Monthly Detroit Authentic Movement
Stefanie Cohen Moving Stories
Here's are the details on the series -- drop ins are also welcome:
- The full series is $100/140/175 economic justice scale
- 2-4 session packages will cost $22-36 x the number of evenings you can attend
- Drop-ins will also be available at $25-40
I'd love to share this movement space with you all in support of the attunement to your body's impulses and creativity.
The Discipline of Authentic Movement is a contemplative movement practice founded in the 1950's by Mary Starks Whitehouse, a modern dancer and pioneering dance therapist. Aspects of this work were then further developed by her early students Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow, and by subsequent generations of facilitators and practitioners.
The practice investigates how, rather than moving our bodies in habitual, intentional ways, or those dictated from outside of us, we can be led by our bodies into movement.
Eyes-closed movers, heeding spontaneous impulses in response to sensations, images, feelings, and emotions, are witnessed by one another, regarding each other with curiosity, compassion, and care.
We can experience the practice as a physical laboratory, a moving meditation, an artistic exploration
and an opportunity for interpersonal connection and personal insight.