Past Classes - Winter-Summer 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
10% discount on one course for dancers, body workers and yoga teachers except SO5 & SO6!
SOI--Conscious Embodiment: Intro to BMC™
“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!”
Green River Dance Center, Lindstrom, MN
Intensive Jan 27 – 29, May 12 - 14, Jul 7 – 9, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
$270
Prerequisite: None
 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
BS2--Knowing Bones: Embodying the Skeletal System
Location: 2242 University Ave., Suite 214, St. Paul, MN
Jan 17 -- Apr 25, Tues 9:30 a.m. -- 12:30 p.m.
$590, 42 hours, 14 classes
Prerequisite: None
The skeletal system grounds the self in its core architecture. Your bones contain your organs and allow you to move through space. Alignment of the bones affects respiration, circulation, digestion and brain functions. Embodying the bones frees movement, organizes thinking and brings clarity, effortlessness and form to one's life.
- Meet and know every bone and joint in your body by name, touch, movement and sound
- Learn special BMC techniques and principles that communicate with the bones and enhance effortless movement
- Discover skeletal lines of force that integrate the limbs with the spine
- Evaluate and repattern skeletal alignment and movement imbalances
- Engage the three layers of the bone and bone cells
BS3--Organic Dance: Embodying the Organ System
Location: 2242 University Ave., Suite 214, St. Paul, MN
Jan 17 -- Apr 25, Tues 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
$590, 42 hours, 14 classes
Prerequisite: None
Your organs are the home of your authentic self -- emotions, memories, desires and dreams. They are responsible for your internal survival through breath, nourishment and elimination. Embodied organs support postural tone and bring volume and three-dimensionality to movement. You will increase your internal comfort, expand your emotional range and tap sources of inspiration and passion.
- Learn how to breathe, move, sound and touch from each of your organs through BMC techniques and improvisation
- Discover the relationships between the bones and the organs
- Analyze and repattern imbalances in individual organs and the system without harmful intervention
- Express your creative self through art and singing
- Apply organ work to yoga asanas
SO2--Breathing Freely: Embodying the Breath
Green River Dance Center, Lindstrom, MN
Intensive Apr 7– 9, 10:00 a.m. -- 6:00 p.m.
$300
Prerequisite: None
Enjoy the vital nature of breath as you embody the parts of the body that participate in this dance! You will improvise with breath, movement and touch. In this workshop you will:
- Experience the BMC principles of “expression/ shadow, support precedes movement and taking out the slack”
- Explore conscious breathing through external respiration (lungs), internal respiration (cellular) and light respiration (the energy field)
- Access the lobes of your lungs, bronchial tree and nasal conchae
- Balance the pelvic, thoracic, shoulder, vocal, and cranial diaphragms
- Gain awareness of your own breathing patterns and facilitate breath repatterning in others
- Practice specific breath and movement patterns
DM2--Developmental Movement II: The Pre-Vertebrate Patterns
Location: 2242 University Ave., Suite 214, St. Paul, MN
May 9 – Jun 6, Tues 9:30 a.m. -- 12:30 p.m.
$235, 15 hours, 5 classes
Prerequisite: None
Your original movement patterns emerge in the womb. Not only did these fetal dances facilitate your growth but they also expressed your identity and perceptions. These pre-vertebrate patterns prepared you for birth and are the templates for your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual movements. They are called the Basic Neurological Patterns (BNP) because they create the learning networks of the brain. As humans, our developmental movements mirror those of our animal relations through our shared evolutionary heritage. These patterns include Vibration (molecules), Cellular Breathing (one cell), Sponging (sponge), Pulsation (jelly fish), Navel Radiation (starfish), Mouthing (sea squirt) and Pre-Spinal (lancelot amphioxus).
