Shin Somatics®, Ongoing Workshops, Retreats, Conferences, and Tutorials St George and Zion Utah
Celebrate Dec. 12, 2012 (12/12/12)
in Zion National Park
Archetypes of Transformation
Winter Retreat St. George, Snow Canyon, and Zion Utah, Dec. 8-16
ESNAC - Eastwest Somatics Network Annual Conference December 10, 11, 12.
Shin Somatics Workshops, Dec 8-12 & 12-16.
ESNAC - Eastwest Somatics Network Annual Conference, Presentations Dec 10.
ESNAC Day with Sondra Fraleigh and Jeanne Schul, Jungian Psychologist Dec 11.
ESNAC Zion Day, with Evening Performances at Zion Lodge, Dec. 12th
ESNAC Day of Presentations in St. George, Dec. 10, $148
ESNAC Two Days rejuvenation, open to all, Dec. 11 & 12, $296
ESNAC Three Days for 1/2 level certification credit, Dec. 10, 11, 12, $444
Five Day Certification Workshop, one full level of credit, Dec. 8-12, $886
Five Day Certification Workshop, one full level of credit, Dec. 12-16, $886
Overnight Lodging at Zion on 12/12/12, $60 doubles, $120 single.
12/12/12 in Color Country
Sondra Fraleigh, Eastwest Founder, and Jeanne Elkins, Ph.d in Jungian Psychology, invite you to experience body and world through mythic archetypes.
Celebrate 2012 as an auspicious year of planetary evolution. The world is already further inside than we can ever fathom. Unconsciously we match it.
Unwinding the Chakras: Archetypes of Transformation and Healing
- For the root chakra: Yoga on soft red sandstone.
- For the belly: Flow repatterning bodywork.
- For the breath: Contact unwinding and laughter.
- for the heart: Depth-movement dance therapy.
- For the throat: Bear walk and music realization.
- For the third eye: Mindfulness meditation.
- For the crown: Butoh-inspired dances to stir the unconscious & awaken trust.
ESN Conference overlaps first workshop. Notice the overlap of first and last 5 day workshops on 12/12/12 in Zion. Students taking both 5 day workshops receive a $100 discount. Partial Scholarships available for full-time students. For home-stay accommodations, arrive on the day before and depart the day after your workshop(s). Reserve early for B&B home-stay, $35 each night. Home-stay space limited. Other low cost options available. Hold home stay place with at $70 deposit through Pay Pal or by mail on the registration page.
Early-Bird Discounts by October 27th
Register for ESNAC Conference and one 5-day Shin Somatics Workshop together by October 27th (early registration) and save $60.
Register for Conference and both 5-day Shin Somatics workshops by October 27, and save $100.
Full price for each workshop is $886.
Workshops include 12/12/12 at Zion. Price for Zion Lodge is an additional $60, doubles.
Inquire about low cost housing in St. George. Home-Stay opportunities for $35, first come, first serve.
Email eastwest@q.com for home-stay reservation and deposit information.
Call for Conference Presentations on ESN Conference Page, or email kelly.ferris@q.com to have a copy sent.
More on the 12/12/12/ Conference and Workshops:
In 2012 Eastwest Somatics Institute celebrates its 22nd Anniversary with an international conference, workshop, and retreat in St. George, Snow Canyon, and Zion National Park in Utah. The conference will feature archetypes of transformation. Keynote performance is by ESN President, Professor Catherine Schaeffer, on Paddle and Trickster. Keynote speaker is Jungian psychologist, Jeanne Schul, Ph.D., on Soma and Archetypal Transformation.
The first day will include presentations and workshops on archetypal imagery and somatics, but is open to other subjects as well. The second day will include a metamorphic journey through depth-movement & environmental dance led by Sondra Fraleigh and Jeanne Schul. Jeanne leads participants through Chakra Unwinding and meanings of the body. Sondra will facilitate Butoh inspired dance in Snow Canyon and St. George, using Yoshito Ohno's perspectives on bodymind oneness: inviting pain in every step, grieving as one, and healing.
Zion 12/12/12/ will include a day of reflective dance in the canyon and the big room of the lodge, and a late afternoon and evening of somatically conceived performances. Dinner out in nearby Spring Dale.
Reservations at Zion Lodge are through Eastwest and group discount. Participants can enjoy the majestic beauty of Zion canyon in winter, including comfortable accommodations at the Zion Lodge on 12/12/12.
Conference Sponsored by Eastwest Somatics Network, ESN President, Catherine Schaeffer. Kelly Ferris, ESN Administrator. Sondra Fraleigh, ESN advisor. Fraleigh's books on Butoh, and her original music CD's on Chakra Unwinding and Music for Choreography will be available at the conference.
