EastWest Somatics - Institute for Yoga, Dance & Movement Studies

Eastwest Somatics Network Conference and Performances

To Register for ESN Membership Please Visit EastWest Somatics Network Website
To receive a Call for Presentations for the 2012 Conference, email: eastwest@q.com

2012 Canyon Return: Love, Power, and Service

Zion Winter Conference and Retreat
Eastwest Somatics Network Conference and Performances, January 5-6, 2012
Shin Somatics® Certification Workshop, January 7-10, 2012

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. For tuition, see: St. George and Zion Workshop page. Workshop only option includes three nights stay at the Zion Lodge where the retreat workshop will be held. This is a special low-cost package and opportunity to study and stay at Zion. Conference only option includes two nights stay in Zion. Inquire to have conference call for presentations and concert performances sent to you: eastwest@q.com. All topics concerning somatics, dynamic yoga, and dance are welcome. See featured topics below:

Canyon Return 2012 Conference and Workshop features Depth Movement Dance/Art Therapy, and Environmental Dance for the Camera. The Anasazi Ancient Pueblo people, now extinct, believed 2012 to be the year the great ones return to Zion,"sacred dwelling," to further the spiritual evolution of the planet. Thus, we remember that - to be great is to serve.

The Shin Somatics Workshop will develop bodywork based on Flow Repatterning .

Guiding Question: When does a Movement Pattern shift to Movement Repatterning?

Answer: It shifts in the process of giving a bodywork session to someone who has a goal or wish? The pattern is no longer just a theoretical form, but is actually being adapted to a real situation. Adaptation = Repatterning

The Shin somatics Workshop will develop Adaptive Yoga, Chakra Unwinding, and Mindfulness Meditation

Guiding Question: Can anyone teach meditation, or do you have to be a guru?

Answer: Yes and No. Those who care to teach meditation can study how to teach it through practice and patience, and they can learn simple techniques for teaching mindfulness. We teach these techniques at Eastwest. A guru is a teacher, a special teacher who opens your heart. Not everyone fits the bill, but we can all teach from the heart. Meditation offers the opportunity to grow compassionately and to embrace self-love, as we send love out to others and into the world.

The Shin Somatics Workshop will develop Depth-Movement Dance Therapy Dance/Art Therapy - witnessing processes - integrating art work - living consciouly discussion groups. Depth-Movement is the original term used by Mary Whitehouse.

Learning bodywork based on Flow Movement Patterns.

Guiding Questions: What does the listening touch imply? Are we fixing people with bodywork? Well if not, then what are we doing? When we say we work toward integration, what is being integrated? What are the qualities of well-integrated movement? What connection does moving well have to optimal living?

Guiding Question: How do love and power relate, and how does service flow from the anwer?

Somatics and Dance Movement Therapy

ESN Conference at the Zion Winter Retreat, January 6-7, 2011

In 2011 Eastwest Somatics Institute celebrates its 21st Anniversary with an international conference, workshop, and retreat in Zion National Park in Utah. The conference will feature somatic movement therapy and education in relation to dance movement therapy. It will include two evenings of somatically conceived performances. Participants can enjoy the majestic beauty of Zion canyon in winter, including comfortable accommodations at the Zion Lodge.

Conference Sponsored by Eastwest Somatics Network, ESN Catherine Schaeffer, ESN President, Shin Somatics® ISMETA rsmt Kelly Ferris, ESN Adminstrator, Shin Somatics® ISMETA rsmt Sondra Fraleigh, ESN advisor, international leader in dance somatic movement studies

Fraleigh will speak about the morphology of butoh and read from her new book, BUTOH: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy ( University of Illinois Press, 2010). She will focus on healing and the morphology of pain in dance. Her new book will be available at the conference.

Call for Proposals

ESN invites proposals.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Healing arts in global contexts
Relationships between somatic therapy and dance therapy
Morphology of butoh
Healing pain through dance
Dances in the environment
Healing imagery in dance
Somatic values
Defining somatic practices
Building a practice
Somatic practices and leadership
Self-perception and personal development
Somatic re-patterning and stress related illness
Working with trauma
Facilitating group work in dance movement therapy
Somatic principles in effective communication
Teaching dance and movement somatically
Teaching yoga somatically
Somatic perspectives on healthy globalization
Music and art therapy in relation to dance
Send Performance Proposals for Evening Concert (video sample optional)

Possible formats: Paper (20 minutes), Workshop (45 minutes), Panel (45 minutes), or Performance (12 minutes maximum). These formats are representative of conferences organized for wide sharing of work; thus they included varied perspectives in shorter formats, and are not focused on single presenters or extended learning expreiences. The Shin Somatics workshop following the conference is designed for full-day learning experiences.

