African Chi Dancing
with Gena Corea
Tuesdays, April 20 to May 25, 2010, 6:30-8 p.m.
For beginners attracted to African dance but hesitant to jump in with experienced dancers. Gentle warm-up and ample repetition of moves. Attention paid to the life force the dance circulates in our bodies. Tuesdays, April 20 to May 25, 2010, 6:30-8 p.m. Questions? 802-257-3099 or genovefa@sover.net.
Introduction to Focusing
April 10, 2010
Come Frolic with
Your PIGS (Personal Inner Guidance System) at Geryunant while learning
a way to access brand new information not available in books, brains,
or past experience. $65
For a detailed description
of Focusing, see Focusing:
The Body’s Understanding of How It Is Now.
Right Body: A Weight-Loss Support Group
with Gena Corea
Includes guiding in Experiential Focusing and in acupressure tapping to address patterns of emotional eating. Participants are entitled to reduced fees for private guided Focusing sessions and lessons. Questions? 802-257-3099 or genovefa@sover.net
Before Words Come: A Writing Workshop
with Gena Corea
Participants receive support for their writing process and feedback on their writing. Help with writing blocks through instruction and guidance in a well-tested process for tapping into the wisdom of the body/subconscious. Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. beginning June 23, 2009.
Here is what participants from Brattleboro, Vermont have to say about Before Words Come:
“This workshop was exactly what I needed. Its supportive and nourishing environment helped my creative juices get going. I think about my writing in an entirely different way now. Writing has been something I have always done, but I have always used it in support of other work I am doing. During this workshop I made a transition to thinking of myself as a writer. I began taking my writing seriously.” Griff Goering
“I really liked all the Focusing Gena guided us in during the opening circle at each meeting and after we each received feedback on our writing. It was helpful for me when my work was discussed as it enabled me to fully appreciate the comments.
“I especially appreciated the time and attention Gena brought to each writer’s work, the notes she passed along to us, and the heart-based reading she brought to our pieces. She was clear in making suggestions for further work, revision, etc., but her support was palpable. She is so strong and loving as a group leader and I know we all felt her loving care.” Ricia Gordon
“Wonderful workshop! Unique and practical. Gena helps us recognize the internal voices that both challenge us as writers and give force to our work.” Steve Minkin
“All the creative assistance in the workshop motivated me and made me eager to explore my abilities. I’m new to writing. The supportive and nurturing atmosphere gave me the confidence to take my writing project and Go For It!“ Rebecca Sorensen
A former columnist for The New Republic Feature Syndicate, workshop facilitator Gena Corea has written three books published by HarperCollins: The Hidden Malpractice; The Mother Machine and The Invisible Epidemic. Her writing appears in 21 anthologies published in the U.S.A., Canada, France and Germany. She has also been published in The New York Times; The Progressive; Commonweal; Mother Jones; Ms and Omni.
Questions? genovefa@sover.net , 802-257-3099.
Future Workshops
A Taste of Geryunant
An experiential
overview of what we do at Geryunant. Dip your fingers in paint, tap
your feet to rhythms, allow the magic of dreams and words to unfold.
$10
Focusing:
The Body’s Understanding of How It Is Now
led by
Gena Corea
and Helen
Hawes
In the 1960s, philosopher
Dr. Eugene Gendlin, working at the University of Chicago, discovered
Focusing, a gentle process for accessing a bodily knowing. With training
in attending to the “felt sense,” you can find the entry
point to your embodied knowing. The felt or body sense contains everything
your organism has sensed as it has lived in its human situations. Consisting
of the unconscious mind, feelings, desires, memories and thoughts, the
body sense is more complex than rational thought alone.
Gendlin developed
specific steps for attending to this body sense and tapping into its
vast source of data. These Focusing steps enable you to get a “gut
feeling” about anything.
