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:
2715 East 26th Street, Minneapolis MN 55406
For Current Offerings, refer to the Online Schedule and for newest postings, the Online Calendar and join our newsletter
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 the first one or two days of any intensive for $90 per day.
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: Register Here
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
Spring 2009
 Free your true self and help the earth! Realise the elemental power of your Natural Body! Global Somatics classes are communal embodiment laboratories that research the Natural Body through vibration, breath, movement, touch, sound, psychophysical process and information.
(Description of Global Somatics Process)
Teacher: Suzanne River and GRDGS Faculty
Location: Green River Dance
2715 East 26th Street, Mpls. MN 55406
Register: Please register one week before one day class, two before a three day and three weeks before an intensive.
Online Registration
Download a Registration Form
Savings: Take three and receive 15% off total tuition! Can't come for the whole intensive? Take the first one or two days at $100 per day. Payment Plans available!
April 2009
Special event: Embodied Poetry (and maybe some prose) with Karin Spitfire, Rebecca Frost and students of Global Somatics
April 24, Friday 7-9
Karin Spitfire, is a poet, book artist, body-worker and wilderness guide. She was the Poet Laureate of Belfast ME for 2007 & 2008. Spitfire's first book of poetry, Standing with Trees, was published in 2005 by Illuminated Sea Press. Spitfires earlier work combined poetry and dance in pieces such as Incest: It's all Relative,Corpus Callosum, Wild Card Anatomy, and Sports and Art.
Rebecca Frost completed her (yet to be published) novel, Love, House as her thesis for an MFA in Writing from Hamline University last spring. Her poems have been published as two-time winners of mnartists What Light contest, for Writers Rising Up: an online journal, in several anthologies, and a prizewinning broadside. Rebecca was the recipient of a SASE Verve grant for Spoken Word, and as a member of the potent and radical Women's Performance Project, two McKnight Fellowships in Choreography. www.embodiedarts.com
Location: Green River Dance, 2715 East 26th Street, Mpls. MN 55406 - a low green warehouse near the Seward neighborhood, with parking (and entrance) in back. Look for the GRD signs.
 Renewing the Brain and the Nervous System
April 1-5, Weds - Sunday $500
(pre- requisite: three Global Somatics Courses)
9:30-5:30 all days except Sat. 11-7
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Conscious Embodiment: Intro to Global Somatics Process
April 17-19, Fri - Sun, 10-6 $300
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Developmental II: Embryonic Dances
April 23-26, Thurs - Sun $400
Suzanne River with adjunct faculty Karin Spitfire
9:30-5:30 all days except Sat. 11-7
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May 2009
Global Somatics Festival
May 17, Sunday 10-9 (pay as able)
10:00-12:00 — Suzanne River: Glandular Power
12:30-2:00 — Deborah Jinza Thayer: Shifting States
2:15-3:30 — Linda Maylish: Creating Glandular Globes ($5 material fee)
3:45-4:45 — Carin Vagle: Healing Sounds for the Soul
5:00- 7:00 — Global Somatics session and Healing circle
7:30-9:30 — Open stage! Share your talents and perform!!!
Come see Josie and Lieba Winship as mother-daughter folk duet.
 Glory in the Glands:
Embodying the Endocrine System
May 27-31, Weds - Sun $280
(prerequisite: Following Flow and Organic Dance)
9:30-12:30 except Sat. 11:00-2:00
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Singing Freely: Embodying the Voice
May 27-31, Weds - Sun $280
(pre- requisite: Breathing Freely)
2:30-5:30 except Sat. 4:00-7:00
Suzanne River with adjunct faculty Marilyn Habermas- Scher
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June 2009
Global Somatics Sampler
at Zenon Dance with Suzanne River
June 4, Thursday $15 per class
9:30-11:30 Knowing Bones
12:30-2:30 Organic Dance
4:00-6:00 Developmental Dance
FFI: Zenon Dance Company and School
528 Hennepin Ave. #400
Mpls. MN 55403
612 338-1101
www.zenondance.org
 Somatic Shamanic Practice
June 7, Sunday 10-5 $100
Suzanne River, creator of the Global Somatics Process and student of shamanism, offers an experiential introduction to these complementary paths. The morning class is a journey through the key power elements of the Global Somatics Process. The afternoon includes a guided ceremony using experiential anatomy and shamanic healings.
Conscious Embodiment:
Intro to Global Somatics Process
June 19-21. Fri -Sun 10-6 $300
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Vibrational Aspects II
June 25-28, Thurs - Sun $400
(pre- requisite Vibrational Aspects I)
9:30-5:30 except Sat. 11:00-7:00
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