moving body

being with trees
a weekend workshop with
Elaine Colandrea, Jean-Claude van Itallie, and Megan Bathory-Peeler

October 4-6

     "Trees are not only magnificent but as essential as water, the sun, and the stars. Human life on earth would be impossible without trees."

—Anton Chekhov

Take a weekend to slow down among vividly colored trees.
Breathe, Move, Create

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     Moving slowly, spontaneously in Continuum,
     gently guided by teaching artists, 
     awaken the ocean of awareness within.

     As the Amazon's forests are decimated, and our climate suffers human-made catastrophe, we dedicate this Moving Body workshop to our friends the trees.
 
Each day

• Movement Sessions with two seasoned Continuum teachers.

• Channeling your moving body into forms of creativity.

• Quiet times to metabolize, meditate, and muse among Shantigar's trees.

Workshop starts promptly at 3:00 PM on Friday, October 4 and ends at 1:00 PM on Sunday October 6.

$333 for weekend.

Organic meals included.

Some onsite lodging available, and free tenting.

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Elaine Colandrea might once have been a temple dancer. Elaine directs Watermark Arts, for artists influenced by somatic practice. She is a long time Continuum teacher, a massage therapist and dancer/choreographer. Based in the Hudson Valley of NY, Elaine also regularly teaches in Italy. Reviewer Linda Diamond: "Elaine is a wizard of new dance forms."
WatermarkArts.org & ElaineColandrea.com.

Jean-Claude van Itallie, Shantigar’s founder/artistic director, was seminal in the explosive 1960's American theater. He wrote acclaimed anti-Viet Nam war play America Hurrah; The Serpent (with the Open Theater); Tibetan Book of the Dead or How Not to Do It Again; translations of Chekhov’s major plays; Light; The Fat Lady Sings; and many other plays. Author of Playwright’s Workbook, and Tea with Demons, games of transformation, Jean-Claude teaches in colleges, acting schools, and retreat centers.

vanitallie.com.

Megan Bathory-Peeler, a passionate somanaut, for 25 years has explored embodiment and human relationships. She is ever curious about what it means to live fully as a human. Megan is based in Western Massachusetts. Drawing on her skills as Continuum teacher, somatic therapist/educator, performance artist, activist, and mother, Megan guides her students and clients to make their own innovative discoveries.
somanautiko.com.

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Photos by Michael Stuart