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

Studio Location:
2601 2nd Ave. South, Studio 3, Minneapolis MN 55408

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

Winter 2008

Special Offerings

SO1 -- Conscious Embodiment: Intro to Global Somatics™
March 28-30, 10:00 - 6:00
$300, No prerequisites

“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
"A thematic introduction to the Global Somatics™ Process."
February 3—Myofascial Miracle
March 9—Developmental Movement
Sundays, 10:00-4:00
$70 each, No prerequisites

SO3 --Global Somatics™ Healing Paradigm
February 10 and March 23
Sundays, 2:00-5:00
$50, No prerequisites

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.

Intensives

BP3--Moving Perceptions III: Embodying the Senses "Eyes and Ears of Embodied Performance" Guest Teacher: Mark Taylor
Jan 11 – 12 , Saturday and Sunday, 9:00-5:00
$200 Register by December 29 and get $50 discount!
Prerequisite: somatic movement experience

The primary six senses- touch, movement, taste, smell, hearing and vision- are channels of perception and paths of personal orientation. The human being has many more senses than these six, each designed to receive certain information from the outer and inner worlds. Embodying the primary senses increases energetic perception and action potential.. Moving Perception III explores Ears/Hearing and Eyes/ Vision.

• Experience the Learning Wheel as the science of perception
• Explore the experiential anatomy of the skin, vestibular system, mouth, nose, ears and eyes
• Deepen your relationship with Nature through your senses

BP3—Breathing Freely: Embodying the Breath and Moving Perceptions I: Embodying the Senses
January 17-20, Thursday - Sunday, 9:30-5:30
$400 Register by January 3
No prerequisites

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:

• 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
• Study the Learning Wheel as the science of perception
• Experience bonding, defending, and learning as psychophysical processes based on perception through touch and movement

BS1--Following Flow: Embodying the Fluids System
February 14-17, Thursday—Sunday 9:30-5:30
$400 No prerequisites

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, fat and superfluid.. 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

DM1--Developmental Movement I:
The RRR, Reflexes, Righting Reactions and Equilibrium Responses
March 12-16, Wednesday - Sunday, 9:30-5:30
$500 Register by February 27
No prerequisites

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

Initiate movement, touch, voice and consciousness from the various aspects of the nervous system: types of nerve cells, ganglia, peripheral /central nerves, somatic/ autonomic nerves, sympathetic/parasympathetic and the enteric nervous system
Facilitate nerve release in yourself and others
Understand the Global Somatics™ theory of Trauma Healing
Embody the anatomy of the brain through movement, touch and voice.
Apply the nervous system and the brain to the Developmental Movement Patterns
Explore the integration of the nervous system and electromagnetic field of vibration
Integrate the embodied nervous system with verbal counseling methods
Learn movement approaches that repattern the nervous system

Past Classes and Events

• Summer and Fall 2003
• Spring 2004
• Summer 2004
• Fall 2004
• Spring and Summer 2005
• Fall 2005
• Winter, Spring, Summer 2006
• Fall 2006
• Winter, Spring, Summer 2007
• Fall 2007