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 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 erotics through these many streams, collectively. Landback.

*Living on Unceded Ancestral Ohlone Land, margit offers all workshops in so-called East Bay at no cost for Ohlone people and all people native to the Amerikas who would like to practice.

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The vivid grove is a field where the inextricable connection between embodiment, language and culture can grow.

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About

Margit Galanter is a movement educator, dance poet, and visionary cultural instigator living in the East Bay, California, unceded Ohlone land. Hir unique practice helps people access the potency of movement. Margit is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, qigong teacher, acupressurist, and movement artist. Margit teaches workshops, works one-on-one with clients, performs, curates, and collaborates with practitioners from a wide range of media and disciplines, worldwide.
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While the practices of these pages are shared through Margit’s unique lens, and the projects are grounded in their instigations, the work of the vivid grove is necessarily a collective project on all levels; through the lineages of practice, through her teachers, with their collaborators, with the environment, and with the folks who were involved in the creation of this site.
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Gender pronouns: shx / hir / ze / zir / they / them / dyke

Contact
Phone Messages: (510) 761-6097 margit [at] vividgrove.org

Margit practices in the East Bay and in San Francisco, and offers workshops, sessions, and residencies inter/nationally.

East Bay
Kokoro Clinic
399-15th street
Oakland, CA

Finnish Hall
Berkeley, CA

San Francisco
The Corner Studio
1910 Bryant St.
San Francisco, CA 94110

#HonorNativeLand / LANDBACK ThTThe vivid grove respectfully acknowledges living , practicing, working , and sharing time on the ancestral land of the Chochenyo Ohlone people, who have stewarded this land throughout the generations. In honor of the people, place and life here.

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