Vivid Grove - Margit Galanter - California Bay Area

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🌍 qigong fundamentals

* free workshop, open to the public *
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Monday, Sept 16 Online, 5 - 6:30pm PST

This workshop will focus on foundational principles that can support a qigong practice. “Qi Fundamentals” will lay a groundwork with simple and detailed practices that help a person access their bodily energetic center (Lower Dan Tien) and its relation to movement, physicality, and our earthy body-ness.

With this workshop, you will receive the video afterward to practice with throughout the year. Qi Fundamentals is the first in a new monthly series Monday qigong practice sessions co-facilitated by the vivid grove Wild Goose mentorship group.

Register here: https://forms.gle/sMYEKFg2NYozrVJo9

*FREE WORKSHOPS*
This September, I am offering two free online practice sessions to support this body-full earth magnetism moment: EARTH MOVEMENTS and QI FUNDAMENTALS, ~ SEPT 4 + 16. These workshops are introductions for a new fall vivid grove program, all starting in the beginning of October. Stay tuned!

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🎨 asimina chremos
📸 esco lacqua
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🌍 earth movements

* free workshop, open to the public *
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Wednesday, Sept 4 Online, 5 - 6pm PST

A workshop space to delve into the qigong movement, meditations, and Taoist principles supportive for the season – Late Summer, the elemental force of Earth. “Earth Movements” will help to utilize Earth energy as a basis for simple, supportive qigong practice. This workshop will incorporate other movement practices to support the focus of Earth as magnet, for our warm core.

With this workshop, you will receive the video afterward to practice with throughout the year.

Register here: https://forms.gle/pkW1BzkoVZt4vCoU6

*FREE WORKSHOPS*
This September, I am offering two free online practice sessions to support this body-full earth magnetism moment: EARTH MOVEMENTS and QI FUNDAMENTALS, ~ SEPT 4 + 16. These workshops are introductions for a new fall vivid grove program, all starting in the beginning of October. Stay tuned!

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🎨 asimina chremos
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~*~ savor the date ~*~

EARTH MOVEMENTS
& QI FUNDAMENTALS

🌍 Session One: Sept 4
🌫 Session Two: Sept 16

• both at 6:30pm PST
• Live on Zoom
• recording available to registrants

two free online workshops to orient you to the practice of qigong, the vivid grove fall qigong program*, and wild goose qigong.

more details & how to register TBA

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margit galanter * vivid grove

photo by esco lacqua
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🌎 This Saturday !

Summer Flow*er
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Saturday, June 22, 10am - 4pm
Bushrod Park, Ohlone Land, North Oakland

For this daylong workshop, we will play with moving from the garden sense, inspired by the vast landscape of Amerta Movement.

read more & register through link in bio or here:
https://vividgrove.org/Amerta-Movement-1

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On lineage / my teacher …

Prapto was an incredible mentor and friend in my life. The way he formed his art and shaped his life has been one of the biggest inspirations of my art life. Sometimes I think he was from another planet; how could he offer what he did, seemingly so fully formed, and be from this one? Is it messages from the beyond?

He had a unique capacity to speak to each of our lives, could feel my heart, could offer guidance from a place of channeling, but not that empty kind of vessel, rather from the place of including his own self in the picture, so it was from his knowing through to you, from his own source. He taught me, love could never be a power game, rather to be in true dialogue there needs to be speaking to each other at the same “level” (but that’s not the right word).

Amerta is about movement dialogue- this moving is not only with other humans, but the atmosphere, with our own stories, with spirit, with nature, dialogue is everywhere. I cannot teach as he taught. I can try to stimulate as a sensing being, listening, being guided by my years with him, by the collective of people who are along on the ride of our practice, letting it evolve from our own ways. I learned so much.

Amerta continues to guide me today. Prapto died in the end of 2019, prescient, he left the planet right before so much shut down and I had so many dreams upon his death that I drew and wrote on giving me ideas how to continue that will last a lifetime. So much about movement and dance, so much about the nature of livingness, of how we create.

