About Karen Swift

I have always been a seeker, searching for a way to connect with my Divine nature within. At age nine, a subtle inner voice showed me how to experience the Divine in a physical way through a daily movement practice. I began doing yoga, which helped thaw the frozenness that prevented me from expressing my true self. I threw myself into the practice and became a certified instructor.

My journey then deepened into dance therapy and the somatic sciences, where I was able to develop my emotional body through movement. I then was led to develop my intellect by studying the science of movement. I became a licensed Physical Therapist.

Karen Swift, MPST

Though I was able to help many in this way, I came to see that it only understood the body as isolated parts. Seeking a more unified view, I dove into a Feldenkrais® training. Through this, I learned to move as a seamless fabric and help clients do so as well. Ordinary actions became a coordination of the entire body. Yet something was still missing. 

This realization led me toward Qi Gong, a movement system that taught me to move in harmony with the essential life force that holds and moves all things. Moving in this dynamic exchange, I finally had a tangible way to physicalize my Divine nature through movement. The art brings me pure joy, as I weave together my body, feeling, and spirit into flowing motion.     

My movement practice has always been a refuge, friend, and teacher. I help my clients find this passion as well. In this way, I can guide you to develop the tools for nourishing yourself through a daily movement practice. Movement then becomes a path for reuniting with your wholeness.

Living Fabric

We are the living fabric of our universe.

Graced with attention, we sense the Greater’s currents moving within.

Our life is motion, an ever-undulating ebb and flow.

Continually, we restore our life’s rhythm with Its ever-nurturing current.

Gathering our scattered strands we weave this cloth of our genuine being.

Joyously we shape ourselves in Life’s full expression.

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