CLASS

North Yoga, 301 Albert Street, Brunswick (Melbourne) VIC, Australia

March 9 & 10, 2019
12:30 – 5:30pm each day

$250/200 concession if booked before 24 February
$300/250 concession after 24 February

Embryos develop in repetitive waves of transformative movement: what is outside moves in, swathes of tissues translocate, some disappear – and in each bifurcation, transection, and spiral flow there is a new opportunity for you to join the process of growth. Our body begins creating its form during our embryological development. As tissues and structures develop, some remain with us, some are transformed into other structures, and some fade into the background, no longer existing or recognizable as the original structure. As with all development, the original processes have left us with deep-rooted patterns and templates that affect our movement, mind, and spirit.

In exploring the embryological developmental process, we discover the primal roots of our structure, perception, presence, and flow. This workshop invites you to deepen into the world of in utero development, and to explore how our cells flow and change to differentiate as we are becoming. Practicing the return into embryonic time allows us to access our being before our nervous system ran the show. It is a time of amazing growth organized by cellular choice making, renewal, change and growth: these can become templates for our lives now and can support balance, healing and expression.

This workshop is for movers, dancers, yoga practitioners, bodyworkers, and those from other body-mind disciplines interested in unraveling the mystery of embryological development as it relates to cellular consciousness, and movement. As an experiential, BMC-based class, participants will be moving, studying images, using touch and observation to engage with the material. No prior experience with Body-Mind Centering® is necessary.

Christine Cole, RSMT, the founder and director of Somatic Body Training Program, is an expert in the embodiment of human development. On the leading edge of research about somatic movement education and therapy, she displays a radical trust in embodied experience as the primary way for groups to co-create knowledge. As a result of 30 years of engaging deeply in learning and teaching the somatic body practices of Body-Mind Centering®, dance/movement, and bodywork, Christine clearly embodies the material she has evolved and models a deep understanding of how the body’s systems change in various developmental stages. A teacher of Body-Mind Centering®, and Practitioner of Integrative Acupressure and Infinity Healing, she has taught at the School for Body-Mind Centering® in Amherst and Amsterdam, Holland, and runs her own trainings in Boston, Vermont, Montreal and Northampton, MA. She also maintains a private practice in Developmental Bodywork in downtown Northampton, MA. In addition, Christine has long term practices in Contact Improvisation, Post-Modern and Improvisational Dance, Authentic movement, Improvisational Theater, writing and vocal training.

More information here, or email kimsargentwishart@gmail.com. Bookings at trybooking.com/BAMWN.