Julie Coren Somatic Exploration

"Perhaps the mythic is what happens when we rewrite our “stories” to include the rest of life (say, the trees, rivers, or bees), when we explore our depths or “what is underneath the surface in us,” and when we give way to imagination or longing.

When we do, mystery often arrives, brings possibilities for us to engage with, to ask:

What needs to be seen, heard, healed or transformed in me? In us? In our relationship with our world? Or, how can we listen to the land? To the wind? To the dead? To the threads of life that want to weave us in and co-create?" ~ Julie Coren

Read the full newsletter (link below) Julie Coren Somatic Exploration and learn more about "Between the Worlds: Movement, Memoir and the Mythic" beginning July 13.

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Stories Come to Us... + September Playlist Letter

Stories Come to Us + September Playlist Letter During the Pandemic, I took a class with Marissa Chibas called Seeking the Duende and Claiming our Mythic Stories. Marissa is a wonderful artist, teacher, and filmmaker (A Cuban Documentary) and the title of the class intrigued me. Then I read her class description -- “Stories come to us because t...

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Hello Friends, I'm happy to share with you... with Olivia Bareham and Julie Coren . Please follow the link or reach out directly if you'd like to learn more.

‘See me. Hear me. Meet me.’

When we enter the terrain of our bodies through subtle, sensation-based movement and receptivity practices, we enter our deepest possibility and the language of flesh and soul.

Come.  Breathe.  Feel.  Sense.  Imagine.  And Receive. 

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Please join me for this nourishing one-hour weekly class in which we will cultivate our own personal practice of subtle movement, sensation tracking, and relationship building with the depths of who we are.

THRESHOLD

Friday mornings by Zoom
7:30-8:30a PST
$20

Email me to register 👉

Threshold, a subtle movement class -- I hold every Friday morning from 730-830am PST.

Come, deepen your practice with me.

Details below:

Reminder....Threshold When we enter the terrain of our bodies through subtle, sensation-based movement and receptivity practices, we enter our deepest possibility and the language of flesh and soul.

“The symbols we create in our art contain valuable messages which speak to the circumstances of our lives.”

~ Daria Halprin, Co-Founder of Tamalpa Institute

The next series of classes I am offering will begin soon. DM if you’re interested in more details

I remember the first time I felt my wildness after a long time of not feeling it. I was in a Dance Alive movement workshop with Mariane Karou. 

She guided us to move from our tailbone - to let our tailbones lead our movement - for at least 45 minutes. It seemed like forever – in the best possible way. I felt like a pig rolling around in the mud and it felt good. 

I imagine that through this movement I was accessing an older part of my brain and a different part of my nervous system, and connecting to my more instinctual self. This connection was so nourishing. 

Afterwards, I felt balanced and the script running my mind disappeared for a while. There is so much good in being a human-animal, in accessing the evolutionary history we hold in our bodies. 

Movement is a potent doorway for remembering our wholeness.

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.

Rainer Marie Rilke
Book of Hours, I 59
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THRESHOLD reminder... Friday mornings... you can register here:

Expressive Arts - Somatic Exploration CLASSES & Workshops When we enter the terrain of our bodies through subtle, sensation-based movement and receptivity practices, we enter our deepest possibility and the language of flesh and soul. Come. Breathe. Feel. Sense. Imagine. And Receive. Please join me for this nourishing one-hour weekly cl...

“Deep imagery is a dimension with its own integrity, and although we may try to control it and manipulate it the way we have learned to do with the sensed world, we must remember that it itself is fully alive, that it has its own inherent intelligence, and that it is deeply organic, touching closely those places from which our very being springs.”

— Eligio Stephen Gallegos, Animals of the Four Windows

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art/image from The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (French pronunciation: [myze dy ke bʁɑ̃li ʒak ʃiʁak]), located in Paris, France, is a museum designed by French architect Jean Nouvel to feature the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

“Yet even now mythology emerges as the legacy of a whole planet. To understand other people and other cultures and the images we share - and fail to share- with our fellows, we must relearn an aboriginal language, the universal tongue of the human imagination. With its inexhaustible vocabulary of symbol and story, it is at once our ancestral birthright and the ever-brimming well of dreams into which we look to find our future.”

