CLASS

Online via Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5047885439?pwd=OEFwZ28wbmF6OVo4Zms1ckxCMEc0dz09
Meeting ID: 504 788 5439 | Passcode: Love

Tuesdays 

Every Two Weeks, 

4:30-6 PM PST

Dance Explorations

February 8th, 2022

 February 22nd, 2022

 March 8th, 2022

 March 22nd, 2022

$10-$25 

Suggested Donation

No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

This friendly zoom space will be dedicated to observing a Body Mind Centering approach to dance inquiry.  This group runs in tandem with Bonnie's Winter Series, " Building Vitality, Strength, Flexibility, Flow, and Ease through Embodying Our Muscles: A Body-Mind Centering^® Approach through Movement, Touch, and Cellular Consciousness.”

In these four sessions we will briefly discuss main themes that's have been presented and then give each topic ample time for movement exploration. With an interest in understanding outside of ourselves, we will focus our sharing methods on hearing from the collective and attuning to the mind of the group. This is practice time to deepen your experience with the material. We will listen to a mixture of recorded music, live music and silence to support our dance. POC Friendly 

Jolyn Hope Arisman is an AfroEuro American adoptee raised as a practicing Quaker in Maryland. She saw salvation on the dance floor and devoted her early life to dance training of modern and contemporary forms.  She was a principal dancer for a dance theater company in Maine following her graduation from Cornell University with a degree in City and Regional Planning.  She earned a Master of Fine Arts from Smith College where she concentrated on dances of the African Diaspora and Community Arts Projects.  

She is passionate about the full spectrum of dance explorations,  therapeutic embodied arts and community healing.   Jolyn Hope has been deeply influenced by movement masters Bonnie Bainbridge Cone and Anna Halprin. She’s especially motivated by how they used dance as an agent for growth and change. Her work takes many forms however all her offerings weave in BMC^SM principles. She is Certified in Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga and Embodied Anatomy and Yoga from The School for Body Mind Centering. 

She a thrilled to be weaving together somatically informed ecstatic dance journeys and continues to enjoy her home private practice where she supports individuals to develop their personal care practices thru integrating touch, movement exploration, practical strength training and release techniques. 

She devotes a large portion of her time to loving and managing the redwood forest and retreat center where she lives. There she hosts embodied nature retreats with a special focus on supporting women, women of color, mothers and families of diverse origins. 

Jolyn Hope Arisman

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PayPal: Jolynarisman@mac.com