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Body-Mind Centering® Dance Lab 1-5th Jan 3 hour daily session (Total 15 hours) This workshop is for experienced movers. Body-Mind Centering® (BMC) brings a subtlety and finesse to dancework, which enriches and expands our present-moment movement choices whether dancing solo, with a partner or in ensemble. Classes will include movement warm-ups exploring various principles of BMC, followed by farther development of the explorations into dance. We will source dances from a menu of body system explorations which could include: fluids, organs, respiration cycles, nervous system process and architecture, muscles, bone, cellular consciousness, and developmental movement patterns. We will take underlying movement development principles and apply them to dance: letting our bodies self-organize material for dance & contact improvisation. LIMITED PLACES - RESERVE EARLY |
Life Through Dance Series Performance Enhancement & Motivation for Movers 1-5th Jan 1 hour daily session (total 5 hrs) Building on the success of these classes at Stamping Ground 2002 Llewellyn returns to lead them again in 2006. We aim to: -learn how language, imagery, somatization, observation & awareness of movement promotes higher level synthesis & body-mind integration, -develop skills to understand what motivates & helps us to take our dance/movement practice to a higher level, -identify our current truths, myths, passions, dreams, areas of strength & weakness. Topics will be taken from the following menu: -Embodying gravitational awareness, -Physiologically supported visualizations (somatization) and pre-motor focus, -The role of chaos, disruption, serendipidity in dance training, -Allowing whole-bodied experience to support higher performance, -Letting go of higher cortical control and the cognitive mind and moving from the whole body, body systems and cells; -Balancing Top-Down & Bottom Up body-mind information flow, -Yield-Push-Reach-Pull cycle and developmental movement, -Non conceptuality, uncertainty and cellular consciousness, -Respiration consciousness, -Resting the mind into the body, Learning methods will include: -Somatization, -Personal and group mind-maps, -Question to question evaluations, -Principles before goals strategies, -Movement improvisation, -hands-on proprioceptive repatterning, -Matrix of Understanding The classes will also draw on somatic coaching methods emerging from Llewellyn's studies of Body-Mind Centering®, Tibetan Buddhism, dance, improvisational process and facilitation methods. |
Professional Development 11-15th Jan Background In 2004 Llewellyn founded an international learning community that meets on-line and through teleconference called the "Forum On Embodied Leadership & Learning". His experience leading this forum will contribute to the direction of this 5 session event. Body-Mind Centering® Movement Research Lab 11-15 Jan 3 hour daily session (Total 15 hours) “The mind is like the wind, and the body is like the sand; if you want to know how the wind is blowing, look at the sand." Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen In this workshop series you will be introduced to the key foundation principles of the Body-Mind Centering® approach. Some of the principles we will explore are: -states of attention, intention, rest & action, -alignment of cellular experience with external expression through movement in space; -dynamics of the fluids, -autonomic nervous system balancing, -qualities of mind & their affinities with the body systems & developmental movement patterns, -dynamics of the yield-push-reach-pull cycle. This workshop is designed to enrich and develop professional practitioners in the fields of dance education, choreography, dance therapy, dance performance, high performance sports coaching, pilates training, yoga and movement education. The inquiry process will encourage collaborative practice and knowledge generation across different disciplines concerned with embodiment. Our explorations will include: small group discussion, mapping & archiving of our individual learning process, group mind-maps, hands-on body work, somatization, developmental, contemplative & improvisational movement. |
Professional Development 11-15th Jan Life Through Dance Series Movers & Shakers: Artists & Teachers As Leaders 11-15th Jan 1 hour daily session (total 5 hrs) As dancers, choreographers, teachers of dance and the moving arts we rarely see ourselves as leaders. Aren't only powerful and charismatic people such as politicians and celebrities leaders I hear you ask? A persuasive argument yes, but only partially true, leadership is distributed. All the great social, spiritual, political, cultural and environmental movements in human history were made up of many leaders at many levels. Behind any prominent leader there may have been scores, hundreds or even thousands of people who were quietly being the change that they wanted to see in their world. As movement artists and teachers in a disembodied culture we lead by just doing our work; our work is a path of transformation. Therefore, we can never underestimate the influence and impact we are having on others. This forum will help you to see yourself as a change-agent, role model for others, maybe even a culture jammer! The forum will bring people together, to inspire, empower, provoke and help cultivate the leader in all of us. We will dance, inquire, explore, discuss & rant to find out what leadership means for each of us. We aim to: -celebrate and appreciate our strengths and gifts, -identify more clearly what we have to offer the world, -mentor each other, -create the type of future we all wish for, -have fun! > HOME > PROGRAM > TIMETABLE > PRO - DEVELOPMENT > REGISTER |
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Llewellyn Wishart BA, Grad Diploma Movement
and Dance, jacob lehrer & llewellyn wishart - pic by alejandro rolandi |
Llewellyn lectured for a period of 3 years at the University of Melbourne in the Graduate Diploma of Movement & Dance, and Graduate Certificate in Dance Therapy programs. From 1997-2000 he worked as a consultant and teacher for the personal development company Zoeros Integral Learning-People Knowhow in Melbourne and now continues this work with Transformational Learning Australia. He has worked in a consulting capacity to the Victorian Institute Of Sport one of Australia's leading edge training organisations for elite level athletes. In 2004 he founded an international virtual think-tank and learning community called the "Forum On Embodied Leadership & Learning". More recently he has worked as a somatic education/learning & development consultant for Bluearth Institute, Melbourne. Llewellyn recently returned to Melbourne with his wife Kim and son Jarrah after living in San Francisco for the past 3 years. Contact & More Info: Llewellyn Wishart Embodied Life International Tel/Fax: 1-415-276-4529 (USA) Tel: 0500 555 563 (Australia) E-mail: info@embodied-life.net Web: http://www.embodied-life.net Subscribe to Llewellyn's e-zine "Embodied Life News" : Click on the link at http://www.embodied-life.net Or join via e-mail simply by sending a BLANK e-mail to: EmbodiedLifeNews-subscribe@topica.com > HOME > PROGRAM > TIMETABLE > PRO - DEVELOPMENT > REGISTER |