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📷 Prapto showing constellating, Tejakula, Bali, 2017
🤳🏼 zoom Amerta 2020

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🏔 More 🌳 On 🌻 Amerta 🌊 Movement 🫀

+ next weekend’s workshop ~

Summer Flow*er
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Saturday, June 22, 10am - 4pm
Bushrod Park, Ohlone Land, North Oakland

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Amerta Movement is a free movement form that grew out of Prapto’s longtime practices in meditations (Vipassana and the Javanese form Sumarah), in movement experiments outdoors in temples and natural environments, in Javanese poetics, and as well through his own creative evolution in sharing these practices with other people, both amongst people from Indonesia, as well as many, many students internationally.

It is a practice in intercultural movement dialogue that offers ways for movement in life that can be applied to many facets of practice, such as performing, teaching, home-life, and movement, itself.

There is no particular recipe or formula to the practice; it contains so many layers of approach, many roadmaps, evolutions, nodes, techniques, and viewpoints. These are accessed through the way a facilitator reads the situation, based on the subtleties of place, in receptivity to each person present, and attuned to an arc of material being shared over a course of study, be it a few hours, days or months. The practice is based in free movement of the moment, guided by what unfolds amongst what is present, and through guidance of the person stimulating movement.

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read more & register through link in bio or here:
https://vividgrove.org/Amerta-Movement-1

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✍🏼 a picture drawn inspired these days for the summer’s dance
📷 photo of Prapto showing constellating, Tejakula, Bali, 2017
🎞 and, Amerta Movement practice on Dzogchen Land in Merigar, Italy, at a Teacher’s Gathering, 2019. Somehow, it brought me to this.

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>> Last live qigong for the spring/summer season is this upcoming Sunday **

** There is still time to learn more & register here: vividgrove.org/Event-QIGONG >>

🌞 Summer Qigong 🌞
~ Live Outdoors Qigong Gathering ~

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1 - 4pm, Sunday, June 9
Bushrod Park, Oakland
$75

🌼 🌼 🌼

Wild Goose Qigong is a beautiful Taoist alchemical movement practice that harmonizes movement, invites flow, and helps people experience the inheritance of their self-healing.

🔥 🔥 🔥

For this gathering, we will focus on Wild Goose forms best supported in the summer season, practices from Wild Goose such as Aroma Qigong, Making the Taoist Symbol practice, Sitting Meditations, and Healing Sounds. By harmonizing our vital forces in the summer, we will align with the dynamics of elemental force Fire and nurture our heart-mind, or shen. We will support the cultivation of qi in harmony with the season and the vivid space that comes from cultivating shen. This is how we root in spirit and the collective field.

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Movements can be modified for all body types and people, qigong for everyone.

🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉

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Summer Flow*er Workshop 🌸 🌸 🌸
Saturday, June 22, 10am - 4pm
Bushrod Park, Ohlone Land, North Oakland

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🌳 For this daylong workshop, we will play with moving from the garden sense, inspired by the vast landscape of Amerta Movement. With Amerta, Javanese movement artist Suprapto Suryodarmo created a radical movement technology that dialogues with nature, with culture, and with the growing common field. Amerta = the nectar of life; through the practice we can access an opening of our breathing and being, and an inner relaxing that comes from movement and awareness, from reciprocity with place, and from a wide configuration of practices that support people to dance together from their own stories. But there is nothing cheesy about it; rather a way to find a broader, wilder, and deeply curious flow that can go on …..and flower.

This day’s practice will have time for movement, rest, snax (bring your own), conversation, and togetherness. 🌳

read more & register here:
https://vividgrove.org/Amerta-Movement-1

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Saturday Workshop Rates & Registration
Sliding scale: access rate - base rate - solidarity rate

Early bird, register by Thurs June 13
$70 - $110 - $150

After June 13:
$110 - $160 - $200

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tuning traces begins TOMORROW
* * * you can still attend as a participant and/or a witness * * *

everything you need to know is here:
https://vividgrove.org/Event-Tuning-Sessions-1

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These trees are central living things in the field at live oak park, berkeley - unceded Ohlone land of the Chochenyo-language speaking Muwekma Ohlone people.

