MoFlo

Movement for Humans, Not Hashtags
✦ ✦ ✦Check out my next MOFLO Retreat in Baja, Mexico HERE!!!✦ ✦ ✦

✦ MOvement/FLOorwork

Come to my class that is nothing as you know it!

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
– Chinese Proverb

Is this a dance class as you know it? Nope.
Pilates? Not really.
Free dance? Definitely not.

MoFlo is what happens when somatic Pilates and floor-based contemporary movement have a very honest conversation — and then roll around on the floor together.

Designed for all-level dancers and curious movers, MoFlo invites you to swing, flop, float, and throw your torso. Play with gravity, tension, and relaxation in your bones and breath. Roll, swing, and edge into a hypnotic self-massage without even realizing it.

Laugh. Sweat. Play.

Build strength, awareness, and creative range while reconnecting with your body in a deliciously grounding way.

A baseline level of fitness is helpful, but not required.

Not just a workout — a lab for embodied transformation.

✦ What People Are Saying About MoFlo

“Your class is changing my life. I love it and love that you’re teaching it.”

“Thanks, Kelly. I feel like a million bucks! I feel strong, sweaty, & like my tummy is 10 pounds lighter!”

“After taking pilates for 10 years, this was the first time I actually felt my stomach muscles, after 1 session with you.”

“I feel 10 years younger!”

“Kelly’s MoFlo class is like stepping back into your body. You can expect to move in ways you haven’t since childhood, when life felt playful, and your body felt free and strong. You’ll leave her class wanting to keep moving all day — open, energized and inspired!”

“I always feel fantastic after Kelly’s classes! More at home in my body, stronger and more relaxed. I love all the floor work, which has never been my comfort zone and now feels like my happy place. Kelly has a gift for bringing joyful play and movement together.”

✦ Ways to Experience MoFlo

The Lab (1 hour)

Your regular weekly class.

Where movement meets mischief. Where strength meets softness.

A playful, sweaty exploration of floorwork, somatic Pilates, gravity, release, and reconnecting with your body.

The Workshop (3 hours)

A deeper immersion.

We’ll explore the same principles with more time to play, rest, reflect, journal, and integrate. Expect Polaroids, laughter, sweat, insight, and a richer dive into how you move through life.

✦ What to bring:

Loose-fitting clothes, a water bottle, BAGGY pants you can slide in!, & no mats or shoes necessary!

✦ When is the next one?

Kelly is on the road! The next Lab is TBA. Please check out her Upcoming MoFlo Retreat in Baja, Mexico in November!

Where movement meets mischief. Where strength meets softness. Welcome to MoFlo.

“If we could learn how to balance rest against effort, calmness against strain, quiet against turmoil, we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life.”
– Josephine Rathbone

✦FAQ’s
• Is this a dance class? And if so, what kind?

Not per se, no — But we do integrate the best of contemporary dance warm-up/conditioning, including a lot of Laban/Bartenieff juicy floorwork, & we work with some light choreography/combinations.

•. Is this a pilates class?

We integrate AIM pilates — from a more “somatic pilates” approach if you will. We use anchors on the skeleton & sequences from Joe P. himself woven into all the rest of it!

•. Is this “free dance”, similar to 5 rhythms or ecstatic dance?

No. If you enjoy this kind of dance, you also might enjoy MoFlo! And, if you enjoy ballet, hip-hop, contemporary, tai chi, capoeira, or yoga, you also might enjoy MoFlo.

•. Do I need to be fit?

A base level of fitness is beneficial, but not a requirement at the door. Go at your own pace! You are likely to sweat and raise your heart rate, as well as lower your tension levels & reset your nervous system!

✦ About Kelly/Movement Roots:
Kelly’s movement roots run deep — and wide. She earned her degree in Interior Architecture (with a near minor in dance) from the University of Oregon, where her thesis project was designing a Movement Therapy Center — a blueprint that has quietly shaped her life’s work.

Her early training in modern release technique and African dance continued in the SF Bay Area at ODC and ROCO. At the same time, she was mentored in somatic Pilates through Bodies Mind “movement guru” (Kelly’s words) Carole Amend, where she deepened her obsession with gravity, bones, and how we move when we stop trying so hard.

MoFlo — her signature class — is the lovechild of all of this.
It’s what happens when a somatic approach to Pilates and floor-based contemporary dance have a really honest conversation… and then roll around on the floor together.

Everything Kelly does — most tangibly in MoFlo — is about getting people back in their bodies.
It’s about remembering we’re alive, noticing our pulse, and inhabiting our bones, breath, and blood fully, messily, beautifully.

It’s movement that feels like home. Not performance. Not perfection. Not hashtags.
Just a lab for moving stress-free, playfully, and with power.