The International Association for Creative Dance presents “Dancing the Winds of Change” at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Intro Workshop June 22-23
Dance Congress June 23-28
“How do you make a dance?
You let one movement grow out of another with your whole self in it. And
the more your body, your emotions, your mind, your spirit are all
integrated in it, the more alive it will be, the more meaning it will
have.” ~ Barbara Mettler
Do you ever catch yourself indulging in black and white thinking? Have you sometimes fallen into the trap of binary logic? What kind of life does one have if everything is a zero-sum game?
Saturday Zoom Dances
IACD sponsors a dance every Saturday on Zoom! Friends from around the United States and the world come together for movement. This is an open dance for anyone…no experience is necessary! We usually meet at 10:00 am, Pacific Standard Time. If you have questions or would like the Zoom link to the dance session, please contact Sue Biggs at sbiggs@gci.net. Sue sends out the invites. If you know someone who would like to be put on the list for the Zoom invitation, let her know.
September 13–15, 2024
Windhover Center for the Performing Arts
Rockport, Massachusetts
taught by Mary Ann Brehm
Fee: $230 (includes 2 overnights at Windhover)
Register and Pay HERE
July 8 - July 20
Taught by Mary Ann Brehm
Monday through Saturday, July8–20, 2024
Tucson Creative Dance Center 3131 N. Cherry Avenue Tucson, AZ
(Sunday July 14 is a mid-course day off)
Three 2-hour Follow up sessions on Zoom, Times TBD
Full Course $550; First week $350 IACD members receive a $30 discount
Register and Pay HERE. Be sure to indicate that you are registering for the Teacher Training, the weeks you are attending, and the appropriate amount.
The 2024 Creative Dance Congress
“Dancing the Winds of Change”
at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts
The 2024 Creative Dance Congress
“Dancing the Winds of Change”
at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts
– Introductory Workshop: Saturday, June 22 – Sunday, June 23
Wednesday afternoon free, after the lunchtime Member Meeting
‘This Vibrance program is the culmination of my 40 years of study and practice and teaching a wide variety of Healing, Expressive and Communication Arts Practices.”
Registration is open for the Northern California Dance Collective’s Summer Dance Camp, June 14th – 22nd!
We invite you to dance, play, connect, celebrate, and get inspired and
renewed as we co-create community and magic at summer dance camp!
You have a limit. Everyone does. If you’re reasonably lucky, and keep your wits about you, you shouldn’t get pushed to there too often. But despite your best laid plans, your good karma, and your better instincts, once in a while life will place you in a situation where you have no control. In other words, sometimes your patience will be put to the test. When that happens, what do you do?
When your patience is tested, it’s easy to start losing things. Your cool, for instance. When it starts to go, you might find your temper replacing it. But anger is like a blunt hammer that rarely hits the nail on the head. You’re more likely to wind up with a sore thumb instead.
Join a global community of dancers in a guided movement experience with Amara on Saturday September 5 (September 6 for Australia).
In this 1.5h Live online class we will focus on various aspects of the Azul spiral and explore them in the dance.
We write to invite, to entice, and to beckon you to join us for our inaugural program in Hamburg, offering a modular training in Touching Essence™, a multi-cultural, multi-sensory, neo-shamanic approach to healing through Touch. Using our map of the 8 chakras, our map of 12 meridians, 34 specifically selected essential oils, and Nada (sound) yoga, mantra and song, we practice the laying on of hands in support of energetic, physical, emotional, spiritual and soul connection and healing. We focus, in the physical touch arena, in supporting release of old, welcoming new and opening to experiencing the pleasure of safe and skilled touch.
Two complementary practices, one anchored in embodied structured rhythms, and the other in the spontaneity of movement improvisation, share a common foundation in the profound art of presence. Combined, they serve as a potent catalyst, inviting participants to delve deep into the intricacies of their learning process, unravel the impediments to personal and creative evolution, and open a pathway to heightened states of inspiration and creativity.
Relating to others — whether friends, lovers, enemies or colleagues — we get to find out how far we’ve come. It’s all very well to be enlightened sitting alone on a mountain top meditating, but . . .
Relationships drag us into the heart: not the fantasy-nice emoticon-heart, but the ragged realities we actually have going on, where we’ll often be found avoiding intimacy, denying the truth, and blaming someone else for our experience.
Remember Sisyphus? Apparently, this famous figure from Greek mythology was something of a bad dude. He had the horrible habit of killing his visitors just to show off his power. The gods thought this was bad manners at the very least, going against their sacred traditions of hospitality. So they punished him with the gift of a heavy boulder that he was to push to the top of a mountain, only to have it roll to the bottom, over and over, for all eternity.
W E LCO M E TO F U S I O N 2 0 24
Are you looking for orentation? You feel like you need to step
out of our regular pattern? Getting to know new insights into
your personality, unlock new skills and potentials? In a setting
that fuels your mind, soul and body with like-minded people?
