The Body Memory Method – Virtual Workshop

The Body Memory Method - Virtual Workshop

Thursday, March 13th

6:30 - 8:30pm CST

The Body Memory Method is a body-based philosophy created by Leah Zeiger, founder of The Sunflower Project. The Body Memory Method asserts that our bodies are knowledgeable beings, and that through movement and sensation we can connect more deeply and engage in a reciprocally empathetic relationship between ourselves and our bodies.

Participants will learn how to implement the Body Memory Method into their daily lives through guided movement and conversation. Past participants report feeling more grounded and in tune with their bodies, and will leave the workshop with practical tools to implement the practice into their daily lives. The Method is designed to promote healing and is a gentle, come-as-you-are practice. We invite survivors, those inpacted by sexual violence, and anyone with a body to participate!

This workshop will be held on Zoom, please RSVP to recieve the link! You can expect the link in your email within 24 hours of the workshop!

https://awakeningsart.org/

Leah Zeiger is a choreographer, dancer, and activist based in Los Angeles. As a survivor of a teenage abusive relationship, Leah's work is largely derived from her lived experience as well as embodied research in the survivor community. Leah’s methodology - Body Memory - invokes somatic principles, improvisational scores, and body-based research to explore the ways in which our bodies hold memory and how those memories shape our life experience. She has been commissioned to choreograph and present her work by entities such as the National Domestic Violence Hotline, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company Choreographer’s Lab, and more. Her latest evening-length work, “You Live In My Spine”, enjoyed a three night sold out premiere in Los Angeles in early 2023. Leah is the founder of The Sunflower Project - a nonprofit organization that educates young people on sexual violence and relationship abuse and empowers survivors to tell their story through artmaking.

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