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Twilight in the new office.

All settled in.

Ready for you!

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The most special testimonial from @bridgetshawnart. I love how they use their drawings to illustrate body experiences that exist beyond words. 🤍

You can find out more about craniosacral therapy and the bodywork I offer on my website.

And if you’re a client, I could use some Google reviews—if you feel inclined to give me all the stars 💫 More people have been finding me through internet searches lately, so I figure that would be a good thing to have! Search Body Swells Craniosacral & Massage on Google Maps and you should find me. 👐

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#bellinghammassage #bellinghamcraniosacral #craniosacraltherapy by @bodyswells

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a year ago

🪨🌊Groundswells begins this week! Drop-ins are welcome. Sign up online for a single class or 4-classes to receive discount options. Bring a notebook and curiosity!

Groundswells - Rotating Topics for Emergent Dance
Tuesdays 7:00 - 8:30 PM
at the dojo
Starts February 3rd, ends TBD

💡🕯️Module 1 - Intelligence - that which cannot be artificial

🐚 Through dance improvisation, multi-media sensory experiments, and conversation, we’ll allow our minds to permeate our bodies and the space between us and all beings.

🕸️ Inspired by the more-than-human world—animals, plants, fungi &&—we’ll reclaim our ways of thinking from mechanical, industrial, and algorithmic structures. We’ll draw new lines for the boundaries of our minds and redefine intelligence.

Some experience in any type of dance improvisation is recommended.

Not a heady person? Looking for an outlet for existential concerns? Feel stuck in your head? Confused about what this is but want structures for movement improvisation?
This space welcomes you. by @bodyswells

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9 months ago

Our teacher spotlight of the day is the amazing Soleil Chappelle!! They are teaching a beginner/all levels foundations in contemporary dance for our community Unity in Motion - A Bellingham Dance Festival. Visit www.bellyham.com/unityinmotion for the full schedule. @bodyswells @swellssoleil @cofy.wa @dvsaswc #unityindancefordvsas #bellingham #bellinghamdance #communitylove #bellinghamsters by @bodyswells

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Groundswells is a new class exploring rotating topics for emergent dance. First up, we will be exploring intelligence through improvisation, reflection, and connection.

I’m sharing myself speaking unscripted and unedited to embody that we can discuss intelligence without our words being perfect. I use grammar loosely. My ideas run into each other, sometimes tangling, sometimes resonating.

It’s been 10 years since I received a masters in philosophy and I still struggle with how I relate to intelligence. I don’t feel that intelligence is something I possess, but it’s something that I participate in and collaborate with alongside all the beings that surround and flow through me.

If you feel called, please come as you are to join this wide and meandering exploration of intelligence. In person. In body. Because this moment calls for us to be reflective and engaged in body, mind, and collaboration.

Groundswells - Rotating Topics for Emergent Dance
Tuesdays 7-8:30pm
Aikido Peace Education Center (dojo)
Starts February 3rd, ends TBD
drop-ins welcome
Sign up online by @bodyswells

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〰️🔔 New class! 🔔〰️
Groundswells - Rotating Topics for Emergent Dance
with Soleil Chappelle 🌊🕳️🪨

Tuesdays 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Aikido Peace Education Center
Starts February 3rd 2026
drop-ins welcome

Module 1 - Intelligence - that which cannot be artificial

Through dance improvisation, multi-media sensory experiments, and conversation, we’ll allow our minds to permeate our bodies and the space between us and all beings.

Inspired by the more-than-human world—animals, plants, fungi &&—we’ll reclaim our ways of thinking from mechanical, industrial, and algorithmic structures. We’ll draw new lines for the boundaries of our minds and redefine intelligence.

Some experience in any type of dance improvisation is recommended.

Not a heady person? Looking for an outlet for existential concerns? Feel stuck in your head? Confused about what this is but want structures for movement improvisation?
This space welcomes you.

Sign up at bodyswells.com/classes
Or bhamrep.org/classes by @bodyswells

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January foundDANCE with Soleil (@bodyswells) starts tomorrow! 🎉

This foundDANCE series runs January 7th - 28th,
Wednesdays 6:30 - 8:00 PM at the
Aikido Peace Education Center | 1101 N State St Bellingham

The series format is designed for beginners to comfortably learn new skills and a movement phrase over the course of the month. Register for the month long series now!

Experienced dancers may choose to drop-in to any class with awareness that new material is introduced in week 1 and built on during the following 3 classes.

More info and registration can be found in our bio! 🌀 by @bodyswells

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Groove with Soleil (@bodyswells) from November into December!

🍃 foundDANCE is a beginner/all levels contemporary dance class—which means it is for: those who are new to dance, new to contemporary dance, returning to dance after a long time, and anyone looking for a class that prioritizes the joy of movement in a welcoming environment. Registration is open now!
- 4 Week Series: Nov 5 & 19, Dec 3 & 10

🍂 interDANCE is intermediate contemporary dance technique, improvisation, somatics, and performance training. It is designed to take the skills learned in foundDANCE to the next level and to slow down advanced movement pathways. Open to all, but previous experience in any dance form is strongly encouraged. Register for the full 4 week series now — or drop-in at any time!
- 4 Week Series: Nov 4 & 18, Dec 2 & 9

More information and registration are available at bhamrep.org or through the link in our bio under Weekly Dance Classes! by @bodyswells

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Spontaneously decided to do something a little different this week.

I enjoy leading a good dance trance (guided, durational improvisation, sometimes with moments of choreography). Often they have intentions we’re holding, so this time they will be with the themes of the season—honoring ancestors and the thinning veil.

Come for an experimental, slightly woo, lil bit spooky good time!!

foundDANCE Beyond the Veil
Halloween/Samhain themed all-levels contemporary dance & improvisation trance
Wednesday, October 29th 6:30-8pm
At the Aikido Peace Education Center
$20 Drop-in Cash or Card by @bodyswells

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Did you know that you can register for a whole month of interDANCE with Soleil (@bodyswells)? While interDANCE welcomes drop-ins, there are some benefits to signing up for a full month series… ✨

Reasons to sign up for interDANCE as a series:
1. You have a container like foundDANCE to build new skills over the course of the month!

2. You can choose the discounted rate for the low low price of $15/class! And if you need more of a discount, all you have to do is ask.

3. You reap all the mental and physical health benefits of committing to dancing every week! 🌀

The October interDANCE series starts tomorrow - sign up through the classes page on our website now! by @bodyswells

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UNTETHERED - Falling (up) with somatic awareness, technique, and improvisation.

With Carmen Serber and Soleil Chappelle
This coming Saturday, October 4th 1-5:30pm
At the Aikido Peace Education Center

🍂 Head, eyes, throat, heart, diaphragm, solar plexus, pelvis, limbs and feet. We dance the relationship to gravity, allowing all those parts of us to fall separately, together and sequentially. Nuanced organization of tone, incremental fall, gigantic fall. Falling in love. Falling as a continuous source of creating motion – a felt sense of body falling through space as dancing. Untethered. One fall becomes the seed of the next. Our senses turned inward and outward. We move at the speed of trust falling together as a community of dancers.

Sign up at bodyswells.com/classes by @bodyswells

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October foundDANCE starts this week! 🍂

foundDANCE is a beginner/all levels contemporary dance class—which means it is for: those who are new to dance, new to contemporary dance, returning to dance after a long time, and anyone looking for a class that prioritizes the joy of movement in a welcoming environment.

The October series is on Wednesday 10/1, 10/8, 10/15, and 10/22 from 6:30-8pm at the
Aikido Peace Education Center

More info and registration for the month can be found through the link in our bio! by @bodyswells

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