Welcome to FUSION 2024 at Casa Felicina! We are inviting
you to join us on our co-creative journey of healing and
discovery from the 25th of August to the 1st of September.
The 100 hr. Esalen® Massage Certification is designed to train certified bodyworkers holding the equivalent of a 150 certification in a recognized bodywork modality to the practitioner level in the art of Esalen Massage. The skill sets taught in this training are divided into the following categories:
This workshop is a perfect opportunity for you to enjoy the natural beauty of Esalen’s land while gaining a foundation in Esalen® Massage. Senior teachers and staff will guide you in this experience of connection and presence translated to the massage table.
If you can see, you have vision. If you can daydream, you can have a vision. So wouldn’t it be cool if you could build those muscles like any other part of your body and limber them up to be more powerful and effective?
Let’s start with sight. One of the great gifts of living. If you’re reading this, chances are you have two working eyeballs. Behind them is a sophisticated array of muscles, nerves, and sensors that keeps them all working so well you don’t have to give it much thought.
4 Thursdays June 6, 13, 20, 27 | 10am-12pm Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) | $105 for the series
When we are in our own skin, self-confidence is felt and palpable. We stand tall, ask for what we need and want, give generously, and shine our light without guilt and without manipulating others. Competitiveness goes out the door, as from a place of fullness, we seek collaboration, and celebrate other’s triumphs and accomplishments.
Friday, June 7th | 10am-1pm Pacific Time | $80
Join Expressive Arts Therapist, Tamalpa Supervisor and Creative Mentor Adriana Marchione for a special opportunity to explore healing from grief in this Master Class. Using a life/art approach, we will draw, dance and find rituals to honor the losses we have sustained and explore how the arts can support those who are moving through grief.
Friday, June 14th | 10am-1pm Pacific Time | $80
Join Expressive Arts Therapist, Tamalpa Supervisor and Creative Mentor Adriana Marchione for a special opportunity to explore ‘recovery’ from addiction in this Master Class. Using a life/art approach, we will draw and dance to embody avenues for change in ourselves, our loved ones, and the people we work with. Conversely, we will explore movements, postures, and beliefs that inhibit healing in relation to addictive behaviors.
Join Vibrance’s Ellen Watson and the Fusion co-creators in Italy August 25th to Sept 1st!
A journey of healing!
We are happy to invite you once again to the Casa Felicina for the FUSION 2024! Save your place at the FUSION 2024 until the 30th of June and benefit from the early bird price.
OK, it’s riddle time again. Name something that you need but you can’t buy. Everything and everyone has some degree of it. When you’ve got plenty of it, you rarely think about it, but when it’s missing, you know you need it.
It exists both in the physical and metaphysical realms. It’s more of a property than a thing of itself. You could even say that it’s a value, or an idea, or a concept. I could be talking about a lot of things, but the thought for the day is: Flexibility.
Join James & Joyce as they venture back to the mesmerizing landscapes of Costa Rica’s blue zone for a blissful 6-night stay at the enchanting Danyasa Yoga Retreat Center in Dominical from May 8th to May 14th, 2024. Prepare to immerse yourself in an extraordinary week filled with rejuvenation and cherished moments James & Joyce are founders and owners of Modern Yoga Studios; they are both Experienced Yoga Instructors (ERYT) with over 10,000 hours of yoga and meditation teaching experience.
Escape to a tropical heaven with our aerial yoga retreat in paradise. Nestled within the lush rainforests and steps from the pristine shores of the Pacific Ocean, this retreat offers a unique fusion of aerial yoga, relaxation and adventure.
Memorial Day Weekend Dancing and Live Music with Vinyl & Andre’s All-Stars, Sunday May 26th,
noon to 5pm!
Santos Meadow between Muir Beach and Muir Woods in Marin is where the action is!
It’s time to get your springtime-daylong-moving-and-grooving-dance-party on! The Muir Beach Volunteer Fire Department’s 50th Annual Muir Beach Barbecue features delicious food, fantastic live music, tasty craft beers, premium wine, and a whole lot of fun for the family.
Remember cassettes? Those little compact plastic boxes that held a spool of analog magnetic tape? If you wanted to skip from one song to another you had to use the fast-forward or rewind buttons on your tape player.
Well, cassettes (and videotapes for that matter) are for the most part history, but the vernacular lives on — the terms fast-forward and rewind are here to stay.
Wouldn’t it be cool if life came with some sort of a button like that? Not to actually speed it up or slow it down per se, but rather to zoom in and out of the big picture so to speak.
Start with The JourneyDance Embodiment Experience Leadership Training at Kripalu and then experience The Remedy at Omega!
Elevate your Vibration with Module 1 JourneyDance Leadership Training!
Are you loving your body and loving your life? Do you want to feel embodied, empowered and fully expressed? Are you called to share your sacred advocacy with the world? Are you longing to and ready to become a stellar facilitator of transformation, something that is so needed now?
