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Paige Nelson | Embodied Movement Guide

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Student of the Universe 𓂀
ॐ Somatic Embodiment & Dance
🕊️Guiding women into connection through the Sacred Motion of their body
🌀Doula @embodyyourbirth

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Welcome to ✺ Embody Your Birth ✺

A space devoted to supporting women through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum in a way that is grounded, embodied, and deeply connected.

I’m Paige, a full-spectrum doula and somatic guide, here to walk with women through one of the most raw, powerful, and life-altering thresholds a woman can move through.

In many ways, I’ve been walking toward this work for a long time.

𓆃 Through years of dance and somatic movement, I’ve learned how to listen to the body, feel what’s present, and build trust in its wisdom.

𓆃 Through guiding women, I’ve supported them in reconnecting with themselves and their inner knowing.

𓆃 Through working closely with children and tending to the next generation, I’ve learned to be with life as it is, instinctual, expressive, and always changing.

𓆃 And through being deeply in community with mothers, I’ve supported and witnessed them through the many layers of their motherhood journey.

All of it has been quietly leading me here.

I meet this work with reverence 🙏🏻

With a deep respect for what it means to walk alongside a woman through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, and for the responsibility of being someone she allows into that space.

I am at the beginning of this path as a birthworker.
And I am also deeply rooted in the work of the body.

There is a humility I carry, and also a grounded trust in what I bring.

What I feel deeply grounded in is how to be with the body.

How to stay.
How to listen.
How to attune to what is happening beneath the surface.
How to support someone in staying connected to themselves, especially in moments that feel intense, unfamiliar, or vulnerable.

Movement is a part of my language, but this work is not just about movement.

It’s about presence.

🌀 Being there with you, fully, as you move through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

🌀 Supporting you as a whole person, physically, emotionally, and practically.

Embody Your Birth is just beginning, and I’m allowing it to unfold with trust, depth, and devotion.

If you’re here, it’s not by accident 🕊️

Welcome home 🤎
to your body,
to your instincts,
and to the part of you that already knows 🫶🏻 taken in Topanga, California by @paigenelsonwellness

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6 months ago

Something is stirring in Topanga. 🌿🦋

The Earth is turning toward the light, and we are gathering to meet her.
We are excited to invite you to the 4th Annual Mother Earth Celebration, taking place on April 26th from 12 to 7pm in Topanga.

A full day of live music, community dance and performances, elder wisdom, bees & butterflies, ecological action, intuition, and the deep geological story of the land beneath our feet. For all ages. For all of us.

This is a place where there is no us and them. Where everyone belongs. Where the seeds of love, of wonder, of care for the next generations we carry find soil, sunlight, and each other.🌱

Come as you are. Bring your children. Bring your elders. Bring your whole heart.

🔗 RSVP at the link in bio → sacredseed.foundation/MEC2026

Presented by Sacred Seed · Supported by The Love School
#MotherEarthCelebration #Topanga #SpringGathering #NatureConnection #AllAgesWelcome by @paigenelsonwellness

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6 months ago

✨ Sacred Motion: Reclaim Dance as Ritual

This is more than a movement class.
It’s a reclamation.
An invitation to return to your body’s truth and remember dance as sacred ritual.

Sacred Motion is a space for women to gather in circle, speak honestly, and move with intention.
A space to root into your knowing, awaken what lives within, and remember the body as a vessel of expression and prayer.
To move without apology.
To be seen, felt, and held.
To come home to yourself.

🌿 Each gathering weaves together:
✨ Circle & Sharing — a chance to connect, witness, and be witnessed in a grounded, supportive space
✨ Guided Somatic Movement — breath-led exploration of sensation, rhythm, and inner landscape
✨ Choreographic Play — expressive prompts and simple sequences to shape your story in motion and reclaim creative freedom

We move as a form of devotion.
We gather not to perform, but to remember.
Together, we make ritual through rhythm.

