Somatic Movement Arts Festival
OCT 6–11 Los Angeles, CA How do we sustain embodied interaction with our surroundings while connecting with our internal kinesthetic experience? In its third year, this pioneering event enhances somatic awareness in practice, performance, and daily life. A week of workshops, performances, discussions, and jams features artists from diverse somatic modalities including Continuum, Body-Mind Centering, yoga, Moving Theater, Tamalpa Experience, Ideokinesis, Laban/Bartenieff, Authentic Movement, Contact Improvisation, and Axis Syllabus. Fostering physical and perceptual transformation, we deepen our creativity, presence, articulation, self discovery, internal spaciousness, sensory integration, and liquid strength. www.somafest.org
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Symbiosis Annual Gathering
SEP 17–21 Yosemite, CA Symbiosis Gathering is a synaesthesia of art, music, transformational learning, and sustainable living. We will feature performances from over 120 live and electronic musicians, as well as a world-class lineup of speakers, workshops, and special presentations. Large-scale art installations and a variety of interactive performances will create an atmosphere to awe, inspire, and engage. Join us for five days of camping, swimming, and dancing under the sun and stars!
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Water Woman Festival
OCT 1–4 Joshua Tree, CA Water Woman honors the spirit of artistic creative culture-making of the highest order and rides the cutting edge of everything that is happening right now. The festival is a hands-on interactive art and ecological experience featuring top artists, architects, natural builders, permaculture designers, speakers, teachers, musicians, and inspirational visionaries. Festival-goers will have fun, dance, and learn to live in balance with nature; experience cutting-edge alternative technologies; mingle with extreme green artists; help build beautifully and rebirth the site; support the development of eco settlements; and honor The Goddess of Life. Be showered with possibilities! www.waterwomanfestival.com
retreats & workshops BeingLoved: Dance Your Inner Lover
OCT 2–4 Flat Rock, NC With her Nia and Soul Motion influences, Liz Ganz offers a way to deepen the experience and allow the beauty of time to enhance the beingLoved process. This three-day experience starts on Friday evening with a practice of dancing truth, helping participants set the tone and clarify their intentions for the weekend. On Saturday, participants are introduced to the Alchemy of beingLoved, including the Archetypes and what they have to offer you. On Sunday, you will engage in the practice of Dreaming while Awake, where we come to feel the place of no separation, blissful union with self, each other, and all there is. Dreaming while Awake integrates all of the individual desires into ONE loving sensation of beauty. www.beingloved.org
Breema - The Art of Being Present
OCT 10–15 Oakland, CA In this six-day fall intensive, Breema emphasizes a practical approach to body-mind connection in an atmosphere of nonjudgment and mutual support. You'll learn a variety of relaxing, revitalizing SelfBreema exercises and Breema bodywork sequences, expressing the nine unifying principles of Breema through touch and movement. Practicing the art of being present fosters self-understanding and enables us to let go of conditioned patterns and connect to more natural ways of moving, thinking, and feeling. Classes present bodywork sequences that can be combined to create whole-body (foot-to-head) treatments. Time for review and practice is provided in each class. Workshops provide in-depth exploration of different facets of the bodywork and principles of Breema. www.breema.com
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