some current workshops...

authentic movement

• deepening embodied consciousness
• opening to the Mystery
• strengthening the witness as sacred container

authentic movement can be a practice of meditation in motion. it is a discipline of witnessing the experience of being embodied through attending intimately to the body's shape, movements, sensations, imaginations, feelings and thoughts, as they arise and shift with eyes closed, in a meditative state. the form offers us to be in the roles of "witness" and "mover" alternately. in either role, each is attending to deepening their awareness of their own experience. in the practice, we also investigate accurate and artful enunciation of our own embodied experience as both a communication and integration tool.

the sacred space jam - devotional improvisation

this workshop teaches a unique devotional practice which engages the expressions of music, movement and voice and the natural blending of them all. we practice to enter the collective-mind after attuning to higher vibrations through the individual mind. we become attuned to receive the dance/music creation of the moment in spontaneity, and we reflect on this experience as a blueprint for receiving guidance in the life-walk. this workshop is for all levels of experience in music and dance, and offers itself to deep and spontaneous healing, collective ritual and wild play!

alexander technique in motion

this technique teaches the innate freedom of the joints, primarily the occipital joint at the skull and along the spine. Embodying the prinicples offers a new ease of movement and sensitive listening to the body's natural and most integrated ways. combined with movement practices, it is experiential anatomy. these self-awareness and choiceful posturing skills greatly support all movement/dance practices, voice, and all body-work modalities.

movement medicine arts

during over a decade in professional dance and performance art, keren's main art form evolved into the "ritual". and, the ritual, in keren's way, always includes the movement and music.

even while immersed in a field of modern dance for performance, keren and her colleagues were pioneers in engaging spontaneous choreography, ritual sensibilities and the awareness of the spirit moving the form, practicing and performing in all kinds of new ways. while, however, she realized these ways were not new at all. they were natural and ancient and inter-cultural.

at this time, keren continues to teach and practice forms of "sacred dance", which are not of any particular culture. they are sacred movement practices because they resource the spiritual influx and circulation as primary in the immediate formal creation of the dance. additionally, these practices aspire to serve a larger spiritual presence in the individual, the group and the society.

more workshops...

post-modern dance

this dance-technique training is based in awareness of experiential anatomy, including wisdoms from yoga, bmc and the alexander techniques. we learn the easeful and natural functioning of the body's anatomy and physiology in the highly athletic dance. through releasing extraneous effort and holding in the tissues, power exudes and we find a great freedom in movement, sublime moving experiences and fierce-full-out dancing. included in the class/workshop are practice exercises, improvisation and choreographic processes.

yoga and integrative movement

a fluid practice of asanas with attention to alignment, easefulness in stability, free breath and energetic connectivity. we also use moments of integrative movement, between asana segments based in the wisdoms of alexander technique and authentic movement. chant concludes each class.

movement medicine ritual

in this workshop we learn and practice creating movement-based rituals that are powerful medicine in marking transitional or transformational occasions in our life-cycle. through guided exercises and discussion, we investigate the inner and "organic" urge (ie. of the body deep at the core) to give form to potent experiences by making - crafting - a ritual. we learn how our attention and intention cast the circle for the ritual, then we craft it with movement and music at the foundation. we engage both pre-conceived and spontaneous formal structures. organic materials/objects, dances, movement and music, silence and stillness are all forms and symbols that may be used in the creation of our collective ritual.