Mondays, October 14, 21, 28, November 4 | 10 am – noon Pacific Time | Cost: $116
Please note: Tamalpa does not record nor permit the recording of any classes or workshops due to the sensitive and sometimes vulnerable nature of the work, and to protect student privacy.
This series is dedicated to remembering and reimagining ourselves, to honor our relationships with the land and our ancestors, to generate resources that lead us to a fuller experience of who we are.
We work with embodied creative mapping to guide us in our journey of asking “Who am I? Where do I come from?” Grounded in the Indigenous principle that we are interconnected in this great web of life, we use multiple pathways through the Life-Art Process to explore rootedness, to notice how it shows up in our lives.
We activate our somatic-expressive bodies and awaken physical sensations, emotions and imagination. We explore how our body is rooted to the earth, how we rise and spread, how we pulse and flow. In mirroring earth’s body, we see that we are part of, not separate, from nature.
As we move through space and time, we enter into a creative dialog with the land, ancestors, and other beings that are part of our lives. What stories do they tell? Through dancing, art-making, and story-telling, we honor our history, relationships and memories. With curiosity and openness we allow these stories to give us a sense of where we belong.
With care, we hold space for witnessing and being witnessed by ourselves and by others.
Through ritual, we gather objects that have meaning and create an offering to generate resources for healing and inspiration.
At the end of the series, each person will create a self-portrait that honors their rootedness.
Please have a comfortable space to move and have drawing and writing materials ready. Participants will be invited to bring other objects as part of the creative process.
Photo of Joy Cosculluela, SOIL. Photo by Click Dominic
Joy Cosculluela (she/her) RSME, MFA, CMT, resides in the ancestral lands of the Ohlone people, otherwise known as SF Bay Area. Joy is a performing artist, somatic educator, and artistic director of Wayfinding Performance Group, a multicultural ensemble of artists in SF. She was associate teacher and dancer with Anna Halprin and The Sea Ranch Collective. Joy has collaborated with numerous Bay Area artists and has worked as a guest teacher at San Francisco State, University of Washington, Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants, Nature Talks, and Body-Mind Centering Association. She holds an MFA Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College, is artistic director of Performance Lab San Francisco and is core faculty at Tamalpa Institute in Kentfield, California. wayfindingperformance.com
Registration will take place on Eventbrite. Upon payment you will be given access to register for the class series through Eventbrite and emailed instructions on how to receive your Zoom link for the class. If you do not receive a confirmation email from Eventbrite, please email Workshops at Tamalpa immediately.
Payment
$116/series
- Registration closes 9:00AM Pacific Time the first day of the series.
- Refunds will only be given if cancellation is received at least 48 hours before the start of the class.
