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A SOMATIC NATURAL FITNESS PERSPECTIVE

     Melody Benton has been a lifelong student of movement, community, and healing for as long as she can remember. Over the past 20 years, she has studied the body in movement, while deepening the energetic and fascial integrations of her own body, mind, spirit. As a movement educator, she has a gift to help others connect deeply with themselves through movement.  

"As my relationship to myself and body deepens, my life becomes richer, fuller and more in flow with my own true nature. This transformative perspective of movement wakes up a new felt sense of wholeness within and out (with nature), expanding the way I experience my physical human existence and infinite beingness. 
     
Melody’s movement foundations began with dance at four years of age until she found and fell in love with cheerleading at age twelve, which became her primary solace and motivation through a challenging childhood and teenage life.  Early motherhood at 19 strengthened her desire to heal and succeed through the hardships of single motherhood and losing her own mother at age 22.   She returned to college to support her interest and passion for movement and helping others heal through the portal we call the “body.”  She became a Physical Therapist Assistant in 2002 which began her life long journey as a movement expert in the world of health and fitness. Over the years she has become certified in personal training, pilates, yoga, group fitness, stand up paddleboarding, SUP yoga, somatic movement, reiki, thai yoga bodywork and more.  Her movement experience expands from marathon running, sprint triathalons, bouldering, tree climbing, paddleboarding, wakesurfing, ocean surfing and natural movement.  Melody's natural deep inquiry of life has expanded her world and her relationship to it beyond her wildest dreams. 
     Curiosity, Play and Flow are the foundations of her movement philosophy "gravity surfing"   She radiates pure joy and is the epitome of flow state when immersed in nature's liquid playground. 
     Melody welcomes healthy doses of fear and physical challenge through most of her chosen sports to practice unraveling conditioned beliefs, while honoring her intuitive boundaries. 

She loves primitive hikes that include tree climbing, 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 and play are nutrition to her soul and are the physical manifestations of her daily foundational movement practices and studies of embodiment, embryology, pilates, yoga, paddleboarding, surfing, and regenerative exercise for the past 10 years. 
     As a seeker of truth and expansion, 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. 

CYPRESS ROOTS MOVEMENT SCHOOL