“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

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Fall Residential Retreat
September 19 - 24, 2010

$850 - early registration by August 15
$950 - regular registration
All prices include lodging and food

Spring Residential Retreat
March 20 - 25, 2011

$875 - early registration by February 1
$950 - regular registration
All prices include lodging and food

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

Credit cards and payment plans also accepted. Contact Jamie for details.

We are nature. Our bodies are a microcosm of the outer landscape.

These residential retreats feature a 5-day intensive workshop and a ceremony at the Pomo Roundhouse with a native healer. The Spring Equinox workshop will focus on the seasonal theme of coming out into the world, and the Fall Equinox workshop will focus on turning inward.

We begin each day somatically exploring our inner landscape with breath, vocalization, contact, movement and stillness practices. Then, we go out into the environment, using the somatic tools to open our senses, interact with our surroundings, and allow spontaneous expression to emerge. The expressive arts of creative writing, drawing and performance are used to deepen awareness and expand personal creativity. 

Away from the distractions of daily life, this immersion in the body and in the natural environment offers you practical resources for ongoing well-being and creative inspiration. Having taught this workshop for the past 20 years, I have found it 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