Benevolent Instruction

Oct 21, 2023 - This session takes you on a small choreographic exploration can result in what we'll call a 4 Part Dance. Starting with asking "Where do you want to move today? Where in the body do you feel the urge to create action or flow?" Then we build short 2 Part Sequences that we then combine into a final 4 Part Dance of your own. Moving actions from one location in the body to...

After a long, long break, we are offering new episodes of Bevevolent Instruction! Enjoy listening, moving, dancing, responding, being alive and curious and creative. This episode features a new script "Standing Tall" by CoCo Loupe.

As 2022 comes to a close, some rumination feels fitting. CoCo Loupe has created a lovely script that reflects on her dancing/learning life. There's a short introduction about the script by CoCo at 1:25. Embodied Paraphrasing starts at 7:00.  Follow us on Instagram @benevolent_instruction or go to our website benevolentinstruction.com for updates and news. The Community Zoom events will resume...

CoCo Loupe curated a stellar trio of goodies from the archives for our last community zoom session. We loved it so much we wanted to share it with you!  1:30 - a soft and rebounding sequence (CoCo Loupe) 10:30 - Radiant Mass (Mina Estrada) 14:40 - Run On Story (CoCo Loupe) Follow us on Instagram @benevolent_instruction or go to our website benevolentinstruction.com for updates and news. The n...

Welcome to another episode of Benevolent Instruction. Season 2 Episode 26 to be exact! I'm CoCo Loupe, co-creator and facilitator along with Mina Estrada, Nicole Garlando and Noelle Chun. For today's journey through the Benevolent Instruction world, we offer another interview slash conversation. This time i sat down with Mina Estrada. the person who without her playful presence and rigorous commit...

CoCo and Mina dig into the ness of it all... Readiness and Centeredness are two scripts itching to get you moving and being and maybe moving a little more.  Follow us on Instagram @benevolent_instruction or head over to our website benevolentinstruction.com for updates and news. Please consider joining us for our next Community Zoom on Saturday, August 20 at 12:00 EST.

Welcome to another episode of Benevolent Instruction. I'm CoCo Loupe, co-creator and facilitator along with Mina Estrada, Nicole Garlando and Noelle Chun. Today we have something different and very special to share with you. Since the Intro episode where Mina and I talked a bit about what Benevolent Instruction is, all of our episodes have been the scripted recordings that we create for our solo p...

In this Benevolent Instruction episode, CoCo Loupe offers an exploration of the body's readymades and the creative practice of bringing external objects into the movement activities available to us through anatomical sites of action (all of the body really). Community gatherings to practice these journeys together happen every other Saturday via Zoom. Follow us on Instagram @benevolent_instruction...

Let your bodybeing delve into these new scripts from Mina and CoCo.  1:45 - the 2 the same (CoCo Loupe) 14:15 - Visceral Vernacular (Mina Estrada) Follow us on Instagram @benevolent_instruction for updates and news. We are taking a hiatus from the Community Zoom event until July 9.  Visit our website at benevolentinstruction.com to find out more about us and the practice. 

In this episode, CoCo says a few words about the practice and introduces her new script "a soft and rebounding sequence" and relates the benefits she's enjoyed from moving with it and to it. Follow us on Instagram @benevolent_instruction for updates and information about our community zoom sessions and other activities. Visit our website at benevolentinstruction.com to find out more about us and t...

This exquisite mediation on nothing, written and read by Noelle Chun, is quite a lovely journey. Enjoy.  Follow us on Instagram @benevolent_instruction for updates and news. We would love for you to join our next community zoom event Saturday, April 23 at 12 EST.

03/29/22: Simplicity CoCo talks about the short hiatus that we took from publishing episodes, our community zoom sessions, our upcoming engagements at The Ohio State University Community Conversations series in April and the Body Mind Centering Conference in Ohio in June and the script offered today, Simplicity. She gives a brief description of the practice and welcomes everyone to start dancing,...

1:20 – Rigorous Ease (Nicole Garlando) 13:35 – Local Travel (CoCo Loupe) 26:20 - Ball on the Ground (Nicole Garlando) Follow us on Instagram @benevolent_instruction for updates and news. We would love for you to join our next Community Zoom event this Saturday, Feb 26 at Noon EST.

