Online series - Embodied Creativity for All: Explore, Connect, and Renew with Joy Cosculluela

Embodied Creativity for All: Explore, Connect, and Renew

A movement series exploring embodiment, creativity, and community

With Joy Cosculluela, RSME/T

Dates and Time: Fridays, May 15, 22, 29 | 9-10:30 AM PDT

Cost: $90/series | TI Grads 10% discount

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An introductory session to this series takes place on May 8 at a special rate of $15.  Register HERE.

*Note: It is not necessary to register for the introductory session to attend this 3-week series.

About the Series

Reconnect with your body’s natural creativity in a welcoming space! 

Join us in a movement and dance practice that invites us to listen to the body as a source of insight, healing, and creativity.

In the midst of ongoing change and uncertainty, embodied creative practices can help us feel resourced by restoring vitality, presence, and interrelatedness.

This series welcomes each person’s unique movement expression and lived experience. Rooted in curiosity and care, we cultivate a non-judgmental space for exploration.

Each session offers a supportive structure, including guided movement, creative expression, and reflection.

What We'll Explore

Working with Anna Halprin’s Integrative Dance approach, we engage our physical, emotional, and mental states of awareness.

Through the structure of Movement Ritual & Dance Explorations, each session focuses on a theme:

• Descending and ascending — sensing cycles of falling and rising in the body
• Rhythmic Pulsing — awakening vitality through rhythm and flow
• Relating to the Environment — moving in connection with space, surroundings, and one another

Creative expression and reflection

Using the tools of Tamalpa Life–Art Process, we integrate movement with drawing and writing to harvest meaning and insight from our experience.

Community

Participants will have opportunities to share discoveries through witnessing and being witnessed in a supportive and respectful environment.

Who This Is For

Open to all. No dance or art experience is required, only a willingness to explore!

Come as you are and discover what emerges.

What You'll Need

• A comfortable space to move freely (including the floor and space around you)

• Drawing and writing materials

Joy Cosculluela, RSME/T, is a performing artist and somatic educator whose work is inspired by Anna Halprin’s practice, the Tamalpa Life–Art Process, and a wide range of somatic, artistic, and contemplative traditions. She invites participants to explore dance, movement, creativity, and meaningful connection. Joy is the Artistic Director of Wayfinding Performance Group and Performance Lab SF, where she creates interdisciplinary performance exploring themes of belonging, ancestry, and land. Her practice weaves somatic movement, performance, ritual, and creative inquiry to illuminate embodied creativity and our relationships in this world.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

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.

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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.

REFUND POLICY: Refunds are available within 48 hours before the start date of the first class. No partial refunds.

Photo by Rick Chapman