A New Soul Motion Committed Series

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We'll meet for 6 weeks with the same committed group of dance explorers, and travel the spiral path into and out of ourselves. We'll notice the shapes we make as we move alone and together, how they change (or don't), and witness/be inspired by our fellow travelers. As always, I'll offer bracing music, some poetic prompts and perspectives, as well as body- and heart-based inquiries to stir our creative pot. Opportunities to write or draw or (shh, don't tell anyone) use words may arise in the moment. Please come willing to keep your camera on, participate as fully as you can, and we'll have a time of it!

The Shape of You
Six Monday Mornings, 09.00-10.45 Pacific Time
February 7, 14, 21, 28 March 7, 14

Zoom link sent upon registration via paypal.me/mikeyZed,
$125 tuition / $155 (if you can sponsor someone in need) / $90 (if you're in need of a little help)

2022. Love, in the Time of Possibility

From Here to There and Back Again

Going forward into the current, as the current, I continue to show up, weekly wherever and whenever I am and can, breathing, and loving the people. That would be you. And me.
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Every THURSDAY, 8:30 - 9:30am PST: Morning Practice. Start as you are, discover as you sit/move/sit. Poems. here's the link.
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SATURDAYS are back, 9:30 - 10:45am PST: Soul Motion | Body Language.Returning to burn the candles of presence to holy temple ash, again and again. Even as we meet and eat the tails of us.  register here.
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The Shape of You
A Soul Motion Committed Series
Six Monday Mornings, 09.00-10.45 Pacific Time
February 7, 14, 21, 28 March 7, 14

Zoom link sent upon registration via paypal.me/mikeyZed,
$125 tuition / $155 (if you can sponsor someone in need) / $90 (if you're in need of a little help)

To contribute to the artists (including me): paypal.me/mikeyZed
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Moving with the Times

Putting Souls in Motion

Resisting? You are welcome. Persisting? You are welcome. In the Soul Motion™ field, I aspire to hold space for all of you(s).

Even as everything dissolves—these classes become more and more intimate as other choices beckon—I will continue to show up, lighting a candle, breathing, and loving the people. That would be you. And me.

Every Thursday, 8:30 - 9:30am PDT: Mindful Movement. Start as you are, discover as you sit/move/sit. Poems. here's the link.

1st and 2nd Saturdays: Soul Motion Journeys. Music, mayhem, surprises. This month Oct 3, 10-11.30am, here's the link. And on Oct 10, 9am-noon: a half-day journey into Space. here's the link.

Every Sunday, 10:00 - 11:15am PDT: Soul Motion | Body Language. More of an open-score experiment, with words and music—arrows shot in all directions. here's the link.
 
To contribute to the artists (including me): paypal.me/mikeyZed

Soul Motion® Unveiled: 4/25 with MZ and Camilla

Just beneath the surface, informed by the fear of isolation or the resilience of intention, a chance, dear dancer artists, to revel in the revealing. Camilla and Michael Z are thrilled to collaborate once again in this daylong workshop emerging from the life work of Vincent Arjuna Martínez-Greico. Camilla says, "What is ready to be lit will unfold as we brave through the wilderness, alone and together. We can surrender to seeing and being seen by self and other in our vulnerability, give voice to our truths as we show up for ourselves, another, the community and spirit."Michael Z says, "When we soften to what is, we allow what is true to emerge in gesture and stillness. And inspire each other to do the same." We look forward to being with you. In body, spirit, heart, in person or through the ethers.
Soul Motion® Unveiled
Saturday, April 25, 2020
11am - 6pm, Western Sky
2525 Eighth Street
Berkeley California

i n v e s t m e n t

early responders (by 4/03) $70.00 USD on the fencers (after 4/03) $90.00 USD licensed dance leaders $70.00 USD

Soul Motion® Foundations! Berkeley Feb. 2020

Soul Motion is a practice where we cultivate our capacity to listen to that profound body wisdom and to the quiet whisperings of our souls. Foundations is open to everyone interested in the fundamentals of the work. It is a pre-requisite for the Soul Motion Teacher Training Program and is based on the lifework of Vinn Arjuna Martí.

This five-day immersion is for those just beginning their Soul Motion path as well as for seasoned movers looking to refresh. Emphasis is on Soul Motion’s four movement landscapes — dancing alone, dancing with another, dancing with everyone, dancing in the everyday — with special focus on the platforms of pause presence, orbit orientation and echo inspiration.

February 20-24, 2020
Western Sky Studio
2525 8th Street
Berkeley California

i n v e s t m e n t

early birdies (by 1/26) $420.00 USD sleepy birdies (after 1/26) $450.00 USD licensed leaders refresh $225.00 USD

Widening Circles | Soul Motion in Santa Cruz 12/07/19

Ever Widening Circles: A Taste of Soul Motion® with Michael Z
Saturday, December 7, 2019, 2-5pm. The 418 Project, Santa Cruz.

Rainer Maria Rilke says, "I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world..."
With potent prompts and open invitations-- supported by an inspiring mix of music -- we'll travel together in the rich atmosphere of Vinn Arjuna Marti's beloved Soul Motion movement practice. All are welcome.

r e g i s t e r  h e r e

early circle (if you need) $25.00 USD wider circle (can you?) $30.00 USD infinite circle (will you?) $35.00 USD

Berkeley Workshop! April 27, 2-6pm

We'll play in the relational fields of Arjuna Marti's beloved Soul Motion practice, improvising with simple scores, alone and together. The art of being human, in motion, stillness, words and gestures. All are welcome. Saturday, April 27, 2-6pm, Western Sky Studio, 2525 8th Street, Berkeley. $60 via button, below. $50, directly through PayPal, using the Friends & Family tab, to lucid.ocean@gmail.com. Thank you.

