A Movement Poetics Workshop for Women with with Lizzie Haylock
A skin-quivering, whisker-twitching, paw-licking approach to mindfulness: this is a workshop for melting our mind back into the body of the earth and remembering that we are a piece of walking earth, a portable place, a part of everything.
Movement Poetics is a way of meeting the moment with the whole of us present. Leisurely unfurling our senses is a deeply pleasurable antidote to our hi-tech, time-stressed lives. A ticking clock, a gurgling stream become irresistible rhythms impossible not to dance to.
This workshop, held in the beautiful setting of Te Moata in the Coromandel Ranges offers us the rare chance to follow nature as it unfolds within our own body and within the larger body of the surrounding Earth. Movement Poetics returns us to our moon nature, our cherry blossom nature, our falling leaf nature.
During the weekend we will have silent times, dancing with music times, and wild nature times.
No experience necessary. If you are breathing, you are dancing!
“There is a quality of inwardness to mind, not because it is situated inside our body or our brain, but because we are situated bodily inside it – along with the cicada and the beetle and the whale, we all partake of the wild intelligence of this world.”
David Abram
Lizzie tumbled into the moment by accident at an early age, and looking around, realized it was the only place to be. She has been teaching mindful movement poetics for 30 years. Trained in central European expressive dance, she has a BA in languages and a certificate in Process Psychology. Lizzie has a process-oriented (following nature) approach to dance. She brings her passion for the natural world into her work and uses dance as an eco-awareness/mindfulness practice, to remind us that we are a piece of Earth, a portable place that existence dances through. She has a private practice in Auckland and teaches throughout NZ.
COST: $320 earlybird – after Oct 13 $360
To register contact Lizzie by email lizziehaylock@xtra.co.nz, via website www.lizziehaylock.com or phone 0274837343.