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<span data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 1rem;">I wanted to share my <a data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DZolfa6vTFqs%26feature%3Dyoutu.be%26mc_cid%3Dc4092f626d%26mc_eid%3D%5BUNIQID%5D&source=gmail&ust=1575815147919000&usg=AFQjCNHvQ9nueKkTHkloyAZjrwL44GFh8A" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zolfa6vTFqs&feature=youtu.be&mc_cid=c4092f626d&mc_eid=[UNIQID]" style="color: #336699; font-size: 1rem;" target="_blank">ADTA Talk</a> on how Authentic Movement can help us recover forgotten, denigrated, and repressed aspects of the self, which often remain buried until conditions are safe and nurturing enough to allow them to surface, heal and grow.</span><br />
<span data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 1rem;">In this video, I describe the process of Authentic Movement which has many applications: therapy, meditation, and a source for creative work. I explore the relationship between mover and witness, and how Authentic Movement is used clinically in dance/movement therapy and Jungian analysis. Elements from neuroscience and a case vignette presented in this video help provide a better understanding of this embodied approach. </span><br />
<span data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 1rem;">Thanks to the ADTA for inviting me and for making this video available as an educational resource. To learn more about the profession of dance/movement therapy, please visit <a data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.adta.org?mc_cid%3Dc4092f626d%26mc_eid%3D%5BUNIQID%5D&source=gmail&ust=1575815147919000&usg=AFQjCNHJxagajOndwGPDs2tFlGyzV0kaog" href="http://www.adta.org/?mc_cid=c4092f626d&mc_eid=[UNIQID]" style="color: #336699; font-size: 1rem;" target="_blank">www.adta.org</a>.</span><br />
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The basic structure of the weekend was created by Alton Wasson and Daphne Lowell with the invitation to adapt it as needed. On Friday there was a welcome session in the afternoon followed by dinner and an evening movement session. The group was divided into four randomly assigned subgroups that would meet throughout the weekend in various combinations, locations, and with various sound parameters.</b></div>
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On Saturday morning there was a movement session followed by a community round table discussion. The topics for discussion were created by group consensus and people chose the topic that most interested them. Each round table had a reporter. A studio for movement was also available during this time if someone was interested in moving rather than talking. Another movement session took place after lunch followed by another roundtable discussion. A dinner banquet honored the contributions of Patrizia Pallaro, Annie Geissinger, Paula Sager, and Joan Webb with toasts, roasts and comments from each of the honorees. The evening was filled with reflection, appreciation, laughter, celebratory dancing, and fabulous drumming courtesy of Annie Geissinger, Tom Webb, and other drumming volunteers.</div>
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Sunday morning was a repeat of Saturday morning, and in the afternoon there was a movement session where all participants moved together, followed by a closing. Approximately 60 people attended the gathering from as far away as Italy and from all the regions of the United States. It was wonderful to finally put faces to the names we have been reading in the journal over these many years.</div>
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When people first came together to move on Friday night from all of our various perspectives and traditions, there was quite a lot of negotiating about the structure and the agreements around safety. Over the course of the weekend, as people came to recognize the things we held in common that united us in the work, these initial concerns seemed to relax. As people shared their views and rituals with one another, we seemed to be able to appreciate our differences and the rich ground that this practice provides for an individual's creativity and questions.</div>
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The following reports were compiled by a volunteer reporter from each roundtable discussion and represent his or her effort to convey as clearly as possible what was discussed in each group. Since some of the reports are long, I have attempted to summarize the main ideas up front. The reports themselves each have their own formats; some identify speakers and others do not, some are in outline form, some are summaries, and some are a recording or all that was said. Rather than edit the words into a consistent format, I have chosen to leave them relatively unedited so the "voice" of each discussion remains intact.</div>
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Respectfully submitted by<br />
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<li style="background-image: url("https://www.authenticmovementcommunity.org/sites/all/themes/marinelli/img/leaf.gif"); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.45em; list-style: none; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 22px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.authenticmovementcommunity.org/about-gathering#Connections" style="color: #005a8c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Keeping Connections in the Authentic Movement Community</a></b></li>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.authenticmovementcommunity.org/about-gathering#Spiritual" style="color: #005a8c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Authentic Movement as Spiritual Inquiry</a></b><br />
Summary: For many, authentic movement is a contemplative practice that includes the body. The practice of authentic movement, with its potential to integrate various parts of ourselves and bring together our polarities, addresses our desire for wholeness. Key elements in authentic movement as spiritual practice are awareness, acceptance, the relationship between self and other, presence, not knowing. Experiencing the sacred through the body offers a way to bring the sacred into every day life. (MJR)</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.authenticmovementcommunity.org/about-gathering#Training" style="color: #005a8c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Authentic Movement Training: What is it?</a></b><br />
Summary: Clarity about the nature and intention of the training is important: is the training for new or experienced movers? Is the intention to prepare people to take part in peer groups, start peer groups, or facilitate groups? Is authentic movement to be used as therapy, personal growth, spiritual practice, creative inspiration or some combination ? Important elements to any training are developing the inner witness, modeling how to create safety and structure, practicing nonjudgmental and compassionate languaging where the witness owns projections, practicing when to contain and be quiet. There are many teachers and ways of practicing but the desire not to codify the training was strongly expressed. (MJR & TW)<br />
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.authenticmovementcommunity.org/about-gathering#Creative" style="color: #005a8c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Authentic Movement & Creative Expression</a></b><br />
Summary: Authentic movement can be a resource for making art. How art is shared can be influenced by the practice of authentic movement. Authentic movement can be done as a performance, can be a way of developing choreography or improvisation, can be a structure that allows performers to connect with each other, can offer a witnessing model for an audience. How is being a "mover" different from being a "performer"? How is moving with a solely internal focus different from moving with a dual focus on the internal and external? If authentic movement is done to stimulate creativity in another form, how do the 2 work together? (MJR)<br />
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.authenticmovementcommunity.org/about-gathering#Connections" style="color: #005a8c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Keeping Connections in the Authentic Movement Community</a></b><br />
Summary: The desire to stay connected now that <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A Moving Journal</em> is ending was strongly expressed. How a web site could be designed to provide this connection was discussed in detail. The wish to have the format reflect the authentic movement practice itself was articulated. Since the gathering, a blog was created for all who may be interested: <a href="http://authenticmovementcommunity.blogspot.com/" style="color: #005a8c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://authenticmovementcommunity.blogspot.com/</a>. (MJR)<br />
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.authenticmovementcommunity.org/about-gathering#Healing" style="color: #005a8c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Authentic Movement and Healing - Authentic Movement is Healing</a></b><br />
Summary: Because of its integration of mind, body, and spirit, authentic movement is healing. The possibility of being touched/moved both physically and emotionally is in itself healing. There are healing aspects to authentic movement regardless of the context in which it is practiced. (MJR)</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.authenticmovementcommunity.org/about-gathering#Ways" style="color: #005a8c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ways to Practice</a></b></div>
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Summary: Because of its integration of mind, body, and spirit, authentic movement is healing. The possibility of being touched/moved both physically and emotionally is in itself healing. There are healing aspects to authentic movement regardless of the context in which it is practiced. (MJR)<br />
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.authenticmovementcommunity.org/about-gathering#Community" style="color: #005a8c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Community Long Circle/Political/Environmental Community Roundtable</a></b><br />
Summary: People expressed a desire to bring authentic movement into the larger world. Sox Sperry and Lisa Tse Tse's Community Long Circle provides a model for a way to do this. Sox explained how he and Lisa developed this practice, how it is set up, and its intention. (MJR)<br />
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Report by Germaine Fraser</b><br />
Annie Geissinger, Paula Sager, Margaret Trainor, Liz Windrover, Lucy Mahler, BethAnn Albro-Fisher, Germaine Fraser, Ann (Hooke or McNeal), Lisa TseTse, Mary Ita O'Connell, Michael Gardos Reid, Kathy Kollar, Andrea Olsen, Donna Blank, Pamala Lewis</div>
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Summary: For many, authentic movement is a contemplative practice that includes the body. The practice of authentic movement, with its potential to integrate various parts of ourselves and bring together our polarities, addresses our desire for wholeness. Key elements in authentic movement as spiritual practice are awareness, acceptance, the relationship between self and other, presence, not knowing. Experiencing the sacred through the body offers a way to bring the sacred into every day life. (MJR)</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What has drawn us to this topic? In what ways is AM supportive of our inner work?</b></div>
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I am doing a Rudolf Steiner based masters program focusing on integrating contemplative practice, academic research, and art. How can spiritual inquiry support cognitive knowing and study? How can AM practice help us in direct, experiential knowing?<br />
I am the bringer-forward of the provocative indulgence, inviting something to manifest that would not otherwise. What does it mean to have a practice inviting so much to manifest as opposed to it being held in quietude?<br />
It is a wrestling match for me and my mind-- inner dialog -- that brings me to exclude myself. How inflammatory that can be. This wrestling match does not promote flow or dynamic joy. AM helps the inflammation flow. It's not habitual. It enters other realms and cycles of creative art, dancing, and healing. I am coming out of a period of fear around illness and the inflammatory world. I'm interested in spirituality that will help me navigate growth. Spirituality is such an open field. It can't be defined and I like that.<br />
I've been putting all types of work together my entire life. With dance, I had to go inside. That led me to other forms of energy work. I'm a dance therapist, [my] core comes out in that media. I am always going back there. It is the same with AM or meditating. It flows all into one if I can get my mind to shut up, look at the sky, and drop into my core.<br />
My daily practice for the past few years has been to move alone and write. In this exploration, some questions have come. What does the face of the Beloved look like to me? What does sacred movement look like in me and others? Where does stillness and movement come from?<br />
You remind me that stillness and quiet are the center where I allow myself to go.<br />
I have always thought of AM as a sacred practice. The sacred and profound are different sides of the same coin. Something comes of it inside whatever you do.<br />
The body knows so much more than I know. Learning to open to practices and to that knowing, and having access to other dimensions seems essential at this time. It brings us into wholeness with the earth, links us to holiness and natural systems. When knowing stays personality-focused it is not a contemplative practice, but this can't be avoided. All things need to come up.<br />
I come with a question, coming from a 3-year training with Daphne and Alton. My meditation background and living abroad by myself for 10 years have been like surgery without anesthesia. Contemplative Dance integrates all the work I've done in spaciousness and meditation. It helps me see all the selves and put them together. How do I integrate Contemplative Dance, voice, spirit, and breath into my meditation work? Some say it is about knowing. Some say is about not knowing. I'm sitting with not knowing. I am not articulating the awareness, the space inside. When I sit in not knowing, that is the freedom I am looking for. It's about being with what is. That would be a nice meditation to add to Contemplative Dance. It fits in this work.<br />
This topic has been my life topic: body, movement, and spirit. In AM there is complete acceptance. It's a pathway through the sensory body through expanded experience. How much do we have to go through the psychological to reach the spirit? When is it bypassing? When are we integrating the shadow in holy space? Janet's paper makes a clear distinction between movement that is associative or energetic. She identifies 5 levels of that realm. She works more in the mystical realm. I have questions about mystical and psychological integration and split. I have questions about witnessing. One year ago I discovered the tandava, being in the non-dual state. In tantra, there is a dance also called AM, but with no witness. I've been practicing it and it has thrown AM practice into a different light. There are related practices from many cultures.<br />
It's important to me that AM practitioners are seen as a culture - to open to who is viewing us, to be more visible in the larger culture.<br />
Moving forward in our humanity.<br />
Being in conscious relationship to self and divine but also to another. To be seen fully as our individual self. The cutting edge of this work is humans moving towards their higher selves. I think there is something different here. The consciousness is what is different from ancient cultures.<br />
There has been an evolution from tribal nature, when our consciousness was more collective, to individuality. Now there is alienation, personal struggles. Coming through that allows for something new to follow.<br />
There are merging states, initiative experiences. How do I know myself as well as another?<br />
The ritual of AM is very loose and available. I am very interested in death, losing my dad, being sick. In AM, the spiritual realm gets held. I can move through things I can't know or explain. I want to find that resting self through AM. It is like that sacred space, forest, container. I touched a mover and felt healed. There is potential in this form. It's not always the same. I'm interested in these tribal passages we all share.<br />
The peer group evaporated when my birthing wife didn't choose to come. We are trusting to be unchurched. There are positives in lack of restriction; but in the absence of restrictions there are missed events.<br />
I'm active in a Zen and church-type group. We each bring our own spiritual journey with us. The point where we meet is the mystical aspect of beingness, being moved - it's so dynamic and rich. We come from different places but meet in this beingness. I'm awakened by some movement that touches that mystery. The beauty of this practice is that we meet in mystery w/out the mindset of a particular church.<br />
What is the language of not knowing? Birds I can't understand articulate the not knowing. Mystical languages can be taught. How do we speak it as it is formed?<br />
Lucid dreaming?<br />
I surrender and am in soup. It evaporates once I speak. How does the language support the not knowing?<br />
I so appreciate when anyone tries to articulate an experience. I know there is nothing to say that says it. On the other hand we talk about everything else. If I can enter into it, speak it, it feels like a gift to hear that for myself and others.<br />
Using words is a precious gift. It can't be taught; it's a direct experience.<br />
The mind is sensory and [it] languages. Sit in knowing. Awareness is that silence. There is nothing.<br />
