There is no way to happiness – happiness is the Way” Buddha
We put one foot in front of other and take a step.
Within the incredibly rich diversity of experience that happens on a
dance floor, there’s really only one thing going on. An essence of
alive, loving, consciously creative energy that just IS.
Around that, we move, breathe, and give attention, in the company of fellow travellers who help us feel deeper and see further.
Join us for a day of furious dancing, feeling, deep listening,
and aimless play so we can transform our heartache, despair, rage,
terror, confusion, not knowing [___________] [fill in the blanks] into
“something better:” a luminous openness that has space for all of this
wild, wicked, wondrous life.
Do you notice sometimes, especially after some deep, connected, expressive dancing, how the darkness that surrounds us, so vast and dense, seems lit from within by a luminous glow?
How buried at the heart of pain lies the portal to unexpected spaciousness of love?
Join Zuza & Scott for
Dreaming with Dolphins in
the Bahamas August 11-17
A MAGICAL EXCURSION INTO OCEANIC MOVEMENT WITH ZUZA, SCOTT,
AND THE BIMINI WILD DOLPHIN POD
on the beautiful island of Bimini in the Bahamas
and the waters around it.
THIS WEEK IS A RELAXING MIX OF:
sailing the open seas, daily dolphin swims
and snorkels out there in the
azure waters of the Bahamas.
What do you love most about travel? Is it the perspective you get from experiencing different cultures? Sampling exotic and delicious foreign cuisines? Perhaps the change of scenery is enough for you.
I say yes to all of the above and more, but for me there’s one part of the experience that holds a special spot in my heart. There’s nothing that guarantees a full measure of the sense of awe like getting on an airplane. Yep, you heard me right. I’m that one-in-a-million person who actually loves to fly.
Watching these massive machines slowly pirouette on the tarmac is like witnessing a ballet of behemoths. Together with their tiny attendants scurrying around to service their needs, they perform a dance of details that culminate in a miracle.
4 Thursdays – April 4, 11, 18, 25 | 10am-12pm PDT | Cost: $105 for the series
Myths are timeless and so is our soul. The Greek goddess Demeter is an archetypal mother figure that must be reimagined if we are to embody her cyclic wisdom, reclaim her courage, and harness her healing energies. Demeter’s journey is multifaceted: from bliss to loss, from grief to despair, from contemptment to anger, and from victimhood to empowerment.
4 Mondays, April 8 – 29 | 10am-11:30am PDT | $80 for the series
As we go through seasonal changes, how can we invite pleasure, flexibility, and strength in our bodies?
In this series we journey through the body’s landscape and find support as spring arrives. Using Anna Halprin’s somatic approach, we get in touch with ourselves physically, emotionally, and mentally, and discover our inner resources.
April 27 | 9am-12pm PDT | $50
This half-day workshop will provide a process for participants to connect with themselves through self-portraiture.
Fridays, May 3, 10, 24, 31 (skip May 17) | 10am-12pm PDT | $80 for the series
This 4-session series will offer participants the opportunity to delve into artmaking and expression in service of healing. Each week will include movement/dance, drawing, creative writing, and an opportunity for sharing in a supportive community. The arts have a power to support us on our healing journeys, and each week will provide guided explorations through the arts to engage with our challenges and resources to support that healing
Held at the renowned Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California
July 29-August 2, 2024
For more information and to register, click HERE.
Since time immemorial, movement, dance, and the expressive arts have provided individuals and communities with a sense of soulful expression, healing, inspiration, spirit, and connection. We now need to reconnect with these ways more than ever.
Release! Unleash! ¡LIBÉRATE! from burnout to
burning bright together
Saturday, May 25th 12-5pm
Join us for a day of healing arts and movement to reconnect with our
mind, body, spirit, and each other–featuring a diverse mix of over 30
local nonprofit organizations, wellness providers and healing artists at
El Sereno Community Garden!
Intuition. What is it? How important is it? Do you trust it implicitly or do you take it with a grain of salt? Has yours ever led you astray? “Trust your gut” is generally thought to be good advice, but is it? What does it take to know the difference between a faulty assumption and a life-saving hunch?
Soul Motion®: Tenderness at the Heart of the Dance
with Zuza Engler and Scott Engler
Soul is flow, an ever-changing cloudscape of textures, hues, sensations, scents, and feelings. Soul is how the deathless Presence meets and moves a finite human body.
What if one day, you woke up smack in the midst of the human condition with absolutely no need to fix, deny, solve, or transcend anything?
… but rather, willing to dance into a direct experience of this messy, mysterious, and magnificent human life? To discover how our human heart shimmers with the light of eternity, here and now?
This is our day!
