Britt has been a teacher of movement for the past 15 years. Originally trained in the tradition of Vinyasa Yoga, she has since continued her studies within various lineages such as kundalini and women’s embodiment practices. She specializes in creating practices which help to connect all bodies to a true space of Home within the self.
Britt includes oil painting and therefore the observance of nature and the animal kingdom as part of her spiritual path and practice. She is deeply inspired by pastoral subjects, and seeks to convey their beauty and teachings through her paintings and movement practices. It is her hope that these two practices may inspire a deeper reverence to the softness of our bodies as well as to the natural world that we all share.
Originally from a small and wild island off the coast of Vancouver, Canada she now lives and loves in the Jura Mountain region of France with her husband, two daughters, two dogs and one very large cat.
To Learn From Animal Being by John O'Donohue
Nearer to the earth's heart,
Deeper within its silence:
Animals know this world In a way we never will.
We who are ever
Distanced and distracted
By the parade of bright
Windows thought opens:
Their seamless presence Is not fractured thus.
Stranded between time
Gone and time emerging,
We manage seldom
To be where we are:
Whereas they are always
Looking out from
The here and now.
May we learn to return
And rest in the beauty
Of animal being,
Learn to lean low,
Leave our locked minds,
And with freed senses
Feel the earth
Breathing with us.
May we enter Into lightness of spirit,
And slip frequently into
The feel of the wild.
Let the clear silence
Of our animal being
Cleanse our hearts
Of corrosive words.
May we learn to walk
Upon the earth
With all their confidence
And clear-eyed stillness
So that our minds
Might be baptized
In the name of the wind
And the light and the rain.
John O'Donohue From: To Bless the Space Between Us