In-Person Public Workshop at Esalen Institute: Empowering Creativity with DARIA HALPRIN

 

July 31 - August 4

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.

The Life/Art Process®, developed by Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin, bridges body awareness, art expression, and psychological processes, providing people with an opportunity to experience dance and the expressive arts as a way to learn, heal, expand creativity, and develop new strategies for personal and professional life. This groundbreaking, innovative approach to human development, embodied creativity, and transformative learning began in the 1950s, and the tradition continues today.

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Online Series: Celebrating Summer Solstice, Lightening Up with Joy Cosculluela

 

June 12 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

| $55

June 12, 19, and 26 | 10 am – 11:30 am Pacific Time | Cost: $55/series

What would you like to light up in your creative practice? Join us this time of the year to spark your creative fire and connect to your sense of lightness.

We’ll use Anna Halprin’s Movement Ritual & Dance Explorations as somatic resource to relax, guide, and energize our expressive bodies. We’ll explore letting go of unnecessary tension, finding support, and sensing how movement travels through the body. We can discover how lightening up makes room for creativity. In the last session, we’ll interact with our drawings and writings and give voice to what wants to come forward. All are welcome!

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Dance of Oneness®: Poetry in Motion, Dance the Revolution Monthly Live Online Workshop with Banafsheh Sunday, May 28 @10am-12pm PT | 5-7pm UTC

 

May 28 @ 10:00 am - May 29 @ 12:00 pm

Dance mystical poetry into motion for healing yourself and our collective, for creating an inner and outer revolution. Dance to harmonize with the Earth through a full-bodied, robust dancing that makes you fully ALIVE and activates the sacred in your body and in your relationships in this tremendously challenging and creative time to be alive.

Link “Join Now” button to https://danceofoneness.org/poetry-in-motion/

 

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[TranscenDance™] It’s time to flower together!

 

(Register at: https://bti.com/dance)

Spring has sprung! And along with it a full moon with a partial eclipse called the “Flower Moon,” for the May flowers that are in full bloom here in North America.

A powerful way to celebrate the season and harness the power of the Full Moon is during our TranscenDance™ for Purpose & Passion Live Virtual Class (with a Full Moon Celebration), happening Saturday, May 6th at 10am Pacific!

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Dance of Oneness®: Introduction to the Sacred Dance of Whirling 4-week Live Online Workshop with Banafsheh

 

May 20 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

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Saturdays, May 20 – June 10 @10am-12pm PT | 5-7pm UTC

This course demystifies turning, offering access to the Sufi whirling meditation in a few simple steps. An age-old practice of the legendary Sufi masters Rumi and Shams, this practice dissolves mental chatter into the vast ocean of presence, and you begin to simply be… free, present, and wildly inspired. If you long to meditate with movement and feel drawn to truly ground your spirituality in your body and gain practical tools to live with more grace and clarity, this Course is for you. Explore some of the love poems that flowered from Rumi as he whirled, and the symbolism and philosophy of this sacred dance.

 

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Dance First Spotlight on Bay Phil Plays Beethoven!

 

Hello Fellow Dancers! Since you love to dance, we know you’ll thoroughly enjoy the Bay Philharmonic Plays Beethoven happening on June 3 & 4 in Union City.

Bay Philharmonic (formerly Fremont Symphony) presents two high-energy performances featuring internationally award-winning pianist, improviser, and composer Charlie Albright, visionary conductor Jung-Ho Pak, along with the highly entertaining 50-piece Bay Philharmonic.

Tickets are $35 to $67 and are available on the Bay Philharmonic website, bayphil.org.

Contact karin@connsf.net to enter to win a pair of tickets to either performance.

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Monday Love to your Restful Retreats

 

“ In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”

 ~ Albert Camus

When is the last time you truly unplugged? What counts as unplugging nowadays anyway? Why is it so important to occasionally press your metaphysical reset button?

If there’s one thing we can all agree upon, it’s that we probably don’t do it often enough!

For those of us of a certain age, we can remember when life in general was much more unplugged.

It was 30 years ago this week that the Internet sprang to life. Within a decade, pretty much everybody who was anybody was on it.

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