synergyDance

4 Weekends, December 2008 - March 2009 with Charmaine Lee

Who Is This Program For?

• Current SynergyDance teachers: The first weekend, Dec. 13-14, 2008.
• New SynergyDance teachers: All four weekends: Dec. 13-14, 2008 and Jan. 17-18, Feb. 14-15 and March 14-15, 2009.

What Will I Get Out of It?

Through lecture and guided practice, participants will come to see, understand and, especially, to feel and to demonstrate with confidence how the Polarity Therapy paradigm extends naturally from its focus on bodywork into one of movement that mirrors the ebb and flow — the energetic substance — of life.

In practical terms, those who complete all four weekends of this program will be certified as Level 1 SynergyDance Teachers. They will receive a 90-minute Level 1 SynergyDance teacher training video/DVD and a set of two SynergyDance music CDs (to be used for teaching classes), able to organize and teach public SynergyDance classes anywhere, and to avail themselves of SynergyDance’s web-based and other resources for organizing, publicizing and conducting classes (publicity and promotional materials, including the SynergyDance brochure, logos and artwork; sign-in sheets and other forms; Polarity and SynergyDance energy charts, and teaching/music guides).

The Benefits of This Training

Students will experience the symbiotic relationship between the self-healing movement of Charmaine Lee’s SynergyDance process and the energetic and practical foundations of Dr. Randolph Stone’s Polarity Therapy model. The relationship between the two models is, in fact, an excellent example of “synergy” — wherein the whole exceeds the sum of its parts. Each intensifies and broadens experience of the other. The movement of SynergyDance — the act of stimulating and embodying the energies of one’s own body — deepens the awareness of those energies encountered in the practice of polarity bodywork. At the same time, the practice of polarity sharpens and deepens the experience of those energies and fields in your own movement. SynergyDance provides a solid and infinitely expandable foundation in movement that organically addresses the body’s self-healing energies.

The Curriculum

Polarity Theories and Principles plus SynergyDance Movement Concepts: Craniosacral in still movements with head held contacts • Tracking sensation and energetic fluid tide rhythms (fluid space - breath of life, primal healing intelligence; potentizing the fluid tide/craniosacral fluid) • Resonating and moving with the subtle energetic patterns of Polarity Therapy into form (body) and function with hand held contacts on the body; hands moving spatial lines of forces energetically in the field • Process-oriented movements (energetic step-down of Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth in their triune functions); holding safe therapeutic presence (tender, melting, soft); boundaries, mirroring, dancing in partner’s energetic field; repatterning (opposition, “like for like”); three levels of consciousness (mental attention, emotional intention, action & physical reaction); levels of undulation, three levels of hearing; fulcrums; large motor, small motor and micro movements; isometrics; containment; free flow (effortless effort); resistances, projection and reflection (nonjudgement); expansion, contraction; breath as sound • Rhythms and music and their effect on the emotional body • Integration of the elements in Hatha Yoga, qi gong, Educational Kinesiology (Edu-K), world dance and archetypes and their energetic connections to the elements • Intercombinations of the five elements and their movement qualities

Goals: Awareness of the health and self-healing of the system • Integrating movement with the mental and emotional connections • Removing energy blocks • Teaching internal/external resource building • Integrating safe, gentle change • Primary goal of connecting/reconnecting with Source

Location and Atmosphere

Training days start at 10:30 and end at 5:30 Saturdays, 9:30 to 4:30 Sundays, with a one-hour lunch break each day.

The SynergyDance Teacher Training Program is limited to 8 participants. Experience has shown that such smaller groups enable us to cover the material more effectively and rapidly, and makes more personal attention possible. If they wish, participants can be housed overnight at our rural seven-acre retreat in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains near Washington, Va., approximately 90 minutes by car from Washington Dulles International Airport. (The overnight fee is included in the costs listed below; subtract $35 each weekend if you’ve made other arrangements. Airport/downtown Washington D.C. pickups and drop-offs are possible, arranged in advance.)

There is a hot tub, sauna and large sun deck on the premises, and the retreat is in a natural area with nearby hiking, organic farms, an herbal school and a lively artistic community. SynergyDance classroom sessions will take at the nearby Belle Meade Schoolhouse, a large space for dancing in a beautiful mountain-view setting. Participants should bring their own (lacto-vegetarian) food. Sheets and pillows are provided, but we ask that you bring your own towels. Wear loose, comfortable clothing for all sessions (no belts or jeans, please), in natural fibers if possible. Workbooks are provided at a nominal cost.

Dates

• Dec. 13-14, 2008
• Jan. 17-18, 2009
• Feb. 14-15, 2009
• March 14-15, 2009

Payment/Prices/Application

We ask for a clear commitment to the entire training, including the subsequent evaluation/graduation weekend and (for those requiring it) the additional Polarity-intensive weekend.

Application can be made in writing or in person, and will culminate in either case with an informal interview with Charmaine Lee. In writing us, please describe: a) your reasons for applying for this training and how you plan to make use of it b) any previous movement and/or bodywork experience or other relevant training or experience c) your name, date of birth, home and work phone, email address and mailing address.

There are two options for payment, both of which require a nonrefundable $100 deposit be made at the time of application (no later than Nov. 22, 2008). Payment may be made with check, cash or major credit card (Visa, MC, Amex, Discover). The options and fees are as follows:

• Pay In Advance, Full Program Total fee, including deposit, is $1,100 Pay $100 deposit, then $1,000 at start of first weekend.

• Pay As You Go Total fee, including deposit, is $1,300. Pay $100 deposit at least two weeks before each weekend, then $225 at start of each weekend.

For more information or to be sent an application, please call us (540.987.8696 ) or send us an online note.