The Green Fuse: Movement Ritual and Tamalpa Bodying

Orient or re-orient to the broader energy of which we're a part through these workshops that emphasize the body as the locus of lived experience. We begin with a user-friendly movement ritual to ground in being here. We wait for a visceral sense to form, a sense of how the body would like to be, move, or communicate, or a sense of what might be keeping it from that. Using gesture, we play with how the felt sense lives in the body. Using drawing, poetic writing (no expertise needed!), and witnessing, we reflect and allow next steps, however small, to arise. We listen for the creative force, the forward impulse, "the force that through the green fuse drives the flower, as Dylan Thomas puts it.

The mover/s (you and/or others) and the witness Jennie) interact to help bring a felt sense into focus, body it, and listen for next steps. Come with a theme to explore, a dream, or simply show up and see what's there. Your practice will deepen over time, and you can practice on your own.

Private Session (Live or Virtual): 55 minutes, $100.

Small Groups (Live): Groups of 3 - 6 people at Jennie's home studio, Greenville, SC. $30 Mondays: June 16 & 30 @ 4 - 6 pm Tuesdays: July 15 & 29 @ 10 am - noon

Virtual Small Groups: On Zoom, for 3 or more people. $30 Saturdays: June 21, July 12 @, 10 am - noon

For more information, you can schedule a free, 15-minute consultation. Email jenniewake@gmail.com To schedule a private appointment, email jenniewake@gmail.com You must pre-register tor groups. Email jenniewake@gmail.com to receive a registration link. Registration will close 24 hours before the start time and date. Sessions do fill up. Sessions that do not fill may be cancelled.

For virtual groups, please have your camera on and prepare a space for movement. You'll also need art materials of vour choice and a journal. This work is not therapy, but it can be therapeutic. Jennie is not a licensed therapist,

**The term "bodying person" is used by Astrid Schillings, a Certifying Coodinator/Trainer of the International Focusing Institute, to make a distinction from the more frequently used term "embodied." Her work "Focusing with the Whole Body" gets at the human condition in which we are life as well as have life. Tamalpa Institute, where Jennie trained, uses the phrase Tamalpa Bodying. And it all has roots in Authentic Movement.