Medicine Dance

'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
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.

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.
