Medicine Dance

Return to Roots
2018-10-06 12:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Return to Roots
Saturday, October 6
12:30 – 8:30 pm

Medicine Dance Immersion, Big Island Hawai'i 2018
2018-08-11 08:00 - 2018-08-19 17:00 (Pacific/Honolulu) | Kalani Retreat Center, RR2, Box 4500 , Pahoa, HI, 96778, United States
Mindful Movement Talking Story
Big Island, 2018
Mindful Movement Talking Story is a workshop dedicated to exploring the confluence of movement, words, and embodied witnessing: listening to the stories that the body carries, to the movement of the body that longs to be expressed, and to the impulses of the body that most deeply represent what is meant by the idea of the ‘self’ as an awareness created through relationship. Each of our six days of this retreat is divided up into a morning of movement exploration of autonomy and communion, afternoon explorations of group dynamics in the thrilling nature of coastal Hawaii, evening council focusing on group-supported explorations of the individual psyche, the effect of loving group attention on the natural impulses toward communion and healing.
In morning sessions participants are guided through explorations of free-form improvisational movement inspired by music, silence, and deep compassionate witnessing. In the traditions of Medicine Dance (www.medicinedance.com) participants are encouraged to find and follow their body’s own deepest impulses rather than follow imperatives of choreography or other people’s expectations, even when in partnership. This attention to somatic signals allows participants to gain a deeper experience of the shifting awareness and differentiation among sensations, feelings, emotions, and cognitions, inspiring what Somatic Psychology describes as bottom-up processing.
By practicing moving the body in community and relationship while always in the context of autonomy, participants of this workshop hone the skills essential for psychological and spiritual growth and healing: empathic attunement, embodied witnessing, differentiating and integrating sensation/emotion/cognition/self and other; supporting profound healing through a liberation of the body’s eloquent but wordless impulses.
Afternoons we move as a group into the natural coastal environments nearby, investigating the intersections of the natural world with the psyche, especially using the nearby lava-heated warm ponds to practice partner and group experiments in assisted floating and meditation.
The evening sessions integrate the morning’s somatic awareness practice with the stories we carry consciously and unconsciously. In the group tradition of the Threefold Way (www.threefoldway.com), we explore eliciting, holding, and embodying the narratives that implicitly mold and define our sense of our ‘self’ and each other. Compassionate witnessing and holding allow us to release the unconscious psychic and somatic adaptations that we once had to make to survive our developmental challenges. Together we explore different modes of holding a container for other people’s stories through group limbic attunement, role-playing, group movement, music making, and aspects of therapeutic touch.
We offer CE credits for psychotherapists, psychologists, psychoanalysts, nurses, social workers, and dentists. For more information please see this link:
https://www.academeca.com/CEUReg/SeminarInfo.aspx?seminarId=1816
Contacts

For Retreat Registration
Stephan Hewitt is accepting registration and collecting tuition for the Mindful Movement Talking Story Retreat.
Phone: (310) 450-7803
Email: stephanhewitt@gmail.com
Website: www.garyglickman.com/events/mindful-movement/

Standard tuition price: $850
Commuter tuition price: $750
Kama‘aina tuition price: $400
For More Information
Fred Sugerman Phone: (818) 578-3482 Email: fsugerman@yahoo.com
Gary Glickman Phone: (310) 980-4188 Email: garyglickmanphd@gmail.com
Tuition price does not include accommodations at Kalani. Please contact Kalani’s Retreats Registrar to book your accommodations (pricing table and information for booking accommodations is listed below).

Room Reservations

Kalani Retreats Registrar – For Room Reservations
After you register for the retreat, please contact Kalani’s Retreats Registrar to book your room.
Phone: (808)965-0468 x120
Email: registrar@kalani.com
Online Registration Form

Return to Roots
2018-06-30 12:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Return to Roots
Saturday, June 30
12:30 – 8:30 pm

Outback Yoga Open House
2018-06-24 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Outback Yoga – an Open House
In collaboration with Kimberly Freesh and Christo Pellani
An exquisite, new Medicine Dance playground, snugged up to world famous Vasquez rocks, a vortex in the space between Simi Valley and San Fernando valleys.

