Tamalpa Summer Workshop: Movement as Metaphor ~ A Life/Art Process® with Daria Halprin

Held at the historic Mountain Home Studio, Kentfield, California

June 22-26, 2025 | 10 am – 5 pm PT 
Cost (includes a $100 non-refundable, non-transferable deposit): $750
Early registration:  By May 1, 2025 – $700.

Throughout time, movement, dance, and the expressive arts have provided individuals and communities with a sense of soulful expression, healing, inspiration, and connection with community and spirit. In our lives today, we need to reconnect in these ways.

In this workshop, movement, drawing, poetic narrative, individual and group dance, reflective exchanges, performance, and witnessing practices will generate new thresholds of exploration and expression. Away from the distractions of daily life, there will be time to feel and listen deeply to the powerful intelligence of the body, to play and express with imagination through the arts.

Morning sessions will begin with somatic awareness and individual and group movement exploration to tune the physical body to sensation and feeling. Afternoon sessions will facilitate creative encounters with the art mediums of dance, drawing, spoken and written narrative in explorations of relevant themes and personal life experiences.

Participants will:

• Develop body/mind awareness and connection
• Expand creative expression through art-making
• Learn how movement/dance and expressive arts can be applied to their personal process and professional practices
• Experience improvisation and performance designed for the beginner and the experienced alike
• Explore old material in new ways
• Generate new resources to bring into daily life

This workshop is designed for everyone. No previous experience in dance or art is needed. 

For further information about the work and Daria Halprin: www.tamalpa.org

Participants are required to bring their own craypas.

Daria Halprin, MA, REAT, RSMT: co-founding director of Tamalpa Institute, dancer, poet, teacher, and author, is among the leading pioneers in the field of movement/dance and expressive arts education and therapy. Her work bridges the fields of somatic psychology, movement/dance therapy, expressive arts therapy, community-based arts & health education, organizational consultancy, leadership development, social change & performance. Bringing a life-long practice in the arts to her work, published writings include: Coming Alive; The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy; contributing author Expressive Arts Therapy: Principles and Practices; Poesis: Essays On the Future of the Field; and Body Ensouled, Enacted and Entranced.

Payment:

Early registration fee – $700 (with full payment by May 1)

Regular Fee – $750 (after May 1)

Deadlines:

• Last date for early registration: May 1, 2025.
• Refund/cancellation: Full refund (minus the $100 deposit) if cancel by May 22, 2025. No refunds after this date.

QUESTIONS? Contact the Tamalpa office via email at info@tamalpa.org 

** To receive a similar workshop experience, we highly recommend you attend our event at Esalen **