-- Stephen Larsen, The Mythic Imagination: The question for Meaning Through Personal Mythology

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art/image from The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (French pronunciation: [myze dy ke bʁɑ̃li ʒak ʃiʁak]), located in Paris, France, is a museum designed by French architect Jean Nouvel to feature the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

I realize it was my ‘yes’ to the wind that started it all, that I was forever changed by the rattle, and the rust, and the call of life drawing me into one of its oldest and fiercest stories which begins:
‘See me. Hear me. Meet me.’

from my Essay - Tracking Longing

art/image from The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (French pronunciation: [myze dy ke bʁɑ̃li ʒak ʃiʁak]), located in Paris, France, is a museum designed by French architect Jean Nouvel to feature the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

Imagine 'longing' as the way that life moves through us, as a kind of “evolutionary impulse” that can be a guiding force in our lives, that can take us into beLonging more deeply to ourselves and our world.

Embodying the stories we carry, and our imagination, can open a doorway into the mystery. It can open up our life and our understanding of our wholeness in deeply nourishing and surprising ways.

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“There is an essential connection between art and life that can facilitate healing and change…. Tamalpa Life/Art Process® is an integrated approach that explores the wisdom of the body as expressed through movement, dance, and imagination. We use artistic processes and media to explore and deepen our relationship to psychological life, to social issues, and to creativity itself.”

~ Daria Halprin, Co-Founder of Tamalpa Institute

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An Ode to Our Watery Depths...

An Ode to Our Watery Depths + February Playlist + Threshold This month’s playlist begins with water and is an ode to the deepest kind of movement I've ever studied. Created by Emilie Conrad, Continuum is a movement practice that invites slowing down, using incremental subtle movement, and sound, to open the tissue of our bodies and ride the waves of the wa...

I devote a lot of time to choosing the right music for my students/classes. If you’re interested, please send me a message with your email, and I will add you to my monthly playlist letter 🎼🎶🎵

Cultivating a Practice takes re-committing to yourself all the time. Join me Friday mornings for THRESHOLD, a subtle movement practice. Details below! Please share. See you there.

Cultivating a Movement Practice When we enter the terrain of our bodies through subtle, sensation-based movement and receptivity practices, we enter our deepest possibility and the language of flesh and soul.

Movement is Medicine.

Reminder, this Friday -- THRESHOLD -- your one hour weekly movement practice.

Please message me to join us!

Movement is Medicine.

Join me Julie Coren for your weekly subtle movement practice, THRESHOLD on Friday mornings. Details below or message me for the link to join.

See you Friday!

Movement is Medicine When we enter the terrain of our bodies through subtle, sensation-based movement and receptivity practices, we enter our deepest possibility and the language of flesh and soul.

This week…

~ We’re crossing a threshold ~ CHECK OUT THESE CLASSES!

🌑 Unveiling the Mythic 🌑
(Mondays)

💫 Laboratory of BeLonging 💫
(Thursdays)

🙌 THRESHOLD 🙌
(Fridays)

Dive in! 👉

…is such a BIG WEEK…

ALL CLASSES BEGIN THIS WEEK!

🌑 Unveiling the Mythic 🌑
(Mondays)

💫 Laboratory of BeLonging 💫
(Thursdays)

🙌 THRESHOLD 🙌
(Fridays)

Want to move? Join us!
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…this week ~ ALL CLASSES ARE HAPPENING!

🌑 Unveiling the Mythic 🌑
(Mondays)

💫 Laboratory of BeLonging 💫
(Thursdays)

🙌 THRESHOLD 🙌
(Fridays)

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Laboratory of BeLonging: Body, Earth, Cosmos is a workshop series in which we will move through a self-portrait process, explore the images we create, and use expressive and witnessing practices to cultivate deeper alignment with our life purpose.

This year will be in 3 sections :

1️⃣ Gathering Our Materials: Self-Portrait Process (Feb-Apr)
In order to explore longing and belonging, we will gather the “material” of our lives by incorporating aspects of the Tamalpa Life/Art Process in our class.

2️⃣ Making the Invisible Visible (May-July)
We will begin to listen for this evolutionary impulse inside of us; to follow the threads of our self-portrait, our images, stories, memories, or wounds and make a “roadmap” or “key” to our beLonging.

3️⃣ Deepening Relationship with the Other Inside of Us as Pathway and Practice (Aug-Nov)
We’ll begin to use our “key” or “roadmap” intentionally to cultivate relationship with all of who we are, to support our evolution, and what we are longing to bring forth in our lives and in the world.

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Sessions held virtually
Begins February 3
Thursdays 8-10:30am PST

Imagine Longing as a kind of “evolutionary impulse” that can be a guiding force in our lives, that can take us into beLonging more deeply to ourselves and our world.

