TO LOVE YOU MORE
An Open Floor Movement Lab w/ Kelsey Maloney
An exploration of honesty, polarity and relationship through dance, play, spoken and written story, ritual, and the art of paying attention.
Part One: Welcoming in the Monstrous
Sometimes we need a map. And sometimes we need to get fucking lost.
—Kate Shela, The 360 Emergence co-founder & facilitator
In TO LOVE YOU MORE, we’ll do both. We’ll choreograph a holding container with waypoints to a fertile ground of receptivity, curiosity, and attunement. This requires honesty, breath, dedication, a resistance to being pressured and yet the willingness to be surprised, to be changed. We’ll practice allowing the container to break away to see what’s there to follow in the cracks.
To remove veils of deception (those ways of keeping ourselves from our potency, power, and potential), we’ll invite in the monstrous. What Bayo Akomolafe calls “that which doesn’t fit in. The unfamiliar. The unrecognizable. The opening from worlds yet to be born. The messenger.”
That place, those places, both inside and outside of ourselves, where the unexpected lurks.
With reverence/irreverence, we’ll tend the territory between old and new stories, building our capacity to be with what is. To be with the charge of emotion, vulnerability, and what’s to come.
TO LOVE YOU MORE wasn’t the original name of this lab. But when I dreamed into the purpose, the WHY, of this particular body of work, TO LOVE YOU MORE was at the root of the inquiry.
To love yourself more. To love another more. To love this world more. To love the wild mystery more.
To love both that which holds you and all that is crumbling around you, more. Inspiration also comes from the book LEARNING TO LOVE YOU MORE by Harrell Fletcher & Miranda July.
Please note:
-There will be art, connection, and/or further learning invitations between labs.
-You will need a new/blank notebook for the group. One that you can write, draw, and paint in (for example, one with blank drawing or watercolor pages). It doesn’t have to be big. Small or medium sized is great... Any size you can carry around with you on a day to day basis is best!
-Some experience with conscious dance/embodiment practice* is recommended as a prerequisite to joining this movement lab.
*Open Floor, 5Rhythms, The 360 Emergence, Azul, Soul Motion, embodied grief work, breath work, etc.
DATES & TIMES:
Part One: Welcoming in the Monstrous
Thursdays February 6—April 3, 2025, 6:30-9pm
& Sunday March 16, 1:30pm-7:30pm
* The Sunday gathering includes a group potluck from 6:30-7:30pm
Part Two: Calling Forth Your Power
Spring 2025. More info. for part two coming soon. You are welcome to attend one or both parts of TO LOVE YOU MORE.
LOCATION:
Presence Studio, 1412 Cornwall Ave. Bellingham, WA 98225.
Please note: Presence Studio is only accessible by stairs. If you need assistance accessing the studio, please contact Kelsey.
PAYMENT DETAILS:
$445—$575 sliding scale
After registering, you will a receive an invoice with information for how to pay via check/credit card/or WECU transfer.
$526-$575: When I pay more, I am contributing to those in the community who can’t pay as much.
$500-$525: When I pay in the middle, I am helping the facilitators cover costs and support themselves.
$445-$499: When I pay less, I am letting my community hold and support me.
All payment levels are acceptable ways of participating!
2-part payment plan available for $287.50/payment:
First payment due upon registration. Second payment due by March 3, 2025.
3-part payment plan available for $191.67/payment:
First payment due upon registration. Second payment due by March 3, 2025. Third payment due by March 24, 2025.
PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT:
TO LOVE YOU MORE is a time for you and it is a time for us, as a collective. The intention is to create a container together where we are real and honest to our experience and also there to build cohesion and connection as a group.
Your attendance and participation are an important part of this exploration.
Barring any unforeseen circumstances or health concerns, please do your best to not miss more than TWO sessions and to arrive on time to each session.
If you know beforehand that you will miss more than two sessions, please contact Kelsey before registering.
Several days before the start of the lab, Kelsey will send an email out with the names of everyone in the group. If you notice a confidentiality conflict with someone in the group, please let Kelsey know as soon as possible.
CANCELLATION POLICY:
If you need to cancel before January 22, 2025 you will receive a refund minus a $75 administrative fee. After January 22, there are no refunds unless we are able to fill your spot. If we are able to fill your spot, you will receive a refund minus the $75 administrative fee. There are no refunds if you cannot continue with the group for any reason. Payment plan payments must be paid by March 24, even if you are unable to finish with the group.
If Kelsey needs to cancel a lab for any reason, there will be no refunds for one cancelled lab. If more than one lab is cancelled who can request a prorated refund for those labs cancelled.
WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID ABOUT PAST MOVEMENT LABS WITH KELSEY:
“It from the gods to be human, fully human in this space. I learned how to love myself and be brave here. I am refining my gifts each lab.” —Ave
“It’s rare for me to feel free to be open. Thanks for providing a safe space for that.” —Anonymous
“Kelsey is an amazing facilitator who models embodiment beautifully. I so appreciated [her] creativity, flexibility, and grace in facilitating this group. Thank you for meeting each of us in a way that helped us feel seen and welcomed.” —Kara
“My experience of Kelsey as a facilitator? Warm, open, safe, intuitive, inventive, invested, real, grounded, funny.” —Anonymous
“If you want to move your bones and inhabit your body and soul like never before, show up open and shameless. Delightful things might happen.” —Sara
“The reward for being willing to look inside yourself and bare it to the world is great.” —Curtis
“An amazing way to deepen your understanding of self and connect with others.” —Anonymous
“To walk into a room of strangers and feel at home is a rare experience, yet it is cultivated from the start in these groups. A space to move the way you’re called with room/literal space to do so is a gift and an experience I would recommend to all the people I know (and also those I don’t)!”
—Brook
"Fun. Fantastic. Freeing.” —Anonymous.
