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the vivid grove
Qigong Schedule:






FALL QIGONG 2023

Live Fall Qigong Series

Thursday Afternoons, 5-6pm
October 12 - November 16
Ohlone Park + Finnish Hall, Berkeley
$120 by October 6 // $150 after // Drop-in $25



Wild Goose Qigong is a breathtakingly beautiful Taoist alchemical movement practice that harmonizes movement, energetic flow, and helps people experience the inheritance of their self-healing. The forms emerged over a thousand years ago, inspired by the movements of geese. In this six-week series, we will concentrate on Wild Goose movement sets, qigong movement warm-ups and meditations. Our weekly classes will incorporate inquiries from the group, and various sections from the mosaic of Wild Goose sets — each one offers different qualities and principles of the movement of our qi.

Six-week series live outdoors and in studio. We will meet outside as long as the weather permits, and practice inside as the season turns and offers smoky surprises. Drop-ins welcome, please register in advance and text me that you are coming. Price includes cost of space rental.


Payment


Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Checks, Zelle, and cash also welcome.  Please account for any extra fees with service.

Please note which course you are taking through email or within the cash app, and send me your email address and phone contact.

Drop-ins welcome, - it is important you sign up in advance to find location live or online. Please register through payment and notify me by text.

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Fall Qigong Online

Wednesday Afternoons, 5 - 6 pm PST
Oct 18 - Nov 20
$108 by Oct 20 / $140 After / $25 single classes

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Zoom Link shared with registration
Video Available Weekly After Class for your Practice




Wild Goose Qigong is a breathtakingly beautiful Taoist alchemical movement practice that harmonizes movement, energetic flow, and helps people experience the inheritance of their self-healing. The forms emerged over a thousand years ago, inspired by the movements of geese. In this six-week series, we will concentrate on Wild Goose movement sets, qigong movement warm-ups and meditations. Our weekly classes will incorporate inquiries from the group, and various sections from the mosaic of Wild Goose sets — each one offers different qualities and principles of the movement of our qi.

Qigong classes are offered as series to promote focused intention and ongoing practice. You are welcome to come to Zoom class live - please do if you are able! —  and if you sign up for the series or drop-in, you will receive weekly video links to practice on your own timing.

** As part of your registration, please send me your email address so I can send you the video link **

For Drop-ins, once you have joined the class, you are welcome to come other times by sending your weekly payment; please notify me by text/email that you are coming in advance.


Payment


Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Checks, Zelle, and cash also welcome.  Please account for any extra fees with service.

Please note which course you are taking through email or within the cash app, and send me your email address and phone contact.

Drop-ins welcome, - it is important you sign up in advance to find location live or online. Please register through payment and notify me by text.


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December, Coming Up:

Winter Qigong Afternoon Retreat: Fluid Roots, Instinct, and Deep Nourishment

Finnish Hall + Online
Two segments, one online and one live, dates TBA



Winter Qigong retreat will provide a space for deep winter nourishment — of the body-being and the mind.  We will practice movement and meditations, and take time to converse and learn about Chinese energetic principles germane for the season, particularly focusing on the elemental force Water, – our inheritance, instinct, and the unknown. In our time together, we will access some basic, potent principles that underlie our cultivation of qi — our vital breath. This will be an opportunity to deepen your qigong practice / praxis in a movement sanctuary as we head into the center of winter.








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Spring Qigong Online ~ Session Two


April 11 - May 16
Tuesday Afternoons, 5-6:15pm PST



$120 for series, register by April 5 / $25 single classes
Zoom with video link for later viewing, shared upon registration


Wild Goose Qigong is a Taoist healing movement arts practice that supports health and energetic flow through the body in relation to our surroundings, the elements, and our life source. Wild Goose is a breathtakingly beautiful set of forms that helps people experience the inheritance of their self-healing through the dynamics of active movement, receptivity, and quiet. This access, — both calming and energizing — takes place through the practice of harmonizing movement, breath, attention.

