From Eve Kodiak, author of Rappin’ on the Reflexes
When was the last time you felt totally happy?
At peace with yourself and your surroundings – with nothing pressing on your mind?
When was the last time you truly relaxed into the moment?
Change Your Movement, Change Your Life! is a workshop that offers you access to that kind of happiness. In the peace and quiet of Rowe Center in the Berkshires, we will discover an original alphabet of movement we knew as babies – and explore it together as adults, through guided movement to world music, journaling, discussion, wonderful food, walks in the woods and peaceful sleep at night.
This original movement alphabet is the language of infant reflexes – our baby moves that allowed us to do everything we do today. These reflex movements get activated when we are in stress, and keep going even when the stress is ostensibly over. How many times have you gotten through a difficult situation – but been unable to shake your anxiety or restlessness? Your brain hasn’t quite gotten the memo that you’re OK.
Through these integrative baby moves called reflexes, we learn how to get the brain that memo! We learn how to turn off our stress at its neurological source. And in Change Your Movement, Change Your Life! we do it through play – exploring the weight of every bit of our feet on the floor! Exploring the way it feels to bounce our hands off a wall – or another person’s hands! Exploring the way it feels to pull ourselves along the floor and then up into standing and walking – and dancing and twirling! Exploring every movement that occurs to us. There are no rules except have to fun and be safe.
We’ll also explore some ideas about the why’s and how’s of this ancient reflex language, and share ways to bring integrative movement activities back with us into our everyday life. And we’ll spend plenty of time “JourneyDancing” together to a carefully curated soundtrack of music and guided imagery. Down time includes walks in the woods, a sauna, and home-cooked meals under the cathedral ceiling of a light- filled dining hall.
We’ll drive back home, into our “everyday,” with a deeper sense of joy – and some techniques to maintain our peace and presence. And memories of that deep peace to draw, on as the busy-ness of life whirls around us.
Change Your Movement, Change Your Life! with Linda Ugelow and Eve Kodiak, author of Rappin’ on the Reflexes at Rowe Camp and Conference Center April 17-19, 2015.
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