- Explore the pattern of Condensing and Expanding Yield
- Embody the pre-vertebrate patterns through movement, touch, sound and consciousness
- Facilitate developmental repatterning in yourself and others
- Practice BNP movement sequences
- Apply these patterns to bodywork, meditation, yoga, infants and ecology
BP2--Singing Fully: Embodying the Voice with Marilyn Habermas-Scher & Suzanne River
Location: 2242 University Ave., Suite 214, St. Paul, MN
May 9 -- Jun 6, Tues 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
$250, 15 hours, 5 classes,
Prerequisites: Breathing Freely
Your voice reflects how vibration meets the gravity of all of your body systems. You express who you are by how you sound, sing and speak. As you bring auditory and kinesthetic awareness to your physical vocal mechanism, you open communication channels for your natural self.
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- Embody the anatomy and physiology of breathing and vocalization (pharynx, larynx, body cavities, lips, tongue)
- Practice activating the pharynx and other cavities to create resonating vowel sounds
- Differentiate and integrate the cartilages and muscles of the larynx in the production of pitch and intensity
- Increase awareness of your breathing and vocal patterns and facilitate repatterning in others
- Explore the development of vocalization
- Use sound to transform tissues
SO3--Vibrational Aspects™: Embodying the Energy System
Location: 2242 University Ave., Suite 214, St. Paul, MN
June 8 – 12, 9:30 a.m. -- 5:30 p.m.
$530, Limit 8, Register by May 1 with $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 energy field. Vibrational Aspects!" applications include:
- Self-awareness, meditation and development of intuition
- Skills in Clairsentience and energetic perception
- Teaching and sensitivity to the "Mind of the room"
- Repatterning and the release/recycling of energy between the physical body and the energy field
- 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
In this workshop you will:
- Learn the art of grounding, connecting, containing and creating sacred space.
- Receive Reiki I training and attunement
- Learn esoteric mappings of the energy 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) and align with physical tissue affinities
SO5--Moving Perceptions: Embodying the Natural Senses with Suzanne River & Amy Patee
Grand Marais, Michigan
Intensive Jul 16 – 19
$300
Prerequisite: None
During this retreat, you will open your senses to the mysteries of Nature. You will deepen your connection to yourself and your oneness with the beauty and power of Nature. This playshop includes:
- Guided explorations to embody the senses of touch, movement, taste, smell, hearing and vision
- Introduction to the Body-Mind Centering® Approach and Taoist perspective on the senses and perception
- Gentle Yoga and grounding in the physical body
- Communing and communication with Nature
- Creative Arts expressions (journaling, painting, sculpture, movement and voice)
- Community experience
- A private Global Somatics™ session with Suzanne or Amy
For housing information for Michigan Workshops, go to www.grandmaraismichigan.com. Because the workshop is offered at peak season, we recommend early rental. Also check out cabins for rent by Sandee Sibbald at 517 494 2350 and Mike and Chris Lawless at 517 627 6466 or chlw@juno.com.
SO6--Embodied Contact Improvisation with Jane Shockley & Suzanne River
Grand Marais, Michigan
Intensive Jul 23 – 29
$300
Prerequisite: None
Join the dynamic combination of Jane Shockley, (Contact Improvisation teacher) and Suzanne River, (BMC™ Teacher) at Pictured Rocks National Seashore in Michigan's wild Upper Peninsula for a week of workshops-jams! Take a vacation, artist retreat or continuing education! This workshop is open to anyone interested in Contact Improvisation and BMC™. We will explore the connection and application of experiential development and anatomy to Contact Dancing.
- Daily BMC™ classes in the bones, organs, fluids and development movement patterns
- Daily Contact Improvisation classes with structured explorations and open dancing
- Nightly jams and performances
- Personal time daily to enjoy the abundance of Nature
- Space to focus on your own creative projects with some additional inspiration
- Availability of bodywork
- Opportunity to network with awesome people from all over the world
For housing information for Michigan Workshops, go to www.grandmaraismichigan.com. Because the workshop is offered at peak season, we recommend early rental. Also check out cabins for rent by Sandee Sibbald at 517 494 2350 and Mike and Chris Lawless at 517 627 6466 or chlw@juno.com.
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