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Gracie Luxuriating before she heads off wagging into her day.
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Gracie's way to start the day.
When our dog Gracie gets up she flaps her ears, then she does this long lingering luxuriating physical yawn, (some of you may call this stretching) and then she looks up and wags. Wisdom comes from many sources. In Wholeness in Twelve classes we've been doing:
The Gracie
Give it a try and wag into your day.
Flap - A side to side wiggle from top to bottom, as if you have giant ears on each side of you.
Luxuriate - Long lingering, pleasurable expansions like a physical yawn (compare those words to 'stretch'. Often stretching has a grip in it. That's not luxuriating.) LUXURIATE in all directions and dimensions.
Wag - Wag your tail - Jiggle from bottom to top. Look at the world around you. Here you are. Ready to spring into your day. (When you walk imagine that wag all the way up and out and through you.)
A few of principles to incorporate into The Gracie:
1. When you luxuriate notice if you are balanced and easy or if you are in a strained reach. Luxuriating feels luxurious. Being in the center of your support let's that ease be there.
2. You are a springy, elastic being. Let yourself spring up and out in every direction. Imagine you are a sprung system compare that idea idea with thinking you are need to align yourself, stand straight or you are heavy and tired and fighting gravity. Feeling tired? Think spring. Feeling pain? Think spring.
3. You stand on the planet not your feet. If you feel your feet, you are likely slightly off balance, off the center of support, which is a kind of lean. (You won't feel like you are leaning because your interpretation of these sensations has gotten inaccurate.) When you lean, your system grips to keep you up from falling over. That gripping response includes your feet. That response causes pain, injury and a sense that you are anything but springy. To get the spring back play around with spring or call me or take Wholeness in Twelve! I can help you figure out if you are off support and how to get back on.
Here's a short tutorial of this process: The Gracie
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The Center for Sound Music Education is launched. Kalied Choral Festival was a beautiful, heart-full choral event this past March. Look for upcoming Community Through Choral Arts Course and on-line courses and blog posts and more. Check us out: Sound Music Education
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Give yourself 12 minutes three times a week. Feel the difference!
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Find the spring in your step and your being with
Wholeness in Twelve in May and June.
On-line
Set the tone for your day, your week with these powerful 12-minute classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and many optional bonus tutorials and application videos.
- Invigorating Mondays – Ground your week in principles of balance, support, your inherent spring and other aspects of free and healthy movement rooted in the suspension system model of human design.
- Well-being Wednesdays – Center your week in clarity and health with the Perspectives of Health™ patterns.
- Recuperative Fridays – End your week nourished in your being, connected to your own compass and the pulse of the earth. (This class will be 30 minutes optionally)
This is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the language and movement of wholeness and exploring applications in your life, in your other practices, your teaching and artistry.
On-line so you are in your own home, no travel time, just PJ's and you as you are. If on-line intimidates you, I can walk you through this. It is easy. Classes recorded so you can take any time you want.
If you are new to this material register soon so you can review preparatory tutorials.
For more information, details and too register see: Wholeness in Twelve.
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LearningMethods™ Group Starting
Eight Weeks in May and June.
On-line
Weekly LearningMethods™ Group
Learn the powerful tool of the LearningMethods™ approach to reveal and uproot the roots that underlie tension, anxiety, stress and other experiences of "problems". It is like a precision instrument for direct inquiry into making sense of our experience. It is a way to unveil and transform causes of symptoms or interference like?
- being afraid to sing
- getting anxious easily
- having painful feet
- never having enough time
- feeling burned out
- not exercising when we want to
The tools of this material can be adapted for all kinds of teaching and coaching.
For information, details and to register: LearningMethods™ Group Class
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Enjoy vegetables from our garden, paddle the river and dance on the deck.
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Summer Workshop
Living the Language of Wholeness
Teaching From Wholeness
Monday July 30 to Friday August 3, 2018
Spring Valley, Wisconsin
Immerse yourself in your wholeness. How you frame your sense of yourself is what you experience. The culture is dominated by parts language: my body, my mind, my pain, my happiness. This work gives you the experience of a whole system framework. I move, I have ideas, I am supported, I am responsive, I get signals to guide me. This simple shift has profound implications for how you experience your system.
The workshop is rooted in you and your well-being. From this experiential foundation we will layer in pedagogical principles that emerge from our explorations.
- How to teach without cheer leading or barking orders. (How to learn without shame.)
- Helping yourself and your students develop personal criteria for assessment and artistic choice.
- Enhance your/their ability to accurately interpret responses so they, and you, can make informed choices
- Your ability to ask useful questions to foster discovery in the student and yourself rather than just telling them what to do.
- Your ability to get interferences out of the way so you can get to the art making.
Limited to six people (ONLY 3 spots left).
For information, details and to register: Summer Workshop |
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VoiceCare Network Summer 2018
BodyMind and Voice Course
Friday June 22 - Friday June 29, 2018 Bozeman, Montana Thursday July 12 - Thursday July 29, 2018 Collegeville, Minnesota.
VoiceCare Network
Western University Choral Music Education Summer Session: Explorations in Gesture, Sound and Pedagogy
Saturday, August 25 - Wednesday, August 29, 2018 London, Ontario
Conducting Course
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