Food and drumming, sound healing, gentle, somatic yoga, and Medicine Dance.

Outside and inside.

(Extended) Saturday Morning Class in Santa Monica + Solstice Potluck Gathering
2018-06-23 09:30 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90405, United States
Physically, mentally, and spiritually exhilarating. Verbally guided and often music accompanied.
Saturday Morning Class provides a safe and nurturing space for exploration of present moment thoughts, feelings, and sensations expressed through the body. Inner-directed and self-permission based, we include the foundation of safe and dynamic body trainings, which include, but are not limited to: warming up, stretching, strengthening and the cultivation of strong heart and lungs – all at each participants’ level of fitness, ability, and willingness to engage.
Saturday morning Class is spiritual warrior training. We work individually, with partners, in smaller and larger groups, and add the intention of exploring the “space between”: the place where something beyond our Selves can occur, and related to the ideal that there is power, or magic, “when two or more gather.”
3-fold intention:

Physical Fitness
Creative Expression
Life Application

No dance experience necessary.
Every Saturday 9:30-11:30 am
Church In Ocean Park
South (1 block) of Ocean Park Blvd and 2 blocks East (up the hill) from Main St.

UK Medicine Dance Immersion 2018
2018-05-26 08:00 - 2018-05-31 17:00 (America/Phoenix) | Bolton Hall, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 2EE, United Kingdom
Including All
DyingBirthingLettingGoHoldingOn

Scotland - Medicine Dance facilitation training and laboratory 2018
2018-05-21 08:00 - 2018-05-23 17:00 (America/Phoenix) | CA
See/Hear/Love: As a Tree
Edinburgh, Scotland
May 21-23, 2018: Medicine Dance facilitation training and laboratory

Scotland 2018 Immersion and Introduction to Medicine Dance
2018-05-19 08:00 - 2018-05-20 17:00 (America/Phoenix) | CA
May 19 & 20, 2018: 2-day immersion and introduction to Medicine Dance

Tuesday Morning Mindful Movement in Tarzana
2018-01-02 09:20 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
The Tuesday morning and Tuesday night Living Room Mindful Movement Sessions in Tarzana are proving to be rich and fertile ground for restoration, self exploration and revelation.
There are limited spaces (8 maximum) available on a first come, first served basis. Contact Fred at fsugerman@yahoo.com or 818-578-3482 to reserve your space.
Tuesday Morning Class starts slow and simmers into easy activity and beyond for those desiring a wake-up call to the body. Meant to inform and inspire mindful movement as a personal practice that can be done anytime and anywhere, alone or in group environments.
Inviting all elements of the body with intent to awaken, refresh and send one out into the day with clarity and gentle strength.

Medicine Dance Immersion Big Island, Hawai'i 2017
2017-08-26 - 2017-09-03 | Kalani Retreat Center, RR2, Box 4500 , Pahoa, HI, 96778, United States
Mindful Movement Talking Story
We Are All Connected
4th annual Big Island of Hawai’i Immersion at Kalani Retreat Center
Facilitated by Gary Glickman PhD, Fred Sugerman, Stephan David Hewitt & Colleen Sugerman, join us for six days and seven nights of moving in paradise, in safe, expressive and sensuous ways. Morning movement, afternoon play, evening Council.
28 CEU’s available for MFT/LCSW
In this immersion we will explore:

The confluence of movement, words and deep listening
Stories that we embody
Movement that longs to be expressed

With relaxed body, lifted spirit and gently opened psyche, we will come to Council nightly with invitation to Talk and Move the stories of our lives:

Both the familiar stories we have always held to be true, and;
New stories possible to birth in this Time of Change, Transformation and Paradigm Shift.

