DEPTH BODY: Where What's Deep Within You Dances, with Mackenzie Amara

The body goes deep. It is both the tool of all the expansion and exploration we will engage during our lifetime, and the epicenter of every limitation, addiction, and distracting fascination we will ever experience. It is the gateway to freedom and the reason we are tricked by the illusion of unfreedom in the first place. It is an avenue for full expression — and a hindrance to experiencing fullness. It is, all at once, our home and not our home.

In this workshop, we will practice using the body as an instrument of authentic truth, regardless of how the body is showing up, whether wily, weird, or tightly wound. We will turn our suffering into art, and our joy into contagion. We will dance, first and foremost, and throughout our time together, each participant will be given the opportunity to be witnessed in their expression, in whatever form it takes.

The movement in this workshop draws from 5Rhythms, the 360 Emergence, developmental movement theory, ritual theatre, and authentic movement practices. Dancers are invited to follow their body’s lead in a free-form, meditative, ecstatic dance. The music is carefully selected to evoke depth, emotional range, and honest embodiment.

Expect to feel free. Expect to be challenged. Expect to surprise yourself.

This event is in-person only.

By trade Mackenzie is a Jungian analyst, lecturer, and 5Rhythms® teacher. By vocation she is a psychedelic facilitator, depth psychology scholar, and writer. By design she is a collection of fractal, holographic cells dancing around some strange attractor for the sake of who knows what. She identifies as a series of memories and unverifiable subjective experiences of self-hood to which she is rather fondly attached. She has a penchant for scholarship, the occult, pedantic erudition, morbid humor, grandiosity, nihilism, and semi-responsible hedonism. Born in the shadow of New Age culture into a fractured family system and the subjective experiencer of (arguably) extreme early childhood trauma, her life’s work is to heal psychic wounds — her’s and other’s — that she and others become strong enough to contend with the unconscious quicksands and transpersonal abysses which lap at the periphery of consciousness. She is an emergent property of Being playing at becoming sovereign. She really, really loves butter. Learn more about Mackenzie here: www.mackenzieamara.com

Host or Publisher The Berkeley Alembic Foundation