Services Offered:
Table Treatments: An experience in flow and relaxation, the table sequence is perfect for anyone recovering from an injury or needs to decompress from the stresses of life. Sliding Scale $100-$150
Postural Alignment and Movement Analysis
Group Workshops
Ergonomic Evaluation and Education for effectiveness in the workplace.
-ideal for light industry and artisan laborers looking to reduce injury and increase efficiency of movement.
Table Treatments: An experience in flow and relaxation, the table sequence is perfect for anyone recovering from an injury or needs to decompress from the stresses of life. Sliding Scale $100-$150
Postural Alignment and Movement Analysis
Group Workshops
Ergonomic Evaluation and Education for effectiveness in the workplace.
-ideal for light industry and artisan laborers looking to reduce injury and increase efficiency of movement.
Everyday Mastery, Flow, and Well Being
8 session program to enhance awareness, personal health and development, and emotional stability to help you thrive in a chaotic world.
Spacial Dynamics a unique body-mind discipline that examines not only bodily habitation but also how we inhabit our surrounding spaces. This program is designed to help you find wholeness, courage and mastery in every moment of your day. When we don't experience this kind of wellness we feel pain in our body, lack of confidence and loss of faith as a disconnect to our spirit. We will identify your movement and gestural habits, put them in perspective regarding your physical, spiritual and emotional health, and how you perceive the world. We will then explore the expansive possibilities of relating to and implementing an ideal through movement.
The program is completely experiential and is tailored to the needs of your life. So much of how we interact with ourselves and the surrounding world are habits that have been created by our relationships and experiences of the world. Each of your reflexive habits have a corresponding motion that precedes the emotional response. Modern science is beginning to understand that the space around us is not an empty void but a ocean of dynamic forces and processes.
Through movement we can become aware of the more subtle, formative aspects of ourselves that dwell outside the body. Spacial Dynamics teaches that we can become more deeply aware of the ‘motion of our emotions’ and remediate our inner condition through movement and postural changes. Individuals who have completed this program have overcome chronic and acute pain, emotional trauma, and have transformed their personal, social and creative lives.
‘Life is Movement’, the ways we move has a direct influence on the way we think, feel, and connect with others. Every one of our successes, failures and our ability to ‘move on’ can be enhanced or denigrated by our reaction to them. In order to feel our best and nurture an everyday mastery we must be willing to change the way we move, increase our awareness and our ability to be objective in any situation. Every session working together will have elements of meditative slow movement, postural alignment, games and hands-on body work. Are you ready to take the next step?
Program Outline
Fee Schedule
One-Time Payment $1250
2 Payments of $700 = $1,400 (to be completed in previously agreed upon scheduling)
3 Payments of $500 = $1500 (to be completed in previously agreed upon scheduling)
8 session program to enhance awareness, personal health and development, and emotional stability to help you thrive in a chaotic world.
Spacial Dynamics a unique body-mind discipline that examines not only bodily habitation but also how we inhabit our surrounding spaces. This program is designed to help you find wholeness, courage and mastery in every moment of your day. When we don't experience this kind of wellness we feel pain in our body, lack of confidence and loss of faith as a disconnect to our spirit. We will identify your movement and gestural habits, put them in perspective regarding your physical, spiritual and emotional health, and how you perceive the world. We will then explore the expansive possibilities of relating to and implementing an ideal through movement.
The program is completely experiential and is tailored to the needs of your life. So much of how we interact with ourselves and the surrounding world are habits that have been created by our relationships and experiences of the world. Each of your reflexive habits have a corresponding motion that precedes the emotional response. Modern science is beginning to understand that the space around us is not an empty void but a ocean of dynamic forces and processes.
Through movement we can become aware of the more subtle, formative aspects of ourselves that dwell outside the body. Spacial Dynamics teaches that we can become more deeply aware of the ‘motion of our emotions’ and remediate our inner condition through movement and postural changes. Individuals who have completed this program have overcome chronic and acute pain, emotional trauma, and have transformed their personal, social and creative lives.
‘Life is Movement’, the ways we move has a direct influence on the way we think, feel, and connect with others. Every one of our successes, failures and our ability to ‘move on’ can be enhanced or denigrated by our reaction to them. In order to feel our best and nurture an everyday mastery we must be willing to change the way we move, increase our awareness and our ability to be objective in any situation. Every session working together will have elements of meditative slow movement, postural alignment, games and hands-on body work. Are you ready to take the next step?
Program Outline
- Interview, Spacial Analysis and Table Treatment: This initial session is designed to help you to identify and communicate your struggles, whether physical or emotional, and what your goals are regarding the program. We will conclude with a relaxing table treatment to begin unwinding the patterns you are hoping to overcome.
- Posture: From seated to standing, this session will explore how posture relates to your vocation and awareness of the world. We will dispose of the old, stiff ideas of posture that are rooted in militarism and replace them with the idea of posture being a flowing, ever changing dynamic of perception and renewal. We will also look at walking and explore possibilities to bring a more powerful supportive gait to your work and play.
