Summer Movement Explorations: Restore, Reconnect, Reimagine
Online Studio Workshop
With Joy Cosculluela, RSME/MT
Friday, August 14th
9:00am – 12pm Pacific
Cost: $60, grads: $54 (10% discount)
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As summer ripens, we gather to restore our energy, reconnect with ourselves and one another, and reimagine what is ready to emerge.
This workshop invites us to move in community and listen to the living rhythms of the body. What is growing? What feels nourishing? What is asking to be expressed?
Together, we’ll explore these invitations through somatic practice, movement, and creative expression.
Inspired by Anna Halprin’s Movement Ritual and Dance Explorations, we’ll explore spinal rotations and spiral forms that invite movement from the center outward. As we move, we’ll practice releasing unnecessary tension, restoring ease and fluidity. Through explorations of space, shape, and earth’s support, we’ll spark the imagination and awaken new possibilities.
Using the vibrant tools of the Tamalpa Life/Art Process, we’ll integrate our experiences through drawing and writing, giving voice to the story that emerges.
Open to all. No dance or art experience is required, only a willingness to explore!
What You’ll Need
- A comfortable space to move freely (including the floor and space around you)
- Drawing and writing materials
IMPORTANT NOTES:
Participants must have a Zoom account and be logged into that account to attend. The Zoom account must match the email that they registered with.
The meeting will be locked 15 minutes after the start time – so participants will need to arrive before then.
All participants are strongly encouraged turn on their cameras to help build a safe container, engender connection, and improve security. If you have a specific reason for keeping your camera off, please communicate this to the Zoom host at the start of the workshop.
To get the most out of these online classes, please prepare a comfortable space to move in with access to your online device and reliable internet service. If you are using a handheld device, such as a pad or phone, please be sure to use a stand for your device so that it is held securely in place. You will want to have your hands free and be able to move freely and safely during movement exercises without worrying about your device falling. Have art supplies ready at hand for the drawing activity and paper and pen for journaling and creative writing exercises.
Workshops are for ages 18+ only and disability access is not provided.
While this workshop can be therapeutic and personally meaningful, it is offered as a creative and educational experience and is not psychotherapy or a substitute for mental health care.
Photo by Rick Chapman
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 participant privacy.
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 Humanitix. Registration will close at the start of class.
Refunds will only be given if cancellation is received at least 48 hours before the start of the workshop.
