Ecosomatics Day Retreat with Cathie Caraker

September 28 | 10am–5pm | Point Reyes

Join us at Point Reyes National Seashore for the first in a series of daylong eco-somatic movement retreats. We’ll spend the day moving both indoors and outdoors—beginning in the dance studio and then extending into the wild beauty of the park—exploring embodiment practices and movement improvisation in relationship with the natural world.

Our morning session will be held at the Dance Palace in Point Reyes Station, where we’ll arrive in our bodies through guided explorations of developmental movement, bodywork, solo practice, and partnering.

After lunch, we’ll move to a site in the national park, where our practice expands into dialogue with the land. In somatic movement, we explore the felt body through our inner and outer senses—locating ourselves in gravity, through touch, in proprioception, and more. In eco-somatic practice, we extend this inquiry: How do we orient in relation to the natural world? To the four directions, to the plants and creatures around us, to the deep history of the land and the people who lived here for thousands of years before us?

Through movement, attention, and deep listening, we open ourselves to a more embodied and nourishing relationship with place. We invite you to join us in this day of practice, reflection, and renewal in the living landscape of Point Reyes.

Space is limited, early registration is advised.

Sliding scale: $100-$150, pay what you can. Venmo @KinesisMovementArts

Scholarships Available - email grapesdance@gmail.com

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MORE INFO: www.cathiecaraker.com/offerings

or email Cathie: cathie.caraker@gmail.com

UPCOMING ECO-SOMATIC RETREATS - SAVE THE DATES:

October 26 with guest tba

November 16 with guest Rosemary Hannon

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CATHIE CARAKER (MFA, RSME) is a longtime dance artist, researcher and somatic movement educator. Her teaching work integrates her deep background in post-modern dance practices and somatics. She was fortunate to work extensively with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, founder of Body-Mind Centering®, with Nancy Stark Smith and Steve Paxton, founders of Contact Improvisation, and many other brilliant "dancestors", and has been profoundly influenced by their research. She was on the faculty of the renowned School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam for 10 years. She has also shared her work at the New York Improvisation Festival, Movement Research, Omega Institute, Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, wcciJAM, Moving On Center, Contact Festival Freiburg, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Barcelona Contact Festival, Contredanse Brussels, de Beweging Antwerp, and numerous US colleges. She has co-organized CI events including wcciJAM and the European CI Teaching Exchange (ECITE).

Cathie is a Body-Mind Centering® teacher, a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and an instructor of the Pilates and Gyrotonic methods. Her writings on Body-Mind Centering® as a somatic approach to dance education have been published by Nouvelles de Danse. More at www.cathiecaraker.com

photo credit: B. Dalton Media / Wildance