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London Authentic Movement Peer Group
We've formed a peer group meeting in Camden on Tuesday evenings. Our backgrounds are eclectic, dance therapy, yoga, psychotherapy and IBMT, if you are an experienced mover and would like to join us on our next open day then do contact me:- rupertlinton@yahoo. Posted 10 May 09

2nd International Peer Group Gathering in Vienna July 23th - 28th, 2009
Dear Authentic Movement colleagues: A group of dance therapists, psychotherapists and other professionals met in Vienna last year with the intention of intensifying professional exchange on Authentic Movement. Again this year the idea is to move together and share personal and professional experience in the summer in a pleasant place. This year's group is full. Add your name to the waiting list- Click here for the invitation. Greetings from Vienna - Isaias and Clarissa Costa www.tzg.at isaias.costa@tzg.at and from Rio - Soraia Jorge and Guto Macedo www.movimentoautentico.com email:soraia@movimentoautentico.com or artegutal@gmail.com Posted 14 March 09

Let's start a peer group! Plymouth/Hanover, Massachusetts, USAGreetings One and All, I have access to several beautiful yoga studios since I teach yoga full-time now. Any one of them would be suitable for AM practice. Let's start a peer group in Plymouth/Hanover area? Elizabeth Whirlabout (774)283-0459 ewhirlabout@mac.com Posted 14 March 09

New Peer Group Currently Forming: Marin & Bay Area, California
Seeking experienced movers in the form of Authentic Movement from Marin or the bay area. Looking for those with a strong personal developmental and transpersonal understanding/awareness. We will meet in Sebastopol and in West Marin. We are an MFT, wilderness quest guide and a movement teacher/artist with Psychology MA, Dance BA. If interested please contact CidaArt@aol.com. Posted Oct 26, 2008

Mary Starks Whitehouse Web Contributions Janet Thompson is working with students of the Wellesley College community to create a website honoring Mary Starks Whitehouse as an alumna and as a pioneer in developing Authentic Movement. Janet seeks writings about how Whitehouse has inspired the work, creativity or growth of authentic movers throughout the world. Do you have a poem, art piece, writing, word of thanks you would like to contribute? Please forward directly to Janet at: janetthompson@comcast.net or Roberta Whitney at: rhwhitney@earthlink.net. Although contributions will be taken as they come, students are especially interested in submissions on or before 30 NOV 2008. Thank you! posted 27.10.08

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TRAINING PROGRAMS: —

Sept 2009 - May 2011 Berkeley, CaliforniaLaban/Bartenieff Certificate Program with core faculty Janice Meaden, Peggy Hackney and Ed Groff. Integrated Movement Studies is excited to announce the beginning of our Berkeley Laban/Bartenieff Certificate Program in September. Download flyer.pdf Contact Peggy Hackney if you have any questions:PJHackney@aol.com or 707-738-0764. www.imsmovement.com

WORKSHOPS: —

May 8 - 10, 2009 Harmony Dawn Ecological Retreat Centre, Toronto, Ontario AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT PRACTICE - MOVING THE FORMS with Leslie French A weekend workshop (Friday 4:00 p.m. to Sunday 2:00 p.m.) situated in the country at an ecologically conscious retreat centre. Being in the country and away from our daily lives helps to deepen and support one's individual practice within a community of experienced practitioners. People new to Authentic Movement with experience in a related practice may apply. We will be practicing the original forms and the evolution of these forms in regards to moving, witnessing and speaking.Contact Leslie at 416 603-4044 lfrench@georgebrown.ca

May 16, 17, 2009 Portland, Maine
Contemplative Dance/Authentic Movement Experienced Workshop with Alton Wasson (for those with some experience in CD/AM) This workshop will deepen our movement practice. Experiment with dimensions of the process with a group of experienced movers. Included are guided movement meditations and explorations with art media and nature. (Saturday 10:00 AM-Sunday 1:00 PM) $250 Contact Caroline Loupe cmloupe@maine.rr.com or call Alton Wasson 413-268-3294. You may register and pay online at www.contemplativedance.org.

May 29-31 , 2009 Reading, PA
Weekend INTRO TO CD/AM with Alton Wasson
This workshop gently guides people with or without previous experience into this accessible yet powerful form of moving meditation and embodied imagination. It includes guided movement meditations, contemplative dance/authentic movement and explorations with art media and nature.
$230 tuition. Contact Alton Wasson: altonwasson@comcast.net or 413-268-3294. You may register and pay online at www.contemplativedance.org.

June 5,6 & 7 The Hootenanny Art House, 426-428 15th St., Brooklyn, NYAuthentic Movement Weekend Intensive“Living Vibrantly in Uncertain Times” with Bill McCullyAuthentic Movement dares each of us to live vibrantly in the unknown. Consciously living in the unknown you open yourself and encounter reality as a direct and immediate experience. You meet the present and come to know yourself as the presence that is awake in every moment. Fee: $250 ($215 if you reg. before May 15) . To register send a $50 non-refundable deposit to: Bill McCully, 3028 Mabel St., Berkeley, CA, 94702 or to use a credit card, call Hootenanny Art House at 718-369-0528.

June 11 - 14, 2009 Shutesbury,MA
from Cronos to Kairos at Temenos
with Carolyn Shakti Sade and Susan Schell
Cronos: the time of the calendar, the clock, of must, quick and before it’s too late. Kairos: the time not measured by the clock, big time, eternal time, sacred time, the time of creation, of myth and wisdom. Click here for the flyer Workshop $225, Lodge $45. Contact Carolyn at foolplaysadeh@verizon.net or Susan at dancemask@juno.com.