I have questions about presence, what is it for? At this time it's not enough to just do AM for myself anymore. I've had a long standing sitting practice and as far as I am concerned AM and meditation are the same. Being in the body makes both possible. I am typing away and that physicality, being in my body, makes it possible to maintain presence. I am doing AM. We are a hidden culture and it feels unreal in some ways to be here and there. I heard lately do less, trust more. Where is the line drawn? I am moving before we start, I've dropped in, already the lines blur. The quantum physics ideas of moving and simultaneously being in stillness are engaged. I am not interested in being in or being out. I want to live a life where my presence is dependent on the moment not the event of coming together in a community or not.<br />
The form, witness and circle, evolves into presence carried into life. Returning and returning is source where the witness gets molded into life. The practice lets me go further into it, not to be alone. My intention is to live it as much as possible. It's alive.<br />
The present moment is about dropping in; it happens all through the day. It does not matter what I am doing as long as I am dropping in, then I am connected. I feel my ancestors back here. They are with me all the time now. I connect to tribe and universe. It doesn't matter how you connect, just that you drop in.<br />
My body is an open vessel. Every pore - trees, open water, bigger universe, vessel - is open in and out. AM is ancient and has always been there for me.<br />
There are many ways to come in and out. Personality, drama, characters through me and other. I want to own that there is a degree of being cut out when the energy thing is brought up. I'm not good enough, sacred enough. The profane and sacred are together. Gnarly creatures should celebrate themselves with numinous energy.<br />
Someone is always holding that place in AM which connects our humanity. When no one holds that place it isn't as full. It is the magic of this form; there is never a group when that isn't happening<br />
Spiritual permission drops out sometimes. I have a vision of circles where everything is happening all the time. Part of me wants to play with that.<br />
Let's try it. It's scary. Lead me, find me a church.<br />
I find this practice no different, I can be in the midst of the universe breathing me, me breathing it. All spirit. Whacked, caressed. Instantly in relationship. How does that practice of coming into relationship change my behavior in the world - responsibility, sense of community. There is another element of the practice I can't articulate but something is there.<br />
We mover people, we have an idea about habit attachment maybe. Spiritual is other. It is not. Throwing up, peeing, shooting someone, raping someone, eating. Everything manifested. This work is an opportunity to know that in our bodies. Meditation is embodied breath. It should be in our education.<br />
It feels edgy to respond other than verbally. I don't know if I know how to have a conversation with my body while doing. I want relationship. That is the spirit.<br />
Awareness has moments of not knowing and knowing. Choosing to enter or not. I must know when to speak and not to, that shares the mystery. Maybe the speaking is silence.<br />
We don't know.<br />
Mystical practice. We're trying to understand what this does for us. This is a spiritual practice. I came to AM for other reasons. I have a yoga practice, I sit. I've heard about presence. Do we get presents (presence)! We don't have teachers saying don't do that, do this. It's more like get out there and try something. What is different is that we have a circle, we see each other and have relationship. And there are all these women leaders in the form. That is different. Other traditions have 'goals' or a place to get to.<br />
I want to be a teacher who doesn't know and be ok with that.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Report by Tom Webb</b><br />
Morning Discussion: Gennie Brukner, Judy FitzGerald, Katarina Hallonblad, David Hurwith, Cassie Bull, Patrizia Pallaro, Marcia Plevin, Rebecca VerNooy, Alton Wasson, Tom Webb<br />
Afternoon Discussion: Donna Blank, Stephanie Cohen, Heidi Ehrenreich, Judy FitzGerald, Cassie Bull, Pamala Lewis, Patrizia Pallaro, Marcia Plevin, Shakti Andrea Smith, Alton Wasson, Tom Webb, Bill McCully</div>
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Summary: Clarity about the nature and intention of the training is important: is the training for new or experienced movers? Is the intention to prepare people to take part in peer groups, start peer groups, or facilitate groups? Is authentic movement to be used as therapy, personal growth, spiritual practice, creative inspiration or some combination ? Important elements to any training are developing the inner witness, modeling how to create safety and structure, practicing nonjudgmental and compassionate languaging where the witness owns projections, practicing when to contain and be quiet. There are many teachers and ways of practicing but the desire not to codify the training was strongly expressed. (MJR & TW)</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Morning Session:</b></div>
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1.<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> What training programs exist now:</b></h4>
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a. Naropa with Zoe Avstreih. Works within the Somatic Psychology program. AM training at a master's degree level. <a href="http://www.naropa.edu/somatic/faculty.html" style="color: #005a8c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://www.naropa.edu/somatic/faculty.html</a><br />
b. Contemplative Dance: Daphne Lowell and Alton Wasson: Year I and Year II, 120 hours each. 6 weekend meetings each. Year I also includes two intensive weeks for a total of 260 hours. <a href="http://www.contemplativedance.org/" style="color: #005a8c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://www.contemplativedance.org/</a><br />
c. Marcia Plevin Art Therapy Italiana: AM is taught as a comprehensive practice in the training of dance movement therapists.<br />
Creative Movement-method Garcia-Plevin is taught as a guide for facilitators in teaching creative process groups.<br />
<a href="http://www.movimentocreativo.it/it/CORPO3.HTM" style="color: #005a8c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://www.movimentocreativo.it/it/CORPO3.HTM</a><br />
d. AM training in Rome done by Marcia, who learned from J. Adler/J. Chodorow/ T. Stromsted and trains participants to do the practice and to participate in peer groups. Three or four other facilitators in Italy do AM trainings.<br />
e. Previously: Authentic Movement Institute-- Followed Janet Adler's sequence of moving in dyads, triads, breathing circle, long circle, and gesture circle. When come into witnessing, have care about language. Training about recall, projection, and transference included.<br />
f. Many other facilitators teach the practice in one way or another but mostly only at the level of teaching the practice as opposed to teaching how to lead groups.<br />
2. Trainings can deal with different aspects of the practice: personal growth, psychology, therapy, dance and choreography, spirituality, mystical practice, etc.<br />
3. What is the psychological basis of the training?<br />
4. Alton spoke about the Contemplative Dance program with its Year I and Year II programs.<br />
a. Themes each weekend: Moving in Nature, Transference, Chest of Drawers (choices of perspective in witnessing), Dreams, etc.<br />
b. Underlying psychological basis is Jungian. Ask students to be familiar with rudiments of Jungian psychology.<br />
c. No automatic stamp at the end that says a person is now a facilitator.<br />
d. Attempt to attract professionals to come who can incorporate it into what they do.<br />
e. Students need some knowledge of psychodynamics.<br />
5. Marcia: participants need to have a strong enough ego to do the work.<br />
6. Rebecca (who did a graduate degree program at NYU in dance but involving authentic movement) had psychologists on her thesis committee who challenged her a bit about her preparation in psychology.<br />
7. Rebecca commented that being in groups can be the training if you have self knowledge and are experienced in certain ways.<br />
8. Without proper psychological training, dangers can arise<br />
a. If people doing AM go in too far.<br />
b. If people doing AM become psychotic or re-experience traumas.<br />
c. However, David noted that in his offerings it is psychotherapists who have been most vulnerable and also who have lashed out at others.<br />
9. Marcia: We should name our visions of AM<br />
10. Training is<br />
a. To push/encourage people to evolve.<br />
b. To make sure that they know some things to make it safe.<br />
11. Patrizia: "I am a psychotherapist and know myself enough and can navigate the scary moments with aplomb."<br />
12. Patrizia: How does crisis work in a group if someone becomes psychotic or re-enters a trauma? What do facilitators or peers need to know how to do if psychological traumas become dangerous for a mover when a mover does not get to the transformative stage with it? I witnessed one such incident between two movers in a group that was not set up to deal with such psychological issues.<br />
13. A degree in psychotherapy is no guarantee of being good. One key in all of this work is being able to relate well with people.<br />
14. Gennie:<br />
a. Safety is important.<br />
b. Languaging contributes: must be disciplined and clear.<br />
c. Clear language provides safety. People need training in it.<br />
d. Rebecca: a clear lesson from Janet Adler<br />
15. Cassie: What about when people move with eyes closed and stuff comes up for them. Facilitator (or peer witnesses?) needs to be awake for it. How train in seeing such? Body mapping training can be important here.<br />
16. Alton: Mary Whitehouse recorded a time when a person flipped out doing the work.<br />
17. Alton:<br />
a. The way facilitators set up a movement time or group can preclude or at least diminish the chances of psychological crises arising.<br />
b. Tell participants to be mindful and not to go beyond what they can handle. (Such presumes prior selection of participants who can be so discerning while moving.)<br />
c. Often in CD training, people come in ready to facilitate and leave the training humbled and feeling not so ready.<br />
d. We train people for safety when facilitating. We give explicit instructions and we also model how to do it when we have them move and witness.<br />
e. We try to bring consciousness to where a facilitator's comfort is.<br />
f. We offer witnessing labs to train people how to witness silently or with gestures before coming into using words.<br />
18. Marcia:<br />
a. Need to teach somatic judgment for safety - train perception that a person may need individual therapy.<br />
b. Verbal witnessing in public dyad helps to train witnesses to own projections.<br />
19. David returned conversation to how to bring consciousness to damaging psychological experiences, especially when they happen in a non-psychotherapy group.<br />
20. Alton:<br />
a. Need to develop the inner witness in movers and witnesses.<br />
b. Inner witness helps people be with trauma in another way. It helps them discern when the time is right for them to go there.<br />
c. AM is different from gestalt therapy which tries to provoke a past trauma.<br />
d. I tell movers to go there when ready. I try to empower the mover, which is part of healing.<br />
21. Cassie: People need to bring awareness to that moment of choice. It empowers the mover. They also see that before they couldn't do it and now they can. It is a key learning moment in the practice to be aware of choice.<br />
22. David: "A strong inner witness helps."<br />
a. When in a peer group, you are even more responsible for your own safety around projection and setting up the container. This is in contrast to being in a facilitated group.<br />
b. Self-safety is key in a peer group. A nurturing environment also helps.<br />
23. Marcia: Time and refinements can be crucial in allowing a peer group to function.<br />
a. In Finland, a group with around 60 hours of training wanted to try a peer group. It didn't work. They found that they needed another intensive of about 28 hours before it could function well. I return to this group to guide the practice, as well as give supervision for the peer group.<br />
b. People from different cultures bring different abilities and preferences to the work. For example, generally speaking, Finns love silence in a retreat situation and have attention to fine detail; the Spanish have difficulty with holding silence.<br />
24. Patrizia: Time in doing practice is important. It takes time to build an inner witness but no formula here. Some get there sooner than others. The point is that they get there rather than having a number of hours or training.<br />
25. Alton:<br />
a. It was not our original intention to be training people for peer groups.<br />
b. Our intention is to allow individuals to gain from having more consciousness about certain issues and aspects of the practice.<br />
c. In Germany, they tried to set up training using a Dance Therapy model. It caused an uproar in North America.<br />
26. David:<br />
a. I lead weekends when people have no sense of the psychological. I have worked with dancers around incantation.<br />
b. What if introduce the dark side? I have my edge.<br />
c. There can be different agreements in trainings and different agreements during weekends which are not trainings but explorations.<br />
27. Janet Adler likes to work at her edges. She selects groups of people to help her explore her edges around Jewish mysticism or energy or witnessing.<br />
28. Rebecca: People love AM with a sense of developing consciousness.<br />
29. Patrizia:<br />
a. Historical point of view is helpful.<br />
b. Janet mostly trained dance therapists at first (or is it that she trained as a dance therapist at first?)<br />
c. When Janet moved to California, then she began working with groups of 7-8 participants whom she knew. Her groups formed by invitation from her. Her article in the second book tells of some of her learnings about strengthening the inner witness. She says facilitators need psychological training.<br />
30. Trainings can be for people interested in personal growth, spiritual practice, psychological work, psychotherapy, creative work, sourcing in dance, etc.<br />
31. Rebecca: Mary Whitehouse was a dancer and "active imaginer." A video shows her working: "Metamorphosis." See reference in the back of Patrizia's book.<br />
32. Judy commented on the richness of our conversation and wishing it were videotaped.<br />
33. Cassie introduced the metaphor of AM being a meal. What ingredients are needed? What is a training?<br />
34. Katarina said she is sitting in because she is curious about trainings.<br />
35. Marcia: Time for cooking. How much time to prepare roast beef properly, training as a gestation period.<br />
36. David: What separate dishes are involved. One can cook it too long, too. Need to get the timing right for each side of beef.<br />
37. Cassie reported on year long training with Zoe, then weekly groups but not necessarily feeling ready to facilitate.<br />
38. David:<br />
a. Spatial container and time container are key.<br />
b. Cook each thing and give it its time.<br />
c. Clarity is key. Need to be clear about what to do and then do it.<br />
d. We are holding different things in different groups as facilitators.<br />
e. Part of training is to learn to have clarity in holding chaotic experiences.<br />
f. When developing the inner (silent) witness, need to develop consciousness of it. A mover can't just follow the rules or just put in so many hours of training.<br />
39. What will a facilitator need?<br />
a. Rebecca: some aspects of the practice are mundane, e.g. the circle.<br />
b. Alton: Things like the mundane as well as the subtle (e.g. inner witness consciousness) are what the training is all about. Practice of AM is a practice for life and living. Take it into the world. Take the consciousness into the world. Focus on the inner process is key.<br />
c. TW: How the training is facilitated is a key part of the training. Modeling the practice and coaching the students in it are key.<br />
d. Marcia: What makes a good cook?<br />
i. A love of cooking.<br />
ii. Patience, compassion, subtlety.<br />
iii. Cook needs to know when to bring the dish to the table.<br />
iv. Need to set boundaries as a cook.<br />
40. Alton: Trainings can be for:<br />
a. Beginning movers<br />
b. Those who wish to be in a peer group<br />
c. Those who wish to start peer groups or be facilitators<br />
41. Katarina: Learning to respond as a witness is key.<br />
42. Marcia: I need to fix the training for me.<br />
43. Patrizia:<br />
a. Germans tried to trade mark AM<br />
b. They created an upheaval of protest in North America<br />
c. Cannot circumscribe AM as a formless form<br />
d. Tension developed.<br />
44. Alton: The Germans stirred things up. Good.<br />
45. David: I have been around dancers who have some experience with AM but have little training in it and little understanding of witnessing, but they think that they can teach it. David implied that such people made him consider having standards applied in the field for teaching or facilitating.<br />
46. Marcia: Chaos theory: holding chaos while creating principles for it.<br />
47. TW: We face issues of licensing when insurance might be used to pay for sessions.<br />
48. David: Naming of tendencies in the field for training and for practice. What should the kitchen look like? It might have an oven, a cook, and some chaos on the floors and counters. And maybe even some containers? [TW: the kitchen has floors because, as a mover noted, "I love sensing the many floors below this one."]<br />
49. A messy kitchen is needed with open windows. What is cooked here?<br />
50. Alton:<br />
a. We offer some notes about the preparation but hand them out only at the end and with reservations about their being incomplete and just a draft. We try to be careful here. It is not a check list or prescription.<br />
b. Discussions like this can happen at meetings. The first such for facilitators was 10 years ago in 1996 at Stump Sprouts. The group met the next year but did not continue.</div>
