Julie Coren Somatic Exploration

28/06/2024

"Perhaps the mythic is what happens when we rewrite our “stories” to include the rest of life (say, the trees, rivers, or bees), when we explore our depths or “what is underneath the surface in us,” and when we give way to imagination or longing.

When we do, mystery often arrives, brings possibilities for us to engage with, to ask:

What needs to be seen, heard, healed or transformed in me? In us? In our relationship with our world? Or, how can we listen to the land? To the wind? To the dead? To the threads of life that want to weave us in and co-create?" ~ Julie Coren

Read the full newsletter (link below) Julie Coren Somatic Exploration and learn more about "Between the Worlds: Movement, Memoir and the Mythic" beginning July 13.

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06/09/2023

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Stories Come to Us... + September Playlist Letter

During the Pandemic, I took a class with Marissa Chibas called Seeking the Duende and Claiming our Mythic Stories. Marissa is a wonderful artist, teacher, and filmmaker (A Cuban Documentary) and the title of the class intrigued me. Then I read her class description -- “Stories come to us because t...

24/05/2023

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22/04/2022

‘See me. Hear me. Meet me.’

21/04/2022

When we enter the terrain of our bodies through subtle, sensation-based movement and receptivity practices, we enter our deepest possibility and the language of flesh and soul.

Come.  Breathe.  Feel.  Sense.  Imagine.  And Receive. 

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Please join me for this nourishing one-hour weekly class in which we will cultivate our own personal practice of subtle movement, sensation tracking, and relationship building with the depths of who we are.

THRESHOLD

Friday mornings by Zoom
7:30-8:30a PST
$20

Email me to register 👉

21/04/2022

Threshold, a subtle movement class -- I hold every Friday morning from 730-830am PST.

Come, deepen your practice with me.

Details below:

When we enter the terrain of our bodies through subtle, sensation-based movement and receptivity practices, we enter our deepest possibility and the language of flesh and soul.

11/04/2022

“The symbols we create in our art contain valuable messages which speak to the circumstances of our lives.”

~ Daria Halprin, Co-Founder of Tamalpa Institute

The next series of classes I am offering will begin soon. DM if you’re interested in more details

06/04/2022

I remember the first time I felt my wildness after a long time of not feeling it. I was in a Dance Alive movement workshop with Mariane Karou. 

She guided us to move from our tailbone - to let our tailbones lead our movement - for at least 45 minutes. It seemed like forever – in the best possible way. I felt like a pig rolling around in the mud and it felt good. 

I imagine that through this movement I was accessing an older part of my brain and a different part of my nervous system, and connecting to my more instinctual self. This connection was so nourishing. 

Afterwards, I felt balanced and the script running my mind disappeared for a while. There is so much good in being a human-animal, in accessing the evolutionary history we hold in our bodies. 

Movement is a potent doorway for remembering our wholeness.

04/04/2022

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.

Rainer Marie Rilke
Book of Hours, I 59
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31/03/2022

THRESHOLD reminder... Friday mornings... you can register here:

CLASSES & Workshops When we enter the terrain of our bodies through subtle, sensation-based movement and receptivity practices, we enter our deepest possibility and the language of flesh and soul. Come. Breathe. Feel. Sense. Imagine. And Receive. Please join me for this nourishing one-hour weekly cl...

28/03/2022

“Deep imagery is a dimension with its own integrity, and although we may try to control it and manipulate it the way we have learned to do with the sensed world, we must remember that it itself is fully alive, that it has its own inherent intelligence, and that it is deeply organic, touching closely those places from which our very being springs.”

— Eligio Stephen Gallegos, Animals of the Four Windows

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art/image from The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (French pronunciation: [myze dy ke bʁɑ̃li ʒak ʃiʁak]), located in Paris, France, is a museum designed by French architect Jean Nouvel to feature the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

24/03/2022

“Yet even now mythology emerges as the legacy of a whole planet. To understand other people and other cultures and the images we share - and fail to share- with our fellows, we must relearn an aboriginal language, the universal tongue of the human imagination. With its inexhaustible vocabulary of symbol and story, it is at once our ancestral birthright and the ever-brimming well of dreams into which we look to find our future.”

-- Stephen Larsen, The Mythic Imagination: The question for Meaning Through Personal Mythology

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art/image from The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (French pronunciation: [myze dy ke bʁɑ̃li ʒak ʃiʁak]), located in Paris, France, is a museum designed by French architect Jean Nouvel to feature the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

22/03/2022

I realize it was my ‘yes’ to the wind that started it all, that I was forever changed by the rattle, and the rust, and the call of life drawing me into one of its oldest and fiercest stories which begins:
‘See me. Hear me. Meet me.’

from my Essay - Tracking Longing

art/image from The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (French pronunciation: [myze dy ke bʁɑ̃li ʒak ʃiʁak]), located in Paris, France, is a museum designed by French architect Jean Nouvel to feature the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

18/03/2022

Imagine 'longing' as the way that life moves through us, as a kind of “evolutionary impulse” that can be a guiding force in our lives, that can take us into beLonging more deeply to ourselves and our world.

16/03/2022

Embodying the stories we carry, and our imagination, can open a doorway into the mystery. It can open up our life and our understanding of our wholeness in deeply nourishing and surprising ways.

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14/03/2022

“There is an essential connection between art and life that can facilitate healing and change…. Tamalpa Life/Art Process® is an integrated approach that explores the wisdom of the body as expressed through movement, dance, and imagination. We use artistic processes and media to explore and deepen our relationship to psychological life, to social issues, and to creativity itself.”

~ Daria Halprin, Co-Founder of Tamalpa Institute

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23/02/2022

An Ode to Our Watery Depths...

This month’s playlist begins with water and is an ode to the deepest kind of movement I've ever studied. Created by Emilie Conrad, Continuum is a movement practice that invites slowing down, using incremental subtle movement, and sound, to open the tissue of our bodies and ride the waves of the wa...

23/02/2022

I devote a lot of time to choosing the right music for my students/classes. If you’re interested, please send me a message with your email, and I will add you to my monthly playlist letter 🎼🎶🎵