I first decided to participate in Leah’s morning Embodied Groove Session with a bit of trepidation and curiosity. It was morning after a somewhat disrupted night of festival camping sleep and I didn’t particularly feel like dancing or moving much. I told myself ‘I’ll just join for a few minutes and stretch my body a little.’ However, as the session unfolded, through the well-paced music, and through Leah’s invitational guidance I found my body waking up and transitioning from sleepy stretching, to playful rhythmic movement, to eventual full on communal dance party with any remaining hesitations or residual self-consciousness dissolved. The session ended with a restful extended pose where upon its completion myself and seemingly everyone around felt grounded, recharged and more bonded with one another.