Online Series: Artfully Nurturing the Ribcage, the Vessel of Life With Joy Cosculluela, RSME/MT

As we step into the New Year, we come alive to the potent dances that live in our ribcage, the vessel of life. The ribcage, housing vital organs such as the lungs and heart, works not only as a protective framework but also serves as a conduit for breath, emotion, and vitality.

This workshop aims to heighten kinesthetic awareness, release creative expression, and spark transformation.

We’ll begin by grounding our bodies into the earth and tuning in to our breath. We’ll sense the cycle of inhalation and exhalation, the lifeblood of movement. We’ll explore dances of contracting, expanding, and shifting our posture in space. What images arise when we breathe, when we contain, release, and change our shape?

Tapping into the rhythms of the heartbeat, we’ll find our direct link to the energetic and emotional quality of the ribcage. We’ll explore our pulsing dances, the upbeat and the downbeat. We’ll notice how these forces evoke heavy and light states, energy, and emotion. If these dances could speak, what would they say?

At the end of the series we’ll put together our dances as an artful dedication to the life of the ribcage. Drawing and writing give voice to the unique stories that emerge from this vessel of life.

Participants will come away with resources that enliven their creative explorations for the new year.

Please have a comfortable space to move, and have drawing and writing materials on hand.

Open to all. No dance or art experience needed. Only a willingness to explore!

To get the most out of this online series, please prepare a comfortable space to move in with access to your online device. Also, have art supplies ready at hand for drawing activities, and paper and pen for journaling and creative writing exercises.

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.

Joy Cosculluela, RSME, MFA, CMT, (she/her) 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 guest teacher at SF State, University of Washington, Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants, Nature Talks, and Body-Mind Centering Association. She holds an MFA Interdisciplinary Arts from God-dard College, is artistic director of Performance Lab SF and is core faculty at Tamalpa Institute in Kentfield, CA.

PLEASE NOTE: Your registration will be done via Eventbrite.  If you have questions about how to access the classes after you register, please email Workshops at Tamalpa. 

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