Somatics and Expressive Arts
I assist individuals and groups who are:
-seeking personal growth or health improvement
-in processes of preparation, change, integration, development
-living with injury, disease, conflict
-interested in including somatics and/or expressive arts in their existing practice/profession
By guiding them in:
-Exploring personal embodiment and innate creativity
-Discovering and applying individualized tools and resources
-Navigating self and environments with increased awareness and ease
-seeking personal growth or health improvement
-in processes of preparation, change, integration, development
-living with injury, disease, conflict
-interested in including somatics and/or expressive arts in their existing practice/profession
By guiding them in:
-Exploring personal embodiment and innate creativity
-Discovering and applying individualized tools and resources
-Navigating self and environments with increased awareness and ease
FALL CLASS Embodied Living: Body Mythology for Self Companionship Mondays 12:45-2:45pm September 15th-November 7th 2025 (registration period now ended) Osher Lifelong Learning Institute open to 50+ NOW FORMING Post Modern Principles Practice and Performance: Butoh, Fluxis, Halprin Movement Ritual, Scoring and RSVP Cycles. all bodies 18+ CONTACT WITH INTEREST 2026 offerings coming soon. RECENT
Other Past Offerings:
-Embodied Living: Self Care and Expressive Arts -Postmodern and Improv Dance Technique -Chi Gong -Movement Ritual: Anna Halprin's series of movements designed to increase internal connection, range of motion and spark embodied creativity Select Past Workshops & Events -Pathways and Crossroads II: Point A to Point B A community workshop exploring our relationships to self, environment and transportation. -Ulysses Community Read & Bloomsday Celebration Discovering and celebrating Joyce's literary classic through an accessible and meaningful approach -Where is the Woman? In a supportive container, we will locate ourselves physically, emotionally & mentally as women -The Body Mythology of the Breastless For those with or considering uni or bilateral mastectomy due to cancer diagnosis or prophylactic measure. Also welcoming small breasted, implanted and LBGTQ+ -The Somatic Creative Path: My Journey To Now presentation of personal background with group expressive arts activities woven into program |
ONGOING
Individual Sessions in person/phone/video 130$ 60min/170$ 90min Group rates and individual packages contact Speaking/Classes/Workshops/Events/Consulting Assist in co-creating and facilitating shared experiences, events, gatherings and retreats, team building, project visioning to completion, conflict resolution for groups, organizations, businesses contact Reading Ulysses Creative coaching to read Joyce's epic novel like a hero/ine and take the journey home to yourself. Individual and group available. Recommended for identity and belonging, veterans midlife, grief, PTSD contact My offerings are informed by practice and training in martial arts, chi gong, the discipline of authentic movement, butoh, postmodern and mixed ability dance, contact improvisation, massage therapy, bodywork, ecosomatics, visual art and writing. Tailored to the needs of the individual or group, I choose frameworks and create a container to guide experience and reflection. Work can focus on one modality or apply an intermodal process; exploring multiple modalities in one session. Expressive arts work by definition includes this switching action. I utilize drawing, writing, movement, voice, creative dialogue and performance/presentation. Intermodal creative processes are gaining attention as effective tools for improving neuroplasticity; our brain's ability to reorganize and rewire its neural connections, enabling it to adapt and function in new ways. Both those with and without arts experience discover benefits and find growth edges in this work. Absolutely no prior arts or movement training is required. The intent of creative work produced and shared in sessions is to be purely of service to the individual and/or group inquiry and process, not to produce a "skilled" "finished" art work or "product". Sessions can be specifically designed with intent of assisting creatives in all aspects of producing finished works/series/projects from generating new material to overcoming "creative blocks" to presentation/performance. ISMETA RSMT, RSME, Certified Tamalpa practitioner. |