Send one-page proposals to Conference Program Chair Kelly Ferris, kelly.ferris@q.com. Performance proposals can include video or performance description. Send email copy of one-page proposal to ESN advisor Sondra Fraleigh, eastwest@q.com (No videos.)

Proposals should include a brief description of your paper, workshop, or dance performance, and a short one-paragraph biography of no more than 200 words. Limit of one submission for paper or workshop, and one submission for performance.

Deadline for submissions, October 15, 2010.

Eastwest Shin Somatics® Certification Workshop following the Conference, January 8-11. Somatic Pedagogy Roundtable in St. George Utah, January 12. Earn one full level of credit with conference and workshop.

DANCING ON YOUR PATH 2010 ESN WINTER CONFERENCE AND ZION RETREAT

Eastwest Somatics Celebrates its 20th Anniversary in 2010

Call for Proposals

Eastwest Somatics Network, ESN, invites proposals for the Healing Arts Winter Conference and Zion Retreat in Utah. ESN Conference January 7-8. Dancing on your Path Rejuvenation Retreat to follow: evening of January 8 through noon January 11.

Conference Topics include, but are not limited to: Healing arts in global contexts; Relationships between somatic therapy and dance therapy; Metamorphosis in dance and somatics; Healing pain through dance; Healing dances in the environment; Healing imagery in dance; Somatic values; Creativity in life; Defining somatic practices; Building a practice; Somatic practices in business and leadership; Self perception and personal development; Somatic re-patterning and stress related illness; Facilitating somatics-based group work; Somatic principles in effective communication; Teaching dance and movement somatically; Teaching yoga somatically; Somatic Pedagogy; Somatic perspectives on healthy globalization; Music and art therapy in relation to movement.

Send Performance Proposals for Informal Evening Concert

Possible formats: Paper (20 minutes), Workshop (45 minutes), Panel (45minutes), or Performance (10 minutes maximum). Formats intended for wide sharing and participation.

Send one-page proposals to Conference Program Chair Kelly Ferris, Kelly.ferris@q.com, ESN President Jeanne Schul, jschul@berry.edu, and ESN Advisor Sondra Fraleigh, Eastwest@q.com.

Proposals should include a brief description of your paper, workshop, or dance performance. Include a short one-paragraph biography of no more than 200 words. Limit of one submission for paper or workshop, and one submission for performance.

Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2009

Eastwest Shin Somatics® Certification Tutorial following the Retreat 2 days in St. George Utah, January 13 & 14. Earn one full level of credit with retreat and tutorial. See www.eastwestsomatics.com

Body Contexts: Somatics in Practice

Eastwest Somatics Network Conference, Santa Barbara, California

May 23, 2009

8:30-9:00	Registration and Check-in (light refreshments provided)
9:00-9:15	Welcome: Jeanne M. Schul, ESN President, and Sri van der Kroef, On-site Conference Coordinator
10:15-11:00	Nadia Natali, The Art of Presence
11:15-12:00	Rae Johnson, (UN)Learning Oppression Through Somatics: A Somatic Approach to Diversity Work AND Joceyln Garner, Somatic Education in University and College Dance Programs
12:00-1:30	LUNCH on your own
1:30-2:15	Nathalie Guillaume, Traditional Haitian Rhythm & Movement Therapy
2:30-3:15	Jeanne M. SchulEmbodying the Unconscious through Choreography
3:30-4:15	Matthew Nelson Sin of the Spine: Wave Patterning in Movement and Performance of Thripple
4:30-5:30	Sondra Fraleigh, Rainbow Bridge Butoh

Body Contexts: Somatics in Practice

Eastwest Somatics Network Conferences in 2009
St. George UT (May 2) and Santa Barbara CA (May 23)

Call for Proposals:

Topics for papers and workshops, suggested but not limited to:

Defining somatic practices, Building a practice, Somatics in education, Somatic practices in
business and leadership, Corporeal contexts, The body politic, Self perception and personal
development, Somatic re-patterning with victims of trauma, Cultural bodies and the somatic
structures of identity, Somatics and wellness in hospital settings and community contexts,
Facilitating groups, Somatic principles in effective communication, Teaching through touch,
Teaching dance and movement somatically, Teaching yoga somatically, Somatics and human
development. Art and profession. Somatic perspectives on healthy globalization.
Send Performance Proposals for Evening Concert in Santa Barbara. Performance in St. George will be
Plant Us Environmental Butoh in Snow Canyon for all participants lead by Sondra Fraleigh.

Possible formats: Paper (20 minutes), Workshop (45 minutes), Panel (45 minutes), or Performance in Santa Barbara (10 minutes maximum). Send one-page proposals to Conference Programs Chair Kelly Ferris, Kelly.ferris@q.com, ESN President Jeanne Schul, jschul@berry.edu, and ESN Advisor Sondra Fraleigh, Eastwest@q.com.

