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A dance and movement workshop with Joeritta Jones de Almeida
Sunday, October 4th, 2009
9 am - 4 pm
Studio Helix, Northampton, MA
$75.00 (includes lunch)
This workshop is about how to fully occupy our bodies. What does it mean to be present and live in the now?
In this workshop we will familiarize ourselves with the energy centers in different parts of the body. We will use movement and sound to stop the overstimulation of one energy center--be it an intellectual and/or movement center--and to control the tendency to have one center take over and direct our action without a full awareness of the other centers. We will learn how energy centers can be aligned to work together instead of independently, with one center dominating the others.
Have you ever entered a room and forgot what you entered to do? Or were about to say something and forgot what it was you were going to say? These are just a few examples of interference of energy centers instead of alignment of energy centers.
In this workshop, we will use dance and movement based on yoga and a large variety of music (classical, rhythm and blues, soul, funk, and hip hop) as a way of opening, activating and aligning the energy centers in the different parts of the body. We will incorporate the voice and its connection to the body. This workshop will utilize meditation to visit and reconnect with our energy centers and to open ourselves to our river of life within.
Please visit openriver.org for more information.
Joeritta Jones de Almeida received her M.Ed. and Ed.D. from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She also has a M.Ed. in Urban Education from Boston College, and holds teaching certificates in Elementary Education and Secondary Social Studies. She completed a course as instructor-director of a comprehensive system of Harmonious Human Development that uses body-mind techniques at the Rio Abierto (Open River) institute in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In Boston, she is the founding Director of the Open River/Rio Abierto System in the USA. While living in Brazil, she started a “school without walls” project that consisted of educational activities in public spaces such as parks and museums. This eventually led to the formation and construction of a small private school with five other educators in a small town in the mountains outside of Rio de Janeiro. The school, CEPE, is now over 30 years old and includes grades K-12. She completed a study on what activists in a grassroots organization mean when they use the term “empowerment,” and how the meaning relates to how they see themselves, others and their organization. Currently, her research interests focus on the implications of body-mind orientation of self-development for teacher education and how the self-development of the teacher informs his/her pedagogy.
PEOPLE OF COLOR Meditation Sitting Groups (NYC)
There are two NYC groups:
On the second Monday of every month, 7 to 9 PM, with Gina Sharpe
at New York Insight Meditation Center
28 West 27th Street, 10th Floor
Visit www.nyimc.org for more information.
and
at Shambhala Meditation Center of New York
118 W 22 St. 6th Flr.
New York, NY 10011
212 675-6544
Visit www.ny.shambhala.org for more information and scheduling.
PEOPLE OF COLOR Meditation Sitting Group (Boston)
Boston POC Meditation Group meets at
the Sacred Space, 200 Ell Hall
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Sundays, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Enter Through Curry Student Center.
Come together to learn and practice the joy of meditation as nourishment.
Chairs are available, but you are welcome to bring your own sitting cushion.
For more information, please contact: pocmeditate1@mac.com
Urban Word NYC
New York, NY
(212) 352-3495
Free spoken word, poetry hip-hop and college-prep workshops.
For more information, visit www.urbanwordnyc.org