Soul Motion March Smorgasbord

dear feast of friends,
as the blooming of spring offers undeniable evidence that love is a renewal resource, please note the bountiful buffet appearing on the Soul Motion horizon:
Fri, March 12-Sun, March 14:
Soul Motion: Community
a weekend with Zuza and Scott Engler
Western Sky Studio, Berkeley
Avail yourself of this rare opportunity to dissolve into the Great Dance alone, together, with the divine Zuza and Scott in their only local non-residential workshop this year.
Fri, March 19, 8:15-11pm:
Santa Cruz Soul Sanctuary
i'm honored to return to Luminous Laura's conscious freestyle jam, inducting a warm-up 8:15-9:00, that just might open into an inside-out dj set until 11pm.
Sun, March 21, 7:30-11pm:
Barefoot Boogie, Berkeley
i'll be offering music and other spring-boards to presence the entire evening.

and, continuing every Thursday evening in Rockridge in the intimate Jeffrey Bihr Studio:
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The Ocean Refuses No River
Soul Motion™-inspired movement practice
Thursdays 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

come out: the sea and sky are waiting

dear excited, exalted, hesitant, dark and light and dreaming dancers,
here's an opportunity for expression.
to leave an impression of the
softest, deepest, clumsiest, truest sort.
will yours be a line in the sand,
or a line of light stretched like a silver
bow across the strings of this moment?

Come out; the earth and sea and sky
are waiting for you.
Come out.
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The Ocean Refuses No River
Soul Motion™-inspired movement
Thursdays 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

god is having déjà vu

drew dellinger says:
let’s meet
at the confluence
where you flow into me
and one breath
swirls between our lungs

10 million people are dreaming
that they’re flying
junipers and violets are blossoming
stars exploding and being born
god
is having
déjà vu
I am one
elaborate
crush
we cry petals
as the void
is singing

The Ocean Refuses No River
Soul Motion™-inspired movement
Thursdays 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

The Holotropic Soul in Motion

dear dance adventurers,
What if we lived as if this movement,
this dance partner, this day, this night,
this life, this universe were all on our side:
rooting for us, drawing us unknowingly on
the rocky path towards clarity, aliveness, wholeness?
And that what is called for is to simply
cooperate with this healing intelligence
by moving, on purpose?
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The Ocean Refuses No River
Soul Motion™-inspired movement practice
Thursdays 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
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Early Session 1.10.10 Nevada City

music that moved us, 8:15-10am (thanks for asking, Katherine):

Deep Self/Mystic Pete/Deep Self
Presence/Adam Hurst/Illusions
Limmat/Balmorhea/Rivers Arms
Variations on 'Carmen'/George Blondheim/DaVinci's Inquest: The Sessions
Primavera/Ludovico Einaudi/Divenire
Fratres for Violin and Piano (Arvo Part Remix)/Beats Antique)/The Trunk Archives
Karuna/Stellamara/Star Of The Sea
Baraka/Stellamara/The Seven Valleys
Marooned/Pink Floyd/The Division Bell
Mahadev/Ranga/Radiant Awakening
Jesus says 'Tada!'/Four Stones/La Vie Chill
Adir Adrimi (Featuring Victoria Hanna)/Balkan Beat Box/Balkan Beat Box
A lo Cubano/Orishas/A Lo Cubano
African/Slagerij vanKampen/
Berim Dance - Urban Trad/Urban Trad/Ethnomixicology
Passion/One Giant Leap Feat. Michael Franti/1 Giant Leap
Hymn To Her/The Pretenders/Greatest Hits
Keep Breathing/Ingrid Michaelson/Be OK
Song To The Siren/This Mortal Coil/Lilliput
Approaching Silence/Bob Holroyd/Hollow Man

The Great Stillness

so full of possibility, if we have the patience to listen.
thank you for this morning in Nevada City.
here's the exterior soundtrack:

Empty Landscape/Brian Eno/Eno Box I - Instrumentals
Lost In The Humming Air/Brian Eno & Harold Budd/The Pearl
Foreshadowed/Brian Eno & Harold Budd/The Pearl
Fireflies/Robin Guthrie/Songs To Help My Children Sleep
Bringing Down The Light/David Sylvian & Robert Fripp/The First Day
Beata Viscera/Jan Garbarek w/Hilliard Ensemble/Officium
Sacred Stones/Sheila Chandra/Weaving My Ancestors' Voices
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed/Herbie Mann/The Evolution of Mann
Breathing Space/Jairamji/Kindred Spirits
Rakandao/Shaman's Dream/Africa Dream
Spiritwvs8/Skeltonmix
Maharaji.Now.Here.This 04/Prem Rawat
Represent/Orishas/A Lo Cubano
Tengo Sed (The Batidos Song)/Batidos/Six Degrees 100
Dorset Perception (Total Eclipse Remix)/Shpongle/Shpongle Remixed
Bigmouth/Underworld/Underworld 1992-2002
Man With The Red Face/Funkagenda, Mark Knight/Ultra Hot Dance Hits
I Like The Way You Move/Body Rockers/todos los nº1 del dance
Once In A Lifetime (white label remix)/Talking Heads/Remade
Chambermaid Swing/Parov Stelar/Charleston Butterfly
Lovers In A Dangerous Time/Bruce Cockburn/Waiting For A Miracle
Temptation/Moby/Hotel
Love Me Like A River Does/Melody Gardot /Worrisome Heart

Thursday Class Resumes: Join Us!

When a great moment knocks on the door to your life,
its sound is often no louder than the beating of your heart
BORIS PASTERNAK

dear dance devotees,
please enter, as we begin again, in the intimate embrace of stillness,
with the ongoing opportunity to trust that which arises in each of us,
and share it with our fellow dancers, and the world.

we need us. heed the call. open the door.
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The Ocean Refuses No River
Soul Motion™-inspired movement practice
Thursdays, 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.
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More movement opportunities this week:
i return, by the grace of what some call god,
to teach in Nevada City, this Friday the 8th, 5:15-7:15pm
and to hold space with music this Sunday the 10th,
(two sessions: 8:30-10, and 10:30-noon).
South Yuba Club
555 Searls Avenue
Nevada City, CA

i remain your host: michael z.