Eastwest Shin Somatics® Certification Workshops following the Conferences May 3-6 in St. George, and May 24-27 in Santa Barbara. www.eastwestsomatics.com

INVENTION-IN DANCE, SOMATICS, AND MOVEMENT ANALYSIS

International Conferences sponsored by Bill Evans, Sondra Fraleigh and ESN, Eastwest Somatics Network

June 20- 22, 2008

Department of Dance State University of New York, College at Brockport

Call for Workshops, Papers, and Concert Dances Related to Somatics and Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis

Send abstracts of no more than two pages to Kelly Ferris: kferris@brockport.edu with copies to Sondra Fraleigh: eastwest@frontiernet.net & Bill Evans: bevans@brockport.edu

JOIN SONDRA AND BILL AS THEY CELEBRATE 47 YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP

Themes include (but are not limited to): Intersection of Dance, Somatics, and/or Movement Analysis; Teaching Somatics and/or Movement Analysis Based Technique; The Bill Evans Method of Teaching Modern Dance Technique; Deconstructing Choreography Somatically or Analytically; Eastwest Shin Somatics® Method; Why I Dance; Why I Teach; How Dancers are Changing the World.

Deadline for submission is: March 1, 2008. Early submissions are welcome. Limit of one submission for workshop or paper, and one for concert dance. For conference and housing (hotel or residence hall) information, contact Kelly Ferris, kferris@brockport.edu

Conference Registration Fee: $110.
Student Fee: $85
Early Registration, by May 1: $90. Students $65
Conference Registration includes membership in ESN
Conference Registration includes ESN luncheon

Information for Sondra Fraleigh's Eastwest Somatics Certification Workshop following the conference, June 23 - 27 & 28 - July 1, contact: workshops@eastwestsomatics.com & see: www.eastwestsomatics.com.

Information for Bill Evans' Hands-On Pedagogy of Dance Technique Workshop, August 10 - 17, Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA, contact: billevansdance@hotmail.com & see www.billevansdance.org

Eastwest Somatics Network Conference 2007

SOMA & SELF

Department of Dance State University of New York College at Brockport May 26, 2007

SOMA & SELF: ESNetwork CONFERENCE
Suggested topics for papers and workshops include: Defining the field of somatics; Structure and rewards of autotelic activities; Practice as research; Designing a case study; Ethics in somatics; Somatics and aesthetics; Teaching dance technique in relation to somatics; Contact improvisation somatically designed; Improvisatory paintings of dance experiences; Somatics in children's dance classes; Cultural bodies and the somatic structures of identity; Enjoying work; Dance and the experience of flow; Transcendence of ego-boundaries in somatic experience; Dance and the performative self; Therapeutic aspects of performance; Self-perception and personal development; Political bodies; Somatic movement re-patterning with victims of trauma; Environmental settings for somatic explorations.

At the Conference: Enjoy a full day of presentations, workshops, and a concert in the evening

SOMADANCES CONCERT 7:30 PM, free to ESN Members, $5 Non-members Rose Strasser Studio Theater

Pre-Conference Research Roundtable: Somatic Arts Projects. Sharing of Work in Progress. Friday May 25, 2:00PM to 5:00PM in the Seminar Room. Let Molly and Kelly know if you will attend and would like to present something for discussion.

Join ESN to attend the Conference, Roundtable, and Concert Eastwest somatics network member rewards

Members will enjoy networking with each other on their own website.
Members receive Conference Call for Papers, Presentations, and Concert Dances
Members can present and network at ESN Conferences
Members are eligible to hold office in ESN
Members can network to fulfill Eastwest Somatics Continuing Education Requirement
Graduate Members receive automatic renewal of Eastwest Somatics Certification every five years

EASTWEST SOMATICS NETWORK

BECOME A MEMBER IN 2008 AND JOIN OUR SOMATICS COMMUNITY

Annual ESN Membership is from March 1 to March 1, yearly

Join the growing number of educators, performers, and scholars who are developing the practice of somatics, and networking for career development. Participate in Research Round Table Discussions of Somatic Arts Projects. Bring your work and ideas to the table for discussion with Sondra Fraleigh and EWS graduates.

ESN, Easwest Somatics Network, is a professional organization for students and graduates of Eastwest Somatics and other somatic modalitieswith the purpose of furthering the professional growth of its members and promoting the future of somatic practices. Become a member now: Join ESN President Robert Bingham, President Elect Jeanne Schul, and mentor Sondra Fraleigh, founder of Eastwest Somatics. Connect with the growing number of ESN members who enjoy furthering the healing modalities of somatic movement education and therapy in relation to dance and creative