New Year's Day Soul Motion!

Let's affirm our aliveness on the first day of 2014! Bring your body and soul's voice, and we'll make beautiful movement together.
Potluck to follow!
Soul Motion™ Simplicity
A New Year's Day Dance 
with Michael Z

January 1, 2014
Noon - 3:00pm
Studio 12
2525 8th Street
Berkeley
$20 -$10, as you wish.

Soul Motion + Lectio Divina

Saturday, October 26
3-6pm, Western Sky Studio
2525 Eighth Street
Berkeley
Embodied spiritual practice,
featuring Lectio Divina, a four-stage embodiment practice with recitation and music.

Perfect $35.00 USD Perfect $40.00 USD Perfect $45.00 USD Perfect $50.00 USD

Santa Cruz Soul Motion™: Oct. 5

Shall we meet on an autumn afternoon, and practice -- in motion and stillness -- the art of the miraculous? Miracles are surprising, improbable, extraordinary, yes? And...when we pay attention to what's moving us from the inside, the most ordinary impulses of breath, sensation and imagination can lead to a dance of truth and satisfying beauty. No need to put your palms together or get down on your knees (unless, of course, that works for you!). Music and poetic encouragements will support our dances of discovery, dialog and devotion, held by Vinn Arjuna Marti's conscious movement practice. Thank you!
Soul Motion: Everyday Miracles
1-5 pm, Saturday, October 5, 2013
SUBUD Center (a lovely space in a retreat-like setting, just above Santa Cruz)
3800 Old San Jose Road, Soquel, CA
$45 ($35 if you register by Sept 13)

Opportunities

Register by Sept. 13 $35.00 USD Register after Sept 13 $45.00 USD

Vital Signs: A Soul Motion Workshop

Pulse, temperature, breath, blood:
How do you know you're alive?
What makes you come alive?
In the dog days (or fog days) of summer, my next Soul Motion offering: 

Vital Signs: A Soul Motion Adventure
Saturday, August 24, 2013, 1-5pm
Berkeley Rose Labyrinth
2138 Cedar Street @ Walnut, Berkeley, CA
$45  

Sense, sensation, and surprise may arise when we pay attention to what's in and around us. Dance and play on the labyrinth-tattooed floor, in and as the space the connects us. 

Men, Moving: A Soul Motion™ Odyssey for Men

I love dancing with women.
I love dancing with men.
I have noticed that it can be a fundamentally different experience, sourced from different internal, archetypal places.
I believe I ask for and offer different qualities, and can have different outcomes in mind.
You?
I wonder what would happen if we gather as guys -- all ages, stages, persuasions -- and use our Soul Motion practice to open to ourselves and each other: moving in the space between and around us, pausing to listen with our inner ears and hearts, inspiring each other along the way?
What would be different? What the same? Who might we be in such a space?
On Saturday, May 11, 11am-2pm in Berkeley's Western Sky Studio, we'll dance as men, with men. Strong, upright, clear. Vulnerable, wobbly, off-balance. Broad, brilliant, fearsome and flawed.
Are you willing? Will you?
Say "Going" on FB.
Register below (if you haven't already, above).

Soulful Spring

The light is a bit harsh today, and it's kind of hard to tell if the few leaves on the neighbor's plum trees are last season's leftovers, or the noble foreshadowing of longer and warmer days to come. Mushy as they are, I'm still eating the few apples that even the squirrels have given up on, and I make little chuk-chuk-chuk sounds with my mouth as I do. I move from studio to house to mailbox and back again, with my feet, my heart, my spine; my thoughts and memories and plans and, from time to time, the subtlest sensations of breath and heartbeat are discernible, as well. I am alone, with, well, so much.

Please join me for Spring Odyssey, Saturday, March  30, from 11am - 2pm: a journey through the relational landscapes of Soul Motion™. Like to move solo, with one or more others, with the Great Heart of the World? Come to Western Sky Studio (in the back of the lobby that feeds into Dance Journey's two rooms in west Berkeley) and dance with like-minded souls in motion! $20-25 suggested. Facebooking here.