Shin Somatics®, Ongoing Workshops, Retreats, and Tutorials St George and Zion Utah
Intrinsic Dance & Bodywork, featuring Land to Water Yoga
Opportunity for Home Study to earn extra levels of credit
Shin Somatics®, an approach to movement education and therapy founded by Sondra Fraleigh in 1991, recognizes the healing
power of intention. Read more about soma and intention in Sondra's book, Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion (20004)
Shin Somatics tutorials cultivate intention through basic movement patterns,
somatic yoga, non-interfering touch, music, and intrinsic
dance. Butoh, the postmodern dance of Japan included in
our work, re-members body as spirit, respecting beauty
in awkwardness, pain, and humor. We call our butoh-influenced work "metamorphic dance." Shin Somatics core lessons in somatic kinesiology and integrative bodywork
excavate body memories and possible-selves. Our work is
objective, also recognizing the existence of interdependent
energy fields of great potential and light. Compassionate
connections are waiting to happen, alive in each moment
of awareness. In this photograph, Jaclyn Moynahan of New York City teaches Shin Somatics®Land to Water Yoga. Jaclyn, a graduate of Eastwest Somatics Institute and certified teacher, leads the NYC tutorials. Sondra Fraleigh leads the St. George Utah workshops and joins tutorials in NYC periodically.
Sondra Fraleigh in Snow Canyon near St. George and in Red Hills Butoh
For information on past and future ESN Conferences and "Call for Proposals" see, Conference.htm
Students Participated in Plant Us Butoh at the 2009 ESN Conference in St. George.
Students, graduates, and friends of Eastwest participated in the 2010 ESN Conference in Zion.
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Upcoming in St. George in 2010
Metamorphic Dance and Bodywork Small Group Certification Workshop, October 8-12.
Workshop includes Metamorphic Dance, Land to Water Yoga, teaching through touch bodywork, and somatic perspectives in the environment and on camera.
Akane Storey floats in Land to Water Yoga
Sondra Fraleigh and Ashley Meeder on their way to the Painted Pony Restaurant in St. George
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How to Register for Workshops:
Send a brief, one page vita and one
paragraph statement of your personal goals for the program
of study to eastwest@q.com. Inquire about partial scholarships for full-time students.
Each 5-day Certification Workshop $886
2 & 1/2 days Certification Tutorial $443
Register by 6 weeks in advance and save $48 on a full level of credit.
Retreats priced separately
See registration form: Registration. Send form to: workshops@eastwestsomatics.com along with payment through the Pay Pal Button below, or download registration form and send with check to the PO Box listed at the end of this page.
Dancing on your Path
Zion Winter Retreat
Conference & Workshop
Eastwest Somatics Network invites you to the brilliance of winter and the new year in Zion National Park in Utah. Register for conference and workshop together and save. Workshop option includes three nights stay at the Zion Lodge where the retreat workshop will be held (meals not included). This is a special package and opportunity to study and stay at Zion. Conference only option includes two nights stay in Zion.
Somatics and Dance Movement Therapy
Eastwest Somatics Network Conference and Performances, 6 -7
Register for ESN Conference and Shin Somatics Workshop together and Save $40. Register early for both events by November 20 and save another $40. All accommodations are at the Zion Lodge. Meals not included.
Shin Somatics®Certification Workshop and ESN Conference Includes five-night stay at Zion Lodge – $996
Register for both and earn one level of certification credit. Includes Shin Somatics® Workshop, ESN Conference, Evening Performances, and ESN membership for 2011. Doubles accommodation applies. Single room an additional $355. Register by November 20 (includes the $80 early registration savings).
Workshop only option - $886
Earn 3/4 level of Shin Somatics Certification credit and enjoy a three-night stay at Zion lodge. Apply for another 1/4 level of credit through independent study; $110 tutorial fee applies. Workshop, Jan 8, 9, 10, ends on the 11th at noon. Accommodations doubles. Single rate additional $255.
ESN Conference only option - $190
Includes two nights accommodation, double occupancy. Single occupancy additional $170.
