karin Stevens
City: SEATTLE
State: WA
Languages: English
Personalized Affiliation: Interfaith
Spiritual Spheres: Christianity, Eco/Nature-based, Interfaith, Interspiritual, Islam, Taoism
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Email: [email protected]
Phone: 2064915546
Website: https://www.karinstevensdance.com/move-with-karin
Focus Area: Creative Arts, Ecospirituality/Nature-based, Embodiment, Mental Health/Depression, Mindfulness/Meditation, Non-Traditional Healing
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Profile: Live Embodied!
Karin Stevens offers somatic healing & spiritual companionship through The Art & Practice of Movement, Hakomi with Internal Family Systems, and Sufi Spiritual Healing. For ten year she has been assisting others on their own evolutionary and healing journeys through embodied, mindful movement in individual and group sessions. With over 25 years in embodied movement and inter-faith spiritual practices she brings robust wisdom and deep sensitivity to the needs of every unique session. As a Seattle based choreographer and dance artist she believes in the power of movement to bring us back into health and spiritual ecology within ourselves, with each other, and through our natural and built environments.
In spite of being a life-long vocational dancer, Karin had to learn to move in new ways to overcome her personal pain and challenges. She believes that if every individual began this same journey back into the body, each one of us will become a great force for collective healing and transformation.
Karin has extensive experience with transforming anxiety and depression, self-worth, grief and fear, and finding one’s voice, sense of purpose and true self. Her work with individuals and groups is gentle, slow, client-led, loving and trauma informed. Physical pain and illness are also doorways toward personal transformation. Working with Karin is a great compliment to physical therapy, medical treatment and mental health therapy. Most often the result from sessions is increasing freedom, joy, and an ecstatic, spacious, easeful sense of Self!
The three modalities incorporated into sessions:
Hakomi with Internal Family Systems
Client-led, Loving Presence, Body-mind Holism
The body holds internalized beliefs and thought patterns that have become unconscious. Assisted self-observation through safe, gentle practices and ways of being evoke innate impulses toward self-discovery, personal growth and healing.
The Art & Practice of Movement
Accessible, Stress-relieving, Transformational
For any level of movement ability, to listen for impulses that arise within, relieving habitual patterns while simultaneously playing with new patterns of movement to inspire our potential to craft a healthier life. Accessing embodied knowing to become more attuned to thoughts, emotions, sensations, and bodily responses as a portal to new possibilities.
Sufi Spiritual Healing
Freedom, Peace, Compassion
A pathway through the heart center to reconnect the isolated parts of ourselves back into greater, loving wholeness. Learning that life is an evolutionary process of trust and uncovering our true self.
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. “- Rumi, 13th Century Sufi Mystic
Through her dance company, Karin Stevens Dance (2009-present), she creates imaginative, visionary, collaborative, immersive performer and audience experiences at the interchange of movement, art, ecology and social issues. She believes we must commune, collaborate and converse through movement, sound and ideas for an equitable and sustainable future for all.
