Week 3B
ROBIN BECKER
The Shapes of Love - Retreat In The Body
August 2nd - August 7th 2010
In addition to the basic price please add
CHF 75, US$ 75, £45 or Euro 50 for this program
»Our form is made of a substance that melts form.«
Rumi
The body continually offers us teachings of transformation. All life forms including our bodies have been shaped by the movement of water. We are pulsing, fragile, powerful expressions of a planetary process. Similar to the way overlapping and interpenetrating waves move on the surface of water, all communication within the body takes place through the movement and changing dynamic forms of the fluid systems within us.
In this workshop, we will investigate how our physical bodies and the way in which we move are the expression of love deeply linked to an ancient process. We will integrate the practices of Continuum Movement with the perspectives of the Sufi Tradition. In the Sufi tradition, all of creation is considered to be a manifestation of the divine. We can also consider our bodies, the capacity through which we experience life, to be manifestations of divine love. In Continuum, the body is understood as a boundless process of fluid movement rather than form.
Living within our form is the mysterious mix of the tangible and the intangible. When we take the time to offer attention to the body we begin to sense how our body is continually shaping and reshaping life processes within itself. The body is contributing to and participating in the manifestations of the desires, movements, thoughts and forms we express. Through movement our primary engagement and essential participation in life can be experienced, and we begin to recognize the endless possibilities and shapes of love emerging, expanding and unfolding as ourselves
Throughout the week there will be time for reflection and silence. We will be moving and dancing together both individually
and in groups, and we will also move into Nature exploring our profound connection to the infinite forms of love that embrace,
inform and nourish us.
Robin Becker
Robin Becker is a teacher, dancer and choreographer. She has performed with the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Eleo Pomare Dance Company, and with her own dance company of which she has been the artistic director for fifteen years. In the U.S. she has served on the faculties of the Omega Institute, American Ballet Theatre, the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City and Hofstra University. Her work is deeply influenced by twenty years of study within the Sufi Order International, and by Continuum, a visionary field of movement education of which she is an authorized Teacher. Robin has been integrating movement, artistic expression, spirituality and healing throughout her professional career. She leads workshops on creativity and improvisation and is committed to working with people as they seek a deeper connection to life through the body.