Earth Body “Reciprocity with the Living World” with Rulan Tangen – Includes a full day with Robin Wall Kimmerer on September 5th – G26080503

“The land here shaped my evolution of a movement language. It’s been 27 years of letting my whole body listen, letting myself be moved, moving towards becoming a place – even for a moment of transcendent embodiment that merges senses, imagination, intuition and empathy.  The dried cracks of the ground, how to walk without making sound, crouching to be in the shadow of a tree – arms following the silhouette of twisted branches, lizard crawls, dynamic horizontal shapes to reflect sunset… This is the land dance that is at the center of Dancing Earth”

Rulan

EARTH BODY: “Reciprocity with the Living World“ is a late summer retreat of gentle Eco-Somatic movement  – reconnecting the body to a sense of place through imagination and intuition, memory and multi sensory experience of indoor/outdoor ‘land dance’. This is Movement for All, Movement as Medicine, movement for earth as body and body as earth.

With an arrival day of August 30th and departure on September 6th, the 5 day arc brings embodiment forms for morning awakening, daytime vitality and nightly dreaming alongside writing, art and nature, as well as reading and embodying elements inspired by Robin Kimmerer’s “Braiding Sweetgrass”. The program culminates with a full day of programming with the esteemed author and cultural leader Robin Wall Kimmerer on September 5th.

With eco somatic movement sessions led by a dance artist with decades of international experience, Rulan is also a cancer survivor who has experienced the life-giving power of simple restorative and intuitive movement. She now extends her professional dance dedication to offering simple forms that are accessible to all, from a spirit of encouragement, empowerment and individual sovereignty to adapt and grow through movement. 

No dance background is necessary while those at advanced physical level will enjoy deepening the purpose of movement; and those who enjoy forms like yoga, stretch/strength, tai chi , breathwork, will be nourished by EARTH BODY’s uniquely poetic expressions of motion!

September can be a time of renewal and this retreat offers a gentle flow of movement arts that are both relaxing and invigorating, connecting the inner dreamscape to the outer landscape through eco somatic embodiment practices.