Held in-person at the historic Mountain Home Studio, Kentfield, California
June 22-26, 2025 | 10 am – 5 pm PT
Cost (includes a $100 non-refundable, non-transferable deposit): $750
Early registration: By May 1, 2025 – $700
Throughout time, movement, dance, and the expressive arts have provided individuals and communities with a sense of soulful expression, healing, inspiration, and connection with community and spirit. In our lives today, we need to reconnect in these ways.
In this workshop, movement, drawing, poetic narrative, individual and group dance, reflective exchanges, performance, and witnessing practices will generate new thresholds of exploration and expression. Away from the distractions of daily life, there will be time to feel and listen deeply to the powerful intelligence of the body, to play and express with imagination through the arts.
Morning sessions will begin with somatic awareness and individual and group movement exploration to tune the physical body to sensation and feeling. Afternoon sessions will facilitate creative encounters with the art mediums of dance, drawing, spoken and written narrative in explorations of relevant themes and personal life experiences.
Participants will:
Develop body/mind awareness and connection
Expand creative expression through art-making
Learn how movement/dance and expressive arts can be applied to their personal process and professional practices
Experience improvisation and performance designed for the beginner and the experienced alike
Explore old material in new ways
Generate new resources to bring into daily life
This workshop is designed for everyone. No previous experience in dance or art is needed.
Participants are required to bring their own craypas.
Daria Halprin, Tamalpa Institute FacultyDaria Halprin, MA, REAT, RSMT: co-founding director of Tamalpa Institute, dancer, poet, teacher, and author, is among the leading pioneers in the field of movement/dance and expressive arts education and therapy. Her work bridges the fields of somatic psychology, movement/dance therapy, expressive arts therapy, community-based arts & health education, organizational consultancy, leadership development, social change & performance. Bringing a life-long practice in the arts to her work, published writings include: Coming Alive; The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy; contributing author Expressive Arts Therapy: Principles and Practices; Poesis: Essays On the Future of the Field; and Body Ensouled, Enacted and Entranced.
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