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Peaceful Coexistence of the Sacred and the Profane

DONNA MEJIA * 3 hr, INT/ADV

Saturday Aug 3, 9:30a-12:30p

LOCATION: The Pavilion

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What is the role of the body in the development of an inner life or spirituality? Donna Mejia facilitates this workshop not as a teacher, but as a fellow explorer in what embodied consciousness means to each of us.

Dancers have a vital contribution to make to our understanding of embodiment, evolution, and utilizing more of ourselves in all that we do. My larger agenda as a dance professor is not to create cookie cutter clones for successful stage careers. Rather, I aim to create more ambassadors in the world whom are integrated humans: emotionally brave and intellectually clear folks whom understand the body is not the obstruction to spiritual and intellectual growth Western history and religion would have us believe.

This dance workshop involves movement, discussion and reflection/contemplation time. Donna will summarize a collection of cultural paradigms about the role of physicality in our emotional, mental and spiritual evolution, and provide prompts for you to examine your own assumptions, indoctrinations and biases around working with YOUR body. This workshop provides the potential to excavate down to new levels of honesty with ourselves, fortify our spiritual bravery for the resistance we may experience, and embrace opportunities for maturation.

Participants of all belief systems, experience levels, sexual and gender expression are warmly welcomed. An open mind, a discerning and diplomatic tongue, and a generous sense of humor will make it a positive experience for all as a community.

  • Difficulty: This is a 3-hour class geared towards intermediate/advanced level dancers, though all levels who want a challenge are welcome.
  • This class is capped at 25 students, to give students a chance to really sink into learning from our Master instructors.
  • Please bring: A yoga mat, your capture materials of choice (a journal or computer for harvesting your insights and thoughts), and your favorite reusable water container. L&C DOES NOT ALLOW DISPOSABLE WATER BOTTLES ONSITE. Please dress in layers that can be added or shed as our activity level changes your bodily temperature.
  • Optional: Dance shoes, exercise towel, and an optional folded blanket (may be helpful as additional cushioning for some activities.)

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