Spring Retreat: Awake We Dream

*a sequential, online retreat for experienced CD/AM movers

Faculty: Daphne Lowell

Date: Tuesdays, March 28, April 4, 11, 2023. 10am-1pm Eastern

Location: Online - Details and Zoom info will be sent after your registration

Prerequisite: CD/AM Week I or equivalent CD/AM workshops (approximately 30 hours of mentored moving and witnessing practice, readiness to move for longer sessions, and to maintain safe boundaries)

Join me this spring for a Contemplative Dance/Authentic Movement retreat working with the themes of renewal and new beginnings. How might this practice offer us ways to awaken, refresh and rekindle? What sensations, thoughts, images might we find in us for new energy, inspiration, or guidance? How might our experiences here be informed by and infuse our lives and the “ground” outside?

Spring breezes bring change, and with them - possibilities, and choices. The retreat will include invitations - for those who wish - to explore themes I feel this season of new growth suggests. What do we hold dear, and what weed out? How might we cultivate the conditions for new growth, and how engage with obstacles or resistances if they appear? What opportunities do we create/embrace, and what shall we nurture?

We will practice with a mixture of CD/AM structures relying on inner witnessing as mover and/or witness and the practiced skills of each participant. These will include open question form, round robins, and various ways to reflect on discoveries, including silent witness. There’ll be time for work in additional creative materials, and I will offer guided movement meditations in each session. In these we’ll work and play in our “gardens”, our earth. We’ll melt stiff bodies, minds, and souls, tend to our sore spots, turn the ground to discover the life within, and open new terrain for what we wish to plant in/for the future.

To reserve your space: Submit the registration form and non-refundable fee by March 1st. We will reserve your place once both are received.

Fee for the 3-session retreat: $175/$200/$225

Choose your price!

I know these may financially challenging times. Contact me if the fee presents a problem.

For more information or questions, contact dlowell@hampshire.edu.

Online Payment

Fees are non-refundable.

Cancellation Policy: fees will be refunded if your space is filled by another participant.