Last Night's Soundtrack: Rumi's Wedding Night

Glasspieces (Choreographed by Jerome Robbins): Glasspieces/Philip Glass Ensemble, Michael Riesman/Glass: Dancepieces
Fireflies/Robin Guthrie/Songs To Help My Children Sleep
The Ghost Has No Home/Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie, Elizabeth Fraser/The Moon and the Melodies
Mystic/Shahram Nazeri & Hafez Nazeri/The Passion of Rumi
Santoor Taksim/Sufi Music Ensemble/Himma
The Garden of Mirrors/Stephen Micus
Bahadur Shah's Last Poem/Al Gromer Khan & Kai Taschner/Black Marble & Sweet Fire
Prayer To Shakyamuni Buddha/Jai Uttal & Ben Leinbach/Loveland: Music For Dreaming And Awakening
Chant/Chant
Med sud í eyrum/Sigur Ros/Med sud I eyrum vid spilum endalaust
One Step Too Far/Faithless featuring Dido/Forever Faithless - The Greatest Hits
Shackles (Praise You) (Maurice's Radio Mix)/Mary Mary/Everybody Dance Now! (Disc 3)
guide me god/Sinead OConnor, Natacha Atlas
The Dreamtime Returns/Shaman's Dream/Dance : Dream : Dance
Electric Sufi/Dhafer Youssef/Electric Sufi
Guide Me God [Afterlife Mix]/Sinead OConnor/Rasa Mello 2
The Prayer Cycle - 1.Mercy-A Choral Symphony in 9 Movements/Movement/Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan;Alanis Morissette/The Prayer Cycle
Fljótavík/Sigur Rós/Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
O Mary Don't You Weep/Bruce Springsteen With The Sessions Band/Live In Dublin [Disc 1]
In The Sun 6:33/Donna De Lory/Heart Of Innocence
Across the Universe/Rufus Wainwright/I Am Sam (Music from and inspired by the Motion Picture)

Rumi's Wedding Night, Thursday in Rockridge

Rumi says,
I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,
first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.

What a relief to be empty!

At sunset on December 17, 1273, mystic poet Jelaluddin Rumi left the body. This day remains a celebration of his union with the Divine (his urs, or wedding night). Please join me this Thursday (2009's final gathering) as we aspire to enter the circle of the sacred, and, against all odds, dissolve the barriers to love.

The Ocean Refuses No River
Soul Motion™-inspired movement practice
(nearly every) Thursday, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Jeffrey Bihr Studio
5390 Miles Avenue
Oakland 94618

dance the dance that you are.
move with music, move in silence. alone, together.
listen, inside and out. exalt. dance.

i remain your host: michael z.

Year's End Teaching Sked

dear dance dreamers,
here is my teaching schedule for the rest of 2009.
thank you for the opportunities for presence you continue to offer and accept; i look forward to being with you.
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Thursday 26 November and 3 December: No class.

Sunday 29 November: Two opportunities to Move with Gratitude!
SEBASTOPOL, 10:15-noon: Body Prayer, Wischemann Hall, 460 Morris Street (next to the Community Center). I sub, humbly, for Zuza Engler.
BERKELEY, 7:30-11pm: Barefoot Boogie. I'll be holding space with music and intention on the theme of gratitude. Open floor, freestyle jam. 2525 8th St @ Dwight.

Thursday 10 and 17 December:
The Ocean Refuses No River
Soul Motion™-inspired movement practice
Thursdays, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Jeffrey Bihr Studio
5390 Miles Avenue
Oakland 94618

Thursday 24 and 31 December: no class. Happy everything!

Tuesday 29 December, BERKELEY, 6-7:30pm: Soul Motion: The Practice. Again, i'm honored to sub for Zuza in this rich soup of dedicated movers. Studio 12, 2525 8th Street between Parker & Dwight.

Thursday>Friday, 31 Dec>1 Jan, GRASS VALLEY: New Year's Eve Dance Celebration. I'll be deejaying for this vibrant and joyous community in the Sierra foothills. Stay tuned for details.

i remain your host, michael z.
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The Ocean Refuses No River: Again, For the First Time

"I am he/As you are she/As you are me/And we are all together" -- John Lennon.

"We're in the transportation business." -- Mickey Hart

This week, sing the body eclectic in intimate, orchestral transport of the soul. And dance.
Jeffrey Bihr Studio
5390 Miles Avenue
Oakland, CA 95618
most excellent Rockridge District

Current Lucid Design Work

dear friends and colleagues,
i've been continuing my relationship with IONS (Institute of Noetic Sciences), producing work that, I trust, serves the Institute's mission to explore, through the lens of the scientific method, the edges (and center) of what we call consciousness. enjoy!

the C E N T E R is E V E R Y W H E R E

dear wind warriors,
this thursday, we continue our exploration, in conscious movement,
of our place in space: the center of our worlds, seen and unseen,
ancestral and astral, in body and spirit and soul.
you and i: utterly unique, just like everyone else.
do drop in.



