Moving Dialogues Workshop with Kelly King
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Location: Private residence in Oakland's Upper Rockridge neighborhood. Address will be shared once you RSVP.
Buy One, Gift One. In the spirit of connection, we'd love for you to bring someone you think would benefit from this workshop! Purchase one 'Standard' ticket and select a second 'Buy 1 Gift 1' for free.
This is part of Kelly King's West Coast Book Tour for her debut book, Your Embodied Life: A Field Guide to Joy.
Tap into your own creativity, clarity, and happiness.
Moving Dialogues is a powerful way to come together, experience each other’s perspective, and create deeper meaning. Zero dance experience is expected—Moving Dialogues is for everyone and every body. Be prepared to: write, move your body, think, and play.
If the suggested donation amount is prohibitive to your participation, please reach out. emily[@]emilyarden[.]me
About Your Embodied Life
Movement and mindfulness combine to awaken joy, spark curiosity, and deepen people’s connection to themselves.
Your Embodied Life is a quick-start guide to cultivating daily joy through simple yet powerful mindfulness and movement practices. Part inspiration, part workbook, and part gentle invitation, it blends storytelling, research, and reflection to support real-life change.
With relatable anecdotes and easy-to-follow prompts, this guide offers a grounded entry point into mindfulness—whether through quick movement breaks, reflective writing, or full-body awareness practices.
Each chapter offers space to pause, breathe, wriggle, and integrate—encouraging a fuller, more joyful way to move through life.
Take a deep breath, wriggle, and begin.
Kelly King moves people and ideas. She works as an interdisciplinary artist and facilitator collaborating with businesses, schools, nonprofits, community groups, and individuals. Her essays appear on her Substack Embodied Life, A Good Little Girl Zine, and Bourgeon: Fifty Artists Write About Their Work. She is the CEO of The Movement Movement and artistic director of BodyWise Dance. Kelly lives with her people and pets in Washington, DC.
Books will be available for purchase.
This is part of a three day West Coast Book Tour stop in Oakland (July 10-12). View all events here: https://www.emilyarden.me/projects/kellykingbooktalk