Dance Body Earth

Move, explore, inhabit, feel safe and be at home in the body. Remember the forgotten language of your body.

This group celebrates the life of the body-the mysteries, adventures and
potentialities that a human bodily life dances.  It is oriented on intuitive
and scientific experimentation and is an invitation to inhabit a place without
words.  It is " experiential’ because you will perceive, move, and out of the
moving body, source your own understanding and innate, healing wisdom.

Natural dance ,somatic movement, embodied anatomy, embryology  studies, infant movement development, creativity, playfulness and meditation are "
navigating "tools we will be playing with to get to know your own body and its
embodied consciousness .

"Soma"(translated from Greek) means awareness of the body from within and
embodiment is being at home in the body and accessing its cellular
consciousness.  In reality, most lives are lived in dynamic motion, dynamic
relation to other people and the environment and your spiritual practice
needs to support you to deal with this.  Somatic and embodiment tools and
resources support your spiritual practices to be integrated into your daily
life. Resources come from rediscovering and re-establishing a new felt sense of your body in its entirety.  This is happening through a joyful and light
hearted enquiry, experiencing that being absorbed in play is how we learn best.
Inhabiting the body more fully and awakening consciousness of the
embodied resources which we can find in the body systems: working with the map of cells, membranes and fluids, organs, bones, and muscle tissue
as well as the ancient knowing of a fluid endocrine and nervous system.  We come to acknowledge how each body has its own unique language and
each body system has its own natural dance.

We will explore movement as a direct way to perceive sense and express
ourselves.  Movement is life.  Everything in the body moves.  The cells
pulsate, the breath of life expands and contracts, the heart beats, the blood
flows and while many different rhythms are dancing throughout the body,
underneath it all pulses a pervading mysterious life source of stillness.  To
remember this essence, or spirit, empowers and supports the dance of
being just natural.

To reclaim this we will experientially move from where our dance of life
began....our very first cell and access our innate cellular consciousness.  By
re-experiencing how our one original cell grew through movement into a whole human body, we become aware of how this is influencing our perception
of ourselves, others and the environment today.  By bringing consciousness to
this, we have the ability to change.  We are nature.  Our bodies are
part of nature. Experientially being part of it enlivens our body and spirit.

We will be playing in nature, with our somatic tools to support opening our
senses and minds to make contact with the outer landscape.  Movement,
touch, breath and stillness are the preverbal somatic languages of the body/mind system.  Integrating and embodying them creates inner conditions to support natural response to the outer environment.  A lot of energy in today’s
civilization goes into discussing the ecology, with all of its doom and
gloom statistics, often overwhelming people with despair. It is hard to hold a
space for hope when fear arises.  In this seminar we will be regaining our
trust, resources and health orientation. Returning to a direct sensory meeting
with the natural environment can awaken a powerful passion and
connection.  We will be opening to nature, and re-organizing our civilized
bodies to creatively embody our earthly nature (we are "Earthlings" after all).

By re-experiencing how our one original cell grew through movement into a whole human body , we become aware of how this is influencing our
perception of ourselves, others and the environment today.  The somatic elements give you resources and security to abandon habit and play with
something new.  Each day begins somatically settling into and exploring our
inner landscapes with movement, sensing, touch, contact, expression,
visualizing, breath, and stillness practices.  We will be taking this embodied
exploration of being in our bodies into the landscape. The
interaction with nature becomes a moving meditation where you practice being
present to both the inner and outer life as one dance.

The body is the greatest mystery in
the whole of existence. This
mystery needs to be loved -its
mysteries, its functions to be
intimately inquired into."
Osho

‘We can never obtain peace or environmental stability until we create peace
within ourselves.’
Dalai Lama

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