Focusing bring brand
new, fresh information—not yesterday’s stale facts, not
data you can find on the internet, but creations born of your own experiencing,
right now. Come find your Personal Inner Guidance System (pigs) to help
in:
Decision-making
and problem-solving; working for social justice; life transitions such
as parenting, career changes, death and divorce; managing stress; attending
to troublesome feelings without being overwhelmed by them; breaking
through action blocks and creative blocks; listening to physical symptoms
from the point of view of the symptom itself; finding lost parts of
yourself; bringing the body’s wisdom into writing, painting and
all the arts; deepening intimacy in relationships.
Focusing gives you
the pleasure of discovery. Since you are accessing what you know in
your gut before it has been sent upstairs to the brain, what emerges
in a Focusing session is often surprising and refreshing.
Places you will
find Focusers:
- In corporations
and art studios
- In schools and
monasteries
- In prisons, malls,
and medical practices
- In churches and
temples
- In support groups
and emergency rooms
- Outdoors and indoors,
in rain, snow and sunshine
- In countries all
over the world
Participants are
asked to arrange for one guided Focusing session before September 15,
at the half-price of $30, with either Corea or Hawes in order to facilitate
the deepening of your experience during the workshop. For those living
at a distance from Vermont, the session can be conducted over the telephone.
Walking
in the Woods
led by Helen Hawes
For
years, I have taught drawing workshops in the studio. In these weekend
workshops, the studio has vanished and with it, the polarities between
art and life, product and process. In the studio's place stand the woods,
mountains, and rivers of Vermont. Participants will have the chance
to walk in the woods at sunrise ,sunset, dawn ,dusk, at midday and midnight,
in rain and shine. We will watch, listen, and feel as the metaphors,
like living dreams, arise. Here in this new studio we will explore our
fears of being alone, being lost, being in the dark, being in the wild.
Here in this new studio we will discover the thrills of being alone,
being lost, being in the dark, and being in the wild. Using Guided exercises,
free walks, mapping, and journaling, we will create a safe place to
play and learn the skills we need to navigate in the realm of the unseen
reality.
Dream
Group
led by Helen Hawes and Gena
Corea
Weekend
retreats to be with our dreams in a Focusing way. First we will explore
a series of each participant's dreams. Then as a group we will map them,using
dance, music imagery, drama, poetry. "Mapping" is an intuitive
reconfiguration of separate parts into a new kind of whole. This new
thing points the way to future growth.
Art
Appreciation Using Focusing
led by Helen Hawes
In
this one day workshop we will explore art appreciation using focusing
as a teaching tool. Though art viewing can be as creative and fulfilling
as art making , something often gets in the way. Certain misconceptions
about art often limit the depth of our connection. We stand in front
of a piece of art work, and we just don¹t "get it " .
Actually , below the conscious level, a great deal is going on in this
place of "not getting it". It is through this door that we
can enter into a creative relationship with the Art Work. After exploring
our personal myths about art, we will select drawings, from original
works by New England artists, with which we wish to dialogue. Next we
will break up into triads and gently move through our experiencing with
the drawings, respecting all that we encounter along the way. Powerful
shifts in our perception can grow and heal us when we allow ourselves
to actively participate with the drawings.
Collage
Workshop
led by Helen Hawes and Kata Hull
There
is a part of everything living that wants to become itself. This process
is about finding it and setting it free, leaving us room for new growth.
Using many colored tissues, we will create a series of translucent collage
images. Playing allows the images to emerge effortlessly from their
source. When we put the individual collages together, like the steps
of a journey, they tell us stories that can make us whole, whispering
"Welcome Home! We are here for you!"
Drawing
Workshop III
led by Helen Hawes
In Drawing Workshop III we will explore drawing as dialogue. Dialogue
is about conscious relationship and involves an equal exchange of information
from two or more distinct sources. We learn to give our drawings autonomy
and let them speak for themselves.
Our
society often thinks in either / or terms, right or wrong, good or bad,
night or day. This drastically limits the texture of our experience.
By combining words and marks in the same exercise, we can embrace the
conscious and unconscious as equals, simultaneously. This enables us
to build a relationship of trust between the two, expanding our repertoire
of felt experiences and bringing us more alive.
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