vivid grove
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Qigong, Tuning Scores, and Private Sessions
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Spring Season 2022
Live Qigong Spring Series Outdoors
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Wednesday Afternoons
5 - 6:15pm PST - Dover Park, Oakland
Series 1: March 9 - 30 * STARTS SO SOON!
Series 2: April 27 - May 18
$75 each, $145 for both by March 7 // $85 per series after / $25 drop-in
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TUNING COLLECTIVE
Composition, Communication, Context

A Tuning Workshop and Mentorship Group
6 Sessions This Spring, Outdoors East Bay, 2-5pm
Saturdays: March 19, 26, April 16, 30, May 14, 21
$125 for the series / $40 each / Register by March 16
(full series highly encouraged, even if you miss a few!)
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Embodied Mentorship, Somatic Coaching, and Creative Life Practice Support ~ Available by Appointment
Tailor-made, private, and small group sessions in embodied mentorships, somatic coaching, the Feldenkrais Method, Qigong, and bespoke creative movement and life practice. Offerings are based on the vital need to access our capacities for intimacy with our body-being in place, in this time, for utilizing embodied ecologies, aesthetic research and critical consciousness as a compass for creation and intention. This personal attention can help you access significant changes in your life, help to develop your own foundational practices, provide a facilitated space for you to follow your unique embodied inquiries, and can help you access your creative power, clarity, and grace. We can draw from the whole toolbox, and are guided by your interest and what emerges through our collective development.
These sessions are available both online as well as in a small beautiful studio downtown Oakland ~ Covid safe, indeed.
More on Movement Sessions

I I am so overjoyed to be joining the fantastic Kokoro Clinic and Studio in downtown Oakland, where I have started to be in residence (@kokoroclinic). It's a beautiful space for sessions and small classes, with a Covid-safe protocol. As I have begun my time there, it has invigorated me to make offerings and to re-evaluate what is possible for collectivity and commune now. Through the intensities and devastations of pandemics, shelter-in-place, and the revelations of racial upheavals, after a first year of hermetic zoom-academic and deep focus in Practice-as-Research at UC Davis, after an uprising of consciousness about indigenous lifeways, and #landback, after Radius at Counterpulse last weekend, after the power of tuning4armageddon, after returning to being with students and clients Live, I am so grateful for the power of community and to remember the potency of dancing, attuning, touch, and movement life to precipitate transformation and right relation.
Would you like for me to witness your creative process, support your embodiment, your land ethic, movement practice, intention and action, to support your ideas and visions? Get in touch if you would like to work together. My shingle is up and I am at ur service.
Vivid Grove Racial Justice Fellowship

The vivid grove program offers full-season Racial Justice Fellowships with preferences to QT/BIPOC. Fellowship participants take several workshops throughout the season, are invited to develop a program of participation based on the offerings of over the course of a year, and create an agreement based on their intentions. Fellowships are also available for individual programs and workshops. The Fellowship exists so that the vivid grove can mutually cultivate in equity and consciousness. For deepening in solidarity, to offer teachings to those who might not otherwise have the capacity to attend, and to participate in steps towards collective liberation. What has developed over time through the Fellowship is an ever-evolving community, sharing time and spirited ideas.
with loving curiosity
More info on the Fellowship
vg Equity, Inclusion and Racial Justice Statement
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***PREVIOUS SCHEDULES SINCE SHELTER - IN - PLACE |
Earth Qi Retreat in September
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June Summer Fire Retreat
![]() A workshop space to delve into the qigong movement, meditations, and Taoist principles / theories supportive for the seasonal elemental force of Fire. Through harmonizing our vital forces in the summer season, we will cultivate the aspects of our body-being that are nurtured through the elemental force of Fire, and its energetic pair, our heart-mind, or shen. In this retreat, we will access some foundational qi practices and principles that underlie our cultivation of qi — our vital breath, and the vivid space that comes from cultivating shen. This is how we root in spirit. Friday evening will be an online class and Saturday will offer the opportunity to practice either online or in person. Payment Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Cash App: $MargitGalanter / Checks and cash also welcome. Weekly Qigong ClassesThrough July 2
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Online Qigong Classes During Shelter In Place ~ MAY
Here is the May qigong schedule to nourish our body-beings. I am offering some more classes per week as an exploration in deep resource-building as we continue to shelter in place, in whatever way it takes place for each of us. Margit is based in Berkeley, CA; all times are PST.
Mondays, 4pm ~ Qigong and Meditations
Tuesdays 2pm ~ Nourishing the Root Qigong
Thursdays, 5pm ~ Qigong and Meditations
Friday Afternoon ~ Local Outdoor Qigong

