ONLINE: 4 Thursdays: June 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2025 | 10am – 12:00pm PDT

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Cost (includes eventbrite fees):
$144 / series with early reg by May 20th, and for grads anytime
$160 / series after May 20th

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To be alive is to move. In fact, all of nature is an ensemble of rhythmic movements attuning to one another in a field of play and adaptation. This class series serves as a reminder that we too are part of this living ensemble. Drawing upon the teachings from Anna Halprin – sensing, moving, and making art with living places becomes a pathway to be conscious participants in this ensemble, rekindling our identity as Nature. In other words, embodying ecology.

In this class series, we bring our everyday human movement into creative improvisations with our immediate surround to awaken the felt sense of being nature. In doing this, we allow these relations choreograph our movement into dances of participation and belonging. With this renewed consciousness, we then explore ways to make and remake ourselves and the world, attuned to and in kinship with the web of relations that make up our earthly life.

About Ken:

It was experiencing the environmental work of Anna and Larry Halprin over 40 years ago that moved me to drop everything and immerse myself in the transformative power of the Life/Art Process, first as a student and performer, and then as a teacher. Enacting the Life/Art Process to awaken our inherent belonging and participation to the whole of nature has been an integral part of my life and work ever since.

Workshops are for ages 18+ only and disability access is not provided.

To get the most out of this online class, please prepare a comfortable space to move in with access to your online device and reliable internet service. Also, have art supplies ready at hand for the drawing activity and paper and pen for journaling and creative writing exercises.

Please note: Tamalpa does not record nor permit the recording of any classes or workshops due to the sensitive and sometimes vulnerable nature of the work, and to protect student privacy.

Ken Otter, MA, PhD: Ken has four decades of LAP practice and teaching as well as 15 years of study, practice, and teaching of life and leadership coaching. He holds an MA and Ph.D. degrees in the fields of human and organizational learning and change, and a certification in coaching from Columbia University in New York.