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1. Marcia:<br />
a. What does it take to cook an inner witness? What ingredients are needed by the mover and by the facilitator?<br />
b. What is the purpose of the training: to move, to witness, to be in a peer group, to facilitate?<br />
c. What constitutes a training?<br />
d. Need to learn to be somatically open to witness in a group and to do less projecting and to be nonjudgmental.<br />
e. Use dyad to long circle sequence of Janet for inner witness development.<br />
f. Develop mover consciousness and witness consciousness, and learn to see both are the same.<br />
g. What and when is enough?<br />
h. Supervision in AM<br />
i. I am doing research about AM and meditation with dharmic principles. How do the two work and work together?<br />
2. Heidi talked about the basics<br />
a. What is the contract? Are you their therapist? Are you trying to help in a creative, healing, or spiritual practice?<br />
b. What ingredients are needed?<br />
i. Need to be witnessed by an experienced witness who has been witnessed for a long time by an experienced witness.<br />
ii. Need to have mover experience, which is not intellectual, e.g. body response and sensations and emotions.<br />
iii. Need to hold silent and to know what it is not to speak. Janet has witnesses practice for 6 months without speaking.<br />
iv. Everyone wants to be seen and is terrified to be seen.<br />
v. Inner witness needs to be developed in the presence of a circle or a witness.<br />
vi. Speaking or not? Who is speaking for or to?<br />
vii. If working as a therapist and/or facilitator, then need to understand transference and counter-transference.<br />
viii. Somatic counter transference as a dancer.<br />
c. In AM as Mary Whitehouse saw it, moments of truth come as unexpected experiences. They just come. Must learn how to harvest those moments.<br />
d. Facilitator must develop these basics. Moving and being present.<br />
3. Marcia summarized the basics as being:<br />
a. To be seen enough by someone who has been seen enough.<br />
i. Be in Janet Adler's sense of "AM heaven."<br />
b. Need to grow the inner witness.<br />
c. Need to establish the perspective of the external witness to inner witness.<br />
i. Within self<br />
ii. As therapist, spiritual guide, or what?<br />
4. Marcia continued:<br />
a. Less is more. Longevity helps. Must always start from the not knowing place.<br />
b. Important to model how to speak.<br />
c. Modeling is done by experienced person<br />
d. Modeling how not to speak, how to speak, how a group functions, etc.<br />
5. Donna spoke of her experience as a Feldenkrais trainer. That field may be half a step ahead of AM.<br />
a. Steps in training<br />
i. Need awareness through movement. May take two years to develop.<br />
ii. Then functional integration: hands on work.<br />
iii. Then may teach it.<br />
b. One key practitioner felt that people best not trained. He felt that not knowing is the best place to start.<br />
6. Tension in trainings which can bring in career motives from the beginning rather than just learning AM to learn it, to do it, to love it. Does the facilitating arise from a love of the form or from the want for a profession. (Perhaps not too large a problem if no one is making much money at it, though. TW)<br />
7. How can training keep the creativity and chaos central to the practice?<br />
a. Training for consciousness and being in the process, not just training to produce a product and to reach some goal. (If magic in the practice arises when intention is let go of, then what role has intention in the training?)<br />
b. Longer the incubation, the better.<br />
8. Alton: CD training focuses on integrating AM with other work, which is the work the participants have as professionals and also as explorers of their personal lives.<br />
a. Work with different ways to practice, e.g. in nature, with dreams, etc.<br />
b. Session on learning not to split the archetype: mover/witness, healer/patient.<br />
c. Originators (Whitehouse, Adler, Chodorow) had/have psychological/dancer backgrounds. Jungian analyst model.<br />
9. Heidi:<br />
a. Facilitator can't go any further with someone than have gone themselves.<br />
b. Am I ready if a trainee is just a millisecond behind me?<br />
c. Supervision helpful to me in getting unstuck.<br />
d. It's a practice: How see self in relationship to other person? Co-creation process.<br />
10. Training should involve being trained for unknown in ourselves as well as in others.<br />
11. Stephanie: Screening of people engaged in practice, when facilitator is not a psychologist, therapist. (Same holds if not a dancer when working with dancers doing creative work.-TW)<br />
12. AM is a practice. How facilitate in such a way that invites more people to participate and to behave differently in the world? Deepening ourselves and making a more authentic response to life.<br />
13. Heidi:<br />
a. Janet Adler brilliant at posing the next question and working on it.<br />
b. First group explored "Who is the witness?" She has written about that.<br />
c. A person can have a question entering the work and then find that the question changes once the inner witness develops.<br />
14. Pamala:<br />
a. Janet always has questions because she starts from not knowing.<br />
b. Trainers endanger the process if they start from a place of knowing in contrast to Janet's place of not knowing.<br />
c. I have had a personal odyssey into this work. I want to be a nondirective teacher about the unknown and keep opening and bring meditation in.<br />
15. Spirituality in AM: opening to the unknown, becoming comfortable with self in the unknown.<br />
16. Countercultural use of the term training.<br />
a. We face a paradox.<br />
i. Training in AM goes against the cultural sense of what training is or should be and what a teacher should bring to the training when non-directional, open to the unknown, not knowing, and letting go of intention.<br />
ii. How can a teacher model these qualities when running a training that might have intention and require knowledge?<br />
b. Tom: But all great teaching holds this paradox. For example, beginning students in science need knowledge and guidelines to come into a field and to see what science is and how it is practiced. What is known, what are the key concepts, and how do you do it? But then once a student moves on to more advanced training or to a more advanced understanding of the field, a scientist has to show them how key concepts like species, time, psyche, table are human constructions and can have different definitions. (Even in science, languaging can be a problem! We project meaning onto words and the meaning of words changes with context, usage, and time.) Once a student opens to the unknowing in science, then the student can open to creativity in science.<br />
17. Heidi: building of trust in AM is key. Any group when it first forms can't immediately elicit trust. Trust builds in the work (or not).<br />
18. Cassie: Who creates safety? Need to look inside. What role for the facilitator here? Safety is key to building trust.<br />
19. Stephanie: Look at us at this conference on Friday night. People's inner witness might be OK, but it was still hard to discuss the set up within a limited time and have time for movement that first night.</div>
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Stefanie Cohen, Aileen Crow, Margaret Downing-Dill, Valerie Gilman, Eileen Kelly, Karen Kornhauser, Mary Ramsay, Shakti Andrea Smith</div>
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Summary: Authentic movement can be a resource for making art. How art is shared can be influenced by the practice of authentic movement. Authentic movement can be done as a performance, can be a way of developing choreography or improvisation, can be a structure that allows performers to connect with each other, can offer a witnessing model for an audience. How is being a "mover" different from being a "performer"? How is moving with a solely internal focus different from moving with a dual focus on the internal and external? If authentic movement is done to stimulate creativity in another form, how do the 2 work together? (MJR)</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What are the issues?</b></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sharing / Showing</b><br />
*Relationship between Authentic Movement and the making of something to be shown.<br />
*The issue of sharing what has been made.<br />
*Showing sculpture.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sharing / Audience</b><br />
*Biggest desire: What is the viewers' response to a performance, art piece, etc. vs. their critical evaluation of it? Suggestions: Asking for this, inviting this, creating the response together, exploring what happens when you invite everyone to project freely.<br />
*Playing with "what is audience," what are we as performers expecting of them? How do we invite them into the work?<br />
* Regarding the audience: What do we give, want, and hope for?</div>
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*Authentic Movement and performance<br />
*Role of witness in performance making<br />
*How practicing Authentic Movement informs my performance<br />
*Being in relation to other performers and to the audience<br />
*Maintaining contact with other performers in the physical space<br />
*Perhaps performance is about communicating the experience<br />
*Importance of feeling welcomed by the audience as a performer<br />
*Importance of feeling welcomed by the performer(s) as an audience member/witness<br />
*Embodying and talking<br />
*What is my intention? As mover: To prioritize my relationship to myself vs. not scaring the audience -or scaring the audience. Trusting that my body is the medium and the meaning</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Practice / Performance</b><br />
*What is the difference between Authentic Movement and performance? How to be in my material and consciously invite the audience in?<br />
*Cultivating presence in performance. Is the feeling inside different if one is a performer vs. a mover?<br />
*Authentic Movement vs. Improv:<br />
o With Authentic Movement, my focus is on what's true, what part of my body's desire is being tended to right now?<br />
o Is the difference a more conscious focus on the "internal" experience vs. a more conscious focus on the "external" experience with the internal experience still intact?<br />
*How does doing my practice affect my content?</div>
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*Regarding Authentic Movement and performance: Some is set work, some not set. Setting a beginning and an end, setting places to visit in between.<br />
*Knowing that composing is happening. Improvising is happening too.<br />
*Content: About making art and process, practice and content.<br />
Context<br />
*Context to inspire, perform, participate, welcome…..<br />
*Context: A "happening" vs. a performance event. Sacred clown, cosmic vaudeville…..<br />
*What is the context within which we show work, perform? What needs to be in place for people to be ready to perform? Education of the audience. A model for creating a particular context for performance could be I.D.E.A. (International Dance Exchange Alliance), a showing of works-in-progress (music, dance, theater, poetry, or some combination) now taking place in Amsterdam and in Northampton, Massachusetts. The performer has 10 minutes to show their work, the audience then writes and draws after each piece with the intention that the writing be about their own experience rather than an attempt to interpret what they have seen. After all performers have shown their work, the audience then gathers in the performance space and reads their writing or shows their drawings in the order in which the pieces occurred. The distinction between pieces fades and the sharing becomes it's own kind of performance and can plant seeds for future pieces.<br />
*Suggestion on above: The sharing could be after each piece (instead of at the end) to help model intention of group around giving feedback free of "evaluative" input - to help create the culture.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Making / Process</b><br />
*Hunger to know more about the relationship between practicing Authentic Movement and working with clay, writing, performance, drawing, painting, etc. What is the balance of moving and making, emptiness and fullness that inspires or furthers creative expression, art, many forms?<br />
*Peer events: exploring an afternoon of movement and clay, movement & writing with the possibility of extended amounts of time for working with art materials, writing. Exploring how much time is needed for each as more space is made available for the relationship between the two.<br />
*"My right hand went to art school. Working with my left hand to free me up, letting my left hand go to art school."<br />
*Relationship between practice and making. Using Authentic Movement as a primary way of coming into relationship with other performers performing together.<br />
*How do you compose or refine (for public) and not squash the experience? How do you remain true to the experience and continue to access the material (in performance and with creating art pieces, writing, etc.)?<br />
*Quote from Mary Whitehouse, "What we create first is ourselves and it is out of ourselves that the producing comes."</div>
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*Making money. Issue of selling your pieces of art work. Do you sell your art work? What enables you to do that or not?<br />
*Selling sculptures: When I have too much…. I need to make space.<br />
Inspiration<br />
*Authentic Movement and Contemplative Dance leading me back into art via meaning, feeling, and emotion vs. the art media and structure.</div>
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Christine Draper, Amanda Judd, Martha Lask, Ann McNeal, Daphne Lowell, Marjorie Huebner, Sox Sperry, and Elizabeth Reid</div>
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Summary: The desire to stay connected now that <a href="http://www.movingjournal.org/" style="color: #005a8c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A Moving Journal</i></a> is ending was strongly expressed. How a web site could be designed to provide this connection was discussed in detail. The wish to have the format reflect the authentic movement practice itself was articulated. Since the gathering, a blog was created for all who may be interested: <a href="http://amgathering.blogspot.com/" style="color: #005a8c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://amgathering.blogspot.com</a>.</div>
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Our Image: We want to extend the Community Long Circle to the web. The center circle consists of all kinds of configurations of movers such as individuals practicing alone, dyads and peer groups, or lead groups moving together. A small opening in the circle allows outer witness to see in and come in. The next circle holds the common witnesses who watch over the safety of the inner circle. A larger opening allows the outside to see in and ask questions. The keepers answer questions and outwardly give information and seek to bring new people into the circle. See article in<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> A Moving Journa</i>l Volume 5 #3.</div>
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Another image was one of pebbles in a pond that create overlapping circles expanding outward. The movers are witnesses and keepers who maintain the integrity and privacy of the practice, people who practice, but also reach out to the world. Unlike the community long circle which is a public event, this image is of a web site with private places where the public can't see in, as well as public places where there is visibility and outreach.</div>
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We left our discussion with a feeling of excitement and satisfaction. One participant summarized it this way: I felt very excited about the clarity of people wanting to keep us all connected, concerned about keeping the integrity of AM present in cyber space, and how we wanted our diversity represented. I felt held by the presence of folks at the meeting...."</div>
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Summary:<br />
1. We want to have a way to be connected to all outlying places in the world. We want a way to connect AM practitioners, to announce workshops and events, share thoughts about the practice, perhaps even publish papers on AM and more.<br />
2. We want both private and public cyber realm presence that is as safely contained as possible, knowing that nothing is air tight.<br />
3. We want a web/internet presence to integrally reflect the values and ethos of the practice.<br />
4. We want to use technological innovations.<br />
5. We propose funding of some kind, for example through dues/subscriptions/tithes on individuals, peer groups or others? web site membership? or other fundraising efforts?<br />
6. We want to be aware of and sensitive to political concerns of our community, especially inclusivity and diversity.<br />
7. We suggest this be an always forming web presence which continually invites, where things are not set in stone, and we always pay attention to outreach.<br />
8. We wish also for the hard copy and privacy of a directory of practitioners.<br />
9. We suggest developing a private, internal-to-the-community Blog -- to discuss developing a public web site. Check out the beginning discussion of the Connections group: <a href="http://amgathering.blogspot.com/" style="color: #005a8c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://amgathering.blogspot.com/</a><br />
10. We image this web presence for the "collective" AM community. Many of us like the name "The Collective AM Community." (A few from the larger group do not like the name "collective." An alternate suggestion was "The AM Gathering.")<br />
11. We want a web designer (ideally from within the AM community). We want tenders (witnesses and responders to help this ongoing process) and contributors for funding and content.<br />
