Friday September 5, 2008 - Open to the Public
Opening Reception and an Evening Performance
Dr. Martha Eddy as Master of Ceremonies
Performances by~
Ione Beauchamp
Teri Carter
Polly Hudson
Violaine Morinville
Catherine Schaeffer
Kista Tucker
7pm-9:30pm, $20 - limited seating, advanced purchase encouraged
Saturday,
September 6, 2008
ISMETA 20th
Anniversary Celebration
Schedule of Workshops and Events
9am-6 :45pm
For ISMETA Members Only
All Events Take place at :
Moving Body Resources
8:45am
– 9:30am :
Arrival
and breakfast
9:30am
– 10:30am :
Welcome
Mary
Abrams, ISMETA President
Update on ISMETA Legislation
Workshops and Presenters
10:45am
- 12:15pm :
Catherine Schaeffer ~ Soma,
Self, and Dance That Heals
This
workshop will deepen your insights into soma, self, and intuitive dance. There is a focus on discovering the healing
power of mindful movement and translating creativity
into hands-on therapeutic bodywork. The class will conclude with authentic
movement improvisation to discover the joy of dance that heals.
Sensing our soma from the inside out can enhance wellness levels and
allow for free and healing intrinsic movement.
Drawing on the work of Ideokinesis, Thomas Hanna, and Shin Somatics,
the session will present a journey that begins with the breath, travels through
guided imagery and light touch patterns, and culminates in intuitive movement
experiences.
Participants
should wear loose, warm comfortable clothes, be prepared for physical contact,
and bring a towel.
Catherine Schaeffer, MFA, M.Ed.,
LMT, RSMT,
RSME is currently an Associate Professor in the BFA Dance program at
In
addition to being an educator and choreographer, Catherine has had a private
wellness and body work practice since 1983.
She recently earned her RSMT and RSME (ISMETA) after completing her
studies with Eastwest Shin Somatics, and
brings this praxis to her work. Miss Schaeffer continues to create visual
art and produce site specific choreography professionally.
Elizabeth Osgood-Campbell ~
A Taste of Tamalpa: Let your Legs
and Feet Speak!
In this
sample class, an interplay of movement, drawing and
writing will invite a somatic experience of your legs and feet to emerge. Come
"taste" this intermodal work, originated by dance pioneer Anna
Halprin and developed/taught by expressive arts educator Daria Halprin for over
25 years at Tamalpa Institute (www.tamalpa.org).
Elisabeth Osgood-Campbell, MA, RSME, cherishes the Body and all of its
evolutionary wisdom. A movement artist/educator, former instructor and
administrator at Tamalpa Institute, and mother of two, she guides individuals
and groups into the creative consciousness that dwells in their physical
structures. Elisabeth now lives and teaches in New Paltz, NY.
12:30pm
- 1:30pm :
Jacques van Eijden ~ Introduction
to Soma Mapping
The workshop is an introduction to Soma-mapping, a method based on
structural and functional aspects of Body Intelligence.
In Soma-mapping, we
assess the problems, questions and challenges of the client’s situation. We
look at how and where physical, emotional and mental aspects of the issues at
hand are embodied. Using our unique ‘Balance and Integration’ method, we coach
the client towards embracing his or her experiences to come to meaningful action.
Balance and
Integration are described in terms of homeo-dynamics, tensegrity, developmental
actions and patterns, perceptual-motor functioning and organisation in time and
space.
In this
participants will explore coaching with the use of body scans and body maps.
Get acquainted with
this innovative and creative approach developed by Jacques van Eijden.
To receive more information on the content beforehand,
including the Five Pillar philosophy of Somatic Movement Coaching contact the
office at info@somaticmovementstudies.org
Jacques L.M. van Eijden, RSMT
Jacques van Eijden (1957) has degrees in Psychology, The Arts, Educationand Therapy and is a
Somatic Movement Therapist, as well as a Psychomotor Therapist, Dance Therapist
and Pedagogue. He has been directing Somatic Movement Training Programmes since 1994, introducing a Body Intelligence view
to the arts, education, therapy and consultancy.
Polly Hudson ~ Discussion Lab:
Somatic practice and the creative process,
unfolding of new dialogues.
Polly will share some of her processes as a dance
maker and artist, particularly reflecting on what it means to be ‘in process’;
and will facilitate discussion around some of the following themes:
How do somatic practices support the process,
development, making and performing of dance performance and film material?
What are the new dialogues that are emerging between
somatic practitioners and artists?
What is the value and role of the witness in a creative
process?
Is a creative process richer because of the support
offered by ‘other’: the witness and non performing
companion in this unfolding of creative work?
Polly Hudson is a dancer, artist, teacher and curator. She makes performance and
moving image works (often combining the two), that are improvised at their
core.
