Current/Upcoming Offerings
These courses may be taken for personal enrichment or for professional development. Stated prerequisites must be satisfied.
Faculty: Suzanne River and GRDGS Faculty
Locations:
Weekly Courses: 2601 2nd Ave. South, Studio 3, Minneapolis MN 55408
Sunday Workshops and Healing Circles: 10700 Lindo Trail, Lindstrom MN 55045
Conscious Embodiment Intros: Taylors Fall Community Center, Taylors Falls MN 55045
Registration: Please register on time. Classes will not be offered if we do not have a minimum of registrations by the due date.
You may attend any one class at any time by calling the office the day before. Cost $35
10% discount on first course for dancers, body workers and yoga teachers
Register three weeks before the beginning of course or intensive.
Register two weeks before three day intensives.
Register one week before the one day classes.
Methods of Registration:
Online: Coming soon
By mail or fax: Download registration form and fax 651.257.9697 or mail with a $50 deposit to:
GRDGS Office, Attn: Suzanne River, 10700 Lindo Trail, Lindstrom, MN 55045
651-257-8697 dance@globalsomatics.com
Fall 2008
SO1 -- Conscious Embodiment: Intro to Global Somatics™
10:00 - 6:00, $300, No prerequisites
Sept. 21-23 or Nov. 16-18
Taylors Falls, MN
“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!”
 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
SO1 –Global Somatics™ Sunday Workshop
Sundays, 10:00-4:00, $70 each, No Prerequisites
September 9—Breathing Freely
October 14—Container and Contents: Bone and Organ Support
November 11—Fluid Alchemy January 7--Fluids Alchemy
"A thematic introduction to the Global Somatics™ Process."
 SO3 --Global Somatics™ Healing Paradigm
Sundays, 2:00-5:00, $50, No Prerequisites
Sept. 23, Oct. 21, Nov.18, Dec. 16
During this 3-hour lecture demonstration, Suzanne River will present the underlying theory of the Global Somatics™ Healing Paradigm. Each participant will be offered a healing session by Suzanne, Global Somatics™ Practitioners and Trainees, and the circle.
DM3--Developmental Movement III: The Vertebrate Patterns
Sep 5 -- Oct 24, Weds 1:30 -- 4:30
$400 Prerequisites: Developmental Movement I and/or II
 The Vertebrate Patterns express the integration of the Pre-Vertebrate Patterns and require the activation of the reflexes, righting reactions and equilibrium responses (RRR). You will explore all the developmental movements that take place after birth and have the opportunity to complete missing patterns.
- Embody the Vertebrate Patterns through improvisation and set movement forms: spinal, homologous, homolateral and contralateral
- Explore the movement cycle of Yield - Push - Pull - Yield - Reach - Pull
- Observe these patterns in movement and mind.
- Repattern using relevant Pre-Vertebrate Patterns and RRR
- Initiate the Vertebrate Patterns from the fluids, organs and bones
- Apply the Vertebrate Patterns to yoga, dance composition and contact improvisation
 BS4 -- Holding On: Embodying the Fascia and Ligamentous System
Sep 6 -- Oct 25, Thurs 9:30 -- 12:30
$400 Prerequisites: Knowing Bones, Helpful: Following Flow
The ligaments are specialized fascia that wrap around the joints of the body. When the ligaments of a joint are healthy, the movement of that joint becomes specific. The fascia then carries that movement effortlessly to successive joints enabling the muscles to respond with greater efficiency. Embodying your fascia and ligaments helps you feel the expansive support of the universe through all the details of your life.
- Initiate movement, touch and sound from the fascia and the ligaments
- Learn Global Somatics techniques and principles for strengthening and repatterning ligaments and fascia
- Communicate with the fibroblasts and heal scar tissue
BS5 -- Glory in the Glands: Embodying the Endocrine System
Nov 8 -- Dec 20 (no class 11/22) Thurs 9:30 -- 12:30
$325 Prerequisites: Following Flow or Organic Dance
 Sixteen glands live like tiny power seeds along your vertical axis. The endocrine system, one of the body's earliest communication networks, sends its hormone messages through the fluids to every cell. With the nervous and immune systems, the glands support your life as an integrated organism. Through the endocrine system you access your intuition and aspects of your Subtle Energy Field.
- Understand the anatomy/physiology of the endocrine system
- Initiate breath, movement, voice and touch from each of the glands
- Embody the relationships between specific glands and their reflex points, chakras, skeletal affinities and matching developmental patterns
- Analyze and relieve back problems based on endocrine activation
- Create optimal hormones and hormonal balance
- Experience the psychophysical consciousness of the endocrine system from every cell
- Explore the glandular basis for intuition and psychic work
 BS6: I Magnificent Muscle: Embodying the Muscle System
Nov 7 -- Dec 19 (no class 11/21) Weds 1:30 -- 4:30
$325 Prerequisites: Knowing Bones Helpful: Following Flow, Organic Dance and/or Holding On
The muscle system of the body is a three dimensional web of elastic forces moving the bones through space. The muscles function through the relationship dynamics of resistance and cooperation. Through your muscles you embody your vitality, express your power and engage in your life's work.
- Understand muscle structure and function
- Embody the psoas complex and the muscles of the lower limbs
- Practice principles (proximal and distal initiation, concentric and eccentric contraction, muscle coupling and currenting)
- Discover the relationship between fascia and muscle
- Initiate movement from the molecular complex of actin/myosin
- Explore the role of the satellite cells in muscle regeneration
- Learn massage techniques
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