Movement and Mutual Systems
I have been paying close attention to the systems I’m part of. I’m noticing where energy leaks out, where old habits like urgency, dependency, fear, often still shape my days and relationships. I’m noticing what feels alive. Small shifts, conversations, the subtle strength of a nervous system coming back online.
I’ve been thinking about attunement as a practice. Tuning to what’s happening in my own body. Tuning to what’s needed in a group, a project, a moment. Tuning to the larger economic, ecological, relational shifts unfolding around us. There’s a lot that’s unclear right now. Attunement, for me, also means noticing the felt sense of time. How to measure the sensation of the whole planet with the pace of a day, and the slowness of time when it comes to building trust, to organize, to change the course of culture.
I’m in a season of reimagining the structures I work within and for. I want systems that feel human and spacious. I want to build things that support care—not extract labor or talent. I want money to circulate with intention. I want rigor and effort towards a better plan. I want to work with people who are asking similar questions about sustainability, mutuality, and how we stay resourced without burning out.
Consider this a ringing of the tuning fork, a quiet call for those who are thinking in the same systems, or can expand my own thinking to new evolutions and iterations of the questions I'm asking. If any of what I’m naming resonates, write to me. Even a simple exchange can be generative. I’m craving collaboration, and shared devoted time to being curious about resourcing artists and practice and this kind of thinking, as a forethought, not a sideline.
More and more, I come into a renewed understanding that the felt sense of my body is in direct relationship with the earth and environment around me. To feel my spine. To look at a tree. To be looked at by a tree. And to feel the just how sovereign each individual cell in nature truly is.
I see large-scale regenerative projects that include eco-somatic frameworks, but what I long for is the art inside it all. The work that people make, of themselves and this life. I want art present in the regenerative revolution and woven into how we tend to the planet and to one another.
I want to experience distributed leadership, mutual responsibility, and collective building toward a livable future. And I want to be, even in the smallest way, a part of supporting the not-so-simple act of helping each other feel the experience of being in a body.
Big ideas. Daily practice. They often feel worlds apart, and I’m convinced that shifting how I am with the world is part of how the world changes. I’m heartbroken by how often these conversations are kept separate. If there’s a world where artistic, somatic, ecological, regenerative, distributed, community-building efforts are already converging, particularly in the NC southern region, but also yes, global. Please point me toward it. I want to learn how to be a part of this movement. And if you want to have even one conversation about any of this, I’m here.
I believe this work begins with a commitment to iteration and practice. A willingness to come together, in the smallest of ways, to be in nature and to organize with and within each other.
Here’s what I’m offering this month:
All of these offerings have an undertone of ecological, political somatic practice and are about tuning in, softening patterns of urgency, and moving from within. Open to all bodies.
RSVP Required by accepting the Google Invitation. Limited space for each session (except virtual)
Subtle Strength: A virtual movement class exploring the quiet power of being in a body. Through slow, sustained attention and gentle, strength building motion, we build physical and nervous system resilience. This practice supports clarity, presence, and a deeper relationship with sensation, gravity, and self.
Tuesdays 9:00 am Virtual (Link in RSVP)
$20 or Pay what you can
Porch Class: is a gathering that begins with Subtle Strength—a somatic movement practice to ground and attune the body—followed by open conversation about community care, ecology, personal practice and embodiment. We meet outside, in fresh air, to move, reflect, and be together in real time. In the case of rain we will be inside.
Wednesday June 11 11:00am - 1:00pm (BYO Lunch) limited space
$40 or Pay what you can
Research Group: space to explore shared questions and try out improvised scores around body, system, and story - facilitated and open. Please email me directly, if you wish to hear more and/or join please write to me directly at anna.maynard@gmail.com. There is limited space for this practice.
Friday June 13 in Mebane
No Cost, very limited space and specific in tone. Please only inquire if you are interested in being present to the practice by making time for it and potentially committing to ongoing work.
Regenerative Arts Community Practice and Conversation : a conversation on resource sharing and redesigning how we sustain creative work
Sunday June 22nd in Mebane
No cost- RSVP by accepting Google invitation - More information will be shared upon committing to attending.
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Address will be posted on the Google invitation the day before the event.
Times are ideally set, but an are subject to change based on response
Events in Mebane are limited in capacity to start.
If you wish to join there will be a large dog in attendance who barks on arrival and at the occasional “threat”. He is friendly, and very very large. No other dogs allowed (unless we are already familiar).
If you have a fear of dogs, and really wish to join, message me directly.
If any group gets larger than 5 then an event will happen in a nearby location.
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If you want to receive information about wider Dancing events and opportunities join:
If you want to join a Signal chat where more information about dates and location and other moving events will be shared
I am booking for the rest of 2025
Please fill out any form of interest and I will get back to you in 3-5 business days.
I am continueing to work with small independent artists, small orgs, small business owners in communicating who you are and what you do to the world. Either through the form of a new website, mapping out your work and honing in on what you do and what your message is, and or crafting honest and beautiful images that reflect who you actually are.
Please please. Take a moment to look at my work, and if you have been thinking about getting photos or a website. Do it, do it, do it. I want to schedule out through the end of the year, so if you want to make a plan for building a site in the coming months. I will make the process so easy for you. And please share with your friend.
Web Design
Simple, soulful Squarespace builds for artists, organizers, and independent small businesses.
Book now for work in September, October, Novemeber
Photography
Portrait, process documentation, performance, family portraits, beginning of life, the virtuous and end of life moments. I live in North Carolina year-round and will travel a reasonable driving distance.
Massachusetts Fam: If I can book enough shoots I will come to Massachusetts for a stint → July 8–28 (ish).
Communications Consulting
If you want support distilling and mapping the feeling, message, and visual through-line of your project and integrating this into communication strategies.
I work privately with clients - message me for more information about this.
Subtle Strength: Embodiment Practice
An ongoing class and personal practice (private and group) in attunement, breath, and felt sense.
Subtle Strength is a practice of deepening into the experience of being in a body—rebuilding nervous system capacity, peripheral awareness, and physical relationship with the planet.
Email me for more info or schedule a private session
Please share my work with a friend.
Thank you for being in my world.
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Melissa Faliveno
Body Storm at Culture Mill
