Re-membering Body: A Somatic Workshop Series
Facilitated by
Alexia Buono, PhD
Saturday August 17th, 24, 31st 12pm-2pm
Location
Sacred Centers of Holistic Arts
86 Livingston St
Buffalo, NY 14213
http://www.thechakrashaman.com/
Description
We will arrive together for three Saturday's and participate in somatically mindful meditations, educational talks, in-depth bodily explorations (individual, partner, and group), communal sounding, journaling, and dialogic conversations. Somatic noticing prompts will be offered to the group to informally engage with during the week outside of the workshop. Each workshop session will be a progression from the previous week, where the group will both revisit previous somatic practices as well as new. Included in this series will be research from somatic movement and dance, neurobiology, neuroscience, somatic psychology, anatomy, kinesiology, and Alexia’s own research. The work and practices we will be exploring somatically include Bartenieff Fundamentals, developmental movement patterns, kinesthetic anatomy, authentic movement, sounding, and mindfulness meditation. Conversation and dialogues will be practiced utilizing consent-culture and non-violent communication.
This workshop series holds de-colonizing, justice-oriented relevancy for each individuals own inner experiences and knowledge of themselves and their somatic identities, as well as for restorative and social justice for the communities we each are connected to and with. This workshop series is also intended to be a space for consent, empowered agency, authenticity, vulnerability, safety, and saying yes to being in the challenge of critical consciousness building.
About the facilitator
Alexia Buono, PhD is an empowered Body advocate who works to bridge the multidisciplinary work of academia, dance, and somatic education with public and community life. She recognizes that somatic work often depends upon creating safe enough spaces to explore our bodily selves and identities in the present moment, and that this work is in active radical dialogue with the dualistic discourses of our society and culture. Alexia holds a PhD in Curriculum, Instruction, and the Science of Learning from the University at Buffalo and currently is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Dance at Brockport College. Alexia is a qualitative, arts-based educational researcher whose work is integrated with her professional identities of dancer and choreographer. Her dance and somatic lineage comes from contact improvisation, modern dance, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Laban Movement Analysis, site-specific choreography/performance, and mindfulness. Alexia’s current research and teaching interests reside in Body as identity, a restorative justice for Body, somatic movement literacy, and collaborative arts-based educational research.
Accessibility and Inclusivity Information
I strive to facilitate and maintain a welcoming and safe environment for the inclusion of diversities (e.g. race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, gender/sexual orientation/expression, age, size, nationality, physical/mental ability, religion, refugee/migrant status). I am working towards being able to further support those who feel unwelcome in somatic spaces by acknowledging, examining, and working with my own privileges and practices. Individuals will not be refused from this workshop series because of their diversities and abilities, and individuals will not be shamed for what they say or think. In order to help foster participants’ sense of empowered agency, it is of the upmost importance that this workshop series fosters inclusive, critically conscious, justice-oriented learning spaces.
I, however, am not tolerant of intolerance and harm in this workshop series. Actions, practices, and attitudes that foster a hostile environment, such as sexism, racism, homophobia, discrimination, tokenism, misogyny, etc., will be confronted and, if not willing to be examined, asked to leave. I am willing to engage in a non-violent, critically conscious, and conversational environment that is tolerant of learning, growing, and changing ignorance while discovering and becoming more mindful of one’s biases. By registering for this workshop series, you must be able to agree to engage with these sentiments.
Space is limited to seven participants. Prior experience with mindfulness and somatics will be helpful, but is not a requirement! Unfortunately, the space is accessible only through stairs as there is no elevator. There is a full bathroom and kitchen in the space if you need access, for example, to a fridge to put your produce from the Farmer’s Market J Please wear clothes you feel comfortable and safe moving around in. Please bring a journal/sketchbook for documenting thoughts, ideas, notes, feelings, etc. as well as writing/coloring utensils. If you have knee pads, you may wish to bring those as well.
Registration and Payment
This workshop series has tiered registration fees so that people who can afford to pay the higher end support the participation of people who need to pay the lower end. Please pay as much as you can so the workshop is economically accessible to all!
Tier I: $90
Tier II: $75
Tier III: $60
To register, please complete the registration Google Form by clicking on this link. Since space is limited to seven participants, you will receive a confirmation email from abuono@brockport.edu to ensure you have been included OR if we have reached max capacity previous to the close of registration.
Cash or check will be accepted as payment (in full) for the workshop series. If paying by check, please make the check payable to Alexia Buono and can be mailed to 86 Livingston St, Buffalo, NY, 14213. If paying with cash, please do not mail it; rather I will email you to determine where/how I will receive the payment.
