AUTUMN ALCHEMY: TURNING IN, LETTING GO, FINDING TREASURE

… an embodied mindfulness and movement workshop …

Saturday November 19, 2022 1-3pm Eastern time (10am-12pm Pacific) online via Zoom

$45 (scholarships available) Contact sarah@alchemySJLcatalyst.com to register All bodies and movement abilities are welcome

Autumn is a season of brilliance and decay. Jewel-toned leaves adorn the trees, and then they fall. The sun is still bright and golden, yet it shines at a lower angle in the sky. The earth prepares to slow down into a season of rest and pause. The energy of plants and animals turns inwards and downwards. After the harvest, we compost what’s no longer needed, and preserve what will sustain us.

This is a time of reflection, acceptance, acknowledgement of what is and what has been. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, autumn is associated with the metal element, which invites us to remember what is of value to us, what treasure we hold within us.

November is a midpoint – after the Equinox tipped summer into autumn, past when daylight savings brings the night earlier, and towards the darkest point of the winter Solstice when the light begins to return. 

This workshop is a chance to pause and check in before the often hectic holiday season. To receive the gifts and wisdom of this time, to tap into our inner resources, to recognize the preciousness of the present moment. To honor what has been, to let go, to be grateful for the richness of what is – even with its complexities and challenges. 

Using the catalysts of movement practice, embodied mindfulness, and creative process, we will explore, experience, express. Cultivate courage and en-couragement. Develop our capacities for moving and being still, sitting with questions and discerning right action. 

The alchemy of the autumn is an invitation to turn in, let go, and find treasure – so that we can do what we’re each called to do: for ourselves, for each other, for the world.

EQUINOX ALCHEMY: REMEMBERING, HARVEST, RENEWAL

… an embodied mindfulness and movement workshop …

Saturday September 24, 2022

12-2pm EDT (9-11am Pacific, 6-8pm Europe)

Online via Zoom

$45 – contact sarah @ alchemySJLcatalyst.com to register – scholarships available

All bodies and movement abilities are welcome

Scholarships available

These times require so much of us. How can we meet the present, in ourselves and in the world, with a sense of purpose and possibility, instead of disruption and depletion? How can we engage with all that’s here – internally and externally – in a way that’s inspiring, empowering, and generative?

This season offers the energy of resets and renewal, harvest and abundance, gathering seeds and preparing for what’s next. It reminds us of the dynamic balance between light and shadow, creation and decomposition, re-membering and re-visioning. The paradox and potential of both/and, instead of either/or.

This workshop is an opportunity for you to realize and attend to what you have and what you need. To reconnect and recharge, to resource and reflect. Come gather in collective to reclaim your attention, to honor what matters most to you, to activate your intentions.

Using the catalysts of movement practice, embodied mindfulness, and creative process, we will explore, experience, express. Cultivate courage and en-couragement. Develop our capacities for moving and being still, sitting with questions and discerning right action.

The alchemy of the equinox is an invitation to remembering, harvest, and renewal – so that we can do what we’re each called to do: for ourselves, for each other, for the world.

BMCA CONFERENCE 2022

June 22-26, 2022

Hybrid conference: in-person at Dension University (Granville, OH) and online

83 BMCA Professional Presenters
Offering Research, Exploration, and Creativity

Sarah will be co-facilitating a panel and offering an experiential workshop:

 Engaging with Decolonial Practices to Nurture the Future of BMC℠

Co-facilitated with Amelie Gaulier, with panelists E.E. Balcos, Nicole Bindler, Martha Eddy,
Wendy Hambidge, river jackson-patton, Roxlyn Moret

Cultivating Resonance in the Interstitial: Individual and Collective Somatic Agency and Empathy

Registration includes real-time access and streaming access until 9/30/22, with an option to download
All proceeds will benefit the Body-Mind Centering Association
Pay-what-you-can scholarships are available

More than 30 distinguished presenters — elders, teachers, practitioners & scholar-activists — exploring trauma healing and transformation with our bodies as the site of liberation. Talks, panels, and experiential workshops around different topics related to:

Trauma & Resilience : Culture & Community : Embodied Liberation : Writing & the Creative Arts : Music & Movement

Sarah will offer Embodied Resource, Renewal, and Reimagining, a movement workshop drawing on elements of dance, somatics, and embodied mindfulness, on Friday April 23rd at 4:00pm

Information and Free Registration

Event Schedule

https://www.rootedandembodied.com/tending-the-roots-fest

Seventy BMCA Professional Presenters
Offering Research, Exploration, and Creativity

Sarah will be offering two experiential workshops:

Re/Source: Adaptive Renewal and Regeneration, integrating BMC principles and practices with movement to explore the interplay of individual and collective experience, and to cultivate sources of support, curiosity, vitality, and belonging

Co-facilitated with Amelie Gaulier, Unlearning Racism as Somatic Repatterning, exploring the BMC concept of repatterning in the context of intergenerational somatic inheritances, personal narrative, and interpersonal nervous system communication

Registration includes real-time access and 30-days streaming access, with an option to download
All proceeds will benefit the Body-Mind Centering Association
Pay-what-you-can scholarships are available

https://bmcassociation.org/conferences/Spinning2021

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Enjoy 38 experiential presentations, panels, and group discussions with Body-Mind Centering Professionals and special guests.

Registration includes real-time access and 30-days streaming access, with an option to download.
All proceeds will benefit the Body-Mind Centering Association.
Pay-what-you-can scholarships are available.

Sarah will be offering two sessions: Navigating, Re-Directing, and Being Where We Are, an experiential workshop integrating BMC principles and practices with yoga to explore the capacities of the nervous system and ligaments, and co-facilitated with Amelie Gaulier, an Embodied Conversation on Racialized Trauma: Applying Resmaa Menakem’s Antiracism Work To and Through BMC in which we will discuss the emergent opportunities between somatics and unlearning racism.

https://bmcassociation.org/conferences/2020OnlineSymposium

Sarah will be presenting a workshop entitled “Developing a Somatic Curriculum” at Emerging Pathways within Somatic Movement & Dance Education, a conference that will take place June 21-23 at Gibney Dance Center in NYC.

Sponsored by NDEO (National Dance Education Organization) and ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association), this conference provides a forum to experience and expand the intersections of Somatic Movement and Dance Education. How are dance and somatic educators carving the future of our fields?

This groundbreaking partnership, between two pioneering internationally recognized organizations, will refine and deepen our common roots and expanding frontiers. The time together will include somatic movement sessions, panel discussions, current research presentations and curriculum design workshops. Special attention will be given to the discovery of new somatic approaches and entry points for dance educators.

Please visit the NDEO website for more information about the conference.

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