12. There was also discussion about: the value of printed media for articles and other writings, of digital video etc; ideas that a web site could have blogs within it for discussions about specific topics, documents (pdfs) that could be printed from a web site.</div>
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Large Meeting Response and Concerns:<br />
* that we also continue to use a paper and ink, black and white forms of communication.<br />
* that we use mail for anyone who needs to get information that way.<br />
* that the web draws people away from their bodies and into their minds and finger tips. How can a web presence invite people into their bodies?<br />
* could our web presence be simple and easily accessible to all, even those with older computers?<br />
* The following people offered to be tender/ witnesses to the ongoing process of developing a web presence: Karen Kornhauser, Ann McNeal, Allison Buck, Donna Blank, Elizabeth Reid, Patrizia Pallaro, Amanda Judd, and Christine Draper.<br />
*Michael Gardos Reid and Christine Draper offered to revise the directory. Daphne Lowell volunteered to help Michael and Christine with ideas about how to store and make use of directory info…databases and stuff.<br />
*Gennie Brukner and Martha Lask know web designers who might be sensitive enough for our web design.<br />
*Amanda Judd has volunteered to help with the web design.<br />
*Patrizia Pallaro offers this link about a socially aware site that does web hosting for non profits: <a href="http://www.thinkhost.com/infrastructure/" style="color: #005a8c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="http://www.thinkhost.com/infrastructure/">http://www.thinkhost.com/infrastructure/</a></div>
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Rinah Karson, Laura Hays, Barbara Chutroo, Ann Hebert Smith, Ann Hebert Smith, Kathryn Kollar, Lakshmi Sirois<br />
Summary: Because of its integration of mind, body, and spirit, authentic movement is healing. The possibility of being touched/moved both physically and emotionally is in itself healing. There are healing aspects to authentic movement regardless of the context in which it is practiced. (MJR)</div>
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We introduced ourselves and stated how we use authentic movement with different modalities and in different contexts:</div>
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Rinah Karson - is a Licensed Social Worker and often teaches authentic movement in her teenage yoga classes.</div>
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Laura Hays - is a Licensed Somatic Movement Therapist and does bodywork and authentic movement in her practice</div>
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Barbara Chutroo - Combines authentic movement with Gendlin's Focusing and practices as a Licensed Social Worker and a Dance Therapist.</div>
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Ann Hebert Smith - is an Academy of Dance Therapist Registered and a Mental Health Counselor and has run an ongoing therapeutic authentic movement group for 14 years.</div>
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Alison Buck - has written about and is practicing a combination of Homeopathy and Authentic Movement.</div>
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Kathryn Kollar - uses authentic movement in an Integrative Movement practice and teaches it in a Community College course called "Dance: Body Mind Spirit.</div>
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Lakshmi Sirois - uses authentic movement in her Expressive Arts Psychotherapy practice with individuals, groups, couples, and families as an A.D.T.R. and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and teaches it at a dance camp and as a part of an undergraduate Dance/Movement Therapy course at Endicott College.</div>
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We shared our knowledge that authentic movement is "inherently healing" (Laura Hays) and part of that stems from integrating body-mind-spirit (Lakshmi Sirois). Some shared their frustration and exasperation regarding some State's licensure requirements mandating psychotherapists (Social Workers) only work with client's minds and not involve their bodies or spirits.<br />
We spoke of the healing of touch, both the physical and the emotional (being touched/moved emotionally). We then discussed other healing aspects of authentic movement such as when witness and mover meet - share an understanding or a moment of significance - during moving and witnessing and/or the processing afterwards. A witness (or homeopath) meets and resonates with the vital force of a mover/client (Alison Buck), eyes meet knowingly, movers and witnesses are seen, and movements and/or words are brought to consciousness. There was additional discussion regarding repetitive patterns in authentic movement, and whether bringing repetitive patterns to consciousness was enough, or whether structure or intervention offered greater healing.<br />
We agreed that authentic movement offers the opportunity for healing in a peer group or with a dance/movement therapist, yoga teacher, college professor, homeopath, or a social worker. Even done for choreographic purposes it can be healing. In other words authentic movement is healing.</div>
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Daphne Lowell, Emma Linderman, Mary Ramsay, Lisa Tse Tse, Allison Buck, Kathryn Kollar, and others<br />
Summary: With different root traditions and teachers, what are the essential elements that allow a practice to be identified as authentic movement? Structures used were differentiated from the rituals that have been developed by different teachers and groups. (MJR)</div>
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Questions we started with:</div>
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There are dyads, triads, breathing circles, long circles, community long circles and more…</div>
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There are different traditions and root teachers - Janet, Daphne, Alton, Edith, Zoe, Joan Chodorow, Lucy DuBois, Anne Smith, Susan Schell, Carolyn Sadeh, Andrea Olson, and more……….</div>
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We're using the Authentic Movement as a discipline itself and to inform foundationally:<br />
Dance Movement Therapy<br />
Contemplative practice<br />
Meditation practice<br />
Healing<br />
Homeopathy Performance material<br />
Body research<br />
Yoga<br />
Spiritual resource<br />
Life coaching<br />
Social work<br />
Teaching<br />
Nonviolent practice<br />
Parenting</div>
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Specific rituals:<br />
Honoring the empty space before and after movement<br />
Use of bell to open and close circle<br />
Use of candles and/or a song to open or close<br />
Witnesses returning to where they began upon entering and leaving<br />
Witnesses choosing to return to any place in the circle after entering/leaving knowing that the witness is universal</div>
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All in agreement that:</div>
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Questions we ended with:<br />
What is essential/critical to the form structurally and what is something we simply love that we use idiosyncratically?</div>
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Sox Sperry, BethAnn Albro-Fisher, Val Gilman, Annie Geissinger, David Hurwith , Germaine Fraser, Karen Kornhauser, Marjorie Huebner, Liz Windrover</div>
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Summary: People expressed a desire to bring authentic movement into the larger world. Sox Sperry and Lisa Tse Tse's Community Long Circle provides a model for a way to do this. Sox explained how he and Lisa developed this practice, how it is set up, and its intention. (MJR)</div>
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We went around the circle and each spoke to why we were at this roundtable.<br />
David: Interested in the dilution of Authentic Movement into other formats. How to keep the integrity of it, keep it whole. Not to keep it only self referential, to connect it to actions that are in the world, political actions. Spoke about Israeli grandmothers standing witness and engaging soldiers at Palestinian check points.</div>
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Liz: Is used to moving in a defined circle - can it be less defined? How to know about a more porous circle and have a bigger impact on the world - allowing others to enter who don't know about Authentic Movement?</div>
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Val: Curiosity about collaborative work, wants to engage in difficult questions with others - war, environment, etc. To engage/integrate creative, personal healing process into healing in a bigger way.</div>
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Annie: The perspective we bring to Authentic Movement is necessary. It is missing from actions in the world. Can I open up parts of myself to fill the gap between the different parts of my life - the extremes between my life and Authentic Movement - what are the steps to doing that? Curious about the steps that Lisa and Sox have created.</div>
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Germaine: Works in a hospital/institution - cogs move more slowly there. How can Authentic Movement help make an impression, meet conditions that move more slowly, in a different way? She brings Non-Violent Communication and AM witnessing presence to patients, administration, and other workers who "mess up," not just advocating for patients. Wants to bring AM into realms she has influence on. "Work magnifies what I know in Authentic Movement - no one listens." She tends to become a MEGA witness, embodies the container....can be exhausting. Practices with babies in the hospital - following their energy rather than countering it - other nurses ask her what she is doing because they don't cry!</div>
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Karen: Uses AM and Non-Violent Communication for self tracking - helps her bring the quality of Authentic Movement into the corporate environment. How can I bring the essence of AM into my life - what are the ways to do that? The embodiment of the political scene, to make it real, seen - roles played out…..so subjects are talked about and embodied in small groups and creative expression can exist in a larger context - writing, sculpture.....</div>
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BethAnn: How practices of awareness, concentration, and listening can translate into action and behavior outside of the practice? Being in religious and self-help communities and we are assholes anyway - she is frustrated with abominable actions. Authentic Movement is about relationship, embodiment, and has a contact aspect. It asks us to behave in a certain way - shared safety - and so with this agreement of safety there is a lot of freedom to bring up our stuff and push edges. Wants to practice expansive communities. It feels radical to say what isn't ok and what behaviors we require in community.</div>
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Marjorie: I was excited to read the article Sox and Lisa wrote as I am hungry to bring what AM offers into the world, to make it more visible. In my hands-on work as a Rosen Practitioner I am often doing one-on-one work offering witness to personal process. I want a bigger and bigger circle supporting this way of being, this way into the world - offering compassionate witness with those agreements for safety so we find a way to experience our own expression, inner knowing, and being.</div>
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We had all read about Lisa and Sox and the Community Long Circle and were inspired by it. They took Authentic Movement into the world, into the public, community sphere, literally outside to move a question of concern to the community. The people who gathered moved. Moving with people you hadn't moved with before......</div>
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How it all began~<br />
Lisa and Sox are involved in collective processes in their personal and professional lives. People are suffering, there is transformation within our personal and community lives - how can we keep our eyes open to the world?<br />
Janet Adler's idea of a CARAVAN of AM moving from community to community was an inspiration. How could you go into a community? How do you find yourself in the other? How do you find the other in yourself?<br />
How can we all find ways to bring the practice into our particular world? Using Authentic Movement as inspiration - the structure to support a collective process with non-violence at the center.<br />
Need long term practitioners or folks in a parallel process to hold the container well - need experience....<br />
Sox described the process of developing the Community Long Circle, how it works when they are asked to come and do a circle in a community, and offered some stories about what happened when they did the circles outside.</div>
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Long Circle Design - the way it looks - outdoor, public sphere:<br />
They have done the Community Long Circle 5 times in different parts of the country. Use the form of 2½ day workshops. They prepare by moving inside so they then can move with a group of people. They move with a particular question in mind - a question broad enough with resonance for many people. It is important to practice non-violence, to do no harm. They have been invited by a particular group - men and women, experienced folks (movers, mediators, therapists). There are also those who just show up. They meet and find out who is in the room, move together - get in their bodies, state intentions.</div>
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Choosing an outdoor location is important. Define the circle with ribbons and stakes in the ground about 2 feet high. The circle has a portal - an opening on one side. The inner circle includes a witness and the movers (8 people), the next layer out has common witnesses (4 at least) facing out to community. At the next layer are the keepers (3 at least) who move into the community, physically interacting with people who are curious about what is going on, answering questions, and peace keeping. They also hand out flyers about who they are, what they are doing, the question they are moving. They direct people to the community board on an easel with the question and other comments from workshop members. People from the community can add comments, etc. to this board. Friends come to witness as community members (often 10-25) and then other community members happen by.....flyers have been put up. They don't ask permission from authorities and try to stay respectful of those who may regularly inhabit this space.<br />
Ritual of beginning….placing of stones....ringing of bells... Then moving 45 minutes... Invitation for other people to come in....model respectful speaking....ask speaking to happen in this particular order: 1) inner circle - movers, witness; 2) common witnesses; 3) keepers; 4) community at large.</div>
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Misc. comments, questions.....<br />
It is always an edgy and risky effort - and so rewarding.<br />
What are you hoping for? A portal into the world in a practice of non-violence.<br />
Racial lines crossed? Not in circle itself, but the circle was held in diverse communities.<br />
How to invite people into an open process? Create clear boundaries for safety - boundaries do get pushed or broken.</div>
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Do people come from other places besides the community you're working in? Yes, sometimes people hear about it and come from a distance. It is best to have a core group of experienced movers from the community.</div>
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Can we stay in communication about how we are doing this, so we aren't isolated with this desire to take AM out into the world?</div>
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One way to explore the Community Long Circle form would be to invite Sox and Lisa to your community to offer a three day workshop culminating in a community long circle. They request funding for their room, board, and transportation. Income beyond these expenses from workshop fees is shared between community organizations in the host community and the facilitators' community.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ORIGINAL NATURE, A PRACTICE IN PRESENCE with Joan Davis and Julia Gombos</strong><br />
A POST GRADUATE PROGRAMME SCHEDULED FOR 2018 – 2021<br />
IN COUNTY WICKLOW, IRELAND<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.gorsehill.net/" style="border: 0px; color: #4b4b4b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 300ms ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.gorsehill.net</a></strong><br />
This programme is made up of twelve, five day modules over a three year period commencing in April/May 2018 and ending in May 2021 with a thirteenth module of a six day outdoor retreat in the Wicklow Hills.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Authentic Movement Institute: <a href="https://www.authenticmovementinstitute.com/authenticmovement/" style="border: 0px; color: #4b4b4b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 300ms ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.authenticmovementinstitute.com/authenticmovement/</a></strong></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: #2c1376; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A simple, historical website to document the existence of the former training program at AMI co founded by Neala Haze and Tina Stromsted. </span><span style="border: 0px; color: #2c1376; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Though the site serves as a historical document, each of the faculty have listed their current contact information so people wishing to contact them can do so. It also contains a resources page that lists the AM Community Website and other relevant resources. And a publications page that lists many rich resources written by the founding faculty, which may be useful to people interested in AM.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Movimento Creativo<br />Location: Rome Italy<br />Marcia Plevin<br />link: <a href="http://www.movimentocreativo.it/" style="border: 0px; color: #4b4b4b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 300ms ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;">www.movimentocreativo.it</a><br />information Authentic Movement seminars<br />email: info@movimentocreativo.it</strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Centro de Movimiento Auténtico, Argentina – CeMAAR</strong></div>