✨ First Class:
🗓 Thursday, July 17th
🕰 6:30–8:30 pm
📍 Butterfly Mountain Retreat, Topanga Canyon
💰 Exchange: $22

🌸 Link in bio to RSVP 🌸

#sacredmotion #danceasritual #somaticmovement #womenwhomove #movementasprayer #topangaevents #embodieddance #sisterhoodcircle #creativeexpression #intentionalmovement #bodywisdom #ritualinmotion #dancemedicine #returntoyourbody taken in Topanga, California by @paigenelsonwellness

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a year ago

Honoring the growing call to gather as women 🌙

Sisters of Los Angeles we will be under the oaks in Topanga Canyon if you feel the call please join…

Tue 10/20
7-9p
Creative Expression Circle
Dance ~ Voice ~ Song ~ Somatics

Led by :
@kendalwhite
@paigenelsonwellness
@themakdaddy

📍 @wildwoodyog

🔗 in bio by @paigenelsonwellness

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Join @paigenelsonwellness for Sacred Motion - The Art of Letting Go on October 18th 3 - 5.30

The Art of Letting Go

A 2.5-Hour Somatic Movement Journey for Women

As we move deeper into Autumn, nature reminds us of the beauty and necessity of letting go. Just as the trees release their leaves, we too are invited to explore what it means to soften, surrender, and make space for what is emerging.

The Art of Letting Go is an invitation to explore our relationship with holding and releasing through the wisdom of the body. Where do we grip, resist, or brace ourselves? What happens when we soften our hold, surrender to gravity, and allow movement to unfold beyond our control?

Sign up in the bio 🤍 taken in Topanga, California by @paigenelsonwellness

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8 days ago

Sacred Motion - Returning to Center
Tomorrow Sep 27th 3 - 5.30 with @paigenelsonwellness

A 2.5-Hour Autumn Equinox Somatic Movement Journey for Women

So many of us move through life in our bodies without fully experiencing what it means to live deeply inside them; to feel, listen, inhabit, and be present within ourselves.

Sacred Motion is an invitation to return to the body with curiosity, as though discovering movement within ourselves for the first time. Through intuitive movement, breath, somatic exploration, partnered practice, and authentic connection, we slow down enough to listen to the body’s wisdom while opening new pathways for movement, sensation, and expression. As we soften the layers of habit and expectation, we create space for greater possibility, aliveness, and more of our true, full expression to emerge.

Inspired by the Autumn Equinox, a threshold of balance and seasonal turning, Returning to Center invites us to come home to our own center while remaining open to movement, change, and connection.

Over 2.5 hours, we’ll journey from self into relationship through somatic exploration & free-form movement, extended partner practices, witnessing, and shared movement. Together, we’ll explore grounding and expansion, giving and receiving, individuality and togetherness; discovering balance not as something static, but as a living practice of listening, responding, and returning.

We’ll close with spacious time for integration, reflection, and connection, honoring what we’re ready to carry into the season ahead.

Sacred Motion welcomes women of all ages and seasons of life, including pregnancy, motherhood, and beyond. No dance or movement experience is necessary. This is not about how movement looks, but how deeply we are willing to inhabit, listen to, and experience ourselves from within.

Photo from Paige’s choreographed dance performed at @sacredseedfoundation Earth Day Celebration taken in Topanga, California by @paigenelsonwellness

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22 days ago

Sacred Motion : Returning to Center

A 2.5-Hour Autumn Equinox Somatic Movement Journey for Women

Sacred Motion is an invitation to return to the body with curiosity, as though discovering movement within ourselves for the first time. Through intuitive movement, breath, somatic exploration, partnered practice, and authentic connection, we slow down enough to listen to the body’s wisdom while opening new pathways for movement, sensation, and expression. As we soften the layers of habit and expectation, we create space for greater possibility, aliveness, and more of our true, full expression to emerge.

Paige Nelson is a choreographer, professional dancer, somatic movement facilitator, and founder of Sacred Motion, devoted to guiding people back to the innate wisdom of the body; where movement becomes a living pathway to creativity, connection, and transformation. At the heart of her work is a deep reverence for community and the creation of warm, welcoming spaces where people can gather, move, and remember their shared humanity.

