Peony Somatic Dance with Christine Serfozo

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Peony Somatic Dance with Christine Serfozo

Building community, healing, and joy through breath-based movement play.

Classes online and at Heartfelt Yoga Studio, Columbus, OH (This page and my work is an AI-free zone)

04/08/2026

Sometimes two simple frames is all it takes to the see the authentic artistry of these moving bodies... (Movement artist/student: Liv, Columbus, OH)

04/07/2026

If you can: pet a cat/dog, stand outside with your face to the sun, take a slow walk (even just through your house), lie on the floor and roll around and stretch like an animal, eat your favorite food, listen to music. Life is extra frightening today. Take care of you. (For some humor: here’s Begonia thinking this was a good idea…)

04/06/2026

Movement Mantra Monday!

A lot of us were raised with this kind of equation: "Count your calories and figure out how much you need to move!" Neither is punishment or reward for the other. Movement and food are two types of nutrition we need for vitality and dynamic aging and JOY.

(These Movement Mantras are meant to provide you with a focus point for the week for your body/mind practices, whether you take it to your meditations or you dance with it upon your breath. You could journal the idea through the week and see how your thoughts/feelings evolve. Or use it for your phone's lock screen so you see it throughout the day. Play with it!)

04/03/2026

Nature and religions around the world are all asking a similar question right now: What seed needs to be relinquished to the dark so that it could grow toward light? My answer in the first comment.

04/02/2026

Sound up for my fave 🎼🩷🩷

04/01/2026

PLEASE do not let cost stop you from taking a session. Private message me so we can figure that out. (Classes available for April session: T/R Quickie Yoga for 30 minutes; W Peony Somatic Dance for 45 minutes; and TH Peony Somatic Dance for 60 minutes.)

03/31/2026

There is no freedom without bodily autonomy. For everyone. In all ways.

03/30/2026

Movement Mantra Monday!

This one seems pretty obvious, right? But women's bodies in particular seem to be up for discussion by everyone. AND I want you to think about this from another perspective: how much YOU talk about your body in not helpful and even mean ways.

So maybe this week, watch for that internal or self directed dialogue. And when you catch yourself saying something unhelpful, imagine saying it to your toddler self. THEN switch it up. What would you say to her instead. Like:

Is this FUN!? Do I WANT to do this? Does this make me feel good?

(These Movement Mantras are meant to provide you with a focus point for the week for your body/mind practices, whether you take it to your meditations or you dance with it upon your breath. You could journal the idea through the week and see how your thoughts/feelings evolve. Or use it for your phone's lock screen so you see it throughout the day. Play with it!)

03/27/2026

My continuing journey trying to reclaim my devotion in a world filled with the most vile deformations of faith.

(Link below)

03/26/2026

Just a reminder that dance existed way before ANY formalized systems of movement, and that it was a way to be in community, to express grief or celebration, and was foundational to ritual. There's an anthropological theory that it arose out of humans moving together to scare off large animals, so it was also protective.

And throughout time, patriarchy has tried, in too many ways to list, to take dance from women because it has always understood the power that is inherent in groups of women moving together. And capitalism has tried and continues to try to turn dance into something that is only for certain bodies or into a competition so that it can profit off of it.

Dance to feel, to be, to express is revolution. To move freely without worrying about what anyone else is doing is revolution. To feel good in your body as it is right now is revolution.

03/24/2026

Remember the 5 minute trick or the one song trick if you're struggling to move/dance. And if you're REALLY struggling, do it right where you are. Put on a favorite song and couch/chair/bed dance. Mood follows movement so you can't always wait on a good mood to do your practices.

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The difference...

I came back to dance at the age of 40, exhausted from over a decade of serious depression, worn out from chronic joint and back and hip pain (to the point of investigating canes!), and heavier and less healthy than I had ever been in my life. Within 12 months of finding JOY in movement again, I was thinking more clearly, feeling happier, experiencing zero pain, and down by about 6 sizes in my clothes. I sought out study that would teach me more than moves and poses. I wanted to learn about the neurological, biological, and psychological necessity and effectiveness of play and dance and movement experimentation. I’ve studied with some of the best and brightest thinkers and movers, and I bring all of that and my own life experiences to the room every time I teach.

MY BIO: Christine Serfozo is a trauma-sensitive movement artist with a comprehensive knowledge of somatic psychology. She's studied many forms of dance, with a special focus on Butoh and Modern which, in conjunction with biomechanics, breath techniques, and body inclusion, are the foundation for her work. She's interested in developing choreographic processes that create cathartic release and emotional growth, as opposed to typical choreographed 'productions.' She develops her processes through experimentation with a communal group of movement artists, and they are accessible to any level of movement experience. Most recently, she developed a process that expresses, integrates, and transforms the human experience of grief. She's currently creating sequences that will foster the expression of sacred sensuality outside of an objectifying gaze. Her ultimate goal is to inspire deep body listening leading to the fundamental freedom that can only be found in the essential creativity of our very cells.