CYPRESS ROOTS MOVEMENT SCHOOL
"Learn how to move with the natural forces of gravity on WATER OR LAND"
MOVING BEYOND TRADITIONAL FITNESS
Cypress Roots Movement School was founded by Melody Benton in 2020 as an educational platform for better moving bodies moving more naturally to decrease stress & improve longevity. My holistic fitness approach invites the human being to re-wild their spirit by moving with tuned-in awareness and more creatively in your home, at work and at the gym to expand your body capabilities and outdoor activities. As domesticated, indoor human adults we have lost access to natural movement patterns that keep the body strong, mobile and in tune with nature.
The body has integrated muscular connections from head to toe. Through foot mobility exercises, grounding primitive posturing, and bio-mechanical re-patterning, the whole body begins to experience these integrated pathways of wholeness to move and live at your full human potential!
Whether you are an athlete or a beginner mover wanting to improve whole body mobility and/or decrease pain or joint dysfunction I can help. I have 20 years of knowledge and experience with all bodies and levels across multiple disciplines. My unique embryological coaching cues gives your body new language to remember what it means and feels like to be whole moving with it’s environment. Return to your ROOTS of playfulness & wholeness the way nature intended.
About
FEBRUARY 14TH 2024 6:30-8:30
PARTNER THAI YOGA BODY THERAPY WORKSHOP
FLOW NATURE FIT
SOMATIC PRIMITIVE FITNESS CLASSES
Foundational ground mobility, natural movement skills, embodied weight training, climbing skills, core surf flows, breath awareness, myofascial self-massage & more. Learn how to naturally evoke your FLOW state and surf with gravity!
RECONNECT TO THE WILD
COMING AGAIN IN SPRING 2024
SUP THE RIVER ADVENTURES
nature fit IN THE PARK
Biotensegrity (21st century anatomy) says the feet 🦶 and body crave variety to avoid dysfunction while expanding your human movement capability.
Somatics and Energy Medicine says the “body” wants connection to itself and nature to express its natural flow of “beyond our imagination” potential.
Behavioral neuroscience/psychology says that PLAY regulates the nervous system to feel safe (parasympathetic response) 🧘♀️
Put those with natural movement skills and this is truly the restore, destress, workout, regenerative experience all in one. No monitoring target heart rate, counting steps, reps or calories. Just good old fashioned movement in nature with your bare feet or minimal shoes. An organic movement recipe for whole body health and happiness!
PRIVATE SOMATIC Mobility & weight training
Somatic mobility & strength training sessions will help you tune deeper into your body to help you move with less compensations and better functioning movement patterns. Level up your movement abilities in ways you never imagined you could be strong and mobile expanding your sense of wholeness and self sufficiency. Strength with out mobility lacks fluidity and flexibility with out strength lacks support , limiting your human movement potential. Return to your center and a balanced in-tuned body. Come get primitive strong & wise like our ancestors!
Thai YogA Body Work
RESTORATIVE POSTURES & GROUND MOBILITY
RESTORE your ABILITY TO sit ON THE GROUND in various positions with ease. build strength in these flexible positions to GET UP AND DOWN OFF THE GROUND with minImal hand support TO IMPROVE YOUR LONGEVITY.
EMBODIED PILATES
A somatic and fascial approach to the whole-body movement philosophy of pilates. Embodied pilates is letting go of bracing abdominals, turn out and a tucked under tail. Together we will find unique set up options to meet your bodies’ needs to cultivate balanced strength and flow versus performing exercises from a right or wrong perspective. Discover functional spirals with in your body and floor mobility exercises to restore better balanced patterns returning you back to your centered wholeness.
Stand up paddle boarding with cypress roots sup school
Everything SUP right here. ALL SUP classes & CERTIFICATION TrainingS
embodied yoga, sup yoga, inverted yoga & partner yoga
Virtual movement coaching
Do you live out of town? Is your schedule too busy to drive across town for an in person session? Or do you work from home and need a lunch break , pre-work, post-work movement coaching session for your body’s individualized needs instead of a recorded standard group exercise class?
iNVERSION CHAIR CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
FLIP YOUR WORLD! COME PLAY!
get stoked on the lakes of austin, tx!!!
wakesurf coaching for beginner TO INTERMEDIATE
Gravity Surfing
Gravity Surfing is a perspective of movement based on embodiment, embryology, fascia, and fluidity. Modern science and technology can now prove these connections of continuity with in the body and our environment that can be felt and sensed. This new yet ancient knowledge has evoked new ways of cueing the body’s nervous system from curiosity instead of right or wrong allowing more ease, flow and balance with in the whole self. This feeling of moving with your environment is much like surfing in the ocean. Learn how to tune in deeper to your body and gravity to experience this flow on land. Whether dancing in your kitchen, lifting a heavy box, unloading the washing machine, running on a trail, or surfing in the ocean, learn how to yield to the grounding and lifting forces of nature to float with rooted support interconnected to nature, to LIFE!
RECONNECT. RECENTER. REWILD.
About the Founder
Melody Benton is a disciplined mover and a lifelong student of movement, community, partnership, and healing. Over the last 20 years, she has explored the deep connections between the body, mind, and spirit. As a movement educator, she has a gift to help others connect deeply with themselves through movement; live and move in ways once believed impossible; and most importantly, change the way one feels their existence in this infinite wild world.
Melody’s movement foundations began at four years of age with dance which led her into cheerleading at age twelve which became her primary solace and motivation through her childhood challenges. Early motherhood at 19 fed her desire to succeed through life’s obstacles and she returned to college as a single mother where she decided to focus on a career that supported her love and passion for movement and helping others heal through the portal we call the “body.” She became a Physical Therapist Assistant in 2002 which expanded her knowledge and began her thirst for more in the world of health and fitness. Since 2008, her knowledge and experience have grown tremendously through the integration of the mind-body-spirit focused modalities of Pilates, Yoga, and Thai-Yoga bodywork.
Over the past 10 years, she has followed her heart and passions into the world of primal, natural movement, play, flow, and full embodiment. This is most evident when she is around water, her favorite natural mermaid environment. She radiates pure joy and is the epitome of flow state when on the water or exploring barefoot in nature.
When on land, she explores and practices “partnering” through Acro-Yoga. She faces fear and physical challenge through most of her chosen sports to push her boundaries and honor her limits. She loves hikes that include tree climbs, bounding over boulders, and balancing on ledges and rocks. She’ll never pass up a grassy or sandy area to practice handstands. These multiple expressions of movement are nutrition to her soul and are the physical manifestations of her daily foundational movement practices and studies of EMBODIED pilates, yoga & restorative exercise for the past 10 years.
As a seeker of truth, Melody is more than just a coach or teacher of movement. She lives what she teaches, expressed by her passion to learn and discover a deeper relationship with herself, others and life through daily embodied movement.