Reclaiming Ourselves
Spring as a Rite of Passage
A Movement-Based, Expressive Arts Therapy Workshop Series on 3 Saturdays in May
Like the seed of a plant, the unique seed of our soul lies within each one of us before birth. It already knows what we can be! If we are properly nourished and supported along the way our actualization might be easy.
But more often life gets in the way. Trauma, difficult experiences, and life’s hardships might lead us to feel stuck in the cold of winter. Your nervous system might have chosen a freeze response in order to cope.
What are you pushing through, and what do you need to see the light?
As spring always emerges, your body and heart know the true way forward to push through the frozen/stuck parts, and bloom. Join me on a five-part, movement-based expressive arts journey as we utilize the psychokinetic imagery process to re-imagine the body as a flower,plant, or tree.
Together we’ll explore:
1. The roots of our ancestors in our legs and feet
What ancestral messaging do you want to carry forward, and what to leave behind?
We are part of an ever-expanding root system that includes our ancestral heritage. Our system may have included intergenerational trauma. In this workshop we will work with deepening our roots into what is nourishing and transform our collective pasts into a brighter future.
2. The stem/spine that nourishes and supports us
What do you need to grow?
To grow strongly we need a solid base of support. We’ll explore the red spot in the center of the pelvis, imagining it as our own unique seed of the self. The stem/spine naturally unfolds with our truth when our core is deeply rooted.
3. Our blossoming heart
How does the heart lead differently than the head?
Our rational mind can often confuse things. But when we allow the heart to lead, we are grounded in our authentic self. Building on the previous two workshops, we will explore opening the heart, and how the arms and hands can offer our true gifts by extension.
Together we will reclaim our deepest nature. We’ll take the path to individuation via a ground-up, arts-based, somatic exploration of the whole body. We will utilize movement, drawing, and writing as our primary art mediums, but no dance/movement or art experience is required.
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”
~Anais Nin
Dates & Times
3 Saturdays in May, 9am-12pm
Alonzo King LINES Ballet
26 7th Street 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Reclaiming Ourselves Workshop
Includes all 3 sessionsHeidi Landgraf is prepared to assist you to breakthrough.
Heidi Landgraf, MFA, LPCC, RSMT, REAT, is a dancer, and psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco. She completed her MFA in Dance at CalArts where she met Anna Halprin. After attending the Tamalpa Institute and becoming a Certified Halprin Practitioner, she completed her MA in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling. She has led expressive arts-based classes and workshops for Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, The Harker School, Hubbard Street Movement as Partnership Program in the public school system in Chicago, and independently in San Francisco. She has led dance, somatic, art therapy, and psychoeducational groups in inpatient hospitals, long-term care facilities, and forensic settings. Her private practice focuses on trauma treatment through an eclectic approach that includes LENS Neurofeedback, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, and Expressive Arts Therapy.
I want to hear from you!
I look forward to sharing all I have to offer – and can’t wait to meet you and hear your story, too.
Call (415) 450-9644 today to take your first small step to a lasting breakthrough.