The Ocean Refuses No River
Soul Motion™-inspired movement practice
(nearly every) Thursday, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Jeffrey Bihr Studio
5390 Miles Avenue
Oakland 94618

dance the dance you are.
move with music, move in silence. alone, together.
listen, inside and out. exalt. dance.

i remain your host: michael z.

Thursdays in Rockridge: The Ocean Refuses No RIver

I'd like you all to know that weekly Soul Motion™-inspired classes have begun again, now at the intimate Jeffrey Bihr Studio in Oakland's groovy Rockridge district. We aspire to step afresh into each new day/dance/dream as it appears through and to us; recent weeks' inaugural sessions at JB have been a delight. Perhaps because I've been teaching a lot over the past while (subbing for Zuza on Tuesdays in Berkeley and ministering to Michael Stone's 5R community in Nevada City), or because the new space is smaller than the Temple in Pt. Richmond, I feel more grounded, open and spacious than I sometimes have in the past. Please join me and you and her and us and them and Just This each Thursday from 6:30-8:00 pm.

No Class This Week; See You September 3!

The Ocean Refuses No River, the Thursday night class I offer in Soul Motion-inspired movement practice, pauses this week. I'll be in the second module of Libido with Andrea Juhan later this week, is why (see link in this post's title). We return, renewed, on the first Thursday in September and beyond. Please join us.

I just returned from a rich weekend, teaching and holding space for Michael Stone's Nevada City 5R tribe. Life, death, love, sex, angel wash; cheeseburger salad!

Guess which happened on the dance floor, which off, which a fantasy; which?
love, michael z.

The Ocean Refuses No River: A Soul Motion™ Experience

I'd like you all to know that weekly Soul Motion™-inspired classes begin again, again this Thursday, August 13, 2009, at the intimate Jeffrey Bihr Studio in Oakland's groovy Rockridge district. We aspire to step afresh into each new day/dance/dream as it appears through and to us; last week's truly inaugural session at JB was a delight. Perhaps because I've been teaching a lot over the past few weeks (subbing for Zuza on Tuesdays in Berkeley and for Michael Stone's 5R community in Nevada City), or because the new space is smaller than the Temple in Pt. Richmond, I felt more grounded, open and spacious than I sometimes have in the past. Please join me and you and her and us and them and Just This each Thursday from 6:30-8:00 pm, for The Ocean Refuses No River.

The Ocean Refuses No River: A Soul Motion™ Experience, Thursdays in Pt. Richmond

dear footpath walkers,

expanding.
contracting.
opening.
closing.

what if we danced with it all,
on purpose, in community,
and gave ourselves to all that arose?
forgave ourselves when we faltered,
supported each other in our foibles,
took the risk that love demands?
come again, for the first time, to:
The Ocean Refuses No River
a Soul Motion™ Experience exploring our capacity for presence and passion through gentle, precise attention (and surrender) to all that moves us
this, and most every, Thursday 6 - 7:30 pm at
the divine Dakini Temple
235 Washington Ave, Point Richmond 94801
$10

dance the dance you were born to do
trust and share your gifts with like-minded souls
inspire and be inspired by everything around you
move with music, move in silence. listen inside and out. exalt. dance.
excellent access from the East Bay and Marin:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=235+Washington+Avenue,+94801

could a voice entice? call 510-847-7736

i remain your host: Michael Zipkin

The Ocean Refuses No River: A Soul Motion™ Experience, Thursdays in Pt. Richmond

It's been several months since I returned, humbled and cracked wide open, from our last formal (this time residential) module in the Soul Motion teacher training. Without trying to sound melodramatic, that nine-day time in Port Townsend, WA, truly shattered the mirror of self I thought I'd so clearly softened in my personal investigations sustained over the years. God, am I still comparing myself unfavorably to everyone and everything I encounter? Do I continue to seek the approval of my peers/teachers/lovers/waitresses and dry cleaning attendants, holding my breath in certain anticipation of my greatest defeat?

I am all of this, and more. I continue weekly classes, Thursdays from 6 - 7:30pm, at the glorious Dakini Temple in Point Richmond, CA, and invite all to join me in this great exploration of what it means to be human. Cost is $10. Contact me for more arrows pointing towards the moon: lucid_mz@hotmail.com. 510-847-7736.