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The vivid grove is... a living site for moving, learning, creative evolution, and collective liberatory practices assembled by margit galanter. The vivid grove offers a vision of vitality and exuberance – for individuals and for the collective body.

Visit Practices to learn about the movement forms and embodied practices that are the foundation of the vivid grove - such as Taoist practices and energetics, Feldenkrais, and the movement arts. Here you can find ways to cultivate movement clarity, nourish your whole self, and access your creativity.

Visit Projects to connect with artistic projects and cultural work. Learn about performances, community gatherings, artworks, and ongoing collective investigations.

Visit the Grove to experience a living library. Explore writing, video, and material from years of research ~ an organic archive.

Also nested in the site is Live Space, where you can read new writings on current inquiries.

The vivid grove supports engaged, potent action, and margit is committed to upending oppression, nurturing justice and earth relations through these many streams, collectively.

The vivid grove is a field where the inextricable connection between embodiment, language and culture can grow.
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margit galanter is a movement educator, dance poet, and visionary cultural instigator living in the unceded, ancestral, sacred and stolen Ohlone land, also known as East Bay, California. Their unique practice helps people access the potency of movement. margit is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, qigong teacher, Taoist healing arts practitioner, and movement artist. Shx teaches workshops, works one-on-one with clients, performs, curates, and collaborates with practitioners from a wide range of media and disciplines, worldwide.

Gender pronouns: they~them / shx~hir / ze~zir / dyke

Carmina & Bay, photo: mg
Testimonals
Mentorship and Sessions
I have been lucky enough to be in an on-going mentor relationship with margit for several years. It has been life changing for me personally and professionally and I look forward to many more years of study with her. Put simply, margit is able hold the space for you as a whole person. Whether or not you are in an FI session, an ATM class, a chi gong class environment, or a more intimate mentoring situation, margit's open-hearted nature and compassionate teaching allows for a deeply profound exploration of ourselves, our whole selves, our complete bodymind. The amount of information she is able to communicate with her hands sets her apart as one of the most gifted teachers I've come across. If you have the chance, please give yourself the gift of taking sessions with margit. The knowledge acquired, whether conscious or unconscious, will last you a lifetime.
—Jen, Client and Movement Pilates Instructor
The Vivid Grove for moving and learning
Few words can describe how grateful I am for my time in the vivid grove, a forested realm of movement practice that stirred creative growth throughout my being. Guided by margit’s deep sensitivity and understanding, I found new ways of being through the grounding foundations of Wild Goose qigong, the expansive attunement of workshops, and the connective explorations of the Guild. The vivid grove series allowed me to honor the movement of my soul’s play. It helped me cultivate new practices + recognize the creation that I am, in the forest I live.
—bay laurel, vivid grove participant and Racial Justice Fellow
Private Sessions in Feldenkrais and Acupressure
Working with margit has been one of the richest experiences of my life. Their sessions have provided me with life-long tools for being more deeply in my creative and physical self. Shx works in an intuitive and multi-faceted way, offering a wealth of resources and experience, while remaining attuned to the individual interests and needs of the person they’re working with. I can't recommend them highly enough!
—mara, movement practitioner and herbal apprentice