Week 1, 10/1: Your Body is Supporting You

Our bones teach us to move from fear towards confidence, with a little help from Shel Silverstein. We'll start with a focus on our own two feet and what it means to stand on them, and then move through the functions of our skeleton for protection, leverage and play!

 

Week 2, 10/8: Your Body is Creating You

Flesh and fluids, and their systems of shedding, renewing and balancing - plus some ancient creation mythology from Scandinavia and Egypt - demonstrate the power of desire. This class will take you on a tour of your pelvis and will include non-verbal, non-contact tasks with a partner in which movement becomes a language for creation.

 

Week 3, 10/15: Your Body is Defining You

The anatomy of the digestive system and the Greek myth of Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, teach us the power of separation. Then our breath, and her mother Demeter's story, demonstrate how to balance the enforcement of our boundaries with the needs of the heart. Expect to sweat hard and breathe deeply on the path to your own body's definition of success.

 

Week 4, 10/22: Your Body is Expressing You

The Mayan legend of how the mockingbird learned to sing guides us through the body's systems for hearing and sharing inner truth. This lesson will explore relationships between movement, breath and sound and is focused on listening to, and speaking in, one's own voice.

 

Week 5, 10/29: Your Body is Guiding You

Instincts and intuition combine as we write our own stories in words, sounds and movement. We will summon the Muse together using the words of Homer, and create a group ritual for each person's individual creative Odyssey. Participants will each work with a story of their own choosing and are encouraged to bring art supplies, musical instruments, or any other materials that enhance their personal brand of storytelling magic! This lesson is for Full Workshop participants only.

​