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January-June 2022
Fourth Gathering: Tiffany Madera of Hanan Arts
Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
6:00PM -7:30PM EST / 3:00PM-4:30PM PST
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Third Gathering: Alfons Grabher
Thursday, March 31st, 2022
6:00PM-7:30PM EST / 3:00PM-4:30PM PST
"Why don't you just say what you want to say? How can we ever find the right words within the infinite possible combinations of words and sounds of a spoken language? And furthermore: Can we compare spoken language to physical movement? For example, in spoken language, would the repeated shouting of a single word be the equivalent to the repeated execution of a single motion? And consequently, would telling a longer story be the equivalent to a longer movement sequence? In movement, what would constitute a congruent story? What makes or breaks the grammar of movement? In this context I will present a selection of movement sequences from Somatic Education, inspired by Moshé Feldenkrais, to experience the pelvis like we might experience the subject, object or verb in a sentence, or the agonist, or antagonist, or a side character, or maybe even the setting in a story. Does any of this make any sense? What do we need to make sense of movement? In popular media we see famous clinical psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists produce a lot of very elaborate and complex spoken language, but why don't we see them teach equally sophisticated movement classes? Let's find out!"
Alfons Grabher born in 1974 in Vienna, Austria, is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, and a graduate Engineer from the University of Applied Sciences, Vienna, specialized in Biomedical Engineering. Alfons has worked for over a decade as a Software Engineer, and since 2006 as a Feldenkrais Practitioner.
His Youtube channel “Improving Ability” (formerly named “Feldenkrais with Alfons”) ranked #1 on Feedspot’s Top 20 Feldenkrais Youtube Channels in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. He is author of several books: an introduction to Feldenkrais classes “My Feldenkrais Book”, a workbook with movement lessons “Getting Better Day By Day”, and an inquiry into language, essay writing and movement instructions in his book “Movement Based”.
Alfons works with clients via video chat and in person. Before the COVID-19 lockdowns, for a period of 5 years, he had his own studio in Bregenz, Austria. His website in German language features a journey of 60 class recordings in German language, and is one of the most visited Feldenkrais related websites in German language.
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Second Gathering: Justin Morris
Thursday, February 24th, 2022
6:00PM-7:30PM EST / 3:00PM-4:30PM PST
"I feel the most at home when I am with my friends on the dance floor and we are getting our lives, creating a portal to a world otherwise, where liberation and pleasure can be found. This offering hopes to foster a space where we will turn inwards as a collective in hopes of manifesting a sense of release across dimensions; physically, mentally, and spiritually. The offering will build upon and use the improvisational structures and movement practices of twerking, the Feldenkrais method, Bartenieff fundamentals, and ratchet music as a bridge to getting to this multidimensional release for the individual and the collective."
Justin Morris (they/them, fluctuating pronouns) is a transdisciplinary artist, teacher, and community advocate based in Southern California. They began cultivating their practice at a young age at family functions and have continued to tie and ground their work in blackness, queerness, playfulness and ratchedry. Justin has performed/collaborated in performances and dance-based works with artists Jay Carlon, Sue Roginski and Kirsten Johansen, Kevin Williamson, Alex Shilling, Colleen Thomas, visual artist David Lamelas, Rebecca Bryant, Rosa Rodriguez-Fraiser, and Summation Dance Company. Justin holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from CSU Long Beach’s Department of Dance and was recently a faculty member at Renaissance High School for the Arts in Long Beach. They are currently pursuing graduate studies at University of California Riverside in Experimental Choreography.
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First Gathering: Jessica Garet of Aire Healing
January 27th, 2022
6:00PM-7:30PM EST / 3:00PM-4:30PM PST
Jessica Garet from Aire Healing : In this session, Jessica will discuss how our body, especially our pelvis, holds the potential for our greatest creativity and connection to our vitality and authentic expression. She will invite and guide us in exploring how breath can help us to uncover energetic blocks stored in our body and use the body’s wisdom to access increased sensations of safety and a return to feeling a deeper sense of belonging. The intention is that if the body and spirit can remember their innate gifts of safety, connection, pleasure, and expansion then the energy of trauma, loss, grief, and pain will have a greater ability to flow and be liberated.
Jessica Garet (she/her) is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in body/spirit-based experiential practices for healing including breath work and somatic/sensation-based inquiry. As an arts enthusiast and vocalist, Jessica has a particular interest in working with creative professionals, helping them to navigate creative energetic blocks and nurture their inner voice. She has been holding space for healing since 2006 and presently offers individual and group work online only.
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