“These somatic explorations in nature generate new sources of inspiration for your inner life, and provide useful ongoing tools for navigating both personal and professional practice."

Somatic Expression Retreats at Sea Ranch

	Courses: See course calendar See course list

Assisted by Kate Cleary

Fall Residential Retreat
September 17-24
Begins 5pm on 9/17 and ends 1pm on 9/24

$950 - early registration by August 1
$1025 - regular registration
Price includes lodging and food. Private room surcharge-$100

Spring Residential Retreat
March 24-31, 2012
Begins 5pm on 3/24 and ends 1pm on 3/31

$950 - early registration by February 1
$1025 - regular registration
Price includes lodging and food. Private room surcharge-$100

To register for a retreat, send a $200 deposit to:
Jamie McHugh, PO Box 249, Sea Ranch, CA 95497

Credit cards and payment plans also accepted. There are discounts and work-exchange available. Contact Jamie for details.

We are nature. Our bodies are a microcosm of the outer landscape. Leaving the modern world temporarily behind, we take the time to encounter the living dreamscape of our bodies and the natural environment in order to renew and regenerate.

The Fall workshop will focus on the seasonal theme of drawing inward - with an emphasis on interior somatic journeys, and the Spring workshop will focus on the seasonal theme of coming out into the world - with more emphasis on the expressive.

In both workshops, each day begins somatically, exploring your inner landscape with breath, vocalization, contact, movement and stillness. Then, we venture out into the landscape, using the somatic tools as springboards for opening up your sensory mind, interacting with your surroundings, and allowing spontaneous expression to emerge. These embodied interactions with the environment are a moving meditation for becoming more present to both life within and without.

Away from the distractions, constraints and schedules of daily life, this week-long immersion in your interior and in the natural environment offers creative inspiration as well as pragmatic resources for ongoing somatic self-care. Dwelling within the creature comforts of Sea Ranch and the raw vitality of the coast, you are able to relax and enliven your soma and spirit.

We conclude our time together with a special ceremony conducted by a local healer at the Pomo Indian Roundhouse to re-integrate back into life.

Having taught these environmental workshops for the past 24 years, I have found this work to be of particular interest to environmentalists, movement educators, helping professionals and people interested in exploring a creative approach to somatics and the expressive arts in nature.

Click here to read an article from Conscious Dancer magazine about Somatic Expression in Nature.

Somatic expression in nature