Essential Motion
Courses and Workshops
"We can dare to trust our intuition
and allow ourselves not to be governed
by the inner critic and doubter, but
rather to open to the surprises of
expression that dwell within us."
-- Karen Roeper
2010 Calendar
- March 13-14, 2010, Essential Motion Open Course, (Gothenburg, Sweden)
- March 19-21, 2010, Essential Motion Open Course (Lohja, Finland, outside Helsinki)
- May 15-22, 2010, Residential Rosen Method Bodywork Intensive (Robert’s Creek BC, Canada near Vancouver)
- June 4-6, 2010, Essential Motion Open Course,( Minneapolis, Minn.)
- September 17-19, 2010 Essential Motion Open Course (Lohja, Finland, outside Helsinki)
- November 28 - December 3, 2010, The Great Escape (Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA))
Gothenburg, Sweden:
Two Day Open Course Saturday and Sunday, March 13 & 14, 2010
To Register, please contact: Pille Naeris, 46-31-80-40-15, email: pille@slow-down.se
Finland: Residential
Kanneljärvi, Lohja outside of Helsinki
2 open weekend Courses:
Friday, March 19 through Sunday, March 21, 2010
Friday, September 17 - Sunday, September 19, 2010
To register, please contact: Riitta Saarikko, tel. +358 50 367 6891,
or Merja-Riitta Hämäläinen, tel. +358 50 527 6193, info@essential-motion.fi
May 15-22, 2010
Rosen Method Cascadia Center, Roberts Creek BC.(near Vancouver)
ROSEN METHOD is conscious touch. A gentle, respectful, hands-on form of bodywork. Working with chronically tight muscles, Rosen Method Bodywork encourages physical and emotional awareness. In moments of deep relaxation, long held feelings and memories may surface and be spoken. Clients often become aware of choices they made early in life around which they have shaped their lives. When this awareness happens, they discover new possibilities for regaining freedom of movement and more authentic self-expression.
Karen Roeper - Senior Teacher & Founder of Essential Motion
Karen is the Founder of Essential Motion, a somatic-based coaching process. She maintains a private practice in California and she holds a Masters Degree in Counseling and Dance Therapy. Karen leads workshops in the U.S. and Europe in addition to doing training, counseling and coaching. A student of Vipassana meditation, Karen’s primary focus is to empower people to inhabit their bodies with more grace, vitality and power.
This workshop is designed to provide an opportunity for self-discovery by giving participants an opportunity to really explore this work through demonstrations, movement, hands-on experience, witnessing, discussion and personal sharing in a retreat-like setting. The support of the group enriches and deepens the process.
May 15 - 22, 2010
Residential Rosen Method 7- Day Bodywork Intensive
Teachers: Karen Roeper Senior Teacher and Founder of Essential Motion, and Mariette Berinstein Certified Teacher
Location: Cascadia Centre, Roberts Creek BC
Information or Registration call Mariette toll free US/Canada 1-877-885-0179
Local: 604-885-0179 or Sandra 604-886-8831
visit or register on line: our website www.rosenmethod-canada.com
e-mail: cascadia_centre@dccnet.com
June 4-6, 2010 Minneapolis, Minn.
Engage in ease and playfulness with your body as you did in childhood
Karen Roeper Essential Motion Workshop
Karen gently guides us to free the places where our bodies may be physically and emotionally stuck, using body awareness and mindfulness practices in combination with improvisational movement.
Dates: June 4-6, 2010 Fri and Sat includes lunch
Friday, June 4, 10-5
Saturday, June 5, 10-5
Sunday, June 6, 11-4:30
Where: Center for Harmonious Living 12201 Minnetonka Blvd Minnetonka, MN 55305
Cost: $235 Registration by May 1 $250 After May 1
Register: Make check payable to: Mary Wright
Mail to: Mary Wright, P.O. Box 68081, Minneapolis, MN 55418
Contact: For more information, call: Mary 612-275-7382, email: mecwright@gmail.com or Pat Samples 763-560-5199, email patsamples@patsamples.com
Information can also be found on Pat's website: www.patsamples.com
November 28 - December 3, 2010 Esalen Institute, Ca
Escape for five rich, rejuvenating, and transformative days to the gorgeous Esalen Retreat Center in Big Sur. Movement, “the forgotten language of the soul” will be our primary vehicle on this journey, as we explore one of the most essential dynamics in our lives as human beings -- that of Self Expression.
Would you like to move and express yourself more freely and joyfully in the world? This workshop offers a fun and unique approach to deepening self-perception, awareness, and acceptance. The basis for the work is called Essential Motion. It is a combination of improvisational movement, somatic coaching, psychological and emotional inquiry, communication exercises, group mirroring, and mindfulness practice. Participants are also videotaped in solo, dyad, and group situations, with opportunities for viewing the tapes as a particularly powerful form of personal feedback.
Karen Roeper and Peter Rosselli create a fun, provocative, and safe environment, supported in the natural beauty and peacefulness of Esalen’s Pacific coast setting. They guide you through a discovery of your own personal vocabulary of expression, and help you explore how these expressions and response patterns directly reflect how you function in your everyday world. These somatic insights create possibilities for greater choice, and the ability to move through daily life with more grace, freedom, expressiveness, and power. Through the Essential Motion process, you reintegrate the physical intelligence and playful body ease of childhood, while cultivating the soul sustaining qualities of understanding, acceptance, and compassion.
Participation in The Great Escape will enable you to:
- Understand how your self-images, expressions constrict/support life goals
- Dissolve personal barriers to free and fully expressive action in the world
- Experience how your nonverbal/verbal communications impact relationships
- Awaken physical sensation, sensitivity, flexibility, and body ease
This workshop is especially designed for those interested in learning how to crack open self-beliefs that constrain spontaneous, playful, and powerful expression. The ultimate goal is to develop a centered presence informed by our hearts and higher intentions, rather than by mental judgments and limiting self-images.
This event is offered only once a year and is limited to 12 participants.
Karen Roeper’s lifelong focus has been to explore the relationships between the body, emotions, the mind, and Spirit. She is the founder of Essential Motion, and has maintained a private practice and conducted leadership seminars both nationally and internationally for over 23 years. Karen holds a Masters in Counseling and Dance Therapy, and is a Rosen Method Bodywork Senior Teacher. She believes in curiosity and kindness, and is committed to fostering the transformative abilities within each person.
Peter Rosselli is President of Invisible Elephant Training & Consulting, Inc. He has conducted programs in Improvisation, Interpersonal Communications, Presentation Skills, Conflict Management, and Team Building for over 20 years. He consults with companies such as Ebay, IBM, and Kaiser Permanente. Peter has spent a lifetime of study and performance in the expressive arts, particularly music and dance. His background includes graduate studies in Counseling and Movement Psychology, Diamond Heart Training in the Ridhwan School, and twenty years studying Buddhist meditation practices.
Fees: $620/sleeping bag;
$890 bunk bed; $1,155 standard
Info: Call Karen at (415) 383-7159,
or email karen@essential-motion.com
Resv: Esalen (831) 667-3005 www.esalen.org
CEU credits for MFT’s, LCSW’s. PCE#3272
Click here for a PDF flyer for the 2009 Great Escape Workshop.
To learn
more about any of these innovative
programs:
Phone Karen Roeper at 415-383-7159
or
email:
karen@essential-motion.com
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