Dance of Oneness® Radiant Embodiment Series Module IV: Heart Chakra, Mother Mary and Quan Yin

 

June 1 @ 10:00 am - June 22 @ 11:00 am PDT

|Recurring Event (See all)

| $149

Dance style: Dance of Oneness® Waves & Persian Dance
8-Session Live Online Course with Banafsheh
June 1 – 25
Tuesdays & Fridays @10-11am PT | 5-6pm UTC | Unlimited Access to Recordings

In this 8-Session Module, let the rose of your heart blossom and open your heart to oneness through dance, letting your body become an instrument playing love songs that transmit the healing balm of compassion to wherever it is needed. Step into the infinite through your heart, the gateway to the quantum field of love consciousness. Explore the Sufi Path as the path of living love, and learn to embody love as a state of being from Mother Mary and Quan Yin.

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Online Series: Access and Activate: A Performance Workshop ~ with Joy Cosculluela

 

July 12 @ 10:00 am - August 2 @ 12:00 pm PDT

| $80

In this workshop series we will explore creative pathways to embody vitality. We’ll deepen our movement awareness and expressiveness, and we’ll use performance as a portal to activate our sense of aliveness and presence, and to generate images of renewal. Through the lens of the Life/Art Process, we’ll begin by tuning in to bodily sensations and journey outward by developing our range of movement. Weaving in our imagination, we’ll explore dances of our bones, nerves, and hearts as inspiration for performance. Along the way, we’ll share mini-performances where we witness and are witnessed by others.

 

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Online Series: Body Mapping ~ with Natan Daskal

 

July 2 @ 10:00 am - July 23 @ 11:30 am PDT

| $60

Each part of our bodies is unique: each has developed specific functions, moves in particular ways, and has its own stories to tell and dances to dance. In this 4-part series, we focus on a new area of the body each week. For each body part, we study anatomy and body mechanics, we explore its movement somatically, and we allow its wisdom to express through drawing, creative writing, and dance. By exploring our anatomy experientially and artistically, we connect more deeply with our bodies, creativity, and lived experience.

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Free! Zoom informational session for Level 2 Online Training Program 2021-2022

 

June 16 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT

| Free

Come interact with Level 2 faculty member, Rosario Sammartino, and Tamalpa Program Coordinator, Amy McGrath, as they answer questions about our upcoming Level 2 Online Training Program 2021-2022. It’s a great way to get questions answered, connect with Rosario and Amy, and meet potential cohort members. Learn about the program’s structure, content, and ask any questions you may have involving the Training, our ArtCorps scholarship program, or work exchange.

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Online Series: Restorative Dances ~ with Joy Cosculluela

 

June 1 @ 4:00 pm - June 22 @ 5:30 pm PDT

| $60

In this workshop we begin by giving ourselves restorative touch/ contact to relax and release excess tension and allow ourselves to become more receptive to bodily sensations. Inspired by an integrative movement approach from Anna Halprin’s somatic practice, we find support from our bones, breath, and gravity. Weaving imagery and heightened awareness through our senses and skin, we invite flow and pleasure to come forward in our dancing. At the end of each class, we draw/ write and imagine how our dances can ripple into our daily lives.

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Dance First Memorial Tribute to Anna Halprin courtesy of The Tamalpa Institute

 

This week’s Dance First Member Insight is a tribute to Anna Halprin contributed by The Tamalpa Institute.

Anna Halprin, a dancer and choreographer who sought to move beyond what she saw as the constraints of modern dance and whose experiments inspired, challenged, and sometimes perplexed generations of dancers and audiences, died on Monday at her home in Kentfield, Calif., in Marin County. She was 100.

Fascinated by movement as a child, Ms. Halprin was encouraged by her parents, who enrolled her in dance classes and even occasionally had dance teachers live in their house. She attracted the attention of Doris Humphrey, one of the era’s leading choreographers, but Ms. Halprin knew that her family wanted her to attend college. She instead enrolled in the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which offered a progressive modern dance curriculum.

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“A body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.”

 ~ Anna Halprin

What are you doing with your life? Who are you being? Why are those two questions so important, (and so different?)

This week we mourn the passing of Anna Halprin, who by all accounts lived a long and remarkable life. The Spotlight below from The Tamalpa Institute pays tribute to her life and legacy as one of the leading pioneers in the field of Modern Dance and conscious movement. Seems like a fitting moment to contemplate the difference between doing and being.

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