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Past Classes - Fall 2005
The following classes are taught by Suzanne River.
Teacher’s Bio: Suzanne River is the only certified teacher of Body-Mind Centering® in Minnesota. She has trained personally with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and taught this work for 24 years. Suzanne is the founder, educational director, and primary teacher of Green River Dance for Global Somatics™, a space where people come together for personal and planetary transformation by sharing the universal language of the body.
Registration: Register three weeks before the beginning of class to assure a place! Download registration form and mail with a $50 deposit to: Suzanne River 10700 Lindo Trail, Lindstrom, MN 55045
651-257-8697 dance@globalsomatics.com
Conscious Embodiment
3-Day Introduction to Body-Mind Centering® with Suzanne River
“This adventure was truly magical moving from the inside out. I felt safe and free to research the mystery of my bones, organs, muscles and fluids. I learned so much in a short time that felt timeless!”
Location: Green River Dance in Lindstrom, MN
Aug 5 - 7 or Sept. 16 - 18 or Nov. 4 - 6
9:30 a.m. -5:30 p.m.
$270
 If you are seeking a dynamic, experiential understanding of your own body-mind relationship and an approach to exploring it with others Conscious Embodiment is for you! Body-Mind Centering® is a powerful and pioneering approach to experiential anatomy and development created by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen over the past 40 years. During this three day intensive, Certified BMC Teacher Suzanne River, draws from the vast BMC curriculum to weave classes based on the desires of the particular students. Every Conscious Embodiment workshop is unique! Through breath, movement, touch, voice, and process you will uncover the living intelligence of your body. You will come home to yourself.
In this workshop you will:
- Develop a consciousness from a cellular level
- Explore your movement, mind, and touch from your bones, organs, muscles, nerves, and fluids
- Evolve personally through doing developmental dances
- Expand your skills in movement, bodywork, yoga, athletics, and other body-mind disciplines
Following Flow: Embodying the Fluids System
“The fluids flushed out old traumas and opened me up to a whole new way of playing in life! I am more comfortable moving with a variety of qualities and in different relationships.”
Location: 2242 University Ave., Suite 214, St. Paul, MN
Sep 6 -- Dec 13 (no class Oct 11) Tues 9:30 a.m. -- 12:30 p.m.
$550 39 hours 13 classes No Pre requisites
The living water of the body expresses itself in tides. The eight major fluids of the body emerge from this one flow. They are water, cellular, transitional, intercellular, synovial, blood, lymph and cerebral spinal fluid. The fascia and fat are semi-viscous fluids. Each fluid inspires certain qualities of movement, touch, sound and consciousness. The fluids offer easy access to the body systems and the developmental movement patterns. Fluid harmony nurtures personal presence, playfulness in learning, ease in making relationships and in communicating non-verbally.
- Understand the physiology of the fluids, fascia, fat and cell membranes
- Explore the alchemy of balance between fluid, membrane and vibration
- Embody the qualities of specific fluids through movement and touch with improvisation and BMC techniques
- Recognize psychophysical characteristics of each fluid and fluid combinations
- Discover your personal fluid affinities/shadows and those of others
- Experience natural re-creation through rest and action
- Apply the fluids to bodywork, movement, voice, visual and performance art
Readiness to Relate: Embodying the Reflexes
Excellent class for athletes, contact improvisers and anyone working developmentally with children!
Location: 2242 University Ave., Suite 214, St. Paul, MN
Sep 6 -- Dec 13 (no class Oct 11) Tues 2:30 p.m. -- 5:30 p.m.
$550 39 hours 13 classes No Pre requisites
The body holds hundreds of potential action loops of stimulus-response that bridge the inner world and the outer environment. The RRR underlie all integrated movements. The reflexes, active in the spinal cord and hindbrain, establish your basic survival patterns. The righting reactions of the midbrain support your continuous vertical posture with gravity. The equilibrium responses of the forebrain help maintain dynamic balance. Embodiment of the RRR offers you entry into the BMC secret of successful touch and movement repatterning -- the creative enticing of another person's innate readiness to change.
