Retreat Day | Sunday, September 15, 2024 | 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
SOHA: Sanctuary of Healing Arts, 23321 Alsea Highway, Philomath OR 97370
Sliding Scale: $125.00 | $145.00 | $165.00
Use discount code MOVE125 or MOVE145 at booking if a reduced rate
makes this workshop more accessible.
Catch up with yourself on the other side of summer, when the heat and outward expansion are starting to subside and pivot toward coolness and containment. Changes in season are opportunities to assess the inner landscape: how is your body in relationship to itself and the world you inhabit? Are there places that feel stuck, dried up, deprived? If you increased your internal presence, nourishment, and agency, how would that influence your interactions within the terrain of your life? Restoring gentle, rhythmic movement within the body allows restricted places to open again. This spaciousness reintroduces fluid circulation that oxygenates, removes wastes, and enlivens. We find greater resilience and trust in the flow of life.
In Movement Fundamentals, we gather ourselves back home to live somatically in our bones and joints and muscles. We begin on the floor, reawakening gentle movement within the spine, then increasing mobility by lubricating and freeing our hip and shoulder joints. We work our way up to standing and walking, rebuilding our experience of the body from the ground to our full height. The emphasis is on rediscovering how human bodies are naturally built to move and shifting our focus from “how we should be” to how we actually are.
We will also begin working with the flow and collection of qi, the animating and transformative capacity within us. Based in Qi Gong, primal movement, and resistance flexibility, your body is welcome exactly as it is — the invitation is simply to become more of yourself. This is our signature course as a partial-day retreat.
No previous experience is necessary and movements can be adapted for all bodies.