In this six-week series, our practice will concentrate on Wild Goose sets, and additionally we will practice foundational qigong movement warm-ups, including healing sounds and meditations. The forms emerged over a thousand years ago, inspired by the movements of geese, and were popularized in China after centuries of hermetic and family lineage through the late qigong brilliant Yang Mei-jun. Our weekly classes will incorporate interests from the group, and sections from the several Wild Goose sets — each one offers different qualities of the movement of our qi.

Movements can be modified for all body types and people, qigong for everyone. Please do let me know if you have any access concerns and we will accommodate as best practice.

Payment

Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Checks and cash also welcome. Please pay any administrative fees and note which class series when registering, and send me your email!














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Early Spring Season, 2023 ~



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1)

Early Spring Qigong Online ~ Session One
Feb 21 - April 4 (No class March 21)
Tuesday Afternoons, 5-6:15pm PST



$108 for series, register by February 17 / $120 After / $25 single classes

Zoom with video link for later viewing, shared upon registration


Wild Goose Qigong is a Taoist healing movement arts practice that supports health and energetic flow through the body in relation to our surroundings, the elements, and our life source. Wild Goose is a breathtakingly beautiful set of forms that helps people experience the inheritance of their self-healing through the dynamics of active movement, receptivity, and quiet. This access, — both calming and energizing — takes place through the practice of harmonizing movement, breath, attention.  In this six-week series, our practice will concentrate on Wild Goose sets, and additionally we will practice foundational qigong movement warm-ups, including healing sounds and meditations. The forms emerged over a thousand years ago, inspired by the movements of geese, and were popularized in China after centuries of hermetic and family lineage through the late qigong brilliant Yang Mei-jun. Our weekly classes will incorporate interests from the group, and sections from the several Wild Goose sets — each one offers different qualities of the movement of our qi.

Movements can be modified for all body types and people, qigong for everyone. Please do let me know if you have any access concerns and we can accommodate.

There will be a second session following, so we can continue throughout the spring, as well as classes outdoors in the East Bay, Ohlone land.


Payment

Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Checks and cash also welcome. Please pay any administrative fees and note which class series when registering.


2) LIVE OUTSIDE

Saturday Qigong Workshop Outdoors
February 25, 11am - 1pm
Ohlone Park, Berkeley
$30 / Register by February 22




& 3)

Spring Qigong Series Outdoors
March 23 - April 20 (No class April 6)
Thursday Afternoons, 5-6:15pm, Ohlone Park, Berkeley
$72 for series, register by March 17 / $85 After / $25 single classes

Wild Goose Qigong is a breathtakingly beautiful Taoist alchemical movement practice that harmonizes movement, energetic flow, and helps people experience the inheritance of their self-healing. The forms emerged over a thousand years ago, inspired by the geese. In this weekend workshop and four-week series, we will concentrate on Wild Goose movement sets, qigong movement warm-ups and meditations. Both the Saturday workshop and weekly classes will incorporate inquiries from the group, and various sections from the many Wild Goose sets — each one offers different qualities and principles of the movement of our qi.

We will meet outside, supporting nourishment as well as practice with the elements in the spring. The class will offer simple qigong series that will be repeated, with discussion of how qi moves, — to cultivate qi, and to develop an ongoing practice for those who participate. We will focus on the connectedness of movement, awareness, and breath as it pertains to the Wood Elemental Force, for Spring. Wood: support your capacity to envision and make ideas in your life.

Movements can be modified for all body types and people, qigong for everyone. Please do let me know if you have any access concerns and we can accommodate.

Payment

Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Checks and cash also welcome. Please pay any administrative fees and note which class series when registering.




Please contact me if the rates are prohibitive. There are always work trade options, and sliding scales for those genuinely in need.








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Fall Newsletter


Winter Qigong Afternoon Retreat: Fluid Roots, Instinct, and Deep Nourishment



Saturday Afternoon, Dec 10, 1 - 4pm
Ellen Webb Studio, Emeryville, $40

Time change ! 1-4pm.

