Upshift your Potential with Tamalpa’s Level 1 Year-Long-Hybrid Training “Personal Embodiment of the Halprin Life/Art Process”

— App deadline extended to Sept 2nd!

“Suddenly things began to shift and Change entered my life in a big way.” ~ Iu-Hui Chua

Each part of the body – and every art medium – acts as a mirror that reflects aspects of ourselves, our relationship to others, and our relationship to the world.

In Level 1, we use artistic and therapeutic principles to uncover and explore autobiographical material using Halprin Body Part Mapping, a method that connects us to the compelling events, issues, and questions in our lives.

Working with intermodal art mediums – movement/dance, drawing, vocalizing, writing, and dialogues – we reflect on our history, who we are now, and the changes that we would like to embody in order to live more artfully in all aspects of our lives.

The training cohort also acts as a mirror. Through group creativity and learning, we develop the skills and sensitivity that allow the collective environment to serve as a place where transformation happens.

The process that unfolds reflects the nature of interpersonal relationships, family stories, and community issues. It also motivates us to cultivate collaboration, collective creativity, skillful communication, and the value of differences and diversity within a supportive setting.

The training opens with introductions to the practice and the group. Following sessions focus on a different body part that inspires individual and group themes, art explorations, body awareness exercises, movement studies, partner and group interactions, and life/art metaphors that generate reflective questions.

(This hybrid training includes weekly online Zoom sessions and a 6-day In-Person Intensive at Mountain Home Studio with Daria Halprin and Core and Adjunct Faculty including Rosario Sammartino, Natan Daskal, and Iu-Hui Chua.)

“Taking the Expressive Arts out of the studio and into the traditional culture provoked, evoked, and inspired the group members to create community … Sowing true dialogues between life and art.”
~ Maria Luisa Diaz de Leon & Rosario Sammartino