This weekend with Anette Torgesen PhD. and Buster Radvik MA we will go on a deep relational journey through the body. Anette and Buster are combining their three decades of somatically informed work in this weekend workshop, Intentional Dance as Prayer and Relational Playground, into a delicious experience to awaken our body, soul and spirit, in community.

We work with

• Touch & somatic bodywork

• Movement & Dance

• Relational explorations

• Intentional Dance Prayer

• Sharing, Inquiry & Forum

Introduction

The Relational Playground is a conscious relational laboratory in which we explore opening to the body’s own innate intelligence as an enlightened guide to intimacy, aliveness and authentic self-expression. Intentional Dance Prayer is a spiritual dance practice where dance-prayer is central to the development of the self. The practice moves between therapeutic dance, improvisation, and spiritual quest.

Over the course of two and a half days we will first slow down and work deeply on our individual body. We turn the volume up on our embodied presence by movement awareness work, create a strong sense of somatic safety by awakening the active wisdom of the body, and then playfully explore what actually happens when we are together with another or others without any agenda other than connection. In this way we become more finely attuned to the body’s responses to interconnection – what impact is this interaction having on me and on the other, where exactly is the meeting point between us, and where does the primal energy of our connection wants to move next?

We work with a field of wisdom and power created by the participants who hold the circle. We come with longings, despair, beauty, desires, pain, pleasure, love, questions, and more to this space. There we set an intention, a prayer, for our dance. We surrender to our prayer and let the dance unfold its message. The dance-prayer puts us in touch with the movement of the soul and spirit. Our dance becomes the prayer, and the field is answering us. The participants in the circle serve the spiritual intentions of others. We move beyond personality, and we find a room of truth in the serving. We find ourselves in the same boat with so much to share, give, and receive.

So, we invite you to join us in this workshop to explore the magic of Intentional Dance as Prayer and experience for yourself the transformational power of the Relational Playground!

This workshop is for you if you are ready to learn how to

• Slow down enough to feel what is really present - within you and between us

• Grow your capacity for intimacy: to feel more of yourself together in connection

• Optimize capacity for connection: learning how to ride the emotional waves into love

• Develop a refined, alive somatic awareness: drop your story and land in the wisdom of your body

• Create transformational relationships through empowering vulnerability

• Establish a somatic sense of safety: feeling safe with others is an inside job

• Alchemize social anxiety into the very stuff that connects you to your own humanity and brings you closer to others

• Comfortably ride the oscillation between your need for safety and connection - and desire for freedom and individuality

Cost
Tier 1 Sold Out
Tier 2 3200
Tier 3 3600