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Current Offerings:

Qigong, Movements, and Private Sessions

Spring Qigong Series ~ Wild Goose Qigong Online Tuesdays 5 - 6:15pm PST, April 6 - June 1 $100 for series, register by April 2 / $120 After / $25 single classes Zoom with video link for later viewing, shared upon registration

Next Session: Saturday April 3, 3 - 5pm East Bay Park, $ By Donation.

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Vivid Grove Racial Justice Fellowship

Friday Eve, Sept 18, 5 - 7pm Online + Sunday Sept 20, 2 - 5pm ~ Outdoors Qi Practice, Meditations, & Gathering for Sharing Time and Intentions (weather permits) $75, or $50 per session

A Continental Garden: Worldwide Circulation Practice Streaming from USA Sunday, Sept 13, 10 - 11:30am PST Free

Coming up: New Landings Fall Sessions ~ Embodied Earth Language

🌼   🔥  🔥  🔥  🔥   🌼   Friday Eve, June 26, 5 - 7pm Online + Saturday June 27, 11am - 1pm ~ Outdoors $80 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 Classes Through July 2 Mondays, 4pm +  Thursdays, 5pm ~ Online Qigong and Meditations Drop-ins, $25 Suggested July 6 - 30 ~ Final Summer Sessions Tuesdays 5pm ~ Outdoor Summer Qigong   Thursdays, 5pm ~ Online Qigong and Meditations Four-session Series, $70 Each Through July 2, Monday and Thursday are two separate series, and drop-ins are still welcome. In July, Tuesday and Thursday are also both separate series, each hour-long 4-session series ~ Tuesday is outside;  Thursday is online. Qigong classes are offered as series to promote focused intention and ongoing practice. Gentle Qigong movement and meditations based in the practices of Taoist energetic medicine and Wild Goose Qigong.  In July, Tuesday Outdoor series starts July 7 - 28, Thursday Online series starts July 9 - 30. $70 for either series; Drop-in rate is $25 suggested. NOTAFLOF Zoom Link Info https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86583132698?pwd=YTdrWThZQ2Via2dYSVRETFgrUFhQUT09 Meeting ID: 865 8313 2698; Password: 950933 Payment Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Cash App: $MargitGalanter / Checks and cash also welcome. NOTAFLOF, please be in touch if you would like to apply for the Racial Justice Fellowship, or if you need a scholarship for coursework. New Landings Summer Sessions: Moving and Writing 3 Wednesday Sessions, July 8 - 22, 5 - 7pm Live Oak Park, Berkeley. Please Register by July 5 By Donation, $60 suggested, pay what you can. This is a space for landing. In the past several months we have been facing myriad devastations and consequent uprisings. How can a practice of embodiment and receptivity with our surroundings provide a key for just actions in this time? Through moving, writing, dialogue and quietude, we will practice living communication with ourselves, the environment, and one another. This is a place for subtle explorations to hone / home our collective and respective liberation, and to inquire about reinvisioning the somatic experience - how to access a sense of belonging alongside the painful realities of settler colonialism,  and how to find rooted connection with planet earth. Inspired by years research with Suprapto Suryodarmo, contemplative dance practices, collaborations with artists such as Cave Coast Continuum and Eleni Stecopoulos, and the potency of these times. PLEASE REGISTER BY JULY 5. Embodied Mentorship and  Support for Creation ~ Available 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 Vivid Grove Racial Justice Fellowship The vivid grove program offers three 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 the season, and create an agreement with Margit for the year. 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 The Power is in Connection "This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There's no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. This is how civilizations heal."                             ~ Toni Morrison The foundations of this country are based on the labor, care, violence and deaths of black, indigenous, and people of color. What could reparations and a just transition look like today?  