about grounding center
~ endeavoring to ease suffering through conscious relationships, therapeutic touch, and creative expression ~
Grounding Center is a community health initiative located in Lingít Aaní (commonly referred to as Juneau, Alaska) which offers therapeutic Thai bodywork along with yoga, movement, dance, and meditation classes. We offer a safe, supportive, and inclusive community healing space that prioritizes relationships as ground for thoughtful inquiry, connection, and presence.
We offer one-on-one bodywork sessions, private and public yoga classes, experimental dance workshops, and hold space for other community events.
Our in-person location is at 418 Harris Street, Suite 214, Juneau, AK 99801.
Hi, I’m Casey.
Movement is my first language. I have been dancing all my life, and practicing yoga for over half of it. I use the body as a site for self-inquiry, exploration, regulation, expression, and self-discovery. I am profoundly curious about this living world.
My personal meditation journey began at 16 after being institutionalized at a youth psychiatric facility. Developing a meditation and yoga practice has been transformative and integral to healing in my own life, leading to a sustained and expanding openness and joy for living. My path of self-inquiry has led to experience with and training in a wide range of disciplines, including multiple yoga styles, various dance modalities (particularly improvisational and somatic techniques), vipassana and Tibetan Buddhist meditation, and trauma-informed facilitation. Additionally, touch-based therapy of traditional Thai bodywork is a sustaining part of the work I do.
Grounding Center is an extension of these foundations, with a central purpose of fostering harmony in body-heart-mind’s of people of all experiences and life stages, that extends well beyond the space of the physical body and into community.
Whatever brings you here, you are welcomed.
I bring 15+ years of experience studying movement forms and over 8 years of teaching in various settings that deeply inform my current facilitation practice. I have over 500 hours of yoga and meditation facilitation training, an extensive background and training in various dance modalities, and years of experience working in facilities such as prisons, sexual assault and domestic violence shelters, youth treatment centers, long-term housing facilities, and schools. Most recently, I have become a Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT) in the state of Alaska, specializing in Traditional Thai Bodywork. My training comes from The Naga Center: School of Traditional Thai Medicine and Massage, with Nephyr Jacobsen. It is with exceptional gratitude to my teachers that I am able to be a part of this healing arts practice.
If you are interested in having Grounding Center facilitate classes for your organization, get in touch.
Public classes are offered to the general public at gyms and studios around Juneau, facilitated with gentle intentionality. Learn more here.
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