She trained in dance and
choreography at
Polly’s work is underpinned
by a long standing practice of Skinner Releasing Technique, as well as an
ongoing investigation of integrative bodywork as a resource for the creative
process. She has been making a series of solo works examining notions of process into
performance, the translation of somatic practises into artistic creation, and
the body as landscape.
1:30pm
– 2:45pm :
Lunch
break
2:45pm
– 4:15pm :
Scott Lyons ~ Embodying the
Sexual Matrix
What role do sex, gender, and sexuality play into our
sense of wholeness?
In Exploring the Embryological, Anatomical, and
Physiological processes to discover the Mind of the Sexual Matrix; the
foundation is laid to experience the dynamics of choice, potentiality,
empowerment and fundamental biological mechanism of who we are.
Scott Lyons
BMCP, RSMT, SME, CPT, IDME has been
dedicated to integrating somatic and holistic practices into the creative and
healing arts.
Scott works privately as movement therapist,
integrating, Cranial-Sacral Therapy, Visceral unwinding, yoga, Body-Mind
Centering®, creative movement, applied kinesiology, and neuro-developmental
therapies in his work with infants, children, and adults. In addition, Scott is also a somatic-gender
specialist, integrating various embodiment and somatic practices into gender
and reproductive health issues.
Bobbie Ellis ~ An Introduction to Continuum Movement
From the Cultural to the Cosmic we will explore anatomy
from a fluid
perspective. Using simple sequencing in sound, breath and movement we enliven
the fluid system and allow the awakening of bio-intelligence to choreograph our
unfolding... At the silent level we learn to track sensation, broadening our
awareness and curiosity of whats possible in
movement, in creativity and in health! Finding pleasure in exploring and
expanding what it means to be a body, to be a human being ...
Bobbie
Ellis, RSME, RSMT, director of Soma
Center, has over 22 years experience and training in the fields of Bodywork,
Yoga, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, Gestalt Psychotherapy, Kripalu
DansKinetics, Movement Therapy, Motional Process and
is an authorized Continuum Movement Teacher.
4:30pm
– 5:30pm :
Dr. Martha Eddy ~ We feel/hear/see to communicate:
A lab about working with all types of children
At CKE
educators view children through sensitized somatic “eyes,” ears & skin to
identify perceptual-motor strengths and imbalances. Eddy invites you to share your pediatric
somatic inroads too. Time-permitting Eddy is prepared to demonstrate CKE
methods - her SMTT principles and practices with kids (a three decade blend of
Laban Movement Analysis and Body-Mind Centering).
Dr.
Martha Eddy, CMA, RSMT: author, lecturer, faculty (LIMS, SBMC), director (Eddy’s Integrative
Somatic Movement Therapy Training SMTT/Moving On
Center) and Center for Kinesthetic Education (www.WellnessCKE.net), & ISMETA board
member (1990-05). She maintains a private practice, provides professional
development in hospitals/schools, and runs classes incorporating dance,
conflict resolution, perceptual-motor development, fitness and special needs.
Special
Instruction: Ideally those participants
who know that they would like to share specific activities will be in contact
with Martha Eddy prior to the conference so she can manage the time of the lab.
David Webber ~ Seeing Clearly:
A Feldenkrais® Method Exploration of Vision
Vision is the primary sense through which we
experience the world. Despite its importance, the quality and clarity of our
vision can weaken and degrade without our knowing how or why. Using gentle
movements you
will learn to eliminate habits, which interfere with easy, effortless vision
and learn to see more clearly.
David
Webber, GCFP lost his eyesight suddenly in 1996, at the age
of 43, due to severe inflammation within the eyes (uveitis), and was declared
legally blind. He regained much of his vision by working with the practical principles of the
Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education. He has been teaching Seeing Clearly© workshops in North America and
Jader Tolja ~ How somatic changes affects architecture and design
This work
falls within the area where psychology, anatomy and architecture meet and
overlap and comes from an interdisciplinary research conducted at the Dpts of
Architecture (Universities of Milan (IT), Bratislava (SK), and UC at Berkeley,
and Design Schools (Domus Academy, Milan (IT)
Kolding D. S.(DK).
The
objective of the demonstration is to allow the participants to understand how
specific somatic changes affect the spatial perception and experience, and vice
versa.
"Design from the classical era and the renaissance is human
because
the human body was at the centre of
architecture from that period and their approach was
to transcribe the most favourable physical
condition into stone"
Geoffrey Scott
Jader
Tolja MD focuses his research on the understanding of how physical, mental and
spatial changes are mutually related and the role played by connective tissue
in interfacing these aspects.
He has directed different Master programs on the
experiential anatomy of the connective tissue at the Centro Studio
Pensarecolcorpo (
His most known book is 'Bodythinking'.
5:30pm
– 6:45pm :
Breakout
group discussions and full group conversation highlighting our unity and
diversity
6:45pm
– 8:30pm :
Dinner
break
8:30pm-11pm : Dance Party !!!