June 28 - July 3, 2009 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
21st Annual - Week I with Daphne Lowell and Alton Wasson
A six-day progression of daily practice. Move or be still in a community of respect, compassion and support. Practice attention and acceptatnce, inner and outer witnessing. Daily warm-ups with live music to enliven consciousness in the body. Sessions using imagination in other media. Time in nature. Prereqisites: none. Apply by May 28, 2009 for $600 reduced tuition, after that $650. On-campus housing $150. Limited financial aid available. Inquire soon! Apply by May 15, 2009Contact Alton Wasson: altonwasson@comcast.net or 413-268-3294. You may register and pay online at www.contemplativedance.org

July 3-9, 2009 Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA
Wellsprings of Feminine Renewal VI: Seal Skin, Soul Skin: Redeeming the Instinctual Body; with Tina Stromsted, Meg Wilbur, & Dorothy Anderson (For those with background in psychotherapy & AM)
Deeply nourishing and creative, this intensive can reawaken the wisdom of the body, light the imagination, and promote integration through Authentic Movement, voice, and dreamwork, enhanced by music, art, ritual, and poetry. The fairytale "The Selkie" is our avenue to the world of the psyche. In risking a descent to recover her feminine "soulskin"—her deeper instinctual wisdom—a woman may birth new life.Info: www.mwoodmanfoundation.org Application: office@mwoodmanfoundation.org

July 26 -31, 2009 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
17th Annual - Week II with Daphne Lowell and Alton Wasson
A 6-day retreat. Expand individual practice. Enhance witnessing. Dialogue about Authentic Movement in a community of peer movers. Daily warm-ups with live music, hour-long round robins, small faculty-led groups or peer groups. Choose between several options: sessions outdoors, work in other media, work with partners, time alone. Prerequisites: Week I or the equivalent, including witnessing experience. Prerequisite for the Peer Group Option: Week II. Register soon. $600 by June 25, 2009. $650 after. On-campus housing:$150. Limited financial aid available. Apply by May 15, 2009. Contact Alton Wasson: altonwasson@comcast.net or 413-268-3294. You may register and pay online at www.contemplativedance.org.

31 July-2 August, 2009 Vienna, Austria
AUTHENTIC CONTACT SPECIALIZATION CLASS

with Soraya Jorge and Guto Macedo

This workshop is an investigation based on the encounter of Authentic Movement and Contact Improvisation; An exploration of new perspectives of being in contact, in relationship with the self and/or with others. For more informantion www.authentic-movement.at/gemeinschaft Price: € 240,00. To register contact: Martina Mückler, +43 (0)676 627 56 69 email: authentic-movement@gmx.at

October 2-4, 2009 Twin Cities, MN
CONTEMPLATIVE DANCE/ AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT EXPERIENCED WORKSHOP with Alton Wasson
This workshop will deepen our movement practice. Experiment with dimensions of the process with a group of experienced movers. Included are guided movement meditations and explorations with art media and nature. $250 tuition. Contact Alton Wasson: altonwasson@comcast.net or 413-268-3294. You may register and pay online at www.contemplativedance.org.

Teachers-Facilitators:— Our listing is now on the Directory page click here

Resources and Links:—

Authentic Movement Institute, San Francisco Bay Area, CAwww.authenticmovement-usa.com

Authentic Movement-BodySoul Center, San Francisco, CA
www.AuthenticMovement-BodySoul.com

Therapiezentrum Gersthof, Vienna, Austria
www.authentic-movement.at
Email: authentic-movement@tzg.at

Contemplative Dance, Northampton, MA
www.contemplativedance.org
E-mail: info@contemplativedance.org

The Center for the Study of Authentic Movement, Boulder, CO E-mail: zoe1815@aol.com

Earthdance, Plainfield, MA

www.earthdance.net

Moving On Center, Oakland, CA
www.movingoncenter.org
E-mail: info@movingoncenter.org

Moving the Self Psychotherapy Center, Bowie, MD

www.movingtheself.org

E-mail: info@movingtheself.org

Movimento Autentico, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
www.movimentoautentico.com
E-mail: soraia@movimentoautentico.com

Institute for Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy – UK
www.ibmt.co.uk Email: info@ibmt.co.uk

Publications

Contact Quarterly
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A Moving Journal

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Books and Back Issues from A Moving Journal

Books available from A Moving Journal Back Issues of A Moving Journal

red thread, two women:

who is seeing this longing to awaken?

by Paula Sager and Lizbeth Hamlin

For information on book and authors click here

Authentic Movement:

Moving the Body,Moving the Self, Being Moved
A Collection of Essays - Vol. 2 Edited by Patrizia PallaroFor information and to order click here

"Authentic Movement and Performance: Imagining Brightly Colored Flowers, I Rise," a film directed by Neala Haze, MA, ADTR. Includes rehearsal and performance sections, plus discussion of the creative process. 37 minutes; VHS or DVD; $30 includes S&H. For more information, contact orders@nhazetribute.com.

Maya Lila, Bringing Authentic Movement into Performance: The Offering by Joan Davis. Hard cover with CD and DVD.

Maya Lila, Bringing Authentic Movement into Performance: The Process by Joan Davis, soft cover. Both books available from Elmdon Books, 2007 or they can be downloaded for free at www.gorsehill.net, though not the CD or DVD. Contact mayalila@gorsehill.net or phone 00 35 31 287 6986 in Ireland.