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Change Your Movement, Change Your Life!
Change Your Movement, Change Your Life!
Workshop II: Moving into Relationship
A unique day of guided developmental movement, world music, journaling, delicious food, creativity and fun!
Explore our ancient movement alphabet
through guided movement to a seamless flow of world music
learning practical ways to identify and release stress through the body
journaling
communicating with one another without words
talking and eating and dancing and playing together!
"It was comfortable, fun, and safe. I'd do it again."
Zsuzsi G.
What are developmental movements? Did you know that all of our movements spring from the same source a primal movement "alphabet" that all people share? These original movements are our reflexes, "learned and practiced" in the womb and as we grow to become babies and toddlers.
Adults develop, too! We experience the reflexes later in life, as well! Because many of these reflexive movements are activated under stress, sometimes they can remain "frozen" in the body. When these "stuck" reflexes are triggered by a stressful situation, we may find ourselves repeating reflexive thought patterns, behaviors, and uncoordinated movements. To release the stress, we need to release the pattern.
Movement wires our brains. In this workshop, we "change our lives" by "changing our movements." We use our original movement language to change our habits, minds and hearts. The effects can reach into every corner of our lives health, physical coordination, relationships, creative expression, spirituality, work.
"I think my body had a delayed reaction to your workshop, in an extremely positive way. The best way I can describe is it that I've been on fire with my business over the past month. Business has come out of the woodwork, I got a new major responsibility at my part-time job, and I am more fearless in going after new business in my own practice. While I consider myself a high-energy person, my energy is currently the best it's ever been. Enjoying riding this wave!"
Chris V.
Relationships. Reflexes are the movements that help us survive as infants turning, reaching, sucking and swallowing, crawling, walking. We are social animals, and our well-being depends upon our ability to engage in nurturing, productive, and playful relationships. In this new version of Change Your Movement, Change Your Life! we'll explore some of the reflexes that have to do with how we learn to bond with others, experience appropriate boundaries, and communicate with clarity and compassion.
Eve will provide some background about the development of each reflex movement. We will have opportunities to remember moments in our lives when we experienced these physical responses, and we will explore simple, practical techniques for relieving stress.
Drawing on her training in authentic movement, body/mind centering, JourneyDanceTM, and folk dances of the world, Linda guides participants to re-create their own unconscious protective movements as conscious and personal expressions. Time for journaling is provided.
The venue is a beautiful room with windows on three sides and a hard wood floor. Organic lunch (salad, grain, fruit) is provided - bring your own extras if you want them! The eating experience is actually part of the workshop - wait and see! All movement is optional, and participants are free to join the group or move privately, as they prefer.
Linda Ugelow, M.A., is a founding member of the world music ensemble, Libana. As their principal dancer and choreographer, she has been dancing the music of the world for three decades, performing in Morocco, India, Bulgaria, and various other countries across the globe. Linda is a former faculty member of The Longy School of Music, as movement specialist in their Dalcroze Certificate Program. She holds a graduate degree in Movement Studies from Lesley University, focused on Authentic Movement and Body/Mind Centering. A certified JourneyDanceTM instructor, she conducts dances monthly in Bedford, MA, and teaches workshops at conferences, festivals, and studios locally and nationally. Her other interests include her work as a personal growth consultant, and supplying local restaurants with the organic vegetables she grows in Carlisle, MA, at her Dancing Tomato Farm. Learn more at www.libana.com.
Eve Kodiak, M.M., is a musician/kinesiologist with degrees from Harvard University and The New England Conservatory of Music, and a license from the Educational Kinesiology Foundation. She bases her clinical work in Cambridge, MA, at The Lydian Center, where she splits her time between children and adults, focusing on development and personal growth. Her modalities include Brain Gym, Craniosacral Therapy, and sound healing, and she focuses her work around the archetypal alphabet of human movement called "Infant Reflexes." She presents at conferences and schools locally and internationally most recently in Slovenia and is the author of numerous articles, a blog for the Early Childhood Movement and Music Association, and Rappin' on the Reflexes, a practical guide to reflex integration for children and their adults. A professional pianist and improviser, her albums include a collaboration with Grammy-winning cellist David Darling, The Return of Desire: Improvisations. Learn more at www.evekodiak.com.
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LocationFirst Parish Church (View)
75 Great Road
Bedford, MA 01730
United States
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| Minimum Age: 16 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
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