CoCo Loupe has done it again… letting the self ramble, unaware of the beginning, you are just continuing… there is no rush in my being. Follow us on Instagram @benevolent_instruction for updates and news. Our Community Zoom events are shifting to a new day and time. Starting on Feb. 12 the event will be Saturdays at 12:00 EST. We would love to have you there!

This selection of Benevolent Instructions is from the last Community Zoom event, which was the first one of 2022! 1:20 – scoopflatbody (CoCo Loupe) 10:25 – aom_ (Nicole Garlando) Check out Nicole Garlando's new book "The Plural of Or" at nicolegarlando.com Follow us on Instagram @benevolent_instruction for updates and news. We would love for you to join our next community zoom event this Tuesday J...

Commemorating + Remembrance = Commemorance. The internet says this is not a word... well it is now. Benevolent Instruction is celebrating ONE YEAR in the podcastverse! It has been a lovely road and we will continue to travel it with you. Each of us created a new script to acknowledge this milestone.  1:35 – Anniversary (CoCo Loupe) 9:35 – Horizons Bend (Nicole Garlando) 18:30 – Gratitude (Noe...

This selection of Benevolent Instructions comes straight to you from the lovely Community Zoom event we had the other night. 1:45 – in your skin (CoCo Loupe) 5:50 – Soft (Noelle Chun) 9:30 - in your skin longer (CoCo Loupe) Follow us on Instagram @benevolent_instruction for updates and news. The next community zoom event is Tuesday Nov. 30 at 7pm EST.

This selection of Benevolent Instructions comes straight to you from the lovely Community Zoom event we had last night. 1:30 – loosen (Nicole Garlando) 8:30 - BodyBand (Mina Estrada) 14:00 - horsehawksnail (Nicole Garlando) Follow us on Instagram @benevolent_instruction for updates and news. The next Community Zoom event is Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 7pm EST.

Hello everyone! Welcome to Benevolent Instruction. This is Season 2 Episode 12: being a yawnbody This episode contains 3 audio scripts…. 2 written and recorded by me and 1 by Noelle Chun. These are the recordings that we used for our community zoom gathering last week, and I must say that until I went through the script by Noelle I had no idea that i could yawn on command repeatedly….what a revela...

Welcome to Benevolent Instruction! This is Season 2 Episode 11: impulse groove questions This episode contains 3 audio scripts…. 2 written and recorded by Noelle Chun and 1 by Mina Estrada. These brand new scripts take us on a journey that has impulses meandering through the body, asks us to check our pulse for groove qualities and then asks us a few questions about shifts in consciousness and bod...

CoCo Loupe and Mina Estrada welcome you to another episode of Benevolent Instruction! This is Season 2 Episode 10: if you were a cloud This episode contains 1 audio script…. written and recorded by CoCo. The recording starts us off with a guided warm up and then ever so gently glides into a set of images and prompts inspired by cloud watching. Again, please celebrate with us as we continue to enjo...

CoCo Loupe offers a journey through time focusing on tempo and rhythm from the body, through movements and out into and about space. Enjoy moving to the beat of your own drummer in this episode. Also, this is the first episode that includes intro and outro music, composed by the one and only Mike Boyko. We are so grateful for his generous contribution to this podcast and for his unwavering support...

This ode to exhaustion was written and read by Mina Estrada.  Follow us on Instagram @benevolent_instruction. Community Zoom is coming back on Sept. 7 at 7:00 PM (EDT). 

This Benevolent Instruction was written and read by CoCo Loupe. If you're ready to be invited into a world of clear directives that can usher you into wild and mysterious places, then this audio script is built for you.  Follow us on Instagram @benevolent_instruction for more news and updates. Community Zoom is returning SOON!!!

Sometimes CoCo Loupe creates beautifully designed doodles with her eyes closed, and sometimes they inspire Mina Estrada to create an audio script in response... and that's what's happening in this episode. Get some zigging and zagging in your life.  Follow us on Instagram @benevolent_instruction for updates on community events and other news.