Moving // Being workshop

WORKSHOP AGENDA & DESCRIPTIONS

9-10:30am // Elemental Movement: Consciousness into Form with Patty Townsend

Exploring prana flow in relation to emotions and aspirations: Using earth, water, fire, air, and space, we embody the structural depth, density and levity of each; their qualities as expressed in the unification of consciousness and movement. Introducing each of these elements with simple movements to inhabit, and then bringing in the mind of each. Yoga postures actually arise from there. Looking for the fullness of experience. The culmination of this offering integrates them all (consciousness, form, and expression) in your chosen movement.

11-12:30pm // seeking, finding feeling with Jennifer Nugent

How does movement become the language in which to express ourselves? What does movement do and what can it become? How do we practice our unfolding ecology and dance for each other, for ourselves?  I would like to propose living in the questions and experiencing what they reveal; a sort of patient practice; waiting to experience the sensation of you catching up with you as you arrive within the initiations of movement.

12:30-1pm // Integrating Connections: Qigong Dragon Flow with Andrea Olsen

Integrate connections and move energy, thought, and attention with the qigong dragon flow.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

Patty Townsend embodies a life-long dedication to yoga and the inward journey. For over forty years, she has taught thousands of teachers and practitioners. Patty’s approach has evolved into a decidedly inward journey over the last several decades of intimate study with her primary teacher, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Patty’s sessions are rich with wisdom, joy, and depth. She brings a strong embodied understanding for weaving somatic inquiry into yoga’s philosophy, form, and movement. See more at https://pattytownsend.substack.com/

Jennifer Nugent is a performer, educator, mother, and partner. Jennifer addresses her body, mind and being through questioning. She articulates internal experiences through performance and teaching; augmenting these practices by sharing and refining ideas in front of others—a transmission of spoken and gestural language. Jennifer has had the opportunity to perform with many artists and companies including Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Paul Matteson, David Dorfman Dance, Martha Clarke, Gerri Houlihan & Dancers, Mary Street Dance Theater, Body & Soul Dance Theater, Barbara Sloan, Race Dance, Bill Young, Beth Gill, Joanna Kotzke, Annie-B Parsons, Donna Uchizono, Tendayi Kuumba, and many others. She is currently dancing and touring in Faye Driscoll’s Weathering and teaches at Movement Research (NYC), Sarah Lawrence College (NY), and The New School (NYC).

Andrea Olsen, dance artist, writer, educator is a Professor Emerita of Dance at Middlebury College, and a certified instructor of Holden QiGong and Embodyoga. She is author of a quartet of books on embodiment:  Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy, Body and Earth: An Experiential Guide, The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making with colleague Caryn McHose, and Moving Between Worlds: A Guide to Embodied Living. She is an artist-participant in The Workroom Collaborative Cohort for 2024 at 33 Hawley in MA, USA. See more at https://andrea-olsen.com

Host or Publisher Molly Rose-Williams