Past Classes - Fall 2006
The following classes are taught by Suzanne River with Guest Teachers.
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
SO1 -- Conscious Embodiment: Intro to Global Somatics™
“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!”
3-Day Intensives, 10 – 6pm daily, $270
Oct 6 -- 8 (register by Sept 22)
Nov 17 – 19 (register by Nov 3)
Held at Green River Dance Studio in Lindstrom, MN
Pre-requisites: None
 If you are seeking a dynamic, experiential understanding of your Natural Body and an approach to exploring it with others Conscious Embodiment is for you! Global Somatics is a powerful and pioneering approach to experiential anatomy, developmental movement and the energy field created by Suzanne River. This three-day workshop will draw from the Global Somatics curriculum to meet the desires of the particular students. Every Conscious Embodiment workshop is unique! Through breath, energy, movement, touch, voice, and process you will uncover the living intelligence of your body. You will come home to yourself.
- 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
- Integrate your physical body and energy body
DM1 -- Developmental Movement I: The RRR Reflexes, Righting Reactions and Equilibrium Responses
“This course awakened my most dynamic, uninhibited expression.... helping me to move and speak in an integrated way.”
Wednesdays, 1:30 - 4:45, Sept 6 - Dec 6 (no class 11/22)
$590, 42 hours, 13 classes, No Prerequisites
Held at the Movement Arts Center, 211 East Franklin Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55404 612.333.8635, www.movementartscenter.org
The RRR activate all vital and integrated movement. The body holds hundreds of potential action loops of stimulus-response that bridge your inner world and the outer environment. 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 Global Somatics™secret of successful touch and movement repatterning -- the creative encouraging of another person's innate readiness to change. You will:
- Study, explore and integrate the RRR through information, movement, touch and psycho-physical process.
- Use the RRR to enhance relationship dynamic to self, others and the earth
- Activate skills to approach and withdraw, roll, change levels, bear weight, verticality, travel, and balance
- Apply the RRR to the three planes of movement -- horizontal, vertical and sagittal
- Integrate the RRR with contact improvisation, dance composition and infant development
BS1 -- Following Flow: Embodying the Fluids System
“The fluids help me connect with the ever-changing ebb and flow of life within me.”
Thursdays, 9:30 - 12:45, Sept 7 - Dec 7 (no class 11/22)
$590, 42 hours, 13 classes, No Prerequisites
Held at the Movement Arts Center, 211 East Franklin Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55404 612.333.8635, www.movementartscenter.org
Fluid harmony nurtures whole body health, personal presence, playfulness, authentic relationships and nonverbal communication. The living water of the body reveals itself in tides. These tides are the essential expression of the healing intelligence within the Natural Body. The ten major fluids of the body emerge from this one flow. They are water, cellular, transitional, intercellular, synovial, blood, lymph, cerebral spinal fluid, fascia and fat. 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. You will:
- Understand the physiology of the fluids
- Embody the qualities of specific fluids through movement, touch and voice with improvisation and Global Somatics™ techniques
- Explore the alchemy of balance between fluid, membrane and vibration
- Recognize psychophysical characteristics of each fluid
- Learn to tap into all your fluids, familiar and less developed
- Experience natural re-creation through rest and action
- Apply the fluids to bodywork, movement therapy and visual and performance art
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