Serena Fennell & Hope Arisman

Women in Motion make spaces for women to transform thru moving together.

Serena has had a successful bodywork practice for more than 30 years, supporting people in finding ease and comfort with their bodies. She has decades of experience as a student and teacher of contact improvisation, and loves bringing the skills from this practice to her clients and her students. She loves using conscious embodiment tools to help people be in the practice of caring for their whole selves and for one another.

Hope is a functional fitness trainer in Santa Cruz at Core Fitness and Rehabilitation Center. She supports people to improve their capacity to safely use and care for their bodies. She has a Masters degree in dance and has been guiding movement explorations for over 25 years to a wide variety of movers from survivors of strokes to college students. She aims to be a catalyst for growth, softened with compassion and joy.