Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Breema: the Art of Being Present
A weekend workshop May 5 & 6, 2012
Experience Breema Evening – May 4, Friday 7-8:30pm (no charge)
Breema brings you to the level at which you could be nurtured, rather than drained, by your relationship to your body, your surroundings, other people, and all life.
Jon Schreiber, Self-Breema: Exercises for Harmonious Life
Experience the tangible sense of wholeness and aliveness that comes from practicing Self-Breema exercises and Breema bodywork. Students and professionals of all movement and somatic practices are invited to learn and exchange a range of dynamic Breema Sequences, emphasizing mutual support and comfort to benefit both the giver and receiver. Taught in an experiential format this workshop offers practical exploration of the Nine Principles of Harmony, body-mind connection, and the opportunity to experience how vitalizing and nurturing it is to stay connected to yourself as you support others. Breema supports you to be more present, balanced, and available in the midst of life’s demands.
Instructors: Roxanne Caswell & Birthe Kaarsholm are certified Breema Instructors who teach on staff at the Breema Center in Oakland, California. They both maintain international teaching schedules.
The Breema Center has been helping students actualize Breema’s practical approach to self-understanding and purposeful living since 1980. For more information about Breema, visit our website at www.breema.com
The Breema Center is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a Continuing Education Provider. (10CE hours for this workshop)
No prior bodywork experience is necessary but, participants must be comfortable sitting and working on a padded floor.
CLASS DATES/TIMES: Saturday, May 5: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 & 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 6: 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m
Sunday, May 6: 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m
CLASS FEES: Saturday & Sunday: $200 ($175 if paid by 4/25) Saturday only: $125 ($100 if paid by 4/25)
REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Breema Center 6076 Claremont Ave.
Oakland, CA 94610
Phone: 510-428-0937
Email: center@breema.com
Oakland, CA 94610
Phone: 510-428-0937
Email: center@breema.com
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Remembering your Self through Embodiment
with Russell Delman
Friday March 30th, 2012 7.00 - 8.30 pm
donation only
You are invited to join us Friday, March 30th, for an evening with Russell Delman, founder of the internationally acclaimed Embodied Life(TM) Program. This year's talk is entitled:
"Simple and True:
Remembering your Self through Embodiment"
Explore a whole new way of imagining the 'body' with a Master teacher of teachers. Discover how embodiment is a doorway to authentic living. Conversation and experiential practices lead to new understanding. Call LeeAnn Starovasnik 206-372-8822 if you would like to join the weekend Seminar as well. |
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Water Sense at m'illumino
Water Sense: Anatomy of Grace in the Pool at m'illumino
with Bridget Thompson
Touch the elemental waters!
Supported in the water by the practitioner you are guided through fluent movement combinations to restore your joints for balance, alignment and coordination--for grace and presence.
Group Class
Thursday 6:30-7:30pm--space is limited, registration required
6 weeks for $120, June 16 to July 21
Private Session available by appointment, $90
"You are like Rilke's swan in his awkward waddling across the ground. The swan doesn't cure his awkwardness by beating himself on the back, by moving faster, or by trying to organize himself better. He does it by moving toward the elemental
water where he belongs. It is the simple contact with the water that gives him
grace and presence. You only have to touch the elemental waters in your own
life, and it will transform everything." -- David Whyte "Crossing the Unknown Sea"
Thursday, May 8, 2008
The Power of Presence
by Bridget Thompson
What makes you feel present?
Are you ever aware of not being present?
I had a dance teacher who as he watched me dance told me every time I ‘disappeared’. It was a complete mystery to me what he meant. I felt the same from one moment to the next. I was there, wasn’t I? Executing the steps, moving across that floor in that room – how could I disappear? He also told me that I was a beautiful dancer with fluid movement and gorgeous line – but he didn’t choose me to be in his performing company. He did ask me to help distribute flyers, drive him to the airport, bounce ideas around, collect props and fabric for costumes and deliver press releases.
Since then I’ve learned something about appearing and disappearing. When I saw him again a year ago, I drove him to the airport (our special ritual). He gave me a hug and said something like ‘It’s so good to have something to wrap my arms around – you’re still the same and yet feel much more substantial. I used to hug a fragile, elusive Bridget. I was always afraid that, ghost-like, you’d pass right through me, and I’d lose you.’
What makes you feel present?
Are you ever aware of not being present?
I had a dance teacher who as he watched me dance told me every time I ‘disappeared’. It was a complete mystery to me what he meant. I felt the same from one moment to the next. I was there, wasn’t I? Executing the steps, moving across that floor in that room – how could I disappear? He also told me that I was a beautiful dancer with fluid movement and gorgeous line – but he didn’t choose me to be in his performing company. He did ask me to help distribute flyers, drive him to the airport, bounce ideas around, collect props and fabric for costumes and deliver press releases.
Since then I’ve learned something about appearing and disappearing. When I saw him again a year ago, I drove him to the airport (our special ritual). He gave me a hug and said something like ‘It’s so good to have something to wrap my arms around – you’re still the same and yet feel much more substantial. I used to hug a fragile, elusive Bridget. I was always afraid that, ghost-like, you’d pass right through me, and I’d lose you.’
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