[Adta] The Dreaming Body: Authentic Movement in Tuscany!

[AuthenticMovement-BodySoul]

Dear Friends & Colleagues,

Greetings. I wanted to let you know about an Authentic Movement
intensive in Tuscany that will integrate Dreamwork and elements from
Marion Woodman's BodySoul Rhythms approach. Gathering in the natural
beauty of Tuscany's rolling hills nourishes body and soul, while moving
and witnessing with colleagues from different parts of the world deeply
enriches our explorations.

Please feel free to share this information with someone who may be
interested.

With all best wishes in this Season of lights and throughout the New Year!

Warmly,
Tina

www.AuthenticMovement-BodySoul.com
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The Dreaming Body:
Authentic Movement as a Pathway to the Self

A Five-Day Retreat for Women & Men
Affiliated with the Marion Woodman Foundation
with Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., ADTR, assisted by Margareta Neuberger, MA

Tuscany, Italy  ~ June 25-July 1, 2008


Dreams carry treasures that enhance the meaning and depth of our life’s
journey. Authentic Movement allows access to these rich inner resources
on a cellular level, bringing us back in touch with our natural rhythms,
instinctual wisdom, and sense of self.  Attending to the body allows us
to more fully access the energies expressed through the textures,
imagery, and unfolding action of the dream. Gestures emerge that can
guide us toward where our life energy is directing us. Here, body and
psyche can begin to work together.

>From our earliest beginnings, empathic relating by the other is an
essential component in the formation of the self. Recent advances in
developmental neuroscience point to the right brain’s receptivity to
nonverbal elements such as facial expression, voice tone, movement,
music, imagery and the play of symbols in dreams and poetry. Authentic
Movement provides affective mirroring and embodied presence as a
foundation for the development of consciousness in the cells, and a
sense of well being and belonging in the world. Sensitivity to the body
can allow clinicians, educators and health care providers to attend to
this language as it arises in our experiences with others, and in
ourselves, hearing the soul’s call and working with the obstacles to its
fulfillment.

This integrative, depth-oriented Jungian approach will include working
with dreams in the body (Dreamdancing), Authentic Movement (active
imagination in movement), writing, drawing, communion with nature, and
creative methods from Marion Woodman’s BodySoul Rhythms work.  Studio
sessions will be supplemented by seminars focusing on questions arising
from your personal explorations, as well as applications relevant to
your creative and professional work.  Nearby hillside and coastal
villages make for a wonderful holiday, too, if you can take the time
following the intensive!

For more information please see:
www.AuthenticMovement-BodySoul.com/tuscany.  For an application contact:
Tina Stromsted: 415) 668-78957; Tstromsted at aol.com.