Who is invited?
All who are willing to step into Presence and allow that Presence to be Expressed and Deeply Witnessed.
Who is invited?
To integrate movement and mindful touch with talking-story in your personal life-practice or your professional healing practice.

To invite Insight.
To access Joy.
To receive Restoration.
To experience Community.

OPTIONAL PLANNED ACTIVITIES can include, but are not limited to:

Lava-heated Warm-Pond Group Excursion
Group Black Sand Dolphin Beach Mindful Ocean Ceremony
Local Swimming Beach excursion (with small hot pond)
Group Aqua-Movement Classes (slight additional fee)
Secret Beach Excursion

Also: Because the Earth and All Relations need you, right now, to feel yourself Alive and fully awake to Possibility. We know the old structures are crumbling. We are the mad scientists pioneering their replacements.

'See Hear Love: As a Tree' UK Medicine Dance Facilitation Training
2017-06-01 09:30 - 2017-06-03 18:30 (America/Phoenix) | Bolton Hall, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 2EE, United Kingdom
‘See Hear Love: As a Tree’ Facilitation Training and Laboratory is for long term Movement Practitioners with passionate desire to share physical experience that may induce – Love, Exquisite Awareness, a sense of Good, Right Livelihood, Healthy Relationship and State of Being in the world by using techniques to join in with already existing Source Energy.
This immersion is a developing science and study of PRESENCE. The acknowledgement and knowing that my state of being, my vibrational being, affects all present. With consciousness and intention I can choose to affect an other and others. As a practitioner, as a student of the state of my physical body and its present moment condition, I can become aware, present, awake, more and less agitated, active, still, quiet – whatever I desire at whatever level of skill and practice I have – and affect another body or a group body.

Vaslav Nijinsky said: “I am God in the body. Everyone has this feeling, only nobody uses it. I do use it. I know its effects. I love its effects…”

If you love its effects, if you feel spirit/source in your body and would love to share it, if you would love to share it by dancing with yourself and other(s), by inviting others to see you dancing, and/or by inviting others to dance, this is the laboratory/training for you.
Thursday, June 1; 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM
Friday, June 2; 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM
Saturday, June 3; 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM
Please visit our Facilitation Training page for more information.

Medicine Dance Immersion in Northumberland, England 2017
2017-05-24 14:30 - 2017-05-29 15:30 (America/Phoenix) | Bolton Hall, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 2EE, United Kingdom
Sacred Marriage
Including All
8th annual Northumberland, UK Immersion, 2017

Tree Spirit Sees by Doris Wolz-Cohen
We are preparing to go to lands that we have come to love in the Northeast corner of England, just below her border with Scotland. Called Northumberland, a county whose population is said to average 2.5 people per square mile. Lots of Hawthorne, old growth Oak, rolling green hills and sheep.
We will work with: Inner-directed self guided fluid movement through the Body supported by Thought and Feeling and Sensation, Word and Witness and Music; Silence and Stillness and Sound; Spontaneous Ceremony, Ground and extraordinary Breath. Mindful touch with more and less contact with partners, always optional based on your level of comfort, sense of safety and desire.
Wed and Thurs, May 24-25, 2017; 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon, May 26-29, 2017; 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
It takes time to feel.
It takes time to breathe.
It takes time to do less, and respond to inner impulse.
It takes time to catch up with our Selves and remember our human being.
Join other courageous Pilgrims whose commitment to be awake, embodied and present is extraordinary. Come to wild Northumberland and the timbers of Bolton Hall to go deep inside and practice allowing that rich powerful tender Inside OUT. In relationship. In work. In play. Into the culture at large.
The world needs you.