What is your soul anyway? Is it your consciousness? Is it your collection of life experiences? Is it something you’re born with that stays the same throughout your life? Or is your birth just the starting point and your time here on earth your opportunity to improve upon the hand you’re dealt?
Let’s go with the assumption that you begin with some cosmically set allotment of raw metaphysical material, and every experience you have, emotion you feel, and decision you make cumulatively contributes to your soul’s journey.
Twilight of the Empress recounts the epic stories of ancient Persian gods and goddesses from a Sufi perspective through dance, music, storytelling and film. A convergence of 3 artists and a mythologist — Banafsheh Sayyad, Fared Shafinury,
Have you been dreaming about swimming with wild dolphins? Is this something you want to experience before you leave this planet? Let us bring your dreams to reality! Join us and come eye to eye, with the amazing creatures of the crystal blue waters of the Bahamas.
Lucia Horan & Douglas Drummond WITH
Guest Musical Artist: Leah Song of Rising Appalachia
Musicians: Sanga of the Valley and Nick Ayers
Guest Artist: Tess Howell
Shine Solstice is for women who desire to live fully and wholeheartedly into their truthful selves. When we live into alignment with who we are designed to be, we live a more joyful and heart centered life experience.
En este retiro en Costa Rica, cada paso es una aventura y cada encuentro es una oportunidad para crecer y aprender en este viaje hacia la plenitud y la conexión con la vida.
The Expressive Body in a Life/Art Process with
Daria Halprin, Natan Daskal, and Dohee Lee.
June 23 – 27th
Mt. Madonna Retreat Center
Watsonville, CA
Now and throughout history, movement, dance and the expressive arts
grant us a means of expression that is healing; these timeless creative
practices connect us with ourselves and our communities. This workshop
will generate opportunities to discover ways to empower the wisdom of
your somatic self to meaningfully impact your regular life. The methods
and models of our practice will be gently and clearly taught in order to
expand creativity, psychological insight and embodiment.
Anna Halprin was famous for saying “Your body is a microcosm of the universe” — arguably one of the foundational statements of conscious dance.
Science, of course, bears this out. Vast numbers of individual atoms are essential to your existence. Simple substances like sodium, sulfur, calcium, and carbon are what makes you tick. Somewhere you’ve got an animating spirit in there guiding you as you rock through life.
Joni Mitchell (and Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young) famously put it like this
The healing path has a trajectory. Gabrielle Roth, creator of the 5Rhythms Movement Practice, called this The Path of The Wounded Healer. On this path, we mark both where we are and where we want to be and move with that awareness.
Rhythm is the universal mother tongue. It is the language of the soul. — Gabrielle Roth
Silent introspection through seated meditation and the dynamic movement practice of the 5Rhythms® both support unlocking gateways to celebration and joy. Together, we will unite these healing modalities in an environment that cultivates peace, balance, and well-being. Through sweat and stillness, we will ride the rhythms of the mother tongue and turn the heart toward self-realization.
Immerse yourself in the ultimate blend of relaxation and adventure with our Yoga and Surf Retreat, a rejuvenating escape set against the backdrop of lush rainforests and pristine beaches.
Embark on a transformative journey that begins with the gentle embrace of sunrise and sunset yoga sessions, guided by experienced instructors who will help you find balance,
Awaken your senses and immerse yourself in the sanctuary of your own body, where the whispers of truth echo through the ancient corridors of your being. The retreat is a reclamation, a heart-centered journey of remembering who you truly are, entwined with the healing embrace of nature. Feel the pulse of authenticity within a supportive community, as you traverse the sacred landscapes that mirror the landscapes within.
Meet Alasdair Fraser, founder and director of The San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers.
“The San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers may look like an orchestra, but
it’s really an unruly mob of rabble-rousing, anarchistic musical
adventurers and explorers.”
Three Northern California shows led by acclaimed Scots fiddler Alasdair Fraser fill the stage with more than 65 Bay Area musicians – on fiddles, cellos, drums, piano and more – playing tunes, songs, and dance rooted in the Celtic tradition.
Alasdair is one of the greatest exemplars of Scotland’s fiddle-playing tradition, not only a virtuoso but a musical ambassador whose warmly expressive playing, mastery of his instrument, and deep understanding of the genre has taught and inspired musicians on both sides of the Atlantic. He won – twice – the Scottish National Fiddle Championship.
Where do you go for your words of wisdom? Who do you turn to when you need advice? Have you ever employed the services of what is sometimes referred to as a “coach“?
Life is a gift we all have to enjoy, but it doesn’t come with a set of instructions. There’s no punch-list, bullet points, or operating manual to put you on the right track, let alone one of those little IKEA-style diagrams that shows you how everything fits together regardless of what language you speak.
Queridos
amigos, estamos muy contentos de presentaros Sacred Fire Gathering, una
unión de yoga, música y danza durante 5 días en un precioso centro de
retiro en plena naturaleza en la Alpujarra
