Hi, I’m Megan! 👋🏻

Dancer

Feeler

Artist

Obsessed with the ritual of movement.

Ever since I broke my neck in high school, I've been obsessed with experiential anatomy - learning not just how our bodies move but how to feel how our bodies move. The more obsessed I got, the more I learned, the more awe and wonder I felt for the natural world that is the human body.

For years after that injury, all I could feel was the pain and protection. Now, I can feel my vertebrae stacked on top of each other. I can feel the tendons between them providing guardrails for movement. I can imagine the discs squishing and releasing like a sponge. And I can wonder at the life force that moves from my brain through my spinal cord, pulsing, communicating, traveling beneath it all.

When I turn wonder back on, in this way, my nervous system moves from survival and protection and into play and pleasure. When I can feel my structures in this way, I have agency over how I move them, finding both mobility and safety.

Our bodies are our first site of nature. They are water, dirt, fire and air. They have everything to teach us about the earth and our universe and the ways that matter and spirit organize and move themselves. Learning to feel our anatomy, its shapes and patterns, and how it moves as we move allows us to move not just with empowerment, but building worlds we believe in, worlds we feel good inside of.

I started Movement Connections in 2022

I am constantly learning more about what I meant when I put those two words together.

Here’s the thing….

We are more and more isolated. We are more and more sedentary.

We are, collectively, at risk for forgetting the point of movement.

Yes, it’s for health. Yes, it’s for longevity.

AND.

To exist is to move, ya’ll.

Atoms move. DNA moves. Cells move. Your breath moves. Nature moves.

Humans have been moving their bodies to connect with themselves, each other, and the world around them since the dawning of our kind. We move for utility (get the work done, tend to the land the community) and for expression (ritual, emoting, art).

When we move we clear the cobwebs. We remember who we are. We discover new possibilities for how we move through the world. We find our strength, our clarity, our grief and our hope. We are a part of something larger.

We move, and we connect.

Not just physical fitness, physical presence

Movement Connections.