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Location: Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina<br />
Link: <a href="http://www.movimientoautentico.com.ar/" style="border: 0px; color: #4b4b4b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 300ms ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.movimientoautentico.com.ar</a><br />
Contact: karin@movimientoautentico.com.ar<br />
Facebook: Karin Fleischer<br />
Facebook: Movimiento Auténtico Latinoamérica</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Embodying the Great Mystery, A Kabbalistic Movement Journey</strong></div>
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Location: Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
Link: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/EmbodyingKabbalah/" style="border: 0px; color: #4b4b4b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 300ms ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.facebook.com/EmbodyingKabbalah/</a><br />
Email Address: saronow@verizon.net<br />
Contact: saronow@verizon.net or tel:434-996-3837</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Laban/Bartenieff Certificate Program / Integrated Movement Studies</strong></div>
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Location: Berkely, Utah, Southern CA<br />
Link: <a href="http://www.imsmovement.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #4b4b4b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 300ms ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.imsmovement.com/</a><br />
Email Address: whittier@hws.edu<br />
Contact: Cadence Whittier: (315) 789-3969 or whittier@hws.edu or Phone: (206) 849-4380 Fax: (805) 962-0300 Mailing Address: Janice Meaden 215 Cedar Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93108 Email: jmeadenims@aol.com</div>
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Location: Boulder, Co<br />
Link: http://www.authentic-movement.org/<br />
Email Address: zoe@authentic-movement.org</div>
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Location: Bowie, MD<br />
Link: <a href="http://www.movingtheself.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #4b4b4b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 300ms ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.movingtheself.org/</a><br />
Email Address: info@movingtheself.org</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Body Visible/Body Invisible</strong></div>
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Location: Calistoga, CA<br />
Link:<a href="http://www.leapnow.org/bodyvisible" style="border: 0px; color: #4b4b4b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 300ms ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;"> http://www.leapnow.org/bodyvisible</a><br />
Email Address: bvbi@leapnow.org<br />
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Location: Canada<br />
Link: <a href="http://www.authenticmovement.ca/" style="border: 0px; color: #4b4b4b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 300ms ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.authenticmovement.ca/</a></div>
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Location: Many locations<br />
Link:<a href="http://disciplineofauthenticmovement.com/circles-of-four.html" style="border: 0px; color: #4b4b4b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 300ms ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;"> http://disciplineofauthenticmovement.com/circles-of-four.html</a><br />
Email Address: Inquiry@CirclesOfFour.com<br />
Contact: Check the web site for many locations and teachers available for Circles of Four Program</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Contemplative Dance</strong></div>
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Location: Northampton, MA<br />
Link:<a href="http://www.contemplativedance.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #4b4b4b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 300ms ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;"> http://www.contemplativedance.org/</a><br />
Email Address: cdance@contemplativedance.org</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moving On Center</strong></div>
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Location: Oakland, CA<br />
Link:<a href="http://www.movingoncenter.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #4b4b4b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 300ms ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;"> http://www.movingoncenter.org/</a><br />
Email Address: info@movingoncenter.orgPlainfield, MA Earthdance</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brazil Movimento Autentico</strong></div>
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Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<br />
Link: <a href="http://www.movimentoautentico.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #4b4b4b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 300ms ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.movimentoautentico.com/</a><br />
Email Address: soraia@movimentoautentico.com</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Authentic Movement-BodySoul Center</strong></div>
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Location: San Francisco, CA<br />
Link: <a href="http://www.authenticmovement-bodysoul.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #4b4b4b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 300ms ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.authenticmovement-bodysoul.com/</a></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Institute for Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy</strong></div>
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Location: United Kingdom<br />
Link: <a href="http://www.ibmt.co.uk/" style="border: 0px; color: #4b4b4b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 300ms ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.ibmt.co.uk/</a></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Therapiezentrum Gersthof</strong></div>
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Location: Vienna, Austria<br />
Link: <a href="http://www.authentic-movement.at/" style="border: 0px; color: #4b4b4b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 300ms ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.authentic-movement.at/</a><br />
Email Address: authentic-movement@tzg.at</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Institue for Holistic Dance and Movementpedagogy</strong></div>
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Location: Vienna, Austria<br />
Link:<a href="http://www.holistic-dance.at/" style="border: 0px; color: #4b4b4b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 300ms ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;"> http://www.holistic-dance.at/</a><br />
Contact: office@holistic-dance.at</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019816468081249500.post-25299636037274766552019-11-07T15:43:00.000-05:002019-11-07T15:43:34.842-05:00Poems submittted by Greg Grandson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">25 years ago</b></div>
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here and gone and here again</i></b></div>
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Living, dying, born again</i></b></div>
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moving, flowing, ceasing, stopping</i></b></div>
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Flowing, going once again.</i></b></div>
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See me</i></b></div>
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Feel me</i></b></div>
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Touch me</i></b></div>
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Heal me</i></b></div>
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I Want To Remember</div>
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I Want To Remember</div>
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What weight feels like when one ( I )<br />take it — Walking — leg muscles, feet,<br />knees, lower back, neck.</div>
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What the breeze feels like.</div>
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What tears are.</div>
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What the heart, The Heart, opening<br />feels like.</div>
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What a falling leaf does</div>
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What a falling leaf does when it hits the, lands<br />on the, water.</div>
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Melancholy Music<br />Love Tenderness<br />Fullness Strength<br />Completion Power</div>
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How to reach out</div>
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How to overcome grief<br />reticence<br />uncertainty<br />shyness</div>
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I Want To Remember</div>
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God</div>
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Self</div>
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and Mary</div>
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Walking with the breath<br />Breathing<br />Sunlight<br />Why <span style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
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What comes next after you’re ( I’m ) ( We’re ) done?</div>
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You I We / You Me Us / You’re I’m We’re</div>
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Oona Mia singing — Clear, clarity, crisp,</div>
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a sharpness without being sharp.</div>
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The high notes, the upper atmosphere.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span>Sleep<br />Eat<br />Drink<br />Love<br />Not necessarily in that order.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span>[ If you could have only one,<br />Which would it be? ]</div>
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How to bridge the gap — especially<br />and stay unexpecting, not needy.</div>
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How to tolerate the space, that</div>
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ambiguity, that uncertainty.</div>
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The Heart opens<br />— not easily<br />— not without pain</div>
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a creaky door<br />unused<br />The ______ space — not dark</div>
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— not<br />— blank<br />— but more than blank.</div>
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The space between the silences.</div>
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Tears as joy.<br />The Transformation.<br />Like “Chaos” to “Order”.<br />Pain and sorrow to sublime joy.<br />Quiet, rocking gently on little waves.</div>
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From active and powerful ( to some, frightening )</div>
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To present and presence and quiet and powerful.</div>
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A Letter to My Angel</div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How was it I did not know you were there?</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Did my mother rock me or was that you?</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Did you breathe life into me when I could breathe only enough </i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to survive?</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Did you revel in my play?</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yet watch close by?</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Surely you were there at Khe Sanh!</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And brought alive the Nature Spirits in that dead place as you did </i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> when I was a child.</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Am I ready, now, finally, to receive you? Or will I still try to hide?</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Those times where you had to stand by me, only to witness and </i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> not intervene. Were those times also hard for you?</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Did you whisper in my ear? Did you witness in my dreams?</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Somehow I got through!</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Somehow we got through!</i><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </i></span></div>
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Authentic Movement</div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At night.</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a dreamless state, awake.</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Looking into the dark and</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Into the dark spaces</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unseen in my soul.</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My Guardian Angel, yes you, there last year,</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just behind my left shoulder</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But unseen.</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I go back in time, 1 year, 2, 5, 10, to age 3.</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The silhouettes, the hints of the patterns</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lightly sketched, etched on the photographic plate of my soul</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To slowly be revealed</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When submerged in the liquid of movement.</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am touched.</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So that’s where this liquid life emerges </i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> through the fountain I used to call my eyes.</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another answer given to a question</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> not yet recognized.</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And the lifting of the veils continues</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In this protective womb.</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And the fountain flows.</i></div>
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<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the end was the light</i></div>
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Circles</div>
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Rolling</div>
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Rising</div>
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Down</div>
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In – Inward – Into</div>
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Heart exposed, pierced,</div>
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Into pain, Into tears, Into birth,</div>
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Welcoming pain,</div>
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For without the pain,</div>
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there is no healing</div>
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And without the healing,</div>
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there is no feeling</div>
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And without the feeling,</div>
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there is no life.</div>
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I am dead, I am dying, I am death itself.</div>
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Master of all, Master death</div>
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and</div>
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Master all.</div>
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I am a Man and I welcome the pain,</div>
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for it tells me I am alive</div>
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and I live.</div>
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God, pierce my breast, tear it open</div>
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Reach in, match my pain</div>
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I woke up this morning and walked into the sunny backyard garden my mother nurtured for 40 years. The sweetness of roses filled the air and the ripe service berry tree offered the birds a buffet of delights. Judith’s hands and soul where all around me.<br />Yesterday Judith was full of life reading letters from friends, getting on her feet again, and talking with family. The burst of personality and clarity cut through the haze of sickness. Yet, the night has a way of transforming us.</div>
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We held her hands and bathed her in prayers as she rested. She chose the deepest part of night and allowed us to walk right up to the veil with her. The crazy world around us became silent and time slowed down. Her breaths grew further apart and then wooosh. As her body cooled, her spirit surrounded us in warmth. I was honored to be present for such grace.<br />There are so many to thank for aiding her in this transition. We all played a different role in her life and passing, but each role had meaning and purpose. I am humbled by the loving and wise support that materialized over the last year. Our family was enriched and enlarged, new friends emerged and old friends remained engaged. Our whole family is deeply grateful.</div>
