Earth Body Midwinter series : MOVEMENT OF MATRIARCHY

DESCRIPTION

Dancing Earth is honored to co-host 3 Eco Somatic Workshops with new Matriarchs of Narragansett First Nation Project OKASU !

In February, Dancing Earth’s Founding Artistic Director Rulan offers a series of midwinter movement workshops, online of EARTH BODY : Movement of Matriarchy. Together, we will restore and re-story our sacred bodies, reconnecting our relationship with our most ancient and eternal matriarchs of land, sky, and waters. With simple intentional movements , we are encouraged to feel good in our physical forms as manifestations of the body as earth

Rulan’s methodology for will be drawing from decades of listening to and learning from matriarchs of many lineages and cultures, and he wisdom that is deep within the body , that deep intuition of kinesphere. … movement is medicine, movement is joyful. movement is empowering, movement is listening.. movement is worldmaking …

Intentions - to experience :

• Revitalizing embodiment ,

• Releasing gently of what no longer supports our growth,
• ReImagining futures,
• Resilience and Rigor with joy,
• Restoration through Re-story-ing,
• Relationship and Reconnection with inner and outer landscape,
• Respect for self and all other forms of life,
• ReGeneration that comes from Reciprocity,
• and compassionate Reflection.

CLASS BREAKDOWN

• 7 min Welcomes, intention, orientation, and invitation to share.
• 75 min 'Movement as Medicine' for all humans, no experience necessary, with break
• Final 8 min Will be a group reflection circle about what is joyful, challenging, and what transformed during our time together.

ACCESSIBILITY

• Everyone is invited including BIPOC and ally matriarchs (open definition including mothers, culture carriers, and makers who bring dreams into being).
• All ages , experiences and levels are welcome ! Each participant is encouraged to self determine for their own body, to trust their own intuition and adapt the movements prompts to best suit them, so that everyone leaves feeling good , and finding what they need : from power through challenge to calm through relaxation.
• In partnership with our co host, we open this invitation to courageous survivors of domestic or family violence to reclaim empowerment through sovereign embodiment and restorative practices for wellness.
• As a survivor and supporter, Rulan welcomes those with Cancer, Chronic illness, Covid, including all Caretakers, to be able to participate even without a camera, lying down.” Movements can be modified to even lying down on bed and listening, imagining is a powerful ‘movement’!
• Bring a friend or relative ! Lets experience wellness, creativity, and movement in circle, building strong and vibrant communities!
• We extend this special invite to those who have joined or expressed interest in movement sessions in the cyber-world or live programming in 5 countries in the past few years to join this movement series, with Creatrix and Dreamvisioner Rulan Tangen. We invite your courage, creativity, compassion and care

BRING

• Open mindedness, imagination, intuition and your full being
• Layers of clothing for warmth and comfort and able to move
• Barefoot or socks
• Blanket or yoga mat
• Water bottle
• Notebook and pencil/pen

COST

Sliding scale : $25-$75 recommended; Nobody is turned away for lack of funds, and if you are able to be generous with your resources, please consider doubling your donation to sponsor participation of someone who can not donate!

Narragansett First Nation clients of “In the Presence of the Sacred” Wellness/LifeBalancing program, will be offered complimentary attendance for the first 10 registrants. Select MATRIARCHS ticket

SUPPORT A SISTER!

We will be limiting space so please consider your reservation a commitment. We are encouraging donations to support Dancing Earth’s international cultural exchange programs (recent and upcoming engagement with artists, community groups and culture carriers in Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Australia and New Zealand), to create compassionate and sustainable relationships for creativity beyond borders. Even if you can’t attend please consider making a donation to support this or any of Dancing Earth’s generous, prolific and ongoing inter-cultural, intergenerational, inter-disciplinary and inclusive creations! With gratitude, we welcome you to be a part of our circle by making your donation here ( https://givebutter.com/Lex8CR BUTTON to DANCING EARTH )

HONORING

We honor “In the Presence of the Sacred” Program Director, Dancing Earth Advisory Council member and matriarch Anemone Mars - eldest daughter of the beloved and respected medicine woman Wenonah Caroline Brown. We express gratitude for her program’s partnership of support from Narragansett Tribal Child and Family Service Department, to uplift her community. With love, gratitude and utmost respect we honor Wenonah’s lifetime of tireless dedication to Narragansett Nation’s wellness and continuance - the ultimate Matriarch, may she rest in peace and power, never to be forgotten by the man Native and non-Native people across the Northeast, the US, Canada, and beyond - whose lives she powerfully impacted for the better.

dynamically activates our mission, to create contemporary dance and related arts through global indigenous and intercultural relationships centered in ecological and cultural diversity for creativity, health, and wellness.

“We gather as individual artists to create experimental yet elemental dances that reflect our rich cultural heritage as contemporary global peoples. We strive to embody the unique essences of cultural perspectives by creation and renewal of artistic and cultural movement rituals. Ancient and futuristic, our dances are an elemental language of bone and blood memory in motion.”

More about Rulan : https://www.dancingearth.org/rulan

More about DE : https://www.dancingearth.org/about-dancing-earth

More about Eco Elegies : https://www.dancingearth.org/ecoelegies

These movement sessions will be coming from Ohlone or Tewa homelands, to learn more about some of Dancing Earth friends and to support the initiatives of matriarchs, please view links of

• Sogorea Te Land Trust:
• Tewa Women United
• Indian Canyon:
• Pocket Guide to Ohlone solidarity:

Host or Publisher Dancing Earth