Jo Cobbett in Berkeley, May 24-25

Returning with her deep and committed brilliance to move the people with words, music and presence, Jo's calling this workshop "Connection Correlation." She says, "it's a playful and reverent collaboration...between the opened mind and heart in motion." Sounds good, yes? It's in Berkeley's noble Finnish Hall, Friday, May 24, 7-9:30pm, and Saturday, May 25, 11a-5p. Choose one or both sessions below. So thrilled to bring her back! Which Days?

Fri only (7-9:30pm) $45.00 USD Sat only (11a-5p) $105.00 USD Fri and Sat both $135.00 USD

Soul Motion™ Spring Odyssey (+ Potluck!)

Breathing in, I take in the nourishment of the fertile earth.
Breathing out, I allow the potency of spring to unfurl me.
Breathing in, I receive all that is around me.
Breathing out, I release, renew and enrich.

Music, stillness, poetry, presence, food! A Soul Motion Odyssey through the relational landscapes of Vinn Arjuna Marti's beloved movement practice -- alone, with one other, all others, all and everything. Two hours of dance, followed by a potluck feast. Let's feed each other on and off the dance floor.
$20 at the door. Sunday, April 6, 2014, 5-8pm
Studio 12 in Berkeley. lucid.ocean@gmail.com.

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.

Grace: Soul Motion in Nevada City Nov. 17

Not so long ago, a friend defined grace as "life meeting life." Just so!
Discover resources, tell your secrets, and find freedom in the dance of relationship with self, others, all. Dev Bry and I humbly and deeply and passionately welcome you to this day of Soul Motion, Vinn Marti's conscious movement practice, in Nevada City. Saturday, November 17, 2012, South Yuba Club. 1-5 pm, $30 - 55 sliding scale. Talk to Dev, if you so desire, @ 415-671-9716. PayPal process: Send Money to: lucid.ocean@gmail.com; Enter the Amount you're paying; Choose "Personal" (as opposed to "Purchase") in the box below, and check This money is being sent as a "Gift" in the box, as well. Merci!
(You know, of course, that this deceptively deep, roadmap-to-presence practice was designed by Vinn Marti, do you not?)

Dance The Day Before New Year's!

2011. A year of hope, fear, paralysis and activism. Fight? Flight? Freeze? Fly! In the good company of friends old and new, let's celebrate that which holds fast and clear and alive amidst the furious blur of change: the eye of the heart, shared and seen and offered freely, against all odds. We'll dance, supported by music known and new, gentle and grand, in accord with this day, unlike any other day. Gather and warm up, 11-noon; opening circle @ noon, traveling together until 2pm. Western Sky Studio, 2525 8th Street, Berkeley 94710. Come for part or all, but do come! We need us. $10-$15 suggested donation. Cash a problem? Trade arrangements available: lucid.ocean@gmail.com. Love.

Hope and Fear, Pretending

In these miraculous times, the air (spirit) and the earth (body) are ripe with uncertainty, change, and possibility. The world wobbles: imploding, exploding, barely settling to note its 7 billionth citizen. Hope and fear, like shy and hard-headed partners, dance on opposite sides of the room, each pretending to ignore the other.

Join the impeccable possibility of moving with all there is, inside and out, in an atmosphere of support and inclusion. I humbly aspire to hold Soul Motion space with openness and humanity. You show up with who you are (again, or for the first time), and we see/feel/move with what happens. This is a moment among moments. We can do this!
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This and every Thursday in Berkeley, 6-8pm
The Ocean Refuses No River
Soul Motion Conscious Dance Practice
Eighth Street Studio
2525 8th Street
bet Dwight and Parker

The Space Between: Soul Motion in the Foothills, 11/5/11

Held once again in the embrace of Moonbear’s 30' yurt on gorgeous land in the Sierra foothills, this time in the potent time between fall and winter, we'll dance and dream in the subtle spaces between in- and outbreath, sound and silence, impulse and action. Bask in supple guidance, spacious music. All are welcome!
Noon – 6pm
Saturday, November 5
Moonbear Sanctuary
Nevada City, California
$75 (if registered by October 21)
$95 thereafter (space permitting)
Inquiries: 510-847-7736; lucid.ocean@gmail.com
Registration: by PayPal (below), or by sending a check to Michael Zipkin, 447 Beloit Avenue, Kensington, CA 94708.

Register Here

Early reg (by 10/21) $75.00Space permitting $95.00

Refuge: A Soul Motion Worskhop in the Foothills 9/10/11

Held in the embrace of Moonbear’s 30' yurt on gorgeous land in the Sierra foothills, we’ll inspire and be inspired by each other to move with confidence and courage. Traveling the spiral pathways to our most intimate dance, we’ll expand to include our fellow travelers in dialogue, discourse and divine prayer. We’ll also have the opportunity to walk the labyrinth adjacent to our dance space. Please bring water, lunch and whatever else you need to support you in this day of refuge and rejuvenation. Bask in supple guidance and spacious music. And we will dance. Oh, yes, we will dance.
Noon – 6pm
Saturday, September 10
Moonbear Sanctuary
Nevada City, California
$75 (if registered by August 19)
$95 thereafter (space permitting)
Inquiries: lucid.ocean@gmail.com
Registration: http://tinyurl.com/soulmotion-moonbear

price options

Early reg (by 8/19) $75.00 Space permitting $95.00