3 Classes of 3 hours each, May 13, 20, 27th, 2021
5/13 Living the Power of Emotions
Society’s conditioning against emotionality has condemned women for
their very strength, the ability to feel. Listening to the body, and the
amazing possibility of
expressing feeling through dance can help you grow out of shame and into strength, and reclaim this gift.
5/20 Transforming the Roles We Play to get Love and Safety
Transforming the Roles We Play to get Love and Safety
We have been told from early in life how to be and now not to be. A child, dependent for survival upon those who take care of him, has to compromise the discovery of his own aliveness, and listen to these voices. And even though we grow up, and step into our own life, these voices in the unconscious are connected with the way our energy moves, and the way we live our emotions and ability to feel.
Emotional Intelligence Workshop
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Life is a poetry, not a problem.
If you are like most of us, you have learned in life that your feelings
are a problem, something to worry about. Denying emotions causes
anxiety, creates a split inside you which makes you weaker.
When you awaken your emotional aliveness, and reconnect with the natural
flow of emotions and sensitivity, it becomes a poetry again. Then,
feeling ability becomes a strength – rather than something wrong, to be
hidden, avoided or judged.
This week’s Dance First Member Insight is from Sedona-based Maneesha McClure, founder of Dance Alchemy.
Dear Dancers,
In the mid-’60s, Gabrielle Roth arrived at Esalen and began teaching in Fritz Perls’ gestalt workshops. Her teachings focused on getting a society of ‘up in the head’ people to open their bodies and resolve their repressed pain and emotions through dance. At the same time, I was a teenager on the other side of the U.S., marching in Civil rights and peace marches and singing songs of love and freedom.
Do you remember Middle School? Or maybe it was called Junior High, like it was for me. Those years in your educational career that roughly spanned the ages between about eleven and fourteen.
Looking back it might be just a distant memory, and if you were one of the lucky ones, a time you fondly recall. That tightrope between childhood and adolescence, also known as puberty, spans a gulf of emotional awakening that is as treacherous as the Grand Canyon for most.
Without a doubt, the ‘coming-of-age’ years, especially in the modern West, are among the most dramatic and tumultuous eras of life. Modern youth in the West are largely adrift, as rituals or community ceremonies that were common in archaic times are for the most part absent.
A tropical retreat led by Zuza & Scott: a week of wonder at the meeting point of jungle and sea, at Blue Spirit Costa Rica (in one of only five Blue Zones on the planet).
Are you longing to relax – with self, with others, and into the great Mystery that we also are?
Let’s take a winter break together where sweet air & warm ocean water kiss the skin, offering playful rest for body, heart and soul.
With movement sessions offered daily on a spacious schedule – to dance wildly and luxuriate in micro-movements, to listen inside and express what moves us – we will create together a safe space for relaxation, connection, and ease.
We will move and be moved, speak from the heart, laugh from the belly, and – last not least – take frequent naps.
9:00am-1:00pm (pst) each day
12:00pm new york | central european time 18:00 | london 17:00
soul motion: the way of the moving mystic with michael is an intermediate-level program open to all who have movement experience. this is an online immersion.
mysticism is neither a faith nor a belief, nor is it a principle or a dogma. a mystic is born; being a mystic means having a certain temperament, a certain outlook on life. it is for this reason that many are confused by the word mystic because mysticism cannot be explained in plain words.
as somatic practitioners, we continue to unfold and learn within the tradition of conscious dance as a metaphor for understanding the alchemy of our everyday lives.
