 DON'T
JUST DO SOMETHING... STAND THERE!
Clowning as a guide to authentic presence.
A weekend workshop in the Taconic/Berkshires.
March 1&2, 2014. Location TBA
Facilitated by Laura Geilen
Do you ever long to stop the outer activity of your
life and habits to attend to those nagging pangs for a more authentic
flow of being?
Honoring the mysteries of human longing, clowning invites us to
playfully open a space for responding out of honest presence and
a truer listening to what is happening both inside and around us.
Learning to resist the habit of doing and to welcome honest being
is an experience we want yet cleverly avoid due to how fearful and
vulnerable we can become.
The clown touches us because we are invited to witness the true
ridiculousness of our self inflicted woes and because of an ability
to live on a whimsical edge between imagination and reality--a dynamic
that brings a tender and poetic instability full of the paradoxes
inherent in being human.
With the help and protection of the little red mask that can give
us big permission we will explore together finding the enlivening
charge in the courage to simply be.
Through clowning and connecting to our naturally playful and creative
spirit, we can develop and sustain, in ourselves and in each other,
the heart to be who we truly are, to trust life and ourselves.
No experience necessary. No need to be funny. Bring nothing but
your self and your willingness to play and have your heart opened.
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