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A creative form is an extension of an AM session used to deepen or make conscious different aspects of a movement session. While we sometimes we use art like tools, the goal is not artistic, but to express some aspect of the movement. Please feel free to submit your creative form </div>
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Lisa Fladager</div>
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Lisa Fladager</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019816468081249500.post-77284705117422462892017-03-06T11:24:00.001-05:002017-03-06T11:32:29.604-05:00The Radical Gesture of Generosity: A Dialogue Between Paula Sager and Bonnie Morrissey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear Elizabeth,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recently, as the two of us were preparing for co-teaching retreats in 2017, a dialogue emerged regarding the relationship between our teaching and recent unsettling political events in the U.S. We wondered about the impact of our retreat flyer (see below) in referencing current events so directly. Our inquiry led us to transcribe our exchange, and now we are moved to share it with the larger community of Authentic Movement practitioners. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bonnie and Paula are teachers of the Discipline of Authentic Movement on the faculty of Circles of Four—they are based in Vermont and Rhode Island, respectively, on the East Coast of the USA. In the following conversation, they discuss the relevance of the Discipline in a time of much political and cultural unrest. Perhaps now more than ever, we see the value of cultivating the refined awareness of the inner witness and heed the call to the mystery of the unknown, in support of invisible presence.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paula: I woke up this morning, feeling a strong desire to connect with you, Bonnie. It was a call to inwardly attend to our preparations to teach together at our April weekend retreat in New York.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There’s always something so potent about not knowing what will happen, not knowing who will come. The empty space of the circle is here, and now people are starting to step in. Something is underway. I wonder if there are folks who are drawn to our offering of retreat, but are feeling ambivalent? Is there something in the directness of our flyer, the explicit connection to what is happening in our country, in the world right now, that in-itself creates an element of subtle inner resistance?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paula: I’m aware of my own ambivalence in the current political climate. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I want to act, I want to participate </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and I feel my own resistance—I can feel overwhelmed by the level of political chaos and uncertainty—</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’d rather not get involved.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bonnie: I respond differently when people offer generosity and kindness. This is what I turn towards. In the presence of fearlessness and generosity, I feel awe. I’m aware of who is stepping up. After the election, I was seeking places of sanity in the culture. Every time I turned on National Public Radio, they were doing something meaningful on race, gender, or some other social issue impacting real human lives. This seemed strong and supportive. I felt they took their muzzle off, and while remaining respectful, stopped trying not to offend anyone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The New Yorker magazine is another place I feel has risen to the challenge. Their articles, the covers, the cartoons they are printing are courageous. Right after the election, I think they offered a 20-issue subscription for only $5.69 or something like that. I found that to be a lovely gesture of generosity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paula: It’s interesting to see who steps up in this way. I remember imagining, after the election, a new kind of alliance between forward-thinking companies and their consumers. We saw the power of this when the North Carolina Republicans passed legislation restricting bathroom access for transgender people. There was a groundswell of outraged response from individuals and also some corporations who chose to cancel events or boycott the state altogether.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As citizens we can wake up to the power of our voice and action through the choices we make in our purchases; our choices of where we go and what we do.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bonnie: In our personal lives each day, in our simple individual ways, what we say and do matters. I want to be more mindful of my speech each day, to say what I really mean. I don’t want to waste my words, my actions, my energy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s not about getting tight or shutting down. It’s about focusing my attention. Like this kerosene lamp here on my table this evening. I work with the wick, try to get the flame just right, not too big, rather getting the beam of fire and light smaller and more focused, more intense. There’s a clarified quality to this focus. The refinement of our attention is what matters.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paula: Wow, I suddenly feel so warm—the heat! Wait, I’m putting down the phone, I have to take off my sweater. (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laughs</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) There’s something here in what we’re saying that is about warmth.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bonnie: (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laughs</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) Yes, and it’s related to compassion and love. The heart. It’s like there are two opposing energies: One has its roots in fear, aggression, retaliation, greed. It is a perfectly understandable response to shut down, withdraw and turn away—</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I need to protect myself from what is happening, from the darkness and danger. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alternatively, generosity is true resistance to greed and fear. It’s a life- affirming expression that can serve as counter-energy and antidote.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paula: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Generosity is true resistance. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes. This is connected to my feeling of wanting to be </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">something rather than just </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">against </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">something.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bonnie: What have you found yourself doing that has the feeling of being </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">something?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paula: Some of it is self-care—noticing when I need to step back from reading or hearing news and when I need to know what’s going on. But mostly I feel renewed commitment to what matters to me in the world: Circles of Four and teaching the Discipline, and also Mariposa—supporting the young children and their teachers, who I’ve become so involved with. But there’s something else.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s hard to put into words...there’s a way that I’m attending and listening that feels new and different. It’s not in the inward way that I’m used to. There’s a sense of being called to attend in a new, more outward way. What is here? It’s almost a sense of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">who </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is here. So much not knowing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This phrase just came to me this morning—</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">invisible collaborators are here</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. It feels really important to engage and acknowledge this quality of invisible presence, to be in relation to the invisible and open to the mystery.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The sky has come closer to me. This is the feeling of it; there is so much subtle activity above and around me—</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">my hands rise just above my ears; I feel a faint weaving of vibrations, stirring in the air. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As my hands lower, what I mostly experience in relation to this is an invitation to notice</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Something about the soft falling snow today and the recent loss of my dear cat intensifies all of this for me. Two days ago, I was holding Pierre, wrapped in a blanket in my arms, while Jeremy drove us to the vet. Pierre had lost so much weight; he was so light, but still so present, letting himself be held and sometimes lifting and turning his head to look out the window at the passing landscape. At the veterinarian’s office:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I lay Pierre on the metal table to receive his euthanasia shot. He stays close to me, his soft back pressing lightly against my belly. And then I see a gentle tilting of his ears to the side, his head dropping slightly, such a quiet releasing of his cat life. Witnessing life leave. With so much sadness, I pick the bundle of him up again and carry him, his body, back to the car. On the drive home, I hold his body close—it is so heavy in my arms, in my lap. Is life light?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bonnie: Oh Paula, I am so sorry for your loss. Dear Pierre.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wow... </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is life light? Invisible collaborators. The sky has come closer. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And an invitation</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to awareness around the portal of death. Witnessing spirit flow out of bodies.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is the energy flowing among the living and then the mystery of... do we dare to say it, the energy that may flow between the living and....(</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">silence</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)... no word comes...something of the emptiness... I’m at the end of my vocabulary.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feeling into the relationship between the energy we experience among us as living beings, and this other energy that maybe we can let ourselves know. This place feels close to empty mover, empty witness.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paula, your words about the sky coming closer cause me to remember:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am in the Pocono Mountains. I am young, maybe 21, and one evening a small group of us are sitting on the floor, listening to First Nation Mohawk-tribe elders as they stand before us and speak. They are telling stories from their hand-woven belts, stories about life forces and about being human. Things they know and we don’t. They are offering these stories to we white people as an offering, in what I experience as an act of unmediated generosity. I take in all I</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">can, impressionistically. Afterwards, I go outside and stand on a balcony, gazing up at the night sky.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I feel myself fall into the embrace of this vast star-studded darkness. And now, in a powerful flash I am “hit”, stunned by a laser-like beam from somewhere out in the cosmos, overwhelming me utterly. This zap is a circuit connecting, an instantly changed body-consciousness, a receiving of what I know as an immediate and permanent cellular reorganization.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I knew this experience then as an imprint of evolutionary change, for me as one person of many. I name this experience now as an aspect of energetic phenomena, an early strong kria, an initiatory moment. I’ve avoided speaking of this, protecting the mystery by surrounding it with silence, and protecting myself as well, since I had no words to render my experience in a grounded form. Now four decades later, the experience continues to ripen as I name and further integrate what happened then, thanks to my practice of the Discipline of Authentic Movement. And now is a time to speak.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paula: This is a precious gift, Bonnie, so moving. Thank you for speaking something that you have held protected, with care and silence.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bonnie: Coming into relationship with what is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">big </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">might really help us. Can we let this relationship become stronger, more real? Can we feel it as an invitation that has to do with our potentiality as human beings?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paula: Such a beautiful offering that you received—the stories told through the hand-woven belts—and the generosity of the offering, an invitation that bears such a poignant longing for human awakening. I imagine, on these days when the news is filled with stories of lies and diversions, a great cosmic longing is calling for us to wake up.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s so odd to be experienced practitioners - we think we know all this stuff and we do know some things – and yet what we know is miniscule. I feel a fluttering now in my belly as an invitation into a place that feels deeply unknown. I am being called, and it feels necessary. Refining our attention and intensifying our awareness.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What we’re addressing is a kind of edge. It’s an invitation to the edge of awareness, where more might be known about receiving assistance from that which is invisible.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paula: I have a feeling now of wanting to be very simple—wanting to simply create an open space suffused with the mystery of not-knowing, in order to welcome others. To stay focused consciously on the quality of the space we are creating. The generosity of unfolding life; this is what we can embody.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019816468081249500.post-36597591557060714892017-01-21T09:24:00.001-05:002017-01-21T09:31:04.644-05:00Poems by Gregory Grandison<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Prologue</b></div>
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<b></b><br /></div>
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<b>25 years ago</b></div>
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<b></b><br /></div>
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<b></b><br /></div>
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<b><i>See me</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Feel me</i></b></div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<b><i>Taste me</i></b></div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<b><i>Touch me</i></b></div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; min-height: 19px; text-align: center;">
<b><i></i></b><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<b><i>Here and gone and here again</i></b></div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<b><i>Living, dying, born again</i></b></div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<b><i>Moving, flowing, ceasing, stopping</i></b></div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<b><i>Flowing, going once again.</i></b></div>
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<b><i></i></b><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<b><i>See me</i></b></div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<b><i>Feel me</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Touch me</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Heal me</i></b></div>
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<b><i></i></b><br /></div>
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<b><i></i></b><br /></div>
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<b><i></i></b><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 32px; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
I Want To Remember</div>
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I Want To Remember </div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">
What weight feels like when one ( I ) <br />
take it -- Walking -- leg muscles, feet, <br />
knees, lower back, neck. </div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">
What the breeze feels like. </div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">
What tears are. </div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">
What the heart, The Heart, opening <br />
feels like. </div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">
What a falling leaf does </div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">
What a falling leaf does when it hits the, lands <br />
on the, water. </div>
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Melancholy <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Music <br />
Love <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tenderness <br />
Fullness <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Strength <br />
Completion <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Power </div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">
How to reach out </div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">