Winter Qigong retreat will provide a space for deep winter nourishment — of the body-being and the mind.  We will practice movement and meditations, and take time to converse and learn about Chinese energetic principles germane for the season, particularly focusing on the elemental force Water, – our inheritance, instinct, and the unknown. In our time together, we will access some basic, potent principles that underlie our cultivation of qi — our vital breath. With special attention to the sets of Bone Marrow Cleansing and Wild Goose Kidney Nourishing Qigong. This will be an opportunity to deepen your qigong practice / praxis in a movement sanctuary as we head into the center of winter.

Registration:
Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Checks, Zelle, and cash also welcome.  Please account for any extra fees with service.

Please note your purchase through email or within the cash app and remember to send me your email address.

Please let me know if cost is prohibitive or if partial trade would make it more possible.



Fall Qigong Online

Tuesday Afternoons, 5 - 6:15 pm PST
Oct 25 - Dec 13
$100 Register by Oct 20 / $140 After
$25 single classes with video link

Zoom Link shared with registration
Video Available Weekly After Class for your Practice


Wild Goose Qigong is a breathtakingly beautiful Taoist alchemical movement practice that harmonizes movement, energetic flow, and helps people experience the inheritance of their self-healing. The forms emerged over a thousand years ago, inspired by the movements of geese. In this six-week series, we will concentrate on Wild Goose movement sets, qigong movement warm-ups and meditations. Our weekly classes will incorporate inquiries from the group, and various sections from the mosaic of Wild Goose sets — each one offers different qualities and principles of the movement of our qi.

Qigong classes are offered as series to promote focused intention and ongoing practice. You are welcome to come to Zoom class live - please do if you are able! —  and if you sign up for the series, you will receive a weekly video link to practice with on your own timing. Individual classes also available.

** As part of your registration, please send me your email address so I can send you the video link **

For Drop-Ins, once you have joined the class for a single drop-in, you are welcome to come other times by sending your weekly payment.


Payment
Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Checks, Zelle, and cash also welcome.  Please account for any extra fees with service.

Please note your purchase through email or within the cash app and remember to send me your email address.

Outdoor Fall Qigong Workshop



Saturday, November 5, 11- 1pm
Local Berkeley Park, $20 - 25 suggested
Register through payment by Nov 1


This two-hour session will focus on practices to harmonize for the fall, based on Wild Goose Qigong and the Five Dynamics. Deepen your qigong experience through a full practice in the sanctuary of earth and sky. We will practice Wild Goose qigong exercises and sections from sets. The focus of our time together will be to learn some basic and potent principles that underlie the forms and to cultivate qi — our vital breath.


Payment
Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Checks, Zelle, and cash also welcome.  Please account for any extra fees with service.

Please note your purchase through email or within the cash app and remember to send me your email address.

Coming Up:
Winter Qigong Afternoon Retreat: Fluid Roots, Instinct, and Deep Nourishment

Saturday Afternoon, Dec 10, 1- 4 pm
Ellen Webb Studio, Emeryville


Winter Qigong retreat will provide a space for deep winter nourishment — of the body-being and the mind.  We will practice movement and meditations, and take time to converse and learn about Chinese energetic principles germane for the season, particularly focusing on the elemental force Water, – our inheritance, instinct, and the unknown. In our time together, we will access some basic, potent principles that underlie our cultivation of qi — our vital breath. This will be an opportunity to deepen your qigong practice / praxis in a movement sanctuary as we head into the center of winter.



Embodied Mentorship, Somatic Coaching, and  Creative Life Practice Support ~ Available by Appointment

Embdied 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, Five Dynamics, 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




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SPRING 2022
Live Qigong Spring Series Outdoors



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



Wild Goose Qigong is a breathtakingly beautiful Taoist alchemical movement practice that harmonizes movement, energetic flow, and helps people experience the inheritance of their self-healing. The forms emerged over a thousand years ago, inspired by the movements of geese. In this two-part (each four-week) series, we will concentrate on Wild Goose movement sets, qigong movement warm-ups and meditations. Our weekly classes will incorporate inquiries from the group, and various sections from the mosaic of Wild Goose sets — each one offers different qualities and principles of the movement of our qi.

