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“I CURIOUSLY ENGAGE WITH MY INNER AND OUTER NATURE THROUGH ART + MOVEMENT TO DEEPEN MY DIALOGUE WITH THE ELEMENTS & THE ANCIENT ONES." 

"IT IS MY DEEPEST ASPIRATION TO FACILITATE CONNECTION AND INTROSPECTION WITH THE MIND/BODY - TO RECONNECT WITH YOUR TRUE NATURE, YOUR UNIQUE GIFT."

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Kendra Adler, BMC® SME, is a multidisciplinary artist and somatic movement educator using movement to investigate the connection between the Earth and the human body. Her improvisational movement is a physical conversation between the element and herself, guiding her to discover the complexities of external and internal space. Through photography, film, ritual performance, movement, land art, and community workshops - she explores the subconscious, texture, tones, and the subtle sensations that arise within nature and human nature. Her work invites a remembrance of our connection to self and earth on a cellular level. An inquiry of the in-between, liminal places where these two facets dialogue with one another in various forms. An ongoing practice of listening, awakening and destroying. She has shared her art and performances in numerous venues including at Highways Performance for SOMAarts Fest and at the Human Resources Gallery in Los Angeles.

She is the founder and creator of a nature-centric somatic movement practice called Word As Movement. Her continued pursuit to deepen her awareness of the bridge between science and earth intuition, led her to become a certified Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Educator - an integrated and embodied approach to movement, the body and consciousness. She believes, within this meeting place, we can come together to discover one other in a new sensory state of awareness.

Over the past 4 years, Adler has been invested in embodied research to explore how the systems of the human body mirror and are in relationship to that of the Earth body. This has developed as a workshop and tool that she calls, "Embodying Processes of the Earth: an empathy building workshop". This practice attempts to explore how we can build empathy with the earth through embodied experience. Asking these questions: When we feel ourselves as a process of the earth (water cycle, volcano, flood) how can we can learn about our own being as well as the earth? And if have an embodied experience that bridges the disconnection between us and earth, what decisions do we make on behalf of ourselves, our communities, and our planet? She has shared her approach at the Nuova Atlantide residency in Bomarzo, Italy, with geology students at Pomona College, and her weekly Somatic Basics class at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, CA.

Her passion for embodied practice as creative practice has led her to curate community programming: “Portraits of Remembering: Evening of Embodied Films' as well as “Story Of The Stone: Sensorial Experience”, where she premiered her short film, “Story Of The Stone" alongside conversations with geologists, Chumash elders, and artists from other disciplines. She creates work to bring bodies, in their highest, together through this somatic remembrance process.