“If you can walk, you can dance. And if you can talk, you can sing.” – Pygmy saying

	Courses: See course calendar See course list

May 27-29, 2011
Langen Institute, Dusseldorf, Germany
Friday evening - Sunday afternoon
For registration online, go to
www.praeha.de/somaticexpression

October 14, Austin, Texas
The Sanctuary 1006 South 8th St.
6-9 pm $30-$45 (sliding scale)
Contact Kate Cleary
www.amalafoundation.org

Somatic Expression - letting the soma (thinking body) express itself - is a creative approach to physical practice, mind-body integration, and expressive dance. Based on learning what nature has given us as human bodies, this method is a way to understand, explore and master your own soma from the inside out. We start with the five languages of somatic experience:

• Movement
• Breath
• Vocalization
• Contact
• Stillness

In this workshop, we will explore the creative and expressive capacity of the soma with these five somatic languages to dance with more ease, freedom and pleasure in the present moment. Each of these languages is explored separately and then orchestrated in layers and overlapping patterns to create a multi-faceted embodied experience. Rather than duplicating an outer form, the dance naturally arises from attention to your inner landscape through proprioception (your body’s perception). And guided by the elements of sensation, imagination, awareness, and relationship, an integrated path for discovering more of your own authentic expression appears.

Somatic Expression has been applied over many years in a variety of environments with different populations – people with life-threatening illnesses, students of expressive arts therapy and holistic health education, artists, educators, therapists, and bodyworkers.

See the article Somatic Expression - Learning Nature's Languages for more information.

Suitable for all levels of participation.

Somatic expression workshop.
photo by Hilary Nichols.