Workshops
To register, unless noted otherwise, please contact Zuza via email or call:
Petaluma 707.789.0809
Berkeley 415.205.9989
Write checks to Zuza Engler and mail to
883 Chardonnay Circle, Petaluma, CA 94954
SoulMotion™: the Kiss of the Beloved
a five-day workshop at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, with Scott Engler
For more information or to register, visit www.esalen.org or call Esalen's registration office at 831.667.3005.
the touch of spirit on the body. — Rumi
Many of us know at the core of our being the longing for spirit of which the poets and mystics speak, though it's often forgotten and buried under the weight of our to-do list. SoulMotion opens a portal to a direct experience of this longing and at the same time, offers a promise of its fulfillment. According to some spiritual traditions, every instant of such direct contact with life can be recognized as the kiss of the Beloved, no matter what experience it brings: wonder, delight, ache, sorrow, or bliss.
Body Prayer: a SoulMotion™ experience with Zuza
a three-day workshop at Madrona MindBody Institute,
Port Townsend, Washington
October 10-12, 2008
For more information or to register, visit www.madronamindbody.com or call 360.344.4475.
Soul is flow -- an ever-changing cloudscape of textures, hues, sensations, scents, and feelings. Soul is where the deathless spirit meets and moves the finite human body. Body Prayer is a wild and luminous offering of the body in motion to this sacred Presence that is continually breathing us into Being.
How do we participate in this body prayer? To follow the divine choreography, we learn to fall and flounder. Going deeply into contact with self, we awake enveloped in communion. Relaxing into intimacy with Life, we shift from alone to All One –from "my dance" to the One Dance.
Open to dedicated dance devotees, beginning movers, and all curious and willing to meet self and other inside the paradox of self-expression and belonging.
SoulMotion™: Tenderness at the Heart of the Dance
a seven-day holiday retreat at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, with Scott Engler
For more information or to register, visit www.esalen.org or call Esalen's registration office at 831.667.3005.
The practice of SoulMotion is a meeting with self and other in a dance that is deeply nourishing, creative, intelligent, emotionally savvy, heartbreaking, soulmaking, spirited, and transforming. It is a movement toward the dynamic stillness at the center of all things, the place of rest at the heart of sound and motion. This week, we will gather to listen deeply and hover on the threshold between doing and being, solitude and togetherness, awkwardness and grace. Dancing at the edge of the continent, the edge of another beginning, the edge of Love despite all odds, we will move with our delight and our sorrow, inspired in our devotion by the promise of light returning into the heart of darkness.