A movement series exploring embodiment, creativity, and community
3 Fridays, May 15, 22, 29 | 9 – 10:30 AM PDT | $96/series | REGISTER
Tamalpa Grads receive 10% discount
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About the Series
Reconnect with your body’s natural creativity in a welcoming space!
Join us in a movement and dance practice that invites us to listen to the body as a source of insight, healing, and creativity.
In the midst of ongoing change and uncertainty, embodied creative practices can help us feel resourced by restoring vitality, presence, and interrelatedness.
This series welcomes each person’s unique movement expression and lived experience. Rooted in curiosity and care, we cultivate a non-judgmental space for exploration.
Each session offers a supportive structure, including guided movement, creative expression, and reflection.
What We’ll Explore
Working with Anna Halprin’s Integrative Dance approach, we engage our physical, emotional, and mental states of awareness.
Through the structure of Movement Ritual & Dance Explorations, each session focuses on a theme:
• Descending and ascending — sensing cycles of falling and rising in the body
• Rhythmic Pulsing — awakening vitality through rhythm and flow
• Relating to the Environment — moving in connection with space, surroundings, and one another
Creative expression and reflection
Using the tools of Tamalpa Life–Art Process, we integrate movement with drawing and writing to harvest meaning and insight from our experience.
Community
Participants will have opportunities to share discoveries through witnessing and being witnessed in a supportive and respectful environment.
Who This Is For
Open to all. No dance or art experience is required, only a willingness to explore!
Come as you are and discover what emerges.
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 must turn on their cameras to help build a safe container, engender connection, and improve security.
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.
