     Body Visible/Body Invisible
* An Intensive In-Depth Study of Authentic Movement *
   with Cassielle Bull

   September 2011-June 2012

The Program:

Body Visible Body Invisible consists of ten weekend intensives, September 2011 thru May 2012 - learning to facilitate authentic movement groups. Authentic movement is a profound though simple form where an individual moves with eyes closed in the presence of a witness – allowing for a deep re-connection with self and other. It allows us to explore and learn how feelings, memories, energy, and our connection to a larger reality move in our body. Growing our awareness in this way becomes a doorway to act on and in our world with a sense of authenticity, accessing the wisdom of our moving body to live in our essence and effect change in our world.

To maximize intimacy and trust the intensive is held at the Maacama Retreat Center in Sonoma County - 10 wooded acres on a secluded river two hours north of San Francisco between Calistoga and Healdsburg. We will meet in a beautiful high-ceilinged studio, prepare meals together in a big country kitchen and sleep in shared living quarters.

Any participant interested in certification must commit themselves to the entire intensive. Because of the nature of this work, the size of the group will be limited. It is possible to participate in individual weekends between September and December. Each weekend will begin Friday evening at 7:00 and end Sunday at 5:00.

We live in times of ever-increasing fragmentation and alienation – from each other, and from our own bodies. Our realities become ever more virtual, and less simple and tangible. In this state, it becomes difficult to know how to act in a way that will transform or even help our world.

Body Visible/Body Invisible (BVBI) is an exploration of your own personal evolution using authentic movement and related forms to understand the flow of your own life force. Exploring the interactions between the visible and invisible realms you can learn how the wisdom of the moving body can deepen your work as therapists, teachers, artists, parents, and evolving human beings.

Teacher & Facilitator:

Cassielle Bull, MA, BC-DTR, creator of the Body Visible/Body Invisible training has been training students in Authentic Movement since 1993. She has studied, practiced and taught the healing and creative aspects of movement for over 30 years. Cassielle is formally trained as a dancer and has performed in New York, California, and Colorado. She received her training in Authentic Movement at the Institute for the Study of Authentic Movement in New York. A faculty member of Antioch University Seattle and dance movement therapist, she currently co-directs LEAPNOW, and was formerly the Director of the Somatic Psychology Department at Naropa University. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Hendricks Institute and is certified in the Hendricks Method of Body-Centered Transformation and Conscious Relationship Transformation. Her primary commitment is to creativity and embodied education as a primary vehicle for change in this world.

Cost:

$3,200.00 (for the full training) $395 per weekend

Dates:

2011 Sept. 16, 17, 18 Oct. 7, 8, 9 Nov. 11, 12, 13 Dec. 9, 10, 11

These weekends in the first half of the training may be attended individually - without committing yet to the full year-long training.

2012 Jan. 13, 14, 15 Feb. 17, 18, 19 March 2, 3, 4

March 30, 31 & April 1 April 13, 14, 15 May 25, 26, 27

To apply and for more information, please download the Information & Application packet here. After reading through the information packet, please feel free to contact Cassie Bull for more information (phone number is in the Info packet.)