- I am here and I am There: In this meeting we will work to increase your spacial awareness. Through exploration of balance, both physical and emotional, and a new relationship with your arms and eyes you will begin to understand how much larger you are than your physical body. You will be given simple ‘spacial tools’ to help you take control of your experience of the world and always find stability in the ‘eye of the storm’
- Trauma: In order to progress in life in a holistic manner we must come to terms with our own hidden pain and how it becomes a part of the lense through which we see the world, our friends, and our family. This session will give new insight to how your trauma, no matter how great or small taints your ability to find inspiration, forgiveness, and emotional health. Through this new awareness we will use tools specific to your needs to bring lightness to your soul, improve communication and help you to relate in a safe manner with the people who challenge you in life.
- Communication: This session will explore the gestures of good communication. Whether conducting business or personal relationships, the way we hold ourselves greatly impacts how we are perceived and how safe and empowered others feel in our presence. Through playful activities and meditative movement we will strive to improve your communication skills and power of presence.
- Self-Care: During this meeting we will look at the power of daily practice in relationship to waking, sleeping and finding rejuvenation in the midst of a busy day. Due to the chaotic pace of the modern world it is imperative that we can rest deeply and wake consciously. Time will be spent addressing the personal issues you face in regards to personal energy levels and how to keep your flow in full swing.
- Mindfulness: In order to find wells of inspiration we must be able to escape the routine loops of subjective thought. This session will explore the realm of thinking and how simple exercises and movements can clear and settle the mind.
- Review: This session will be a 2 hour review of the work we have undertaken together. All your questions and experiences will be addressed and our time will be concluded with a table treatment.
Fee Schedule
One-Time Payment $1250
2 Payments of $700 = $1,400 (to be completed in previously agreed upon scheduling)
3 Payments of $500 = $1500 (to be completed in previously agreed upon scheduling)
Faculty Retreats:
‘Planely’ Speaking
Our time together will be spent examining the 3 planes as living forces, and the role our habitation of these planes contributes to our experience of the world. Our examinations will be through the lens of Bothmer Gymnastics and Spacial Dynamics. Particular time will be spent on the ‘5 ways of moving’ as presented by the Spacial Dynamics Institute.
From Posture to Carriage (Form is Function)
Good posture can be so much more than the alignment of bones and muscle, it can be part of a flowing connection with the outside world; a relationship of the physical body with the supportive, formative forces that surround us. Poor posture is like a kinked hose, it disrupts flow and cuts us off from the world. In our time together we will see how ‘curves can make straight lines, and straight lines make curves’ in order to find a fluid movement from posture to carriage.
Finding Even Ground
We often tell ourselves in times of struggle “I just need to find even ground”, or “I just need to find more balance in my life”. In these hours together we will learn to ‘look with our feet’ and how our relationship with gravity has an observable effect on our inward experience of self and the world. We will also spend time examining our relationship to the transverse plane and look for tools to keep us from ‘blowing our lids’. Lastly we will play with physical balance and the importance of being able to ‘take a good fall’.
The Eyes in the Back of Your Head
This course explores how we can cultivate presence through the anterior, or back space. Teachers need to have a sense of what is going on behind them without small disturbances getting mistakenly assigned as ‘bad behavior’ through a habitual relationship with a child. Children who sense their teachers is fully inhabiting their back space will still feel ‘held’ when not under direct supervision leading to a calmer and more manageable classroom.
Avoiding Burnout
How can the quality of our everyday movement help us to stay in ‘center of the storm’? To feel whole and nourished in the midst of a sometimes hectic world? These are the questions we will explore through the lens of Spacial Dynamics approach to meditative movement, hands on therapeutics, and games.
Movement Analysis
This course is an exercise in observation. Time will be spent examining the first subsidiary exercise and the movement as indicated by Rudolf Steiner. We will also meditate on figure and ground, and how our observations of children can give us insights enabling us to offer them a spacial ‘way out’ of a gesture that is inhibiting their highest potential.
Seasonal Workshops
The seasons reveal the processes of the Earth’s rhythmic development and elemental moods. Each season offers an opportunity to engage, reinforce and utilize these processes to bring greater ease, will forces and understanding to the tasks of our everyday lives. Learning to move the archetypal forms present in the world around us offer us a window into the mysteries of life that yearn to be imparted into the human experience. Please join us .
Autumn
The autumn is a time of preparation, a time of storage, and a time of honoring what has been and what will be. Historically the outer rhythms and celebrations of humanity have changed, but the needs and challenges of the human being have not. We are all still impacted by our relationship to the seasonal changes of the natural world around us. Many people struggle during Autumn because it reveals to the soul a vision of death. The falling away of nature's bounty marks the end of the “sulphuric dream of summer.” This season calls on humanity to be more aware of ‘self’ and to cultivate the will necessary for the dark nights of winter to come. This workshop examines the role of movement and rhythm in the human experience of individuality and inner calm. We will look at the phenomenon of courage through story and motion, exploring how we can use the hints of the season to find solid ground for the winters tasks. Come prepared to move and play.