Gentle Qigong movement and meditations based in the practices of Taoist energetic medicines and Wild Goose Qigong. Tuesday's class is especially focused on gentle qigong, meditations, and slow movement to nourish the root connections of the movements of life.
Fridays are an opportunity for a small group (4 students maximum) to practice outside in a West Berkeley park. If you are interested, please get in touch, suggested $20.
Four Weekly Hour-long Classes through May, Monday, Tues, Thurs, Friday
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/215984648?pwd=QTNZTGJaSnFzTkpZdW5DQzNWaW9QZz09
Meeting ID: 215 984 648 / Password: 231559
$15 Suggested Donation. Fridays suggested $20. Pay as you are able, NOTAFLOF.
www.vividgrove.org
Payment
Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Cash App: $MargitGalanter / Checks and cash also welcome.
Tuning
@freeskewl Classes May 13 + 27
Class Info Coming Soon
Through @freeskewl ~ Check them out!
Zoom: zoom.us/j/3093774924 Password: 640262
$ Donations made directly to artists
Through @freeskewl ~ Check them out!
Zoom: zoom.us/j/3093774924 Password: 640262
$ Donations made directly to artists
Private Sessions in the Embodied Arts
~ Available online, by appointment


Tailor-made, private, and small group sessions in the Feldenkrais Method, Qigong, embodied mentorships, and tailor-made collaborative movement investigations. Offerings are based on the vital need to access our capacities for intimacy with our body-being in place, in this time. This personal attention can help you access significant changes in your life, help to develop your own foundational practices, provide a facilitated space for you to follow your unique embodied inquiries, and can help you access your creative power, clarity, and grace.
More on Movement Sessions
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Payment
$15 or Pay what you can. Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Cash App: $MargitGalanter / Checks and cash also welcome.
@freeskewl CLASSES
Tuning mediations for the end-times, new times
How to reimagine the communications between ourselves, one another, and the environment, in real time, in movement? Tuning is a way experience moving-in-relation with the places we inhabit all the time, and expanding from there. These workshops will offer compositional practices and movement meditations that can emerge through embodiment, sensory-perception, screen-time, and our surroundings, sheltering-in-place. Attuning with our body-beings, the virtual, with the light, and our inner light. Dance and movement for breathing, making space and finding place, to nourish life and cultivate life force. What is needed now and forever. Inspired by the luminary Tuning of Lisa Nelson, Suprapto Suryodarmo's Amerta Movement, and the radical connectivity of Taoist healing qigong.
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Tuning Scores are a fascinating mosaic of movement and performance discovery-games originated by Lisa Nelson. The Scores reveal basic elements of action, by attuning to the rich details of composition, behavior, and communication, altogether. They are a multisensorial and kaleidoscopic set of practices that are wildly fun to do. Through the specificity of solo movement warmups, group dancing, and verbal cues, tuning lays out an approach for performance research that can change how you make, perceive, and do in any creative medium.
Payment
Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Cash App: $MargitGalanter / Checks and cash also welcome.
The First Round, March 18 - April 6
@freeskewl CLASSES
Tuning mediations for the end-times, new times
How to reimagine the communications between ourselves, one another, and the environment, in real time, in movement? Tuning is a way experience moving-in-relation with the places we inhabit all the time, and expanding from there. These workshops will offer compositional practices and movement meditations that can emerge through embodiment, sensory-perception, screen-time, and our surroundings, sheltering-in-place. Attuning with our body-beings, the virtual, with the light, and our inner light. Dance and movement for breathing, making space and finding place, to nourish life and cultivate life force. What is needed now and forever. Inspired by the luminary Tuning of Lisa Nelson, Suprapto Suryodarmo's Amerta Movement, and the radical connectivity of Taoist healing qigong.
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Tuning Scores are a fascinating mosaic of movement and performance discovery-games originated by Lisa Nelson. The Scores reveal basic elements of action, by attuning to the rich details of composition, behavior, and communication, altogether. They are a multisensorial and kaleidoscopic set of practices that are wildly fun to do. Through the specificity of solo movement warmups, group dancing, and verbal cues, tuning lays out an approach for performance research that can change how you make, perceive, and do in any creative medium.
Payment
Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Cash App: $MargitGalanter / Checks and cash also welcome.
Details
Currently MARCH 18, 19, 23, 25, 26, 30, April 1, 2, 6. Indeed the classes may extend as we learn more. When I can record them, I will try make them available, as possible. To nourish our body-beings. Please help spread the word.
Zoom Link:https://zoom.us/j/215984648
Meeting ID: 215 984 648

General vivid grove sign-up
If you prefer to pay directly, please send checks to Margit Galanter, 1120 Carleton Street, Berkeley, CA 94702, or contact me directly for other methods. Please let me know you have sent a check, so I can look out for it.
Some work exchange available, and scholarships in special circumstances. For either, please submit a written request.
Payment is non-refundable, but can be transferred to other classes in extraordinary circumstances. If you have any questions, please contact me via email or by phone.
vividgrove@gmail.com
(510) 761 - 6097