* parks as a place for gathering, as a place for so many ways of being in space together, and indeed on stolen land. As so many vivid grove movement workshops take place on land, outside, part of what we have done in facilitations of Tuning and the Tuning Garden is spent time receiving from the place, honoring the people whose land we are on, acknowledging, and also taking this into movement research. It is our experience that movement practice with this kind of intention can extend our consciousness of land and indigeneity into our art practices and daily life. As settlers, it’s a single step of so many. In the vivid grove, we have been working with this for years, researching “what is right relationship to the land as movers?”

tuning traces is a facet of this project, of getting connected to environment and place through sense perceptions and group consensus, through creative practice.

🌞 Summer Qigong 🌞
~ Live Outdoors Qigong Gathering ~

🌿 🌿 🌿

1 - 4pm, Sunday, June 9
Bushrod Park, Oakland
$50 by May 29 / $75 After

>> Last live workshop for the spring/summer season **

** Qigong Registration & Class Information here: vividgrove.org/Event-QIGONG >>

🌼 🌼 🌼

Wild Goose Qigong is a beautiful Taoist alchemical movement practice that harmonizes movement, invites flow, and helps people experience the inheritance of their self-healing.

🔥 🔥 🔥

For this gathering, we will focus on Wild Goose forms best supported in the summer season, practices from Wild Goose such as Aroma Qigong, Making the Taoist Symbol practice, Sitting Meditations, and Healing Sounds. By harmonizing our vital forces in the summer, we will align with the dynamics of elemental force Fire and nurture our heart-mind, or shen. We will support the cultivation of qi in harmony with the season and the vivid space that comes from cultivating shen. This is how we root in spirit and the collective field.

🫀 🫀 🫀

Movements can be modified for all body types and people, qigong for everyone.

🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉

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Tuning Culture and Tuning4Armageddon highlight~

Zoe and margit have been working for several years, along with jubilee july and Amutabi Haines to bring tuning to Bay Area culture— a project of vivid grove called Tuning Culture. Most recently, they co-created Tuning4Armageddon: tuning and farming alongside local black-led art land urban projects in the East Bay.

* * * register for the upcoming tuning traces project weekend long workshop June 1-2, https://vividgrove.org/Event-Tuning-Sessions-1 * * *

What happens when you bring tuning practices into communities with established communication, projects, and land? How can art practices extend beyond the visual into culture? This was one attempt (2020-2022)

The Workshop for Tuning Traces is an opportunity to dive into some tuning scores practices in a new way, with a focus in an art space and on some local Old Oakland streets. To relate to the architecture, the space, what we see, and each other, as part of a changing image space. We use sensory-perceptual movement practices, collective scores, solo movement time, and calls into the space, all to co-create and co-edit action together.

The process will give us a fuller understanding of our own aesthetics, of our desires, and how we work in a group. In this workshop the focus will be going back and forth between visual practices, moving, working in groups, and drawing/marking. All of us create a live archive together. Something about all the facets here makes for a powerful experience for people who care about aesthetic, who want to enrich their aesthetic, and who have potent tools for how to have agency and experiential listening in a group.

Come with your collective, come with your curiosity, come :)

These beautiful creatures are some of the folks in the working group for the upcoming tuning traces project.

For the tuning traces project, margit galanter and Zoe Huey are co-hosting a constellation of events that work with a hybrid application of the tuning scores, which are a sensory-perceptual movement and action practice originated by Lisa Nelson, along with drawing, and live archiving through visual practice and the multi-senses.

The tuning traces project will take place June 1-2, 2024. The weekend’s gathering includes a public workshop, a working group, and a public observation experience.

We created the working group mainly from people whose aesthetic we groove with … folks who either came to Lisa Nelson’s workshop we organized in 2019, or who have worked with margit and zoe over the years in tuning.

The working group is a gathering of artists, including: ainsley e. tharp, bae laurel, Frances Rosario, jubilee july, margit galanter, Kevin C. Lo, Rose Huey, and Zoe Huey; with intermittent live archiving by Denise Leto, Stacey Goodman/Seven Mirrors, tony only; and at the workshop and observation experience, hopefully you!

we are so excited to see what will happen when we get into the space of Seven Mirrors together.

Learn more and register here:
https://vividgrove.org/Event-Tuning-Sessions-1

Pictures are from the Omni Ballroom, Lisa’s Workshop, or Live Oak Tree ~ Tuning Gardens with mg.