How to overcome grief <br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>reticence <br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>uncertainty <br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>shyness </div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">
I Want To Remember </div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">
God </div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">
Self </div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">
and Mary </div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">
Walking with the breath <br />
Breathing <br />
Sunlight <br />
Why <span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><br />
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You I We / You Me Us / You’re I’m We’re</div>
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Tears as joy. <br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> The Transformation. <br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Like “Chaos” to “Order”. <br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Quiet, rocking gently on little waves. </div>
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<i>How was it I did not know you were there?</i></div>
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<i>Did my mother rock me or was that you?</i></div>
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<i>Did you breathe life into me when I could breathe only enough </i></div>
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<i>Surely you were there at Khe Sanh!</i></div>
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<i>And brought alive the Nature Spirits in that dead place as you did </i></div>
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<i>Am I ready, now, finally, to receive you? Or will I still try to hide?</i></div>
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<i>Those times where you had to stand by me, only to witness and </i></div>
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<i>Did you whisper in my ear? Did you witness in my dreams?</i></div>
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<i>Somehow I got through!</i></div>
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<i>My Guardian Angel, yes you, there last year,</i></div>
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<i>Lightly sketched, etched on the photographic plate of my soul</i></div>
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<i>So that’s where this liquid life emerges </i></div>
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<i>And the lifting of the veils continues</i></div>
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<i>In this protective womb.</i></div>
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I am a Man and I welcome the pain,</div>
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God, pierce my breast, tear it open</div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">In October, I attended a retreat in the Discipline of Authentic Movement in </span><u style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"></u><u style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"></u><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">Watertown</span><u style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"></u><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">, </span><u style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"></u><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">Massachusetts</span><u style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"></u><u style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"></u><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">. There I finally had the time and space to open up to the depth of loss I feel for Martha, and I had the safety of the container to allow the feelings to come up in me and pass through. A most potent realization from my retreat experience is that I am not alone in grieving about not having a proper goodbye: I hold a deep sense that so too does she.</span></b></div>
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I'm planning a session with a small group on October 1st in Florianópolis, South of Brazil. I wish to create a group for current practice. We will be connected to the whole community during the week. Congratulations for the idea of celebrating October 4th.Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 9:28:00 PM EDT</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I have no one to move with, so today I began to moved with camera as witness. I will do this till the 4th of October and see waht transpires after that. I will move to feel the dream, dream to feel the movement. Also it is my birthday on the 2nd of October. My teacher, mentor who introduced me to AM, has her birthday on the 4th. So it is a Special time for me, thank you and blessings Maria</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">A small group of us will gather at Genesis Retreat center in Westfield, MA and move our wishes and dreams for the whole community. We loved doing this last year. ~~~Elizabeth</span><br />
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Mary Starks Whitehouse (1911 -1979) is considered to be the foremother of the many streams of practice that comprise Authentic Movement. Mary was a modern dancer who studied with dance pioneers Mary Wigman and Martha Graham--both strong, innovative choreographers who created dances that accessed the archetypal and mythological realms in the studio and on stage.</div>
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The powerful emotional experiences that Mary had in her own body as she danced with them and the equally powerful experiences she witnessed in her own students in the studio piqued her curiosity, leading her to pursue study and training in CG Jung's methods of analytical psychology, active imagination and dreamwork at the CG Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland.</div>
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As these two streams, one sourced from the emotional/psychological/soul level and the other from the dance/embodiment level, coursed through and blended within her, alchemy happened. Gradually, a way of working evolved, both new and ancient, born in mid-twentieth century California! Mary discovered a way of being, moving and relating to body and soul as one, as alive, as inseparable. This unity and inclusivity of <em>body+soul</em> was something that had been missing in the western versions of dance and psychology, but was beginning to re-emerge in early to mid-twentieth century through Mary and others.</div>
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Mary discovered and spent years developing her unique way of <em>being+moving</em> while in the presence of an other (teacher/witness) that was genuine, real and uncontrived. She called her way of moving/being/witnessing "authentic" and "movement-in-depth".</div>
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When the movement was simple and inevitable, not to be changed no matter how limited or partial, it became what I called 'authentic'- it could be recognized as genuine, belonging to that person...[a] truth of a kind unlearned, but there to be seen. - Mary Starks Whitehouse</div>
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Yearly, on Mary's birthday, October 4th, the international Authentic Movement Community comes together to mark and honor the contributions of this amazing pioneer! I hope you'll join us.</div>
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If you are an AM practitioner/mover, you can post your dreams for Authentic Movement to the Authentic Movement Community Blog, or share some of your embodied writing or images. We invite you to join the online community gathering around this powerful, nourishing and transformative practice.</div>
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<span id="m_2544226080088285414yui_3_16_0_1_1475529028089_5143">In the mover/witness relationship, Mary's disciples have taught me to respect the power of the mover's experience and how they are transformed by it. The witness is witnessing their own response to it, only to support the mover's integration, retelling and removing of it as a record of their owning the experience. The mover is the one dialoguing with the witness, not the witness dialoguing with the mover. I mean this in that the witness has their own vibrant experience that they learn to contain to create safety for the mover, choosing to not project the witness experience upon the mover. The rich interplay between the mover and witness creates an individual intimacy of depth and history in each of them if practiced over and over.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">into slow movement</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hands rise with my arms</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">towards sky and</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">feet shift and </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">are under my left foot.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Head tilts back</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">up then down</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">guide the motion</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Firm hands flat on the floor</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">towards the lit</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paula: </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Closer, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On hands and knees, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weight of rolling arm, leg, weight of head</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A place where thumb and finger form a ring</span></div>
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I honored the form and Mary Starks Whitehouse this year as I had an opportunity to teach a Freshman Seminar class, connectedness to Nature and Sustainability. I took the students outdoors and asked them to allow something in Nature to draw them close. Then I had them partner and share three other Nature elements with each other. Silently witnessing each other share their joy with this exercise in connecting with Nature. Perfect Day!</div>
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To remember the International Authentic Movement Day! It took place two weeks ago and now we are able to collect all photos. </div>
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to honor Mary Starks Whitehouse..<br />
to join to the big circle..</div>
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Written following a movement session in honor of Mary Startks Whitehouse. By Elizabeth Reid</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My thought as I walk is, "a teacher is a human being." Over and over I think, 'a teacher is a human being." And then, "a teacher is a human being who dies." "A teacher is a human being who dies and leaves behind an energy."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wonder and notice the energy that is left behind in my body from my teachers. I feel places I have been touched. Places of touching flood back into my memory and touch me again. A dream of the divine child in Greece...an integration of male and female in my heart. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I go to another mover who has been such a teacher about touch. She touches my aching knee and warms my wound. I feel the touch of other teachers through the years...a touch that allows a growing presence, a touch that sees trauma and contentment, touching that hopes to add compassion to the world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the short <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DJ_W1rpjcxH0&source=gmail&ust=1477401465342000&usg=AFQjCNHBqY7cxnRcSmLiP1y_ZgubZb91ng" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_W1rpjcxH0" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">youtube clip</a> of Mary Starks Whitehouse she says something like, "I see/experience you by being with your bodies, not with your smile or your talk. Your body is the connection to the sacred."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am noticing the teachers who teach how to use our energy to let go of ourselves and return to ourselves changed and transformed, more complex, more present, more compassionate, more able to dance as human beings who will die.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My favorite teachers teach for their own autotelic,intrinsic,internal selves, their own self goals,their own optimal creative edge...learning their own way, according to their individual tastes and talents. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When my father died I was so sad to think of all his brilliance lost, until I saw that his brilliance was for him, it was his, for his own enjoyment in life. Now I am so touched when I notice his brilliance is still here and there in the world.</span><br />
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From Aileen Crow</div>
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I’m happy to read your writing and eager to hear more!</div>
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I’ve been fortunate to have great teachers, and not just go for degrees. Some of my teachers have passed on, but stay with me in my being. I had an art teacher at the 92nd St “Y”, Anna Siok, who often said, ‘Isn’t it wonderful, everybody does something different!!"</div>
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She modeled curiosity and generosity. -for others and for herself - she kept her art materials on her kitchen sink, ready to play! </div>
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And a dance therapist who’s not in my life any more, but bequeathed me “ Make room for all your parts!”<br />
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This is a wonderful article on Mary’s ideas.</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Mary Starks Whitehouse's Day of Birth was October 4, 1911. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We wish to celebrate her life and vision on this Second International Day of Authentic Movement. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She began the vision/dream which became known as Authentic Movement with her dreams for "movement in depth" which began in the 1950's over 60 years ago.</span></div>
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Today, Aileen Crow shares with us an example of one of her AM / art experiences.</div>
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Over years as an AM mover, I’ve found that certain movement motifs have repeated themselves spontaneously, and with no apparent meaning - at first.<br />
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One of these that seemed significant and mysterious, was one that had two different dynamics in my two hands, at exactly the same time! My right hand fluttered up above my head in delight, while my left hand thrust itself aggressively forward in an “effyou’" gesture.</div>
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I made a sculpture of her and painted her; her right side is pink and glowing, her left is a sickish green.</div>
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Words started to come with the repeated fighting movements.”Don’t tell me what to do!” “….what to think!” “…..what to eat!” “….NOT to eat!” I ask, "Who gives you uninvited advice? Left side answers: “Dogmatic New Age Fatheads.” I ask, “Whose advice would you welcome? “ Right side answers: “Shirley Turcotte, Aboriginal Trauma therapist, who elicits a humorous mix of strength and joy."<br />
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Creating a dialog to me is a way of being my own mover and witness. And my art enriches that process. I’ll do more of that and I’d like to hear your story!</div>
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Marilyn: It is called "The Dancing Electric Jello" or "Happy Birthday To Me." I woke up at 6:00AM and just started to paint. I just went for it. It just took on this shape. I just suddenly saw that it was a dancing form. After I worked on it for a while, I realized that the leg, an arm and a hand protruding were absolutely structurally the expression of the energy of the yellow thing in the middle which, after I painted it, I realized this is a recurring theme in my spiritual work.</div>
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My belief is that the pineal gland, which is in the middle of your head, is where the soul resides. The unconscious is the body. In my imagination the pineal gland looks like another symbol that I created in working with Aileen, which was of a yellow zygote. We were doing pre-birth work. Aileen asked me, "Was there a time when you actually felt happy?" I said, "Yes, probably at that moment before I actually became an anything, when I was still a zygote."</div>
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All the meditation work I began to do had to do with keeping my eyes open or turning the muscles inward and connecting to the pineal gland, because when I do that, my soul can come right through my eyes. Just the simple act of doing this opens a huge channel. </div>
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In terms of the proportions of life, typically the zygote is tiny, and the personality is soft. The ego and the life are larger but what happened in this painting was suddenly my personality self was clearly an extension. I consider this yellow symbol, this triangular symbol, the expression of my larger self or my soul, it seems that the painting is about how my personality self is happily by my larger self. That's the only way that there is a possibility for happiness. </div>
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In my movement with Aileen for many years, she and I have both been very interested in post-traumatic stress and the idea that stress is held literally in the body. We've both been working on this concept in Authentic Movement. </div>