… words of wisdom
came to me at last
“the Beloved you’ve lost
the one you’ve been seeking outside
can only be found inside”
-Rumi

Medicine Dance Workshop in Edinburgh, Scotland 2017
2017-05-20 10:00 - 17:30 (America/Phoenix) | Edinburgh, United Kingdom
A Way of Pausing, Sensing INSIDE, and Responding
Inner-directed self guided fluid movement through the Body supported by Thought and Feeling and Sensation, Word and Witness and Music; Silence and Stillness and Sound; Spontaneous Ceremony, Ground and extraordinary Breath.
More and less contact with partners, always optional based on your level of comfort, sense of safety and desire.
£17/£15 pre-booked/concession
Booking recommended, as space is limited. Please contact Scott Young, scott77young@gmail.com
This workshop will provide a taster of Fred’s ‘Medicine Dance’ practice, with the option of joining a 6 day immersion in Northumberland.

Mindful Movement Program for Breast Cancer Survivors
2017-02-08 09:30 - 11:30 (America/Phoenix) | Cancer Support Community, Cornerstone Plaza, 1990 S Bundy Dr #100, Los Angeles, CA, 90025
Providence Saint John’s and John Wayne Cancer Institute are conducting a new research study on the benefits of breast cancer treatment through movement.
WHO: Women who are breast cancer survivors and completed treatment at least 6 months ago.
WHAT: Mindful Movement for Breast Cancer Survivors

Self‐awareness through simple body movement at your own pace and ability
Possible benefits include improved mindfulness and reduced worry.
Study Investigator: Rebecca Crane‐Okada, PhD, RN, CNS, AOCN
Mindful Movement facilitator: Fred L. Sugerman, Medicine Dance Founder

STUDY DETAILS: (Participants will):

Attend 12 weekly 2‐hour sessions
Keep a daily log of mindful movement practice
Complete a set of questionnaires at the beginning of the study, and at 13 and 18 weeks
Have blood samples drawn at the beginning of the study, and at 13 and 18 weeks
Receive compensation up to $135 for participation

February 8-April 26
Each Wednesday Morning, 9:30 am – 11:30 am
For more information, please call (310) 829‐8950 or (310) 582‐7138.
Breast Cancer Research Study Approved by Alpha IRB October 12, 2015

Saturday Morning Class in Santa Monica
2016-12-31 09:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90405, United States
Physically, mentally, and spiritually exhilarating. Verbally guided and often music accompanied.

*December 31st – New Year’s Eve morning is a give-a-way. Class is no charge/FREE – our New Year’s gift to you. AND let us go to the beach after class – potluck at the beach!

Saturday Morning Class provides a safe and nurturing space for exploration of present moment thoughts, feelings, and sensations expressed through the body. Inner-directed and self-permission based, we include the foundation of safe and dynamic body trainings, which include, but are not limited to: warming up, stretching, strengthening and the cultivation of strong heart and lungs – all at each participants’ level of fitness, ability, and willingness to engage.
Saturday morning Class is spiritual warrior training. We work individually, with partners, in smaller and larger groups, and add the intention of exploring the “space between”: the place where something beyond our Selves can occur, and related to the ideal that there is power, or magic, “when two or more gather.”
3-fold intention:

Physical Fitness
Creative Expression
Life Application

No dance experience necessary.
Every Saturday 9:30-11:30 am
Church In Ocean Park
South (1 block) of Ocean Park Blvd and 2 blocks East (up the hill) from Main St.

Saturday Morning Class in Santa Monica
2016-12-24 09:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90405, United States
Physically, mentally, and spiritually exhilarating. Verbally guided and often music accompanied.

*December 24th – Christmas/Chanukah Eve morning we will have our morning session, as usual, heightened by altar (all welcome to contribute to its power and beauty).