Let’s practice together the art of deep listening, effortless connecting, and fluidly expressing what’s been waiting inside, perhaps for too long. Let’s find buried at the heart of pain the portal to an unexpected spaciousness of love.
BODY PRAYER IS A FACILITATED EVENT DEVOTED TO INQUIRY INTO EMBODIED CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH MOVEMENT.
This class is offered every Sunday morning, and led by Zuza or another teacher. It is usually attended by a vibrant & diverse bunch of welcoming and friendly people, some of whom have practiced Soul Motion® for years, while some ~ never before.
A 9-night Feminine Leadership Training at Danyasa Eco-Retreat in Dominical,Costa Rica, April 29 – May 8
Join Temple Body Arts® founder Sofiah Thom for an intimate and potent
experience that will ignite your creative spark, awaken your inner
voice, and reconnect you to your primal power.
A rite of passage into the Temple Body Priestess. For Feminine Leaders Ready to Embody the Wayshower You Were Born to BE
Step into greater leadership as you reclaim your innate gifts and prepare to step out into the world and create a divine impact.
It’s a fact of life for every living being. We live inside it, and can never escape it. We measure it obsessively, from the smallest scale to the galactic. If you lose it, there’s no getting it back. We consider it valuable, yet often think nothing of wasting it. You might think you have plenty of it, only to realize you are running short. Not one of us has any control over it. On one hand, it’s totally arbitrary. On the other, it’s never questioned.
An integrative training to create and nourish the life & work you came here to do.
Did you wake up today, like every other day…
feeling empty and scared, anxious about your future and the future of the earth
A weekend to dance, play and celebrate 20 years of transformative work together
A time in a moving circle with friends old and new
Open to long term students and people with previous experience, this Fall gathering will include movement, peer practice, and circle sharing (perhaps the loveliest part of all).
A MAGICAL EXCURSION INTO OCEANIC MOVEMENT WITH ZUZA, SCOTT, AND THE BIMINI WILD DOLPHIN POD on the beautiful island of Bimini in the Bahamas and the waters around it.
THIS WEEK IS A RELAXING MIX OF:
sailing the open seas, daily dolphin swims and snorkels out there in the azure waters of the Bahamas
Open to every body, this event is a small group excursion into embodiment through motion, deep play, community connection.
Movement passages and mini session demos will be interspersed with partner/triad practices, expressive and integrative interludes (sound, breath, time outdoors), a little teaching, and discussion.
ARE YOU LONGING TO RELAX – WITH SELF, WITH OTHERS, AND INTO THE GREAT MYSTERY THAT WE ALSO ARE?
We will move and be moved, speak from the heart, laugh from the belly, and – last not least – take frequent naps.
Open to every body, this event is a small group excursion into embodiment through motion, deep play, community connection.
Movement passages and mini session demos will be interspersed with partner/triad practices, expressive and integrative interludes (sound, breath, time outdoors), a little teaching, and discussion.
A LONG WEEKEND WITH ZUZA ENGLER IN FREIBURG, GERMANY
What in your heart could use some breath, space, movement, flow, a sprinkle of humor? Where in your life are you called toward a more passionate participation – or toward a deeper letting go?
Libido Deepening 1, Relation Ship residential ongoing group, Bois Le Comte, Belgium
June 6 - June 9
Relation Ship, an Open Floor Tryptytch, residential the beautiful Bois Le Comte in Orval, southern Belgium.
Read More Here
#Libido #residential #Relation #Tryptytch
I am so delighted and very excited to offering this collaboration with the extraordinary and gifted Zuza Engler all the way from California! This is our third collaboration, such creativity, depth, deliciousness, lots of laughter and curiosity comes along every time…
New Moon Dance – In-Person or via Zoom – March 10, April 7th, & every New Moon in ’24!
Harness the power of the moon to manifest your intentions with movement,
self-care practices and affirmations aligned to the natural rhythms of
the world.
The New Moon Dance is based on JourneyDance™ flow tailored to work with the energies of the moon.
“Dreams don’t come true. Dreams are true.” So says Q-Jo Huffington, erstwhile friend and tarot-reading sidekick of Gwendolyn Mati, the protagonist (who happens to be you) in Tom Robbins’ farcical novel, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas.
Let’s gather to whisper and circle from the ground our rites of restoration.
Let’s stand and shout to rally the forces that revitalise our spirited dreams into creative realities.
Let’s surrender our bones to the beat that can hold it all and regenerate our faith in the mystery.
An eruption of soul straight from the heart. Fuelling your spirit & ripping edges wide, the magic of theatre begins here…
This dynamic ritual theatre lab will be produced by The Dallas Movement Collective. This lab will be held on the stage at Hip Pocket Theatre. In response to Gabrielle Roth’s investigation into what it means to be an authentic human being
