Jennie’s movement-based expressive arts practice is grounded in the Tamalpa Life/Art Process, a process developed by dance pioneers Daria Halprin and Anna Halprin, and informed by the work of Anna’s husband, renowned landscape architect Lawrence Halprin.

In the Tamalpa process, we track sensation, emotion, and associations, then move, giving expression to our physical, felt, emotional, and imaginal bodies. We move and are moved. Then we use sketching, poetic writing/journaling, and voice to psychologize and explore the interplay of body, mind, and creativity. Our life material becomes art. Creativity becomes a way of life.

The Tamalpa process is valuable in contexts of healing and balancing, creativity and arts, and spirituality.

In witnessing each other and being witnessed, we cultivate our own inner witness. Group member observations are their own aesthetic responses, from their own self knowledge. We do not fix, advise, interpret, analyze, or deconstruct each other. The process is therapeutic, but it is not therapy.

We practice in small group circles of four to eight people. Circles are held at Jennie’s home studio in the Paris Mountain area of Greenville, SC.

No expertise in movement/dance, visual art, or writing is needed.  Please modify your movement to suit your physical abilities and needs. Appropriate for adolescents through seniors, female and male. 

Upcoming Circles

REMEMBERING BODY

Saturday, February 8, 2025

10 AM – 3 PM

Enliven the interplay of the physical body, felt body, imaginal body in this day-long workshop that explores our embodied creativity.  Using an intermodal arts process of movement, sketching, and poetic writing, we actively and expressively engage with our felt sense, sensations, images, and narratives.  Centering on the body helps us come home to ourselves as a whole.  

Held at my home studio on Saturday, November 16.  Time is 10 AM to 3 PM.  Limited to four people.  Bring a bag lunch.  Email me at jenniewake@gmail.com and I’ll send you a link to register and pay.  $75 per session.  Sessions do fill up.  Sessions that do not fill in a timely way may be cancelled.  No experience in movement/dance, visual art, or writing is needed.