Tai Chi is an amazing artful form of meditative movement that is designed to help create and inspire awareness, presence, relaxation, and health through gentle and conscious movements of the hands, the body, and our inner living energy called "chi." It is a way to understand your dance through your body, actions, your feelings, your thoughts, and your energy, and how that relationship is symbolic and connected to how you move in your life. In this powerful, fun, and transforming workshop, you'll learn how to connect fundamental movements of Tai Chi with breath and body awareness to help you with even simple activities of daily life that require the use of good body mechanics (or movement from your hara center) to creating a health-inspired meditation and movement of practice that is both relaxing, releasing, creative, and liberating.
Out of our learning of the fundamentals, we'll then work together to use these basic movements to create "A Community Moving," a consciousness of flow where each person's movements are connected to each other in a feeding, giving, and receiving pattern. Through this process, you'll not only learn how your actions and energy affect yourself, but how they contribute to the people around you and the community as a whole. Wherever you are at, you'll recognize a deeper connection to yourself and each other more honestly and fully. Not only will this be a work of moving art which is amazing to see (which is also known as "performance art"), the energy and transformation that takes place is powerfully healing, shifting, and expansive. And let's not forget, playful and fun! This is a great way to get your juice flowing and experience your health and creativity in a way that is thriving, useful, and community building!
No experience necessary, all are welcome!!!
Jennifer has been inspired by conscious movement practices since falling in love with dance over 16 years ago and through her own process of healing, she began a free-form of dancing meditation to release repressed feelings and painful experiences. Out of this process began a new form of creative expression that she likes to currently use to help students realize the body is a voice and a vehicle for art, connection, communication, liberation, and transformation. Her greatest gratitude goes to a teacher named Ozzie who first taught and encouraged her to look deeper into her movement and fears as she choreographed her first solo dance that she performed as part of a performance art class in a Philadelphia theatre in 1998.