Winter
The Sphere: A time of quiet has settled into the world around us, and the hours of darkness give time for refinement and introspection. Rudolf Steiner made mention of how this time of year beckons water to take its spherical form more than at others, and for the Earth to be in its most “self-contained” state. In the spirit of these insights, we will investigate “spheres of space” in relationship to the body and the energetic space around it. We will look at ways to experience these spheres, to inhabit them, and to apply them to self-care and movement in the small spaces of our homes. We will also look at the healthy inhabitation of space within our ‘social spheres’ and ‘family circles’.
The Spiral: As the days shorten and we move into the festival of Advent we are called on to wait patiently as we gaze into the coming of a new year. The Earth draws inward and energizes the dream of the seed and soil, imbibing them with life bearing forces from the cosmos. Communities and schools around the world will prepare spiral Advent gardens to awaken individuals to the universal spiral form and the processes alive in the cosmos, which are also alive in our physical and spiritual bodies. In this workshop we will explore spirals large and small, and how they relate to our lives. Time will be focused on the relationship of spirals to human anatomy and movement. We will explore how to utilized the spiral as a spacial form that can increase our patience and awareness in preparation for the unknown year to come. Spacial Dynamic® will be used as an approach to carriage, posture, and meditation, helping to cultivate a quiet and contemplative atmosphere. We will move and play with the archetypal form of the spiral to further our spacial awareness and to better prepare us for the days to come.
Spring
Warmth: What are the emotional and social qualities of warmth? How can we cultivate the sensation of warmth to improve our relationships and work? These are some of the questions we will explore through slow movement, games and ‘hands-on’ therapeutic techniques. The spring is a perfect time to engage the forces of warmth as the world is ‘drawn out’ by the brighter days. We will work to ‘fill up’ the areas of ourselves that have become cold in order to ‘flow’ more easily through the events of our lives.
The Seed: This course is an exploration of gravity and levity. Gravity is a force we know quite well, although could get to know better. Levity is less well know and more commonly associated with our emotional life, where one has a ‘sense of lightness’ or a ‘bubbling joy’. Through the archetype and processes of the seed, balance exercises, and moving meditations we will explore how we can shape our relationships with gravity and levity to bring ease to our motion and emotion.
Summer
In the summer months the world is a riot of color and contrast, growth and playfulness. The sunrise beckons humanity to come and join the exuberant joy of the Earth on full display. This course is an examination of objective observation, or how we see the what we see, and Goethe’s idea that “there is no greater scientific instrument than the human being”. Where does observation occur? What are the inner conditions that inhibit or nurture objective thought? What role can movement play in enlivening our senses and awareness? These are some of the questions we will ask and address with this workshop.
Parenting Teens: Developing a Sense of Equanimity
It has never been more challenging to parent adolescents than it is in our modern age. Between over-packed schedules and a culture of 24/7-entertainment it can be difficult to find a moment of true connection with our teenagers. Alongside the scarcity of time is the added challenge of mood swings, household expectations, and discipline. How can our gestures and movements create an ‘atmosphere of equanimity’ that will give to these young adults the environment they crave and deserve? Through a series of group exercises and dialogue we will explore the ‘motion of emotion,’ addressing these questions and learning simple tools to help us to be a steady, calm force in times of opposition and struggle.
A Parent’s Touch:
Therapeutic Techniques for Parents of Young Children in the Light of Spacial Dynamics®
Every night and at every nap time we are given an opportunity to help our children process and unwind from the stimulus of a busy day. Spacial Dynamics offers simple ‘hands-on’ techniques that can help decompress a child’s nervous system and send them off peacefully into their nightly slumber.
Moving Through Trauma:
Finding a new experience of self and the world
We live in traumatic Times. Countless people suffer from the paralyzing effects of trauma. For them, trauma doesn’t lie in the past, but lurks, ever present, overshadowing their hopes for moving on. This course is for those who want to begin the work of breaking the patterns of the past and choosing new gestures that support their goals. Novel ways of living in our bodies and new ways of interacting with our surroundings will be experienced. Creating new spaces for ourselves and others sets the stage to be free to move through trauma.
Overcoming A Culture of Distraction
It is almost 20 year since the advent of the Digital age, and 15 years since the birth of the smart-phone. Without question, the computer age has greatly advanced our abilities to communicate and create. However, alongside these benefits are a host of problems, ranging from social isolation and sexual impotence in young men, to huge spikes in anxiety, depression, and violent behavior. The impact of computers on the rhythms and postures of working life have greatly increased physical injury to the neck and shoulders. Studies show that in some contexts adolescents spend more time looking at screens than actual human faces. Defined as “the information age” it might better be described as the “age of screens.” We often overlook (or look right through) the very tool that puts the internet in our hands, the screen, which is now impacting the human body and mind profoundly.
In this lecture and workshop we will trace the history of the screen and how understanding its march from the cinema to personal devices can give us insights into their effect on the spacial, human experience. From sexuality, and commerce, social interaction and research, the screen has revolutionized the way we live in the world. What are some of the concerns we have about our children’s (and our own) interactions with screens? What are some ways we can be aware of and remediate today’s ‘culture of distraction’? These are some of the questions we will address during our time together. To do so we will use a combination of dialogue and group activities to further our understanding, and empower us to support ourselves and our children to cultivate a healthy relationship with these new and useful tools.
