Shake It Off - Your Weekly Dose of Physical & Emotional Fitness.

A unique combination of emotional processing, free flow dance and somatic exercises, this event is designed to help you regulate your nervous system, release stuck emotions and cultivate a sense of relaxation.

Emotion = energy in motion. Yet, as a society, we have grown accustomed to suppressing our emotions. Because of this, our emotions remain stuck and stagnant within the body, waiting to be liberated through movement, awareness and presence.

Shake it off gives us an opportunity to safely release stress and stored emotions through movement and emotional processing techniques (that we share with you on the evening). It allows us to reconnect with ourselves through our body. All while building our emotional and physical fitness.

Event Inclusions:

• Emotional processing techniques: We start the evening by going through some of our favourite tools and techniques for experiencing and releasing our emotions.
• Dance and movement: Moving has never been so fun, a DJ set invites us to dance, and tune into the way that our body desires to move. No dance experience required for this free-flow session.
• Somatic exercises: Ending the evening with deep relaxation, be guided through some gentle, rhythmic exercises that are scientifically designed to regulate your nervous system.

Dance, release and express at this somatic event designed to help you drop out of your head and into your body, de-stress, and regulate your nervous system. Leave feeling lighter, freer and ready to go out and live your best life.

About your host:

Shahna Sarpi - @shahnasarpi

A Somatic Healing Expert, Shahna uses embodiment practices, somatic exercises and mindset tools to take people from stressed and burnt out, to healthy, thriving and radiant.

Having seen the immense power in embodied movement and authentic expression from personal experience, Shahna now guides people home to their most empowered themselves, through the body.

Guest DJ: Patty MacDonald, a.k.a. DJ Chakaruna - @ pattymac.truth

Patty is passionate about helping people open their hearts and find bliss in the full spectrum of the human experience. Chakaruna means "Bridge Person" in the Quechua language - this journey is here to provide a bridge for you into new ways of connecting with your self, with each other and with the world around you.

An experienced leader and coach, he recently doubled down on music as an even purer vehicle to deliver transformation, and spent a few weeks in Guatemala dancing with and learning from some of the world's best organic music producers such as Mose, Scott Nice, ATYYA and Melbourne's own Temple Step Project.

Things to note:

Centre of You has plenty of bolsters, blankets, and cushions for you to get cosy with. We recommend wearing comfortable, loose clothes to enable deep breathing and sitting/laying upon the floor with ease.

Personal responsibility: Please make an assessment on whether you are feeling stable and resourced enough to explore the practices on offer in this event.

Arrival: Endeavour to arrive between 6:15pm - 6:30pm. To preserve the experience for all involved, doors will close at 6:45pm. Truly, it breaks our heart to have to turn latecomers away yet the disruption to the whole group experience by virtue of lateness does require management. We ask that you find understanding and consideration for the timebound nature of the container and make every effort to arrive on time.

Driving: Know Centre of You is on Chapel St and ample time to find a car spot is best to be factored into your plans. Park direct on Chapel St (spots unmetered after 5pm) or in Anchor Place, the open-air parking lot in the side street that runs opposite Centre of You (unmetered after 4pm).

Public transport - tram: Both the number 6 tram & 78 tram stop on the corner of High St/Chapel St. This is stop 31 on the number 6 tram (Moreland/Glen Iris) & stop 45 on the number 78 tram (North Richmond/Balaclava).

Public transport - train: Both Prahran & Windsor stations along the Sandringham Line will get you walking distance to Centre of You.

Finding Centre of You: Centre of You is nestled within the arcade that Chapel St Bazaar is in (217 Chapel St). It is up a flight of stairs with a wide landing at the half-way-point. Unfortunately, this current version of Centre of You does not have a wheelchair-accessible lift. If you could use support in getting up the stairs or would like to discuss ways to make your experience at Centre of You more comfortable, please reach out via grace@centreofyou.com.au or via DM over on Centre of You Instagram.

Accessibility: At COY we aim to ensure our community and events are inclusive and accessible while upholding the needs and responsibilities of our business and partnering facilitators. Should you be in a time of financial challenge and unable to pay the full ticket price comfortably, please be in contact via grace@centreofyou.com.au. Together we will find a way.

Ticketing T&Cs: We get it, life happens, therefore we will gladly refund you up until 24hrs before the event start time. After that, we have a strict no refund/no transfer to future events policy. If you are no longer able to attend and wish to pay forward your ticket to someone within the community, be in touch via grace@centreofyou.com.au or via DM over on Centre of You Instagram.

Questions? Email grace@centreofyou.com.au or reach out via Instagram DM.