- Name, explore and integrate the RRR through touch, movement, voice and mind
- Differentiate and apply the RRR to the three planes of movement -- horizontal, vertical and sagittal
- Use the RRR for relating to self, others, earth and space; gathering and reaching, taking hold and letting go, rolling, weight bearing, vertical uprightness, locomotion and equilibrium
- Apply the RRR to the practice of contact improvisation, dance composition and movement therapy
- Learn how the RRR are helpful for facilitating normal infant development
Vibrational Aspects ™ I: Embodying the Energy System
Green River Dance Center, Lindstrom, MN
Dec. 1-4 2005 (Thur - Sun) 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
$500 Limit 8 Register by Nov. 4 $100 deposit
Prerequisite: Minimum two years of BMC and interview
The Vibrational Aspects™ system developed through Suzanne River is a noninvasive, creative facilitation of the energy body and physical body. Students will deepen their kinesthetic and proprioceptive sensitivity to patterns of the electromagnetic field that surrounds and permeates the physical body. Vibrational Aspects™ is taught in the format of a sacred laboratory in the art/science of vibration that applies embodiment principles/techniques to the aura.
Vibrational Aspects™ applications include:
- Self-awareness, meditation and development of intuition
- Skills in Clairesentience
- Teaching and sensitivity to the "Mind of the room"
- Repatterning and the release/recycling of energy
- Diagnostic protocols that facilitate efficient treatment
- Ability to practice in situations where the physical body cannot be touched such as surgery, tactile defensiveness and long distance
- Facilitation of the life transitions of birth and death
You will:
- Learn the art of grounding, connecting, containing and creating sacred space.
- Receive Reiki I training and attunement I
- Learn of esoteric mappings of the auric body and physics
- Differentiate and integrate the seven aspects of self - Physical, Energetic, Emotional, Mental, Soul, Spirit and Genesis of Spirit.
- Begin to embody the system of energy centers (chakras)
Vibrational Aspects™ II is scheduled for June 8-11, 2006 with VA I as prerequisite. VA II further embodies the specific chakras, their affinities with specific tissues, thorough diagnostic energy reading, non-local (long distance) protocols and practice, and applications of Vibrational Aspects™.
The classes below are offered by
Amy Patee, Certified Global Somatics Practitioner.
Amy teaches a variety of other classes and workshops. For her complete schedule visit www.one-yoga.com.
Classes are held at:
ONE Yoga Studio, 2100 B Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN.
Pre-Registration Required, Contact ONE at 612-827-6347 or visit www.one-yoga.com for more details and to register.
Moving Meditation, A 6-Week Series
Mondays, Sept 12 - Oct 17, 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m., $75
Explore the continuum from movement to stillness! This series is open to anyone with a desire to move and live more joyfully in his/her body. In this series you will:
- Learn to create sacred space through ritual and intention
- Be led in a full-bodied, fluid warm-up
- Explore open movement structures that facilitate 1.) embodied presence, 2.) deep inner listening, 3.) self-initiated free-form dance/movement, and 4.) self-knowledge and healing.
No experience necessary. Please wear comfortable clothes.
Intro to the Muscular System, A 6-Week Series
Wednesdays, Sept 7 - Oct 12, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., $75
Find more grace, ease, and fluid strength in your asana practice! This hands-on, interactive “touch and movement lab” is open to anyone desiring a deeper connection to and understanding of their body. You will:
- Learn basic muscle anatomy (name, location--origin/insertion, and actions), and skeletal anatomy
- Explore creative ways to stretch, strengthen, and balance your muscles
- Experience fun, hands-on, experiential learning rather than text-book memorization
Wear comfy clothes, and bring a notebook, pen, and an anatomy book if you have one.
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