Come. Listen. Move. Draw. Map your Longing.

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Register 🌬

Imagine Longing as a kind of “evolutionary impulse” that can be a guiding force in our lives, that can take us into beLonging more deeply to ourselves and our world.

Come. Listen. Move. Draw. Map your Longing.

🌕💫🌏

Laboratory of BeLonging: Body, Earth, Cosmos is a workshop series in which we will move through a self-portrait process, explore the images we create, and use expressive and witnessing practices to cultivate deeper alignment with our life purpose.

This year will be in 3 sections :

1️⃣ Gathering Our Materials: Self-Portrait Process (Feb-Apr)
In order to explore longing and belonging, we will gather the “material” of our lives by incorporating aspects of the Tamalpa Life/Art Process in our class.

2️⃣ Making the Invisible Visible (May-July)
We will begin to listen for this evolutionary impulse inside of us; to follow the threads of our self-portrait, our images, stories, memories, or wounds and make a “roadmap” or “key” to our beLonging.

3️⃣ Deepening Relationship with the Other Inside of Us as Pathway and Practice (Aug-Nov)
We’ll begin to use our “key” or “roadmap” intentionally to cultivate relationship with all of who we are, to support our evolution, and what we are longing to bring forth in our lives and in the world.

🌕💫🌏

Sessions held virtually
Begins February 3
Thursdays 9-11:30am PST

Register 🌬

Imagine Longing as a kind of “evolutionary impulse” that can be a guiding force in our lives, that can take us into beLonging more deeply to ourselves and our world.

Come. Listen. Move. Draw. Map your Longing.

🌕

Please join me for Laboratory of BeLonging: Body, Earth, Cosmos ~ a workshop series in which we will move through a self-portrait process, explore the images we create, and use expressive and witnessing practices to cultivate deeper alignment with our life purpose.

This year will be held over 3 sections (you can join in any or all) :

1️⃣ Gathering Our Materials: Self-Portrait Process (Feb-Apr)
In order to explore longing and belonging, we will gather the “material” of our lives by incorporating aspects of the Tamalpa Life/Art Process in our class.

2️⃣ Making the Invisible Visible (May-July)
We will begin to listen for this evolutionary impulse inside of us; to follow the threads of our self-portrait, our images, stories, memories, or wounds and make a “roadmap” or “key” to our beLonging.

3️⃣ Deepening Relationship with the Other Inside of Us as Pathway and Practice (Aug-Nov)
We’ll begin to use our “key” or “roadmap” intentionally to cultivate relationship with all of who we are, to support our evolution, and what we are longing to bring forth in our lives and in the world.

🌕💫🌏

Begins virtually February 3
Thursdays 8-10:30am Pacific Time
Message me for more details, cost, and questions.

Unveiling the Mythic: Ritual as Performance 🤲 Embodying the stories we carry, and our imagination, can open a doorway into the mystery. It can open up our life and our understanding of our wholeness in deeply nourishing and surprising ways.

Come. Move. Draw. Speak your Story.

We will move through a self-portrait process, embody the images we create, and express them using movement, improvisational speaking, and witnessing practices.

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This is a 3-part workshop series, you can join any or all of them. We meet virtually Mondays 6-9pm PST 🫂

Self-Portrait Process begins Jan. 31

Storymaking - Living into our Images May-July

Storyclaiming - Performance Ritual August-November

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Embodying the stories we carry, and our imagination, can open a doorway into the mystery. It can open up our life and our understanding of our wholeness in deeply nourishing and surprising ways.

🗣 Come. Move. Draw. Speak your Story.

Unveiling the Mythic : Ritual as Performance will move through a self-portrait process, embody the images we create, and express them using movement, improvisational speaking, and witnessing practices.

👤 Self-Portrait Process: We will incorporate aspects of the Tamalpa Life/Art Process in our class. This means that each week, for seven weeks, we will focus on a specific body part (such as pelvis or ribcase). After that, we will take 3 weeks to create a self-portrait. 
*Dates: January 31 - April 25
 
👥 Storymaking - Living Into our Images: We will begin to work with the images and stories we carry. 
*Dates: May 9 - July 25
 
🫂 Storyclaiming – Performance Ritual: For this, I am asking myself and inviting you to join me, to begin in a place of not knowing and follow the thread … 
*Dates: August - November

Contact me to Learn More
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