To my beloved EM Community, This is the time of year and moment when I always feel called upon to communicate with you and speak from my heart to yours. This is the year I turned 75. I am in awe of the incredible richness of my life, the terrains I have traveled with all …
I am grateful to be here today with all of you, and congratulations to the Roeper Class of 2024. I want to talk about love, not as a platitude or nice lyrics in a pop song—rather, as the most important and powerful strategy for leading a meaningful, healthy, and satisfying life. Our hearts can be …
Dear beloved EM Community, This morning I woke up with the question: “What am I taking for granted?” In that moment, I became aware of the sensation of the sun on my face and the warmth of the bed covers over my body. I began to write in my journal and my awareness expanded to …
As we approach the end of the year, I am writing to you with appreciation for my beloved Essential Motion community. I am reflecting on the evolution of Essential Motion over the last 30 years and the contributions that so many of you have made to the growth of the work. Your involvement in this important practice of Essential Motion …
Your Aging Body is a Great Read by Pat Samples “For too long, the bodies of the old have been the subject of despair and ridicule. Even with the recent push for “healthy aging,” older bodies have become the object of anti-aging toning and tucking campaigns. But what if our bodies were regarded as treasure …
Oncology Massage Healing Summit For two mornings in April, Stacey Schultz taught EM at 6am at the 2018 Oncology Massage Healing Summit to 38 different people who “experienced the joy of allowing their bodies to move them.” She writes: “And my heart, my heart is so full!” EM Embodied Awareness at Roeper School To support Roeper …
Mirroring I would like to share this writing, as it reflects so much of what Essential Motion creates and supports… “We must be liberated from ourselves, which is done by somehow becoming the other…. a state of visceral, emotional, intimate communion; a tender recognition of oneness…a communion in each other, as each other, through …
Expanding Our EM Partnerships One of the most exciting developments this year has been the expansion of our EM partnerships. Karen and Jane We, Karen Roeper and Jane Flint, have been collaborating with one another for close to thirty years. Together we created the Eyes of the Beholder workshops and offered them for a decade between …
Home in the Body in Finland Imagine 80 people all moving with freedom and joy in a huge gymnasium to the gentle guidance of Karen Roeper’s intuitive coaching for two hours. Somehow the language barriers didn’t intrude, inhibitions were soon laid aside, and by the end connections had been made between people of all stripes, …
