POP IN / POP OUT with Jane Blount: Authentic Movement open s p a c e l o n g circle

Sunday, November 9, 9:30am to 12pm at 1100 Kettner Blvd. 

What might happen when we weave the somatic wisdom practices of Contemplative Dance and Authentic Movement? In the 70s, Barbara Dilley (Naropa Institute) created the Contemplative Dance Practice, merging Buddhist teachings of presence and meditation with movement, a form which she described as a “dancer’s meditation hall and a meditator’s dance hall”. This multipart form begins with an opening circle and sitting meditation, then transforms from stillness to a Personal Awareness Practice with self-oriented attention and movement, and then evolves into a community oriented Open Space where relationality between self and other is foreground.