We will meet outside, supporting nourishment as well as practice with the elements in the spring. The class will offer simple qigong movements that will be repeated, with discussion of how qi moves, — to cultivate qi, and to develop an ongoing practice for those who participate. We will focus on the connectedness of movement, awareness, and breath as it pertains to the Wood Elemental Force, for Spring. Wood: support your capacity to envision and make ideas in your life.

Movements can be modified for all body types and people, qigong for everyone. Please do let me know if you have any access concerns and we can accommodate.

Payment


Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Checks and cash also welcome. Please the class series in the note when registering, and make sure I have your email!








Early Spring Series ~
Wild Goose Qigong Online


Tuesdays 5 - 6:15pm PST, February 15 - March 29
$100 for series, register by February 11 / $120 After / $25 single classes
Zoom with video link for later viewing, shared upon registration

Wild Goose Qigong is a primarily Taoist alchemical movement practice that harmonizes movement, breathing, attention, and energetic flow initiated in pre-empirical land of China. This breathtakingly beautiful set of forms helps people experience the inheritance of their self-healing through a multitude of qi movements and tones. In this seven-week series, our practice will concentrate on Wild Goose sets, and additionally we will practice foundational qigong movement warm-ups, healing sounds practices, and meditations. The forms emerged over a thousand years ago, inspired by the movements of geese, and were popularized in China after centuries of hermetic and family lineage through qigong master Yang Mei-jun. Our weekly classes will incorporate interests from the group, and sections from the several Wild Goose sets — each one offers different qualities of the movement of our qi.

Movements can be modified for all body types and people, qigong for everyone. Please do let me know if you have any access concerns and we can accommodate.

I will also offer outdoor qigong sessions this spring, as well as a second spring series starting up in early April. More info soon.


Payment
Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Checks and cash also welcome. Please the class series in the note when registering.
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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.



Coming Up:

Tunings &
Winter Qigong / Movement Retreat Series

Dates Coming Up Soon
For Zoom and small gatherings in the studio




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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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

Wild Goose Qigong is a breathtakingly beautiful Taoist alchemical movement practice that harmonizes movement, breathing, attention, and energetic flow. It helps people experience the inheritance of their self-healing. In this nine-week series, our practice will concentrate on Wild Goose sets, and additionally we will practice foundational qigong movement warm-ups, healing sounds practices, and meditations. The forms emerged over a thousand years ago, inspired by the movements of geese, and were popularized in China after centuries of privacy through qigong master Yang Mei-jun. Our weekly classes will incorporate interests from the group, and sections from the several Wild Goose sets — each one offers different qualities of the movement of our qi.

I will also offer outdoor qigong sessions if there is a small group ready for it :) imagine that, outside together > get in touch if you are interested.

Movements can be modified for all body types and people, qigong for everyone!

Payment
Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Checks and cash also welcome. Please write what you would like to purchase in a note or within the cash application.Monthly Saturday Outdoor Movement Sessions


Earth Qi Videos

Two Videos For Sale, Online
$50 for both, $30 Each

Qigong movement, meditations, and Taoist principles / theories supportive for the seasonal elemental force of Earth. These two videos are available online for you to watch or download.

Video 1) Earth Qigong Practice: an hour-long video qigong practice video based on Wild Goose qigong focused on supporting our relationship with the Earth phase. Includes 12 Treasures, meditations, and segments of primordial qigong.

Video 2) Warm Core Qigong Praxis: A video based in Taoist theory and supportive embodied practice for the elemental force of Earth and its energetic counterpart, intention (yi).

Through harmonizing our earth , we can cultivate our warm core, the basis of our embodiment. These videos offer some foundational practices and principles that underlie our cultivation of qi — our vital breath, and the vivid space that comes from cultivating yi.

These videos can be used throughout the year.


