In the Retreat
Earn one full level of certification credit in Shin Somatics®
Earn one full level of certification credit in Land to Water Yoga
Create balance in body, mind, and spirit.
Experience a coherent life narrative in working with the chakras.
Learn how to heal through self-awareness.
Find pleasure in movement and intrinsic dance.
Learn how to listen through the body.
Learn how to acknowledge and relieve pain.
Experience the healing power of laughter.
Learn rehabilitative movements.
Experience healing through breath.
Gain insight in Wisdom Circle group process.
Practice non-judgement in communication.
Gain peace of mind through meditation.
Learn how meditation can resonate in movement for personal growth.

Metamorphic Dance Performance
Participants in the retreat have the opportunity to perform in an evening event that will begin in the studio and move out onto the farmland and into the Tuscan landscape. To propose a performance, email kay.nelson@q.com with a copy to eastwest@q.com. Describe your proposed performance in a one paragraph abstract. We will also evolve a Butoh Metamorphic Dance for the environment during the workshop for all who wish to participate.

Sondra Fraleigh is founding director of Eastwest Institute, featuring Shin Somatics® - an approach to healing and personal transformation which she developed through her teaching of dance and movement, integrative bodywork, philosophy, and meditation. Her work is informed by her certification in the Feldenkrais® Method and CranioSacral Therapy – as also her study of Myofascial Release, Effective Communication, Japanese Butoh, Yoga, and Zen meditation.

For more than 30 years, Professor Fraleigh has been a leader in the study of movement and dance. She is professor emeritus of the State University of New York, College at Brockport, where she chaired the Department of Dance. Her innovative choreography based in somatics has been seen on tour in America, Germany, India, and Japan. She served as president of the Congress on Research in Dance, and as a Faculty Exchange Scholar for the State University of New York. Her articles have been published in texts on dance and movement, philosophy, and developmental psychology. She has just published a guide book for her unique somatic yoga: Shin Somatics® Land to Water Yoga, available on her website: www.eastwestsomatics.com

She is the author of five books: Hijikata Tatsumi & Ohno Kazuo (2006), Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion(2004), Dancing into Darkness: Butoh, Zen and Japan (1999), Researching Dance (1999), and Dance and the Lived Body (1987). She has also published many articles and book chapters, including "Freedom, Gravity, and Grace" in the Somatics Magazine/Journal of the Mind/Body Arts and Sciences 22/3 (Fall/Winter 1999/2000), and she received the "Outstanding Service to Dance Research Award" from the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) in 2003. Her recent book on butoh is being published by the University of Illinois Press and is now in press: BUTOH: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy.

Professor Fraleigh lives in the beautiful red rock country of St. George Utah and is often a guest teacher of dance and somatic studies in the United States and other countries. She believes that the living body of the earth and our human body are interwoven, and that healing the earth and ourselves will be the major work of the 21st century.

Cost of the retreat: $1398 per person in double room with private bath
Package includes:
- 7 nights accommodation
- breakfast, lunch and dinner, except lunch during excursions
- full day excursion to Siena
- full day excursion to the ocean and hot springs
Not included: airfare, tips, lunch during excursions to Siena and San Gimignano, transfers

For more info or to enroll email info@italyyogaretreats.com or call 1 619 822 2913
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