MIRIAM MARLER
As I'm drawn more and more into the world of Mindful Somatic Therapy, the tools I bring from my history in movement & bodywork are being seen with new eyes as resources to support healing & regulation.
With a background in Contemporary Dance where choreography and performance were highlighted, I soon became deeply engaged in more process-based approaches like Somatic Movement practices, Contact Improvisation, Butoh and Body Weather.
Today, facilitation is my creative practice- I offer Conscious Dance, Somatics, & Contact Improvisation to the gorgeous community down in Otepoti Dunedin.
Touched: Awakening Embodied Connection
Grounded in a trauma sensitive, somatically-informed lens, Miriam and Ross will invite you into an inquiry exploring the wisdom of your body-as-organism, and its innate potential for growth and transformation. Through the power of touch, movement & community, we will draw on embodied mindfulness, trauma theory, and the principles of contact improvisation to explore our somatic capacities for resourcing, resilience, and life forward direction.
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Emotional risk 7/10
Physically Active 3/10
Physically Restorative 9/10
Meeting & Being Met
Trust and self awareness are keys to listening to your body's wisdom & to connecting on a deeper level with other dancers. In this warmly-held, mindful container, Jooske and Miriam will guide you through playful inter-actions & physical experiments. We will invite you to explore your inner dialogue, to notice your responses and the patterns that arise. Our points of interest are weight sharing, trust, risk-taking & momentum. We aim to help you become curious about your comfort-edges, build confidence in your shared dances, feel inspired, and notice how life patterns are embodied or reflected in the dances you create.
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Emotional risk: 6/10
Physically Active 8/10
Physically Restorative 6/10
The Underscore: Space for You
This dance-space is an opportunity to move with your own process in solitude or to reach out and make contact with others. It is a held container for integration, reflection, play, tenderness or resourcing to happen. It is an opportunity to digest -or be with- all that you hold at this point in the festival. The session will open with a circle, be performed in silence, and close with an opportunity to harvest and share the fruits of your experience with community.
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Emotional risk: 5/10
Physically Active 5/10
Physically Restorative 6/10
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