Contact Me
For more information or questions, please email Alexia at abuono@brockport.edu.
Location
Sacred Centers of Holistic Arts
86 Livingston St
Buffalo, NY 14213
http://www.thechakrashaman.com/
Description
We will arrive together for three Saturday's and participate in somatically mindful meditations, educational talks, in-depth bodily explorations (individual, partner, and group), communal sounding, journaling, and dialogic conversations. Somatic noticing prompts will be offered to the group to informally engage with during the week outside of the workshop. Each workshop session will be a progression from the previous week, where the group will both revisit previous somatic practices as well as new. Included in this series will be research from somatic movement and dance, neurobiology, neuroscience, somatic psychology, anatomy, kinesiology, and Alexia’s own research. The work and practices we will be exploring somatically include Bartenieff Fundamentals, developmental movement patterns, kinesthetic anatomy, authentic movement, sounding, and mindfulness meditation. Conversation and dialogues will be practiced utilizing consent-culture and non-violent communication.
This workshop series holds de-colonizing, justice-oriented relevancy for each individuals own inner experiences and knowledge of themselves and their somatic identities, as well as for restorative and social justice for the communities we each are connected to and with. This workshop series is also intended to be a space for consent, empowered agency, authenticity, vulnerability, safety, and saying yes to being in the challenge of critical consciousness building.
About the facilitator
Alexia Buono, PhD is an empowered Body advocate who works to bridge the multidisciplinary work of academia, dance, and somatic education with public and community life. She recognizes that somatic work often depends upon creating safe enough spaces to explore our bodily selves and identities in the present moment, and that this work is in active radical dialogue with the dualistic discourses of our society and culture. Alexia holds a PhD in Curriculum, Instruction, and the Science of Learning from the University at Buffalo and currently is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Dance at Brockport College. Alexia is a qualitative, arts-based educational researcher whose work is integrated with her professional identities of dancer and choreographer. Her dance and somatic lineage comes from contact improvisation, modern dance, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Laban Movement Analysis, site-specific choreography/performance, and mindfulness. Alexia’s current research and teaching interests reside in Body as identity, a restorative justice for Body, somatic movement literacy, and collaborative arts-based educational research.
Accessibility and Inclusivity Information
I strive to facilitate and maintain a welcoming and safe environment for the inclusion of diversities (e.g. race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, gender/sexual orientation/expression, age, size, nationality, physical/mental ability, religion, refugee/migrant status). I am working towards being able to further support those who feel unwelcome in somatic spaces by acknowledging, examining, and working with my own privileges and practices. Individuals will not be refused from this workshop series because of their diversities and abilities, and individuals will not be shamed for what they say or think. In order to help foster participants’ sense of empowered agency, it is of the upmost importance that this workshop series fosters inclusive, critically conscious, justice-oriented learning spaces.
I, however, am not tolerant of intolerance and harm in this workshop series. Actions, practices, and attitudes that foster a hostile environment, such as sexism, racism, homophobia, discrimination, tokenism, misogyny, etc., will be confronted and, if not willing to be examined, asked to leave. I am willing to engage in a non-violent, critically conscious, and conversational environment that is tolerant of learning, growing, and changing ignorance while discovering and becoming more mindful of one’s biases. By registering for this workshop series, you must be able to agree to engage with these sentiments.
Space is limited to seven participants. Prior experience with mindfulness and somatics will be helpful, but is not a requirement! Unfortunately, the space is accessible only through stairs as there is no elevator. There is a full bathroom and kitchen in the space if you need access, for example, to a fridge to put your produce from the Farmer’s Market J Please wear clothes you feel comfortable and safe moving around in. Please bring a journal/sketchbook for documenting thoughts, ideas, notes, feelings, etc. as well as writing/coloring utensils. If you have knee pads, you may wish to bring those as well.
Registration and Payment
This workshop series has tiered registration fees so that people who can afford to pay the higher end support the participation of people who need to pay the lower end. Please pay as much as you can so the workshop is economically accessible to all!
Tier I: $90
Tier II: $75
Tier III: $60
To register, please complete the registration Google Form by clicking on this link. Since space is limited to seven participants, you will receive a confirmation email from abuono@brockport.edu to ensure you have been included OR if we have reached max capacity previous to the close of registration.
Cash or check will be accepted as payment (in full) for the workshop series. If paying by check, please make the check payable to Alexia Buono and can be mailed to 86 Livingston St, Buffalo, NY, 14213. If paying with cash, please do not mail it; rather I will email you to determine where/how I will receive the payment.
Contact Me
For more information or questions, please email Alexia at abuono@brockport.edu.
