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
2008-2009 Calendar
Click here to get more information on any of these programs.
May 17-24, 2008
Rosen Method Cascadia Centre, 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.
Bill Samsel - Senior Teacher & Director of Teaching for Cascadia Centre
Bill studied with Marion Rosen. He practices in Santa Cruz, CA., and teaches in Australia,
Canada, USA and Germany. Bill has taught the first Rosen Method Men's Workshops in
Germany and Switzerland. With his 23 years of experience Bill is able to create and maintain a
safe space for participants providing them an opportunity for deeper self-awareness and
truthful self-expression. He brings warmth, humor and compassion to the work.
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.
Tuition: $895(Cdn) Lodging & Meals:$424(Cdn)
Total Cost: $1319(Cdn) before April 16, 2008 (includes non-refundable deposit of $250)
after April 16, 2008 Tuition $975(Cdn) Total Cost $1399
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
July 07-13, 2008 (July 10 integration day)
Vara Healing Arts Center, Albany, CA
Are you ready to be inspired and invigorated this summer?
Internationally renowned Karen Roeper is excited to offer this years' Essential Motion training intensive which will enrich your work and personal life. Join twelve other high level leaders to learn a powerful approach to leading and guiding yourself and others toward personal, team, and global transformation. Utilizing unique leadership and communication skills, hone your abilities to create a safe container for people to return to a sense of ease, freedom, and power.
This leadership training will take you to your next step as an inspired leader in your life and community!
You will:
- Expand your ability to be present in your body, enabling you to sense and respond to your environment from a place of authenticity
- Move beyond thinking, talking, and planning to experience breakthroughs and insights only available through Essential Motion
- Learn to use your body as a reference and a guide for transformation
- Increase your ability to manage high levels of complex energy and performance
- Discover ways to keep filling the "tank" or internal "reservoir"
- Learn powerful tools that keep you grounded and centered
- Develop and master appropriate personal and team strategies to stay on purpose
The skills acquired in this training are applicable to all leadership and coaching situations.
We will be utilizing communication tools, interactive coaching, movement direction and body-oriented practices, personal reflection, group dialogue/inquiry improvisation and creative play through Essential Motion.
"Play as free improvisation sharpens our capacity to deal with a changing world." Stephen Nachmanovitch
This program meets the qualifications for CEU credits for MFT's and LCSW's required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Provider PCE #3272.
The program is especially designed for you if:
- You are in a leadership role and want to deepen your leadership skills and expand your practical toolbox
- You work with people in a healing and helping profession and want to be re-inspired and invigorated while learning new approaches to deepening your work
- You are working in the somatic field and want to broaden your listening and perceiving skills
- You want to be trained specifically in the Essential Motion process
- You are a MFTT or LCSW who is looking for Continuing Education credit and want to explore somatic modalities to enhance your work with clients
"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
Essential Motion Leadership Intensive July 07-13, 2008 (July 10 integration day)
Vara Healing Arts Center, Albany, CA
Tuition: $700 before May 1, $775 after May 1
To Register Contact: Diahna Fortuna email: or telephone: (510) 594-4325
Click here for the PDF flyer for this Leadership Intensive.
Finland: Residential
Espoo Outside Helsinki
Friday September 26th through Sunday September 28th
To register, please contact: Riitta Saarikko, tel. +358 50 367 6891, riitta@aquaqi.net
or Merja-Riitta Hämäläinen, tel. +358 50 527 6193, merjariitta.hamalainen@ikarosterapia.com
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.
The Great Escape
This event is offered only once a year and is limited to 12 participants.
Check the 2009 Esalen catalogues for dates, or contact us directly for more info at:
Call Karen at (415) 383-7159, or email karen@essential-motion.com
Call Esalen at (831) 667-3005 or go to www.esalen.org
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.
CEU credits for MFT’s and LCSW’s available. Course meets requirements of the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Provider PCE#3272
Seeing ourselves with kindness
is the most important element of
relating effectively in the
world.
This workshop is an active experience of
the Eyes of the Beholder process.
Improvisational movement, direct video
feedback, and discussion are the
components of this powerful approach to
self-discovery.
HOW DO YOU SEE YOURSELF?
What is the picture I have of
myself?
What is the picture I present to
the world?
How are these two pictures
different?
If I could bridge the gap between the
two,
how would my actions in the world
change?
Eyes
of the Beholder Winter
Program
An in-depth training in three stages over
the course of three months, January.
February, and March. Usually limited
to twelve participants, the Eyes of the
Beholder workshop provides a powerful,
intimate, and very personal
experience.
Deepen your self-perception,
awareness, and acceptance. Transform
how you experience your relationship
to Self, Others, and Community. By
practicing loving kindness we learn to
see ourselves through our hearts
rather than our judgments. We are
able to bring our real purpose for
being into our everyday lives, and we
can build a ground of loving kindness
in our world.
Stage One:
self
How do you see yourself?
Stage Two:
others
How do you see yourself in
relationship?
Stage Three:
community
How do you see yourself in
community?
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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