Sondra Fraleigh leads retreat activities with ESN Associates Dancing on Your Path awakens the dancer in everyone though simple improvisations that anyone can do. Explore personal dances through guided imagery in relation to the environment. Sessions include Land to Water Yoga (with Chakra Unwinding), Fraleigh's unique yoga based on spiritual meanings of the body. Certification students also study Teaching Through Touch with a focus on movement and image in bodywork.
SOMADANCES, January 6 & 7: Evening dance performances informally presented by ESN members. To become a member, log on to www.eastwestsomatics.net
ESN members send performance proposals to kelly.ferris@q.com with a copy to Sondra Fraleigh, eastwest@q.com. Deadline for submission October 15, 2010. Early submissions welcome.
Retreat begins at 12 Noon on Thursday the 6th in “the big room.” Sessions until noon on the 11th.
Conference is open to all. To receive the Call for Conference Proposals, email eastwest@q.com. See also: Conference
Somatic Pedagogy Round Table in St. George
Post-conference day of study and sharing, January 12
Open to Eastwest Advanced Students and Graduates, ISMETA Certified Teachers,
and others who have a special interest in issues of teaching somatic perspectives.
Special presentations from graduate thesis work in somatic pedagogy. Those interested in presenting send proposals to Sondra Fraleigh at eastwest@q.com
Registration $35, includes lunch
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Akane Storey, Intrinsic Dance Improvisation
Shelly Kirk, Intrinsic Dance Improvisation
Teaching Through Touch
Register for Zion Retreat 2011
Early Registration by Nov. 20. Late Registration after Nov. 20.
Early registration with a deposit of $200 will hold your place and is refundable until Nov 15. A handling fee of $25 will be assessed on refunds. Early registration balance due by November 20. Late registration fee of $80 after November 20. Scholarships not applicable at retreats.
Availability not guaranteed after December 1.
Non-fundable deposits retained by Eastwest can be applied in part to a future workshop.
Arriving a day before, or staying a day after the retreat? Inquire about low cost housing in St. George.
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To register see registration link registration. Download and send this registration form via email, with payment through Pay Pal
below:
For single room rates, see announcement above.
Late registration after November 20, include an additional $80. Late registration for conference only, include and additional $40. Rooms not guaranteed after December 1. Early registration by Nov. 20 with a deposit of $200 will hold your place and is refundable until Nov 15. A handling fee of $25 will be assessed on refunds.
For payments through the Eastwest Somatics PO Box, see instructions on the registration form.
For questions, or to have a registration form sent, Email: eastwest@q.com
Learn walking as yoga and meditation with Sondra Fraleigh, Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (rsmt) and somatic movement trainer through ISMETA, International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association.
Walking Yoga, seen above in St. George, is a part of Shin Somatics® Land to Water Yoga
Hiking in Alsace.
Sondra has lead walking support groups in town parks and on retreats in the USA, Japan, and the United Kingdom. She founded Eastwest Institute for Shin Somatics in 1990, and has since become a trainer for registered somatic therapists through ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association). Sondra teaches yoga stretches, posture, pace, and breath in her walking groups. These groups are suitable for adults of all ages. The lessons are easy to learn and to incorporate in daily life. In St. George we meet 2 mornings a week WF, 8:00-8:30 AM at a park in South Gate.
For location and registration, email eastwest@q.com Phone 435-673-5316.
Fee: $40 a month. Wear casual clothes.
EASTWEST SOMATICS
Institute for Dance and Movement
PO
Box 910016 St George Utah 84791
Tel: St. George Utah 435-673-5361
“In
Eastwest workshops, we develop verbs of permission,
life enhancing rather than diminishing words that
sink into the watery soma of the body. We move
ourselves in the idea of body. What we can do
depends on what we invite to happen. We match
the outside to the inside, and arrive on time.
Strength lives in spontaneous moments of dancing
when flesh finds its own expression, and the bones
are so tuned to gravity that they stand by themselves.
Then we are in the flowing space of nature where
spirit moves freely."
Akane Storey, Intrinsic Dance Improvisation 
