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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.

Coming in 2011, January 6-11

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

Shin Somatics© Certification Workshop, 8-11

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

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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:

Full Registration Information
ZIONWINTER RETREAT & WORKSHOP IN 2011, JANUARY 6-11


Workshop and Conference Option, One full level of Certification Credit, $996 (includes five nights stay at the Zion Lodge, doubles)
Workshop Only Option, 3/4 level of Certification Credit, $886 (includes three nights stay at the Zion Lodge, doubles). Apply for 1/4 level additional study through independent study; $110 study fee applies.
Conference Only Option (includes two nights stay at Zion Lodge, doubles), $190

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

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Yoga and Meditation at Red Hills Wellness

Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday 9:30-10:45 AM

Sondra teaches at Red Hills Wellness Center, 200 East 301 North #2C-D, St George Utah 84770

Winter Classes Tuesday 10 - 11:15 AM, and Thursday 5:30-6:30 PM

for more information phone: 435-673-5316

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WALKING YOGA IN ST. GEORGE

Walk for Health and Wholeness

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."

- Sondra Fraleigh

 
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