Study in St. George for Certification in Shin Somatics and Yoga
Move with Beauty in Nature
- Land to Water Yoga
- Intrinsic Dance & Shin Somatics Bodywork
- Butoh-inspired Dances in the Environment and on Camera
Opportunity for Home-Stay Study in Saint George Or Long-Distance Credit through Individually Designed Programs
For 2012 Home-Stay Mentorship with Sondra Fraleigh in Saint George, Utah, email eastwest@q.com
September 2012: Shin Somatics Certification Retreat: Tuition $886. Home-Stay, extra $35 a day. Students invited to apply for possible September Mentorship. Three-days study for advanced students and Yoga 500 Credential: Tuition $500. Home-Stay extra $35 a day.
To apply for home-stay-study in Saint George, email eastwest@q.com. Earn one level of Shin Somatics certification credit for each 5-day mentorship. Earn credit for Yoga Anatomy 200 and 500 in the 3-day course.
Shin Somatics tutorials cultivate intention through flowing 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."
Experience Depth-Movement Dance Therapy in Saint George; 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. Practice Somatic Yoga and meditate in Snow Canyon. Feel the warmth and support of the soft sandstone. Experience the root chakra energy of the golden orange and burnt rose rocks. St. George is in the heart of color country southwest Utah. Miners have made a fortune from the metamorphic stone, and gem collectors gather treasures of healing stones.
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.
Retreats & Home Stay priced separately
Click Here to Register for any St. George Workshop
Please make note of payment amount before you continue
Sondra Fraleigh in Snow Canyon near St. George and in Red Hills Butoh
Students Participated in Plant Us Butoh at the 2009 ESN Conference in St. George.
Students, graduates, and friends of Eastwest participated in the 2010 and 2011 Conferences in Zion.
Akane Storey floats in Land to Water Yoga, St. George 2010
Sondra Fraleigh and Ashley Meeder on their way to the Painted Pony Restaurant in St. George
2012 Canyon Return, St. George & Zion Winter Retreat
Conference & Workshops, Home-Stay in St. George
December 8-16, ESNAC Conference on the 10th with Performance on the 12 in Zion.
Two full certification workshops. See schedule at the top of this page.
12/12/12 Canyon Return: Archetypes of Transformation om 2012
Eastwest Somatics Network invites you to the brilliance of winter and 12/12/12/ in Zion National Park and the color country of St. George Utah. Register for conference and workshop together and save. Inquire to have conference call for presentations sent to you: eastwest@q.com. All topics concerning relationships between somatics, yoga, and dance are welcome. The call for presentations on the Conference Page provides more specific guidelines.
The Anasazi Ancient Pueblo people, now extinct, believed 2012 would 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. In the conference and the workshop we will explore relationships between yoga, dance, somatic bodywork, and archetypes of transformation.
The Shin Somatics Workshop will develop Depth-Movement Dance Therapy through witnessing processes, integrating dance and art toward living consciously. Movement in depth is the original term used by Mary Whitehouse for what is generally practiced as Authentic Movement.
The Shin Somatics Workshops will teach Yoga and Bodywork based on Flow Movement Patterns and Applied Anatomy. They will also address somatic perspectives on healing trauma.
Guiding Questions: What is applied anatomy? How does it function in Yoga and Shin Somatics Bodywork. 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? How does effective communication relate to bodywork? What is service learning?
Tuition and Certification Information at the top of the page. Further questions through email, eastwest@q.com
Early-Bird Discounts
Register for ESNAC Conference and one 5-day Shin Somatics Workshop together by October 27th (early registration) and save $60. Register for Conference and both 5-day Shin Somatics workshops by October 27, and save $100. Full price for each workshop is $886. Workshops include 12/12/12 at Zion. Price for Zion Lodge is an additional $60, doubles. Inquire about low cost housing in St. George. Home-Stay opportunities for $35, first come, first serve. Reserve with a $70 deposit. Email eastwest@q.com for home-stay reservation and deposit information.
Click Here to Register for any St. George Workshop
Please make note of payment amount before you continue
Sondra Fraleigh leads retreat activities with ESN Associates
Awaken to the dancer in everyone though simple improvisations that anyone can do. Explore personal dances through guided imagery in relation to the environment and on camera. Sessions include Land to Water Yoga (with Chakra Unwinding), Fraleigh's unique yoga based on spiritual meanings of the body. Constancy, unconditional love, is the mother principle that supports infant movement development, and is a narrative that threads through our yoga. Certification students study Teaching Through Touch also with a focus on art and image in bodywork.
Finding Your Horizon in Land to Water Yoga
Akane Storey, Intrinsic Dance Improvisation
Shelly Kirk, Depth-Movement Dance Therapy
Teaching Through Touch
Yoga and Meditation at Red Hills Wellness
Tuesday 10 to 11 AM
Sondra teaches at Red Hills Wellness Center, 200 East 301 North #2C-D, St George Utah 84770. She also teaches for ICL, Institute for Continued Learning, through Dixie State College in St. George.
for full schedule and information phone: 435-673-5316
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, balance, 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 Wed & Sat, 9:00 to 9:30 AM at a park in South Gate. Sondra is E-RYT 500 through Yoga Alliance, Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher, 1000 hours of teaching.
For location and registration, email eastwest@q.com Phone 435-673-5316.
Fee: Eight Lessons, $40. Wear casual clothes.
