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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.
Photo: Marcy Reynolds
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Qigong class, Dover Park, photo: esco lacqua

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, previous Racial Justice Fellowship participants and life art collaborators, 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, Space Holder and Integration Facilitator
Vivid Grove Programs and the Racial Justice Fellowship
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 e cultivate new practices + recognize the creation that I am, in the forest I live.
-bae laurel, plant spirited mover, earth worker, multidisciplinary artist
VG Creative Art Evolution Guild
I loved the Guild! It offered me space and time and breathing room to create... Everything was honored. All the ingredients I needed to start growing. One more time!
—vivid grove art evolution participant
Mentorship and Sessions
Margit is a well of knowledge, experience and potency that I am lucky to be connected to. They provide such a richness of understanding and connections to movement and somatic practices that I feel deeply held by their wisdom. And so grateful for hir time. I am still feeling the reverberations of what shx shared with me and I can feel that it has put me on a track to return to myself. I look forward to continuing to be connected in whatever ways. 
— Raha Behnam
Mentorship and Sessions
I reached out to Margit when I was experiencing overwhelming stuckness in my creative and personal practices. I wish I had done it sooner: their dynamic way of working makes so much possible. Margit’s dexterity with the forces of the earth and the forces of the psyche is special: in a session with them it often feels like each element is present and in concert. They are sensitive to the gifts and the struggles that come alongside neurodiversity, and are a great ally in tuning behavior and attention.
— Frank, artist and mentorship client
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
The Vivid Grove for moving and learning
Yes, the poet has no words to express the impact except to say beautiful, peaceful, kinetic, a gift.
—Denise, poet, dance dramaturge, visual artist, qigong student