Saturday, December 21, 2019 at 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST
The Center SF
548 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA
Root down all of the important moments of growth and
awakening, and prepare to clear space for the new year. Through this Ritual
Movement practice, we will prepare our bodies, minds, and spirits for the
closing of one cycle, and the beginning of a new. We do this by honoring our
cyclical nature as women, and our feminine ways of moving- in circles, spirals,
and waves. By returning to these natural pathways, we open all of the channels
of the body, reconnect with our feminine power, and awaken our creative
potential.
In this workshop, you will be carefully guided through
simple, yet powerful, movement sequences focusing on spinal mobility, whole
body fluidity, tension release, breath-body connection, and body intelligence.
MANA Movement is a practice developed by Mana Mei, and has been inspired by a
seamless merging of many somatic modalities including Release Technique,
Embodied Movement, Kundalini Activation, Modern Dance, Qi Gong, Primal
Movement, & Breathwork. This is a unique practice that has been developed
specifically for women as a way to reconnect with our femininity through
pleasure and intention.
The MANA Movement practice is intended to bring back the
ancient practice of using intentional movement as a form of ritual. We do this
by using specific body movements in connection with intentional breathing and
the felt-sensation circulation of creative life force energy to activate
manifestation. As women, we can learn to harness our power of creativity
through simple movement patterns that open up the channels within the body and
allow this power to bridge the internal and external world, thus bringing our
ideas and intentions into fruition and physical manifestation.
We can help to heighten this power by practicing movement
rituals together, just as tribes of women have gathered for centuries all
around the world to engage in feminine rituals and prayers. We can support one
another in our path of healing and transformation, and help to give each other
the strength that we need to continue moving forward, guided by our hearts and
intuition.
This workshop is open to all women 18+ years // There is
no experience necessary.
-Please wear yoga-esque attire
-Please bring a yoga mat (extras provided if needed)
Mana Mei is a classically trained ballet and modern
dancer, having 28 years of technical dance experience and knowledge as well as
10 years of personal embodied dance and and expressive movement exploration.
After dancing professionally with internationally touring dance companies in
California, Mana moved to Bali and began the creation of many passionate
offerings- events, workshops, ceremonies, and retreats of intuitive movement,
dance technique, embodied contact, women’s empowerment, embodied movement
facilitator training, and live performance dance invocations.
As a sacred temple keeper, Mana creates and holds
containers where people can safely explore and reconnect with all of their
expressions, from the soft and subtle to the raw and wild. She guides people to
tune into their authentic movement desires as a way to unlock suppressed
personal expression and liberate the body, mind, and spirit so that they may
realize their true and full potential as activated humans. She believes that
our bodies are vessels built to explore all of the complexities of the human
experience and by becoming deeply embodied and engaging with others from this
place, we may feel our truest connection to the universe and restoring the
masculine and feminine energies into divine balance. Most recently, Mana has
launched the Embodied Dance Temple Keeper Apprenticeship, a 40-hour facilitator
training which teaches women the necessary tools and skills to hold Embodied
Dance spaces for women.
Cost: $35