So much is being uncovered in this time. Displacements are growing exponentially, and the inextricable links between racial violence and ecological destruction are being increasingly revealed. More than ever it's time to explore the power of engaging through collective liberation and creative evolution. Like so many of us, I have been reading, gathering, watching, discussing, and archiving resources. Here are just some. Thank you to all who have provided links over these months, including dear inspirators Pearl Ubungen, Jess Dorrance, Raha Behnam, Gopi Sheldon, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, and so many others: Articles / Writing Taking a Loving Warrior Stance and Investing in Black Liberation A Love Letter to the Movement Raha Behnam Ways to be in Action against anti-Black Racism Race and Privilege, An Overdue Conversation Kia La Beija is Prioritizing Stillness Anti-Racism Resources for White People The Indigenous Communities that Predicted Covid-19 Video / Audio KidLit4BlackLives ~ Video See Black Womxn part 1 ~ Video See Black Womxn part 2 ~ Video The Poor News Network How to be an Anti-Racist, Ibraham X Kendi at Berkeley ~ Video What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does it Matter? Robin DG Kelley ~ Video Alchemy of the Reset ~ Video Somatic Abolitionism ~ Audio Pdf's Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Davis ~ PDF Queering Prison Abolition, Now ~ PDF Chameleon: A Syllabus for Survival ~ PDF Websites Black-Owned Restaurants in the Bay Area Prison Activist Resource Center Young Women's Freedom Center mayfield brooks ~ Improvising While Black The Nap Ministry Black Trans Advocacy Coalition Collective Practice to End White Supremacy Cultural Coherence: Embodied Antiracism for White People IMAGES: Vivid Grove Logo by Mara Poliak. Photos: Qigong by asha esco; Tree Roof by Rosemary Hannon; Relay Encounter - SP, by Chani Bockwinkel, Racial Justice Fellowship Amerta photo by Mary Peterson. Mondays, 4pm ~ Online Qigong and Meditations  Tuesdays 5pm ~ Outdoor Summer Qigong  ~ Starts June 16 in Berkeley, 3-Week Series Thursdays, 5pm ~ Online Qigong and Meditations Monday and Thursday Classes meet once per week, an hour-long each, through July 2. $60 for monthly series, $120 for both Mon + Thurs. $25 suggested drop-in rate. In June, Qigong classes will be offered as monthly series, to promote focused intention and ongoing practice. Gentle Qigong movement and meditations based in the practices of Taoist energetic medicine and Wild Goose Qigong. If you need to drop in, it is welcome, at the higher rate. These monthly series go through the end of the week, June 29 + July 2. The Outdoor Summer Tuesday Qigong Series  will start June 16 and run for 3 sessions. Please get in touch if you would like to join. $60 for 3-week series. LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86583132698?pwd=YTdrWThZQ2Via2dYSVRETFgrUFhQUT09 Meeting ID: 865 8313 2698    Password: 950933 Payment Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Cash App: $MargitGalanter / Checks and cash also welcome. NOTAFLOF, please be in touch if you would like to apply for the Racial Justice Fellowship, or if you need a scholarship for coursework. Summer Fire Retreat in June                 🌼   🔥  🔥  🔥  🔥   🌼   Friday Eve, June 26, 5 - 7pm, Online + Saturday June 27, 11am - 1pm ~ Outdoors, Berkeley or Online. $60 ~ Register by June 19, $80 After 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. Garden Movement Fridays, June 19 - July 24, 12 noon - 2pm (no class July 3). $125-150 for series. A five-session weekly series in Amerta Movement. We will be practicing Amerta Movement as a way to develop our capacities to be in dialogue with land, neighborhood, our movement potential, and the atmospherics of our culturality. Free movement in conversation with our environment, respectively, together, and virtually. We will alternate between gathering online and practicing outside. It is possible that if a few were interested, we could meet in the same place sometimes for those local. If you are interested in learning some foundational practices of Amerta Movement, this is it, and this is also a way to deepen in this dimensional and vital practice if you have already experienced it. Please contact me if you are interested. There are only  a few places left for this class, so if you are interested, best to get in touch soon if you would like to register. On Amerta Movement Private Sessions in Mentorship and 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

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.

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Payment
Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Cash App: $MargitGalanter / Checks and cash also welcome.

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.

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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