New Somatic Inquiries

Monday, September 23, with offerings from Bonnie Morrissey & Paula Sager, Caryn McHose & Kevin Frank, Chris Aiken, and Susan Bauer.

9-11AM   "Introduction to the discipline of Authentic Movement" 

with Bonnie Morrissey & Paula Sager

Led by Bonnie Morrissey and Paula Sager, faculty members of Circles of Four, an international post-graduate program for those who wish to teach the discipline. They may be joined by other East Coast faculty members.

​The Discipline of Authentic Movement is an embodied awareness practice, offering a bridge between the physicality of our moving bodies and the receptivity of our attention. Moving and being moved, seeing and being seen, in relationship we move closer to our essential embodied nature through the development of the inner witness. The maturing of witness consciousness deepens empathic resonance and supports greater capacity for insight and compassion.

PAULA SAGER and BONNIE MORRISSEY are long-time students of Janet Adler, and faculty members of the Circles Of Four program since its inception in 2014. Their full bios may be found on www.disciplineofauthenticmovement.com  Bonnie and Paula teach in the US and Canada. Bonnie’s home studio is in Vermont; Paula’s home studio is in Rhode Island.


9-11AM   "Normalized Stability--An Indicator of Structural Integration" 

with Caryn McHose & Kevin Frank

A Rolf Movement® workshop based on conscious attention to gravity orientation, and perceptual approaches to shifts in pre-movement. Changes in pre-movement evoke motor patterns wherein the body elongates as it meets demand--psychological or physical. Integration of this kind leads to an inherent quality of well-being and flow in movement.

CARYN MCHOSE is a Certified Advanced Rolfer™ and Rolf Movement® Practitioner, as well as a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and Certified Biodynamic Cranial Practitioner. She is the collaborator for Bodystories, A Guide to Experiential Anatomy, and The Place of Dance, by Andrea Olsen and is the co-author (with Kevin Frank) of  How Life Moves, Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness. Caryn has taught perceptual approaches to movement education for over 45 years.
 
KEVIN FRANK is a Certified Advanced Rolfer™, Rolf Movement® Practitioner and Rolf Movement® Instructor for the Rolf Institute. He has worked with the Godard-derived Tonic Function Model since 1991 and has written on this topic from 1995 to the present. Kevin advocates for an “information system” view of structural integration to help bring this field of SI into congruence with modern understanding of motor control and perceptive/coordinative processes.

     
1:30-3PM  "Dynamics of Perception and Tone in relation to the Fascial System" 

a lecture with Chris Aiken, introduced by Kevin Frank   

Chris Aiken is an internationally recognized performer and teacher of dance improvisation performance and contact improvisation. He has performed and collaborated with many renowned dance artists including Steve Paxton, Kirstie Simson, Nancy Stark Smith, Peter Bingham, Andrew Harwood, Ray Chung and Angie Hauser, as well as musicians such as Mike Vargas, Peter Jones, Tigger Benford, Philip Hamilton and Andre Gribou.  Chris’ collaboration with Angie Hauser has toured nationally and internationally and been supported by numerous grants from the National Performance Network.  His work has evolved through ongoing investigations of poetics, design, and performance.  It is also grounded by years of research in the science of movement, perception and learning. Chris has received numerous awards for his artistic work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as commissions from the Walker Art Center, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop and the National Performance Network. He is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Smith College and the Five College Dance Department.

5-7PM   “The Embodied Teen: A Somatic Curriculum for Teaching Body-Mind Awareness”

with Susan Bauer

Workshop for Teens and Teachers— Susan Bauer, “Somatics with Teens” based on her book “The Embodied Teen: A Somatic Curriculum for Teaching Body-Mind Awareness”. Co-hosted by Hatchery Dance Company —Teens who love to dance. 
  
Somatic practices help us learn about our bodies and build inner resources to tap into our body intelligence on a regular basis. Basic principles of somatics—like paying attention within and developing a less judgmental ‘inner witness’— can be a key to helping teens to thrive. But how do you make these practices accessible for teens, so they can develop a level of comfort with their own bodies? This workshop will engage teens and adults alike in fun and teen-friendly somatic movement activities that encourage compassion for oneself and others and establish a base for lifelong well-being. Come see how it’s done!

SUSAN BAUER, MFA, RSME/T is a dance and somatic educator and author of The Embodied Teen: A Somatic Curriculum for Teaching Body-Mind Awareness, Kinesthetic Intelligence, and Social and Emotional Skills (2018). She began her teaching career in the Pioneer Valley, and over the past 30 years has taught at middle school, high school and university levels in the U.S. and abroad. Susan is the founder of Embodiment in Education, offers workshops and teacher trainings internationally, and has a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area as a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist. Susan’s passionate vision of a more holistic model of education—inclusive of movement and body/mind awareness—fuels her quest to support the well-being of both adults and youth in these challenging times. www.susanbauer.com
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