<\/b>1:30-4:30 Workshop 1<\/span><\/p>\n
Sunday, January 8: <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n “The greatest gift we can give our world is our full presence, and our choice, moment by moment, to stay present.\u201d <\/span><\/i>\u2014Joanna Macy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n When we\u2019re fully present, even for a moment, we find the stillness and peace we long for are always already right here, waiting for us. Such moments can be a refuge, a safe haven from the anxiety of accelerating change and collective trauma we are all living through right now. They can also be, as Joanna Macy says, our greatest gift to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n But being present isn\u2019t easy. In this two-day workshop, we\u2019ll explore three related practices\u2014Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons, meditation, and mindful poetry conversations\u2014that strengthen our capacity to stay present even in the midst of challenging conditions. Unwinding habitual ways of moving, resting in the stillness of mediation, and engaging with poems not as puzzles to be figured out but as rich experiences to be enjoyed, all help orient us toward the present moment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You may choose to do one or both sessions. The basic format and practices will be the same on both days, though the specific content will be different. Both days will feature:<\/span><\/p>\n For our poetry discussions, we\u2019ll draw on two of John\u2019s books: <\/span>The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>The Dharma of Poetry: How Poems Can Deepen Your Spiritual Practice and Open You to Joy.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n The distant mountains \u00a0<\/span>We hope you\u2019ll join us! [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Pricing:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”20px||||false|false” custom_padding=”20px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n I am passionate about movement. From an active childhood in rural Maine, to dance, swimming, yoga, walking in the city, and hiking in the woods, I have always been drawn to movement as a means of creative expression, as well as a path to physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and well-being.<\/p>\n I was born with my left leg turned in. When the prescribed braces failed, I was enrolled in ballet lessons at the age of five. I loved dance, and went on to study and perform regularly until age 17, when I was practicing daily.<\/p>\n After college and a graduate degree in French, I explored banking, restaurant work, academia, and high tech. I kept returning to movement and teaching, training as a yoga instructor in 2000, then\u2013with my friend Jennifer (Preisler) Hayes\u2013co-founding a yoga and healing arts center, Yoga Pearl, in Portland, Oregon in 2002.<\/p>\n After more than ten years of athletic yoga practice and teaching, my left hip began to complain about the range of motion I was demanding of it. I believed that hip replacement surgery was in my near future; that it would be the inevitable outcome given my genetic inheritance and the decades of activity I had enjoyed. At about that time, serendipitously, I dropped in on a Feldenkrais class while on retreat at Rancho la Puerta in Mexico. Even though I didn\u2019t particularly enjoy the class (I kept thinking: \u201cNo stretching? No sweating? What good could this possibly be doing??\u201d), it made enough of an impression that I signed up for an individual session, and after that hands-on lesson some part of me knew that I would be studying The Feldenkrais Method\u00ae: I felt like my tight, aching body had been taken apart and put back together the way it was \u201csupposed\u201d to go. I experienced an ease and fluidity of movement that I hadn\u2019t known in a very long time \u2013 or would temporarily after an intense yoga practice or deep tissue massage, but that would eventually \u201crebound\u201d into tightness and soreness \u2013 and the practitioner had handled me so gently! This was something I needed to learn for myself, and was eager to share with others.<\/p>\n After selling Yoga Pearl in 2012, I studied and practiced The Feldenkrais Method\u00ae full time, completing my Feldenkrais Professional Training Program with Dr. Frank Wildman in June, 2014. I am grateful to be learning daily about the myriad benefits of the method, as well as to have the privilege of helping others learn to address and avoid injury, develop self-awareness, and\u00a0effort less<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Joh\u00a0 Brehm was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska and educated at the University of Nebraska and Cornell University. He is the author of three full-length books of poetry, Sea of Faith, Help Is on the Way,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0No Day at the Beach<\/em>, all from the University of Wisconsin Press, and a chapbook,\u00a0The Way Water Moves<\/em>, from Flume Press. His collection of essays,\u00a0The Dharma of Poetry<\/em>, was recently released by Wisdom Publications and is a companion to his acclaimed anthology,\u00a0The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy<\/em>, also from Wisdom Publications. His poems have appeared in\u00a0Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, Plume, Gulf Coast, The Missouri Review, New Ohio Review, The Writer\u2019s Almanac, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Best American Poetry, The Norton Introduction to Literature<\/em>, and many other journals and anthologies.<\/p>\n John teaches for Mountain Writers Series in Portland, Oregon, and for The Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado. He offers a monthly Poetry as Spiritual Practice gathering and with his wife, Alice Boyd, leads mindfulness retreats that incorporate Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons, guided meditations, and mindful poetry discussions. 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<\/b>1:30-4:30 Workshop 2
<\/span>4:30-5:30 Reception\/discussion group<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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