Saturday Morning Class provides a safe and nurturing space for exploration of present moment thoughts, feelings, and sensations expressed through the body. Inner-directed and self-permission based, we include the foundation of safe and dynamic body trainings, which include, but are not limited to: warming up, stretching, strengthening and the cultivation of strong heart and lungs – all at each participants’ level of fitness, ability, and willingness to engage.
Saturday morning Class is spiritual warrior training. We work individually, with partners, in smaller and larger groups, and add the intention of exploring the “space between”: the place where something beyond our Selves can occur, and related to the ideal that there is power, or magic, “when two or more gather.”
3-fold intention:

Physical Fitness
Creative Expression
Life Application

No dance experience necessary.
Every Saturday 9:30-11:30 am
Church In Ocean Park
South (1 block) of Ocean Park Blvd and 2 blocks East (up the hill) from Main St.

Performance Workshop (Autumn into Spring)
2016-11-13 12:30 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA, 90404, United States
Based on the processes and work from the Non-Performance Workshops, we begin to explore theme, story, quality, and imagination.
We introduce props and costume elements. We boldly extend our spontaneous, pure experience of the Dance and begin to shape that raw material into something reproducible, but never the same. No choreography, just light structure organically birthed from the moment of inception.
The dates for the upcoming round are:
Sunday November 13, December 11, January 15, February 12, March 12, & April 9
May 7th Medicine Show (inquire for more details)
12:30-5:30 p.m. at Highways Performance Space
For more information, see our Performance Workshop description page.

Non-Performance Workshop (Autumn into Spring)
2016-11-12 12:30 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA, 90404, United States
Our Non Performance Workshop Company (on-going since January, 2004) has been continuously exploring and refining ways of seeing each other and ways of retaining the integrity, sense of privacy, authenticity and purity of our dance, while we are being seen. As you can imagine, this has profound application to living life honestly and out loud (or quiet).

Bruce Lee said “freedom discovers you the moment you lose concern over what impression you are making or about to make.”

Deepen your PRACTICE while profoundly affecting others. Allowing our Selves to be seen is an ancient and selfless form of SERVICE.
We work individually, with partners, in smaller and larger groups, exploring the “space between”: where magic beyond our Selves occurs.
The workshop is created to provide a space that feels safe enough and inspiring enough to allow whatever is True to move through the body(s). By practicing in this hybrid womb of support, participants are able to negotiate a large degree of this Relief and Authenticity into any and all other aspects of their lives.
The dates for our next round are:
November 12, December 10, January 14, February 11, March 11, April 8 (with a 3 PM Non-Performance).
We meet on Saturday afternoons 12:30-5:30 p.m. at Highways.
It is requested that, as far as you know, you be available to attend all, or at least 5 of the 6 of these dates. We also ask that you be able to arrive before or by the starting time of 12:30 p.m. on the days that we meet. For the second half of the sixth meeting we invite others to participate in our practice as witnesses. We invite them to see us not perform.
The cost is $360.00.
Half of that ($180) is requested the first workshop meeting, the second half the second workshop meeting.
Please see our Page on Non-Performance workshops for more information.

'See Hear Love: As a Tree' Facilitation Training
2016-10-19 19:00 - 2016-10-23 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA, 90404, United States
‘See Hear Love: As a Tree’ Teacher Training is for long term Movement Practitioners with passionate desire to share physical experience that may induce – Love, Exquisite Awareness, a sense of Good, Right Livelihood, Healthy Relationship and State of Being in the world by using techniques to join in with already existing Source Energy.
Wednesday and Thursday, October 19-20, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 21-23, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Please see our Facilitation Training page for a full description.

Medicine Dance Immersion in Hawai'i 2016
2016-08-23 - 2016-08-30 | CA
Mindful Movement Talking Story
The Power of Presence: Its Expression, and Its Life Application
4th annual Big Island of Hawai’i Immersion
Facilitated by Gary Glickman PhD, Fred Sugerman, Stephan David Hewitt & Colleen Sugerman, join us for six days and seven nights of moving in paradise, in safe, expressive and sensuous ways. Morning movement, afternoon play, evening Council.
28 CEU’s available for MFT/LCSW
In this immersion we will explore:

The confluence of movement, words and deep listening
Stories that we embody
Movement that longs to be expressed

With relaxed body, lifted spirit and gently opened psyche, we will come to Council nightly with invitation to Talk and Move the stories of our lives:

Both the familiar stories we have always held to be true, and;
New stories possible to birth in this Time of Change, Transformation and Paradigm Shift.