Find out and sign up in bio ! taken in Topanga, California by @paigenelsonwellness

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a month ago

AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺🌿

What began as an invitation for Gabriel to share his music for SOL Elements’ one-year anniversary also opened the door for us to facilitate a collaborative experience together, weaving live music + movement.

From there, we kept going…

We swam, hiked, dove, played music, shared movement, rode scooters, changed plans more than we liked, got frustrated, laughed a lot + learned how to move through the unknown together.

This trip was different than we imagined. Maybe that was part of the gift.

We learned about surrendering expectations, but even more, about each other. Being far from home showed us new layers of one another. We came home understanding each other more deeply, feeling more connected, and somehow liking + loving each other more than ever 🫶🏻

Some of our most meaningful days were spent on Country with our Kuku Yalanji guides, learning about Dreamtime, songlines, Country, colonization, resilience + their journeys of reconnecting with the land and culture of their ancestors.

We came away with a remembrance:

We are not separate from the land, animals, plants or spirit. We are not separate from each other. We are all related.

How do we live fully in this modern world while staying connected to earth, spirit, community, ourselves + one another? How do we let what we learn become embodied, rather than simply another beautiful experience?

We’re coming home without neat answers, but very full. Full of gratitude, questions, reverence, stories + a deeper appreciation for being alive and experiencing it all together.

Thank you @sol_elements for inviting + hosting us and creating the opportunity that brought us across the world; @cassandracarlopio for sharing a glimpse into your life with us; our new friends @jesselethbridgedidgeridoo + @artnspirit__ for the connection + moments shared; and Levi, Josh + CJ of @bamabubuculturaltours for welcoming us onto Country + generously sharing your stories, knowledge, culture + hearts. 🤎

We have a feeling this trip will continue to shape us in ways we don’t yet understand. We’re excited to keep listening, integrating + allowing it to move through our lives, art + whatever comes next 🌿🌊 by @paigenelsonwellness

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There isn’t one right way to move through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum 🌀

But there is a way to stay connected to yourself inside of it 🙏🏻🫶🏻

To feel what’s happening. To trust your body. To have support as you move through something that asks a lot of you.

This is the kind of space I hold 💗

If you feel resonance here, you don’t have to figure it out alone.

If you’re pregnant, postpartum, or simply feeling curious about this work, I’d love to connect 🌸 by @paigenelsonwellness

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5 months ago

The Story of Mother Earth Celebration
 Chapter 1: The Children

Children are the heart of this work.

At Mother Earth Celebration, they are not on the sidelines. They are in the circle, dancing, listening, watching, learning, being held.

Sacred Seed Foundation and The Love School exist to help protect and nurture spaces where children can grow close to the land, close to their elders, close to beauty, and close to themselves.

This is the center of our intention.

Photos by Ayni / @artofayni  Mother Earth Celebration 2026 at @ourbutterflymountain by @paigenelsonwellness

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5 months ago

A couple of weeks ago, we gathered for the 4th annual Mother Earth Celebration, and what we experienced together was truly something rare and beautiful, a living expression of community, devotion, and love for this Earth and for one another.

You brought your energy, your children, your magic and your whole selves. You climbed the mountain and let it hold you. And what stayed with us most is that sense of one family.

That is what it felt like. 🌿

To every artist, wisdom keeper, musician, volunteer, helping hand, and participant - you co-created a field that we all could feel. Butterfly Mountain was alive because of you.

Special gratitude to @ourbutterflymountain for hosting this event on your magical land 🪄🙏

Thank you, all, from the bottom of our hearts. 🌍✨

See you next year!

🎥 Film by Zach @zslate
🎬 Creative direction by Ayni @unisonofilms
🎶 Music by @gabrielloganbraun & @auralponic - Wildfire

#MotherEarthCelebration #Topanga #Nature #Community taken in Topanga Canyon by @paigenelsonwellness

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✨ EMBODY YOUR BIRTH PHILOSOPHY ✨

This is the lens I hold around pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

Not something to control or push through…
but something to be inside of.

They are not separate experiences,
but one continuous threshold.

A deepening relationship with the body.
A softening into trust.
A remembering deep inside 🫶🏻🙏🏻🌀 taken in Topanga, California by @paigenelsonwellness

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