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From the June 2007 Newsletter
2007 SUMMER WORKSHOPS
Using fairy tales to connect with your dreaming soul
Sleeping Beauty - Wake Up and Live!
August 3 – 5, 2007; Friday at 5:00 pm - Sunday 2:00 pm
With Annette Ki Salmen
Fee includes workshop, food and accommodation: $280
To register: contact Frances Wilson at franceswilson@earthlink.net or call 505-455-7164.
Do I really need Prince (or Princess) Charming to kiss me in order to wake up or can there be other ways of breaking the spell?
What is my hedge of thorns and what am I prepared to do to go past it?
As we work with the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty, we read the tale out aloud so that every participant can ask:
what touches me when I listen to this story?
We will use posture work and body movement to deepen our personal material and to get new perspectives about our own ways of dealing with our questions. Sharing our trance experiences in the circle is also an important element, along with the help of the workshop instructor and the group.
The Kiva in Cuyamungue is a very beautiful place to do posture work, designed by Felicitas for exactly that purpose. Decades of Trance-Posture work support the personal process and the process of the group and add an element that can only be experienced by being there.
HEALING WITH BODYPAINTING
August 10 – August 12, 2007 Friday 5:00 pm - Sunday 2.00 pm
With Annette Ki Salmen
Fee includes workshop, food and accommodation: $280
To register: contact Frances Wilson at franceswilson@earthlink.net or call 505-455-7164.
In old indigenous cultures, we often find that people painted their bodies. We see intricate patterns, often very beautiful, but which mostly do not reveal their hidden meaning immediately.
In this workshop we will use Trance-Postures for finding healing patterns for ourselves and paint our bodies as the ancient peoples did.
To begin, we will discover what we would like to heal in ourselves or in our lives, using divination postures to help us reveal our questions, then find healing patterns.
Next we sketch our patterns and then, with the help of others in the group, paint the healing pattern onto our bodies. This will all be carried out in a respectful and healing atmosphere in which each only goes where she or he wants to go.
Finally we will do a posture with the painted body, so that our pattern can do the healing work we have designed for ourselves.
In this workshop we will also use movement and meditation, with an emphasis on sharing our experiences with each other. And we will enjoy the beautiful land and the Kiva in Cuyamungue.
Annette Ki Salmen has a degree in Educational Psychology, and has worked in Private practice since 1989. The methods she uses come from a wide range of various trainings. She started as a past life regression therapist and discovered Felicitas Goodman and the Posture work in the early nineties and has included, trained and taught Posture work ever since. Ki is an Instructor for Trance Postures in the German Institute and includes shamanic work from various traditions in her workshops.
Ki lives in Germany with her husband and her daughter.
Her website: www.dream-visions.de
Egyptian Masked Dance
August 15 (6:00 pm) – August 19 (2:00 pm)
With Meredith McCord and Jill Schumacher
Cost: $500 includes all meals, accommodations, and workshop fees. Please note: This workshop is limited to 12 participants, so please register early. $75 deposit will hold your place
TO REGISTER: contact Meredith at 503-341-9460 or breathe@teleport.com
Please note: This workshop is limited to 12 participants, so please register early to assure your place.
A Transformational Workshop for:
deepening your spiritual wisdom with initiate teachings from the Egyptian djedu tradition empowering your spiritual practice with Ecstatic Trance, a global indigenous practice using ritual postures, sound, and breath exploring your untapped creative potential with mask-making and ceremony.
Jill and Meredith are djedu initiates in an ancient Egyptian lineage of women teachers and healers. They offer mystery school teachings throughout the United States.
AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT AND ECSTATIC POSTURES
August 24 (5:00 pm) – August 28 (1:00 pm)
With Bat-Sheva Koren
Cost: $500 includes all meal, accommodations, and workshop fees
TO REGISTER, contact Jackie Haworth at 614-370-9068 or jhaworth_wj@yahoo.com.
The core of Authentic Movement is a mystical discipline: the act of being present and awakening Direct Experience. To be connected with the authenticity of the moment—through stillness, movement or witnessing—is an ongoing path as body consciousness develops and guides the individual from within.
Participants in this workshop are invited to learn to recognize the cues from within and to surrender to their own experience. From inner stillness, the awakened body becomes the portal for experiencing the world of spirit using ecstatic postures and for integrating those experiences in full consciousness.
Bat-Sheva Koren, Ph.D., is a dance therapist and teaches Authentic Movement in Israel and Toronto. She is the director of the Toronto Dance Movement Therapy Institute. Her book, Golem to White Eagle, is the story of her personal journey with movement therapy including her work with ritual postures and ecstatic trance.
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