Who is invited?
All who are willing to step into Presence and allow that Presence to be Expressed and Deeply Witnessed.
Who is invited?
To integrate movement and mindful touch with talking-story in your personal life-practice or your professional healing practice.

To invite Insight.
To access Joy.
To receive Restoration.
To experience Community.

Also: Because the Earth and All Relations need you, right now, to feel yourself Alive and fully awake to Possibility. We know the old structures are crumbling. We are the mad scientists pioneering their replacements.

Saturday Morning Class in Santa Monica
2016-08-13 09:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90405, United States

Saturday Morning Class in Santa Monica
2016-07-02 09:30 - 23:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90405, United States
Join us for our weekly Saturday Medicine Dance class in Santa Monica, CA – a physically, mentally, and spiritually exhilarating, verbally guided, often music-accompanied movement experience that identifies present moment thoughts, feelings, and sensations and invites them to be expressed through the body.
Click here for the full Saturday Morning Class description.

Medicine Dance Immersion in Northumberland, England 2016
2016-05-25 08:00 - 2016-05-30 17:00 (America/Phoenix) | CA
Permission to Enter
A Way of Pausing, Sensing INSIDE, and Responding
7th annual Northumberland, UK Immersion, 2016

We are preparing to go to lands that we have come to love in the Northeast corner of England, just below her border with Scotland. Called Northumberland, a county whose population is said to average 2.5 people per square mile. Lots of Hawthorne, old growth Oak, rolling green hills and sheep.
Last year we had the pleasure of bringing 5 Americans with us and we had a blast. Went to Edinburgh, Scotland first, where we do an offering at a magical studio called Salisbury Centre, took a train down to the quaint coastal village called Alnmouth, and then we danced for five days in the middle of countryside at Bolton Village Hall outside of Alnwick. From there, some left for London, some traveled to France, one went to Finland. Anything is possible!
We will work with: Inner-directed self guided fluid movement through the Body supported by Thought and Feeling and Sensation, Word and Witness and Music; Silence and Stillness and Sound; Spontaneous Ceremony, Ground and extraordinary Breath. Mindful touch with more and less contact with partners, always optional based on your level of comfort, sense of safety and desire.
*This year’s theme is inspired by our long-term friend and fellow dancer, Daniel Leighton’s recent show at Gallery 825 in Los Angeles, CA (closing Friday). Daniel says: “…the necessity to have a space in which to process physical and emotional responses to constant stimuli is paramount… He explores the concept of granting access to our hearts, minds, and bodies along with technological extensions of ourselves. Leighton posits that the choice of granting or not granting ‘permission to enter’ is primary to symbiotic human interaction.”

Saturday Morning Class
2016-05-24 09:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90405, United States
Physically, mentally, spiritually exhilarating. Verbally guided and often music accompanied.
Saturday Morning Class provides a safe and nurturing space for exploration of present moment thoughts, feelings, and sensations expressed through the body. Inner-directed and self-permission based, we include the foundation of safe and dynamic body trainings, which include, but are not limited to: warming up, stretching, strengthening and the cultivation of strong heart and lungs – all at each participants’ level of fitness, ability, and willingness to engage.
Saturday morning Class is spiritual warrior training. We work individually, with partners, in smaller and larger groups, and add the intention of exploring the “space between”: the place where something beyond our Selves can occur, and related to the ideal that there is power, or magic, “when two or more gather.”
3-fold intention:

Physical Fitness
Creative Expression
Life Application

No dance experience necessary.
Every Saturday 9:30-11:30 am
Church In Ocean Park
South (1 block) of Ocean Park Blvd and 2 blocks East (up the hill) from Main St.
