Online Workshop: Fall: A Ritual of Renewal Exploring nature’s rhythms through movement, art, and imagination with Joy Cosculluela

Fall: A Ritual of Renewal

Exploring nature’s rhythms through movement, art, and imagination

With Joy Cosculluela, RSME/MT

Sat. Nov. 14th | 9 am - 12 pm Pacific Time

Cost: $60 (Grads: $54)

As fall alters the landscape, we’ll turn toward our bodies and explore what is shedding, shifting, and renewing within us and around us.

Through movement, we notice how we respond to gravity, time, space, and texture. With curiosity and care, we explore yielding and falling, rising and shape-shifting.

We remember that we are nature, part of the living cycle of growth, decay, and renewal.

Drawing from Anna Halprin’s dances in nature and the Life/Art Process, we’ll explore what it means to let go, make space, and become something new.

We’ll close with a collective ritual, sharing our dances and artwork as an offering to the season. Together, we’ll create a space for witnessing and offering.

No dance or art experience required. Only a willingness to explore!Please have a comfortable space to move and drawing and writing materials on hand. Whatever you have works!

Participants must have a Zoom account and be logged into that account to attend. The Zoom account must match the email that they registered with.

The meeting will be locked 15 minutes after the start time – so participants will need to arrive before then.

All participants are strongly encouraged turn on their cameras to help build a safe container, engender connection, and improve security.  If you have a specific reason for keeping your camera off, please communicate this to the Zoom host at the start of the workshop.

To get the most out of these online classes, please prepare a comfortable space to move in with access to your online device and reliable internet service. If you are using a handheld device, such as a pad or phone, please be sure to use a stand for your device so that it is held securely in place. You will want to have your hands free and be able to move freely and safely during movement exercises without worrying about your device falling. Have art supplies ready at hand for the drawing activity and paper and pen for journaling and creative writing exercises.

Workshops are for ages 18+ only and disability access is not provided.

While this workshop can be therapeutic and personally meaningful, it is offered as a creative and educational experience and is not psychotherapy or a substitute for mental health care.

Photo by Marguerite Lorimer

Please note: Tamalpa does not record nor permit the recording of any classes or workshops due to the sensitive and sometimes vulnerable nature of the work, and to protect participant privacy.

Joy Cosculluela (she/her) RSME, MFA, CMT, resides in the ancestral lands of the Ohlone people, otherwise known as SF Bay Area. Joy is a performing artist, somatic educator, and artistic director of Wayfinding Performance Group, a multicultural ensemble of artists in SF. She was associate teacher and dancer with Anna Halprin and The Sea Ranch Collective. Joy has collaborated with numerous Bay Area artists and has worked as a guest teacher at San Francisco State, University of Washington, Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants, Nature Talks, and Body-Mind Centering Association. She holds an MFA Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College, is artistic director of Performance Lab San Francisco and is core faculty at Tamalpa Institute in Kentfield, California. wayfindingperformance.com