Transformation and Healing...

An ancient healing art form, dance is a non-verbal expressive body experience supporting the trauma healing process. By setting our intentions for healing, in groups, we enter a ritual space, one that acknowledges both our individuality and our common quest for healing. See article in Open Exchange magazine:>>> 

Fully-A-Live: Movement Groups for Trauma Survivors and others in recovery: East Bay, San Francisco and the Peninsula

Thursdays,Oakland : 1.00 pm to 2.30 pm, at Danspace, dance studio, Hudson St. Fees for the first month are $180 for 4 groups and one individual session.

Second and third month fees are for the groups only and are $30 per session payable on a monthly basis.

Saturday group forming in February 2009. Call to book an individaul session prior to the group.

The group is ongoing, particpants make an initial three month committment and monthly after that. Do contact me to reserve your place in the group.

MasterCard and Visa accepted

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San Francisco and the Peninsula, evening groups forming

Small group format 8/10 members, on-going weekly groups with 3 month initial commitment and initial assessment interview prior to start

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Groups create energy fields that we are affected by. I have been leading group movement experiences for 20 years, holding the space in which participants are enabled to heal and to transform stories of limitation and dis-ease into new stories of health, vitality, connectedness and creativity. 

The groups are gentle and safety conscious, helping to restore a sense of empowerment and resiliency. We will work with the bracing and the collapse that mark our inner terrain after trauma, learning to breathe life in to frozen body parts and letting go those that are held. Everyone is encouraged to move at their own pace, learning to listen to the subtleness of feeling your own body move and...

"Let the soft animal of your body love what it loves"                  Mary Oliver 

...rebirth your innate curiousity and intelligence because....

"Dance is phenomenal in resourcing the brain in the healing of trauma" 

Robert Scaer MD, author and trauma healing pioneer

We will speak together the language of movement. Our healing journeys will be guided by a synthesis of body/mind /spirit wisdom teachings:

 The 5 Rhythms®: developed by Gabrielle Roth

Flowing: continuous

Staccato: percussive

Chaos: letting go

Lyrical: transforming

Stillness: completion

Resource Oriented Skill Training: developed by Merete Holm Brantberg

Concrete body sensing

Presence here-and- now 

Acceptancing what is

Dosing 

Resource orientation

Somatic Experiencing® developed by Peter Levine Ph.D

Orientation 

Pendulation 

Uncoupling fear from the immobility response

Moving out of immobility

Completing the arousal cycle 

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