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I'll just double check though. Holly Sweeney introduced us because I came into my Alexander session carrying a book called "Dreaming While Awake" by Arnold Mindell. She's like, "You have to meet Aileen," because I was involved unwittingly in the idea of trauma because my idea was that if you learned to dream while you were awake, then you could clean up your unconscious. I thought cleaning up your unconscious was the work that had to be done in order to be in post traumatic living and learning.</div>
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The unresolved trauma in your body causes you to unconsciously do damage to yourself. If the only way to overcome the very deep problems were to really go in there, clean out, <i>release or express</i> whatever that was ...</div>
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Marilyn: The point is I didn't know what the traditional word was. Now I know that the word is express but at the time because I'd had a therapy background, I assumed that it was working through, dream work or some sort of process but by the time that I had met Aileen, I had become quite convinced all of these were blunt instruments. It's even worse that they might mire the body in the trauma by constantly reinforcing it verbally.</div>
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I was very stuck. At that point if you'd said to me, "Your soul is in the center of your brain, and that's what it feels like," and that you could access it any second, that it wasn't in a mysterious place and that if you'd said to me, "The unconscious is in the body, where else is it?" I would have been more unsure, but then I began to work with Aileen and took a couple of her workshops, and started to work with her privately.</div>
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It became eminently clear to both of us that we were on parallel tracks in terms of the discovery process, of how best to live one's life. My intention was that I did not want to be wise and old. I wanted to be wise and as young as possible so that I could enjoy my wisdom. </div>
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Marilyn: The picture is arms and a leg. Theoretically, the human body has been replaced by the zygote. Clearly, from the painting there are these three holes, which are called the common wisdom. Clearly, the personality self and the zygote, the soul self, are merged. There's no conflict because they're dancing together. </div>
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Marilyn: Even though I wasn't aware of it when I was doing it, it clearly demonstrates that I have achieved this goal that I was seeking. It was a nice birthday present for myself because I did the painting, went back to sleep. When I woke up, that's when I unpacked it. I began to understand what it represented in terms of an emotional movement. </div>
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What the subtlety is that you could only release the trauma when you were doing a certain type of movement, which was some kind of a spiral or a twist. This subtlety I had never seen discussed anywhere else as a thing. I've studied with Bonnie Cohen and with lots of people who do this kind of movement, but no one before Aileen has ever identified the twist as the mechanism of release for trauma. </div>
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The idea is that whenever I go into the twist with my elbows crossed and my palms crossed, it means there's a doorway. I've completed whatever that sphere of movement was in the authentic movements. It now has a recognizable, if not a narrative, shape. It's not narrative. It's not a story, per se, but it is a rhythmic story in the sense that when the twist happens and the release occurs ... </div>
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When you work with authentic movement in this particular way it becomes, if not narrative, rhythmic and rhythmic in an expansive, conclusion sense of the word. Today when I stopped I then worked on some of my own personal discomfort that was coming up about personal situations but that in itself was a release. Then here I am now back discussing twisting, authentic movement and painting. </div>
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The recap is that through this process of doing authentic movement, expression such as painting occurs. That would be the best way to describe it. </div>
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Marilyn: The painting occurred as a result of movement and that because I have an interest in understanding the true nature of spirituality, in the authentic movement and workshops that I do. This concept of the yellow zygote being the part of me that is endlessly happy that supersedes all of the other modules became the concept that allowed me to resolve my trauma.</div>
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I found peace once the body understood that "I" understood that it was the unconscious and that my soul was actually stored in my pineal glands. The brain was not actually the thing that controlled my actions', so I stopped beating up my monkey mind. I started to understand that my mind was the electrical conveyance by which my soul could express itself because the mind was needed in order to move the body and to exist in the world.</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3019816468081249500"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3019816468081249500"></a>Once those relationships shifted into a much more fluid understanding and that the zygote became the central guiding force, then the twisting and the authentic movement became a connection with, again, the pineal gland and the larger self. It all became a very holistic thing. When I did the painting in which the representation of the zygote, the pineal gland, the triangular-shaped yellow form that appears in many of my paintings had the entire personality body. What was left were limbs that were necessary to dance with. I thought that it was a very nice way to enter my birthday. The painting is called "Dancing Electric Jello" or "Happy Birthday To Me."</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019816468081249500.post-21132224557757603672016-02-01T09:59:00.000-05:002016-05-15T10:39:41.901-04:00Twisting by Aileen Crow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is another of those intriguing (to me) movement phenomena that sometimes appear in Authentic Movement. They often repeat themselves, sometimes for years, before their meanings become clear. <br />
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This one started in a NYC AM peer group. Moving as usual, suddenly my arms twisted in front of my face. It was odd, but I took it as a positive event. I drew it, two pictures. One as it looked in the mirror, the other as it felt, with many more twists than possible. Soon afterwards, my legs twisted, then my torso.<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>The twisting came with a warning: “Don’t try to make this happen! It has to be spontaneous! To take you by surprise!"<br />
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The twists seemed to have a life of their own. I imagined them as messengers from another realm, which I called my “creative unconscious.” <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>I’m not spooky, but I often ask myself, “Who do you think you are?” or “Who has my identity?” "Is it by choice, or am I reenacting a trauma pattern?" Authentic Movement gives me information from my body’s inner wisdom.</div>
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Lately I am delighted when a twist appears because it has come to mean, “Some part of you (<span style="background-color: white;">I intend to save the word “you” to mean "your whole self”)</span> thinks that what you’re doing is weird, but you’re on the right track, Aileen."</div>
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The subject of spiral movement seems to be endlessly interesting to me, and I haven’t even touched on Authentic Movement’s relationship to Laban Movement Analysis, or on cross cultural studies.</div>
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Folk Song Style and Culture was an exhaustive study by Alan Lomax, Irmgard Bartenieff and Forestine Paulay of movement elements and specific cultures. For example, they found that cultures that were inclined to favor fertility over control of sensuality used their torsos as one unit - with little undulation. The Lomax book is available on Amazon, and much of this information can be found on Wikipedia.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">An interview with Peggy by Aileen can be found on A Moving Journal. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Volume 12.1 <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.070398330688477px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Spring 2005:</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.070398330688477px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.070398330688477px;">Authentic Movement and Laban Movement Analysis, an interview with Peggy Hackney </span></span><a href="http://amjpastissues.blogspot.com/">http://amjpastissues.blogspot.com</a></div>
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MAKING CONNECTIONS, Total Body Integration Through Bartenieff Fundamentals, by Peggy Hackney, is an elegant and pleasurable book by a fine teacher, writer and long time Authentic Mover. You can read this book online: </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019816468081249500.post-42779386401722454592016-01-04T08:22:00.001-05:002016-01-04T08:22:12.457-05:00Higher Self Sits by Jane Blount<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Lucida Sans; font-size: 12.8px;">Dear Elizabeth,<br /><br />I'd like to share this poem that I wrote for my friend, DeviKirn in honor of her 49th birthday gathering which celebrated her entering into the 7th, seven year cycle of life. DeviKirn has been one of the space holders, and organizers of a weekly dance jam gathering in Encinitas, CA called Dance Church Encinitas. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Lucida Sans; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: Lucida Sans;">Two years ago</span> she invited me to facilitate a monthly Authentic Movement class on the first <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1479253616" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> of each month prior to the dance jam. This poem was sourced from the many times I had the honor of witnessing her, both as she moved, and as she joined me witnessing the field of movers, within the circles of that loving community. Jane<br /></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019816468081249500.post-43688287208702578462015-12-01T16:25:00.000-05:002015-12-01T16:25:30.186-05:00Poems from Laura Hays<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Deep Listening”<br /><br />This deep listening to body impulse is radical<br />like what babies do<br />explore without agenda<br />seeing cooing touching toes<br />it ’s unlike anything we do in daily life<br />most of our waking hours we direct our bodies from point A to point B<br />purposefully attempting to get somewhere or accomplish something<br />proprioception is in the joints, to join, one English word for different things<br />today my toes head spine hands all want to contact wall<br />gently press both sides of head with palms<br />back body settling into quiet restful stillness<br />amazed that i am still amazed after all these years of listening in this way<br />i soak up the fullness<br />and witness the infinite possibilities…10/19/15, Laura Hays<br /><br />"Sanity and Madness"<br /><br />Spine on earth<br />feet on earth<br />blue sky<br />green pine needles<br />brown leaves clinging to November branches<br />seven women and granite boulders deposited by glacier<br />large enough to hold the pain of the world and speak of the unspeakable<br />130 slaughtered in cold blood in Paris<br />hundred of thousands fleeing Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa on leaky boats and worn feet<br />the Middle East catching wild fire like the parched trees in California<br />When do we humans lay down our weapons and choose love?<br />who will protect us from ourselves? 11/2/15, Laura Hays</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019816468081249500.post-59727947975441764662015-10-21T15:44:00.000-04:002016-02-26T19:43:23.112-05:00Authentic Movement virtual meeting in the UK with Emma Meehan (Leamington Spa) and Amy Voris (Manchester) in honour of Mary Starks Whitehouse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019816468081249500.post-5949041101019366812015-10-14T19:38:00.000-04:002015-10-15T14:55:08.863-04:00Sharing our dreams from Alison Buck<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Here are links to the article on the website of my homeopathic colleague, Anneke Hogeland, who with another colleague, Judy Shriebman, has written a remarkable article on the making of a homeopathic remedy that began as a healing intention. I participated in that process, along with a number of homeopaths, some of whom are international. You will need to go to each of the following three links to get the full story:<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">You will see in the third link above, if you scroll to the section of my account of some experiences I had in making the remedy, that we began the whole process with me facilitating an Authentic Movement session with the homeopaths. This is probably the first time that has happened, and it is one of the ways I envision realizing my wish for Authentic Movement.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In the second link above, you will see among many, an excerpt of a case I shared, in which I reported what happened in giving this remedy made from the healing intention of cancer.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Overall, I think you will also see in the creative work that was done in conjunction with the making (aka “proving”) of the remedy, that there was a creative forming process occurring quite spontaneously, and it has a lot in common with what happens in Authentic Movement. And you may see other things about this remarkable work that you can relate to, from your experiences in Authentic Movement.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019816468081249500.post-18114154607870695572015-10-10T09:22:00.002-04:002015-10-10T09:22:21.795-04:00MARIA ELENA GARCIA - OCEANO GROUP Sharing our dreams<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />Arriving to my seventies I want to thank my peer group: Oceano (Marcia Plevin, Antonella Monteleone, Anna Weatherhogg, Maria Luis Merlo, Piera Pieracini, Antonella Adorisio, Leonella Parteli) we have been moving together for 25 years, since the time of the retreats guided by Janet Adler in Tuscany. We have been witnessing each other along the different phases of our life.<br />In these days, feeling the distant but strong connection with all the <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">A.M. community, and particularly with my peer group, I could see my fear loosen the grip, less fear about the unknown, about the future, about the crisis in the world</span></div>
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On October 4th, the International authentic movement day, at the end of a short practice with Simonetta Cianca<br />“I find a stable vertical axis and a clear direction for my eyes. I am turning and turning slowly while my arms open and close, caressing the world and turning after to my center. Finally my movement stops, I am listening to my heart, I notice some emotional intensity yet. I wait for peace” So I find my dream for the A. M. Community: all of us trying to develop our consciousness us a humble contribution for stability, clear direction, compassion and peace in the world.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019816468081249500.post-17766534469897437562015-10-10T09:14:00.000-04:002015-10-11T10:55:24.467-04:00Oct 5 Authentic Movenment virtual communication from Aileen Crow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>My colleague Annette Geiger, from Zurich, and I skype frequently, taking turns moving /sounding and witnessing AM. We met on October 5 and after we did our usual trade, we continued moving and sounding together, now with the intention of connecting with our whole AM community on the planned “virtual reality” gathering.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">My training with Shirley Turcotte on transforming trauma helps here</span><span style="line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;">. It reminds me that I have vicariously identified with the traditional belief that women are victims. We have been brainwashed to believe that, shamed and blamed, and trained to trash ourselves. I “see” the movie vision of gorgeous Rita Hayworth singing, “Put the blame on Mame, boys, put the blame on Mame!”</span></b></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019816468081249500.post-12931841374593314782015-10-08T08:14:00.001-04:002015-10-08T08:14:23.807-04:00Sharing from Ann McNeal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sharing Gratitude</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Our peer group of women met </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_318063491" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Tuesday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> night Oct 6th in Amherst Massachusetts. This group has been going for nearly 20 years, although many of the members have changed. As the early dusk closed around us and the trees were held in deep blue sky, we did our usual practice of moving and witnessing (two moving, two witnessing. and then changing roles, one member being out sick). </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">At the end we shared a few words of gratitude to Mary Starks Whitehouse for her generosity and deep insight in giving us this simple form that does so much to sustain us.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Thank you, Mary. And thank you, Elizabeth, for helping to keep the dream alive.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Ann McNeal</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Thanks, Ann! Beautiful said,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Nina Weyl</span></div>
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