Payment
Venmo: @Margit-Galanter / PayPal: http://paypal.me/MargitGalanter / Cash App: $MargitGalanter / Checks and cash also welcome. Please write what you would like to purchase in a note or within the cash app.

Coming Up:

Winter Qigong Retreat Series ~
Bone Marrow Cleansing Qigong

Dates Coming Up Soon
Zoom with Video Link for Later Viewing

This Winter Qigong retreat series will provide a space for deep winter nourishment — of the body-being and the mind.  Our focus in qigong will be to practice Bone Marrow Cleansing. We will practice movement and meditations, and take time to converse and learn about Chinese energetic principles germane for the season, particularly focusing on the elemental force Water, – our inheritance, instinct, and the unknown. In our time together, we will access some basic, potent principles that underlie our cultivation of qi — our vital breath.  This will be an opportunity to deepen your qigong practice / praxis in a movement sanctuary as we head into the center of winter.


 



the vivid grove Racial Justice Fellowship


The vivid grove program offers three Racial Justice Fellowships – with preferences to  QTBIPOC. Fellowship participants  take several workshops throughout the fall to spring season, 2019 - 2020, and will be invited to figure out what is germane/how it feels right  to participate, based on the offerings of the season, and create an agreement with Margit for the year.

The Fellowship exists so that the vivid grove can grow into deeper inclusivity, equity, and consciousness. It carries an intention to cultivate  a place to deepen in solidarity, to offer teachings to those who might not otherwise have the capacity to attend, and for MG to further learn how to support collective liberation.

with Loving Curiosity

More info on the Fellowship
vg Equity, Inclusion and Racial Justice Statement





Sessions in The Feldenkrais Method, Chinese Energetics, and Movement Arts


Tailor-made, private, and small group sessions in the Feldenkrais Method, qigong, embodied mentorships, and tailor-made collaborative movement investigations. 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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Photos by esco lacqua, Mary Peterson, and Chani Bockwinkel


 


















vivid grove
Season Bundle

The vivid grove program is a synthesis of movement arts, Chinese energetics, collective learning, and creative research. The courses access these different streams to support vitality and exuberance as the basis for artistic development and an engaged, embodied life. The courses are influenced by the brilliance of the elements, seasons, practice, and our unique human signatures,  — aka human nature culture.  If you are interested in the full season or full year of practices, get in touch.







vivid grove
Racial Justice Fellowship


The vivid grove program offers three Racial Justice Fellowships – with preferences to immigrant ppl and  QT/BIPOC. Perhaps you would be interested in applying. This would enable you to take several workshops throughout the fall to spring season, 2019 - 2020. You will be invited to figure out what is germane/how it feels right for you to participate, based on the offerings of the season, and create an agreement with Margit for the year.

This is built so that this work can grow into deeper inclusivity, equity, and consciousness. The Fellowship carries an intention to cultivate the vivid grove as a place to deepen in solidarity, to offer teachings to those who might not otherwise feel the capacity to attend, and for MG to further learn how to support collective liberation and challenge supremacy in hir teaching and offerings.
As part of the Fellowship, Fellowship participants will meet with MG  a minimum of twice between now and May, to have conversations in reflections of the work;  will  meet with the Fellowship as a group, both in shared inquiry about what came from the workshops, what benefits and what challenges, and for collective imagining; Fellwoship participants will  be required to give a written reflection to be completed by the end of the Fellowship, which can also include visual / audio / and creative approaches.

Does this interest?
To apply, please write a paragraph about why this might be a good match for you, and let me know what you are interested in taking this season by October 1.
Contact margit > margit@vividgrove.org 
Previous Fellowship members are welcome to apply, and are welcome to be involved - we can continue an agreement together to evolve in ideas, creativity, and sharing.


To make the space a place for all people
with Loving Curiosity













vivid grove Registration


All registration finalized with payment. Please pay with Paypal with margit@vividgrove.org      

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.

margit@vividgrove.org
(510) 761 - 6097