Dee taught ballroom dance for many years. When Caroline got pregnant, Dee and Caroline began exploring how the dance between infant and parent is similar but different from romantic dances.

• Touch is lovely in romantic dances, but essential with infant/parent. 

•  The energetic dance of Call and Response is fun with lovers, but between parent and child it is an invitation to embodiment .

• Feeling known by your lover is sweet, but as children, we are hungry to be witnessed—to call out, “Watch this!” or “Listen to this!”

Stephen and Dee drew upon their journey as offspring/parent to deepen the creation of the practices that help parents better dance with their offspring. Chi for Two creates a lens through which we can see that all body-based healing work offers a redo of the child development dances that pattern our nervous system functioning. 

Caroline drew upon her mothering experiences with her three sons, creating M-Bodied: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine®. M-Bodied teaches the Chi for Two practices with a focus on Maternal Mental Health and healing for Disordered Eating. 

M-Bodied invites mindfulness of the rich relational dances that foster Perinatal Health—health during our time in the womb and in the important transition from womb to swaddling. As we look through the Chi for Two lens, we see “Mother” as a verb describing a relational dance between infants and all caregivers back through the generations no matter their genitalia.