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OSF Advanced Teacher Training 2026

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June 22 – 27, 2026
Monday – Saturday, 10:30 am – 6 pm PDT/Seattle Pacific Time
[In your own time zone: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com]

Both in-person and virtual ! In-person is preferred; virtual is available for those who cannot travel.

Russian Community Center
704 19th Ave E
Seattle WA 98112
United States

Facilitators:  Stephanie Skura,  Nate Dryden

Open to all certified OSF and Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) teachers, and combined with opportunities for creative practice experiments. A six-day program in a respectful, collaborative atmosphere. Introduces a wealth of rarely-taught material beyond the introductory level, passed on by Joan Skinner and developed by experienced practitioners during the past 25 years. Learning to create classes at this level.

Taking advantage of the creative state in which we find ourselves when practicing this work, we’ll spend some time dabbling, seriously-easefully, in performance-making:  a time to truly and freely experiment, with options for informal showings along the way.

OSF is deeply rooted in and fluidly expanded from Skinner Releasing Technique. Along with learning and deeply understanding foundational material, OSF Teacher Training involves practice creating classes that are supportive of the various teaching situations we encounter, and that continue to be relevant in our ever-changing world. The advanced material features new alignment insights, deeper depths, rich navigation of deep states, transporting imagery. It’s where the Introductory work is heading, and is vital to our understanding of the entire body of work.  Joan Skinner did not intend Advanced SRT to be codified or limited to 12 ‘Ongoing’ classes; she gave us a wealth of additional material. Our advanced OSF sessions are culled from decades of notes, explorations, and advanced material passed on by Joan & other SRT veterans, & integrated with Stephanie‘s evolving improvisational research — material developed & augmented by experienced SRT and OSF teachers during the past 25 years. We at OSF are the only ones on the planet that we know of, currently creating classes at this advanced level. It’s our dream to train more teachers to create classes at this level.

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OSF ONLINE WEEKLY ADVANCED SESSIONS Nov 2 – Dec 7, 2025

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November 2 – December 7, 2025

Back by popular demand ! New Series: Join us!
Sundays, 10 am – 12 pm Seattle time
[In your own time zone: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com]

Facilitators: Stephanie Skura, Nate Dryden, Manuela Bondavalli, Susanna Hood

Register for the whole series at a discount, or in advance for single sessions.
Following rewarding experiences holding Open Source Forms programs ONLINE VIA ZOOM during and after the pandemic, we’re doing it again ! Offering another series of six two-hour weekly online Advanced Practice OSF Sessions,

Prerequisites: Full spectrum of Introductory OSF or SRT (three consecutive weeks).  

We learned that we can indeed feel in-community despite inhabiting far-flung environments. That we experience rewarding levels of intimacy, adventure, trust & compassion. And that with a playful approach to screens, we find new forms while avoiding the dreaded ‘zoom fatigue.’
For many, this community serves as psychic lifeline during challenging times.OSF

REGISTER HERE

Advanced OSF material is deeply rooted in & fluidly expanded from advanced Skinner Releasing practice. It’s where OSF/SRT Introductory work is headed! New alignment insights, new depths, more & deeper deep-states, transporting imagery.  Joan Skinner did not intend Advanced SRT to be codified or limited to 12 ‘Ongoing’ SRT classes.  She left us with a wealth of material not included in those 12 classes. Our advanced sessions are culled from material passed on by SRT creator Joan Skinner & early practitioners, & integrated with Skura’s/OSF’s improvisational research.  This level of the practice is sophisticated, deep, and evolved in alignment approaches — richly navigating states below conscious level. Stephanie is the only still-practicing facilitator who worked closely alongside Joan Skinner for over a decade, & had the precious opportunity as close friend, to roam inside Joan’s brilliant mind with questions & curiosities. We’re the only SRT or OSF teachers on the planet, that we know of, currently creating classes at this advanced level ! 

“These classes are amazing, beautiful, releasing, healing, vital and a bargain.”  Julia Sasso, SRT teacher, Toronto

Participant numbers are limited to ensure responsible facilitation. Hold your place by registering for the whole series at a discount, or register in advance for single sessions. 

Series of 6 sessions at 10% discount:  $167 USD (thanks for paying full price if you’re able!)
Series of 6 sessions, low-income price: $108 USD 
Single session, full price: $30
Single session, low-income price: $22
PLEASE REGISTER FOR SINGLE SESSIONS AT LEAST 24 HOURS IN ADVANCE
Prerequisites: Full spectrum of Introductory OSF or SRT (3 consecutive weeks). 

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“This work feels like an antidote to many of the difficulties I’m currently facing physically, emotionally and practically. I felt so open and easeful when I got back. I love your approach to sharing the work as well. Unpretentious, sincere and expert!”  Aura Fishbeck, dancer/choreographer

“OSF changed my life. Your work is so rich in all directions! From technical matters to the creative process, amazing range of wisdom, and fun ways to make it happen!  Jadi Carboni, OSF certified teacher,

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OSF ONLINE WEEKLY ADVANCED SESSIONS : Nov 2 – Dec 7, 2025

Begun during the pandemic & back by popular demand, Feb 23-April 13, 2025

Facilitators: Nate Dryden, Susanna Hood, Stephanie Skura

OSF WEEKLY ADVANCED ONLINE SESSIONS
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
New Series:  Join us !
Facilitators:  Nate Dryden, Susanna Hood, Stephanie Skura
Sundays Feb 23 – April, 2025. Discount for full series of 8.
10 am – noon Seattle time
[In your own time zone: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com]
Register for the whole series at a discount, or in advance for single sessions

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Following rewarding experiences holding Open Source Forms programs ONLINE VIA ZOOM during and after the pandemic, we’re offering another series of eight two-hour weekly online Advanced Practice OSF Sessions, Sundays, 10 am – noon Seattle time. 

For those who’ve experienced the full spectrum (3 consecutive weeks) of Introductory OSF or SRT, & want to deepen their practice &/or pursue OSF Teacher Certification. 

We learned that we can indeed feel in-community despite inhabiting far-flung environments. That we experience rewarding levels of intimacy, adventure, trust & compassion. And that with a playful approach to screens, we find new forms while avoiding the dreaded ‘zoom fatigue.’
For many, this community served as psychic lifeline during challenging times.

Advanced OSF material is deeply rooted in & fluidly expanded from advanced Skinner Releasing practice. It’s where OSF/SRT Introductory work is headed! New alignment insights, new depths, more & deeper deep-states, transporting imagery.  Joan Skinner did not intend Advanced SRT to be codified or limited to 12 ‘Ongoing’ SRT classes.  She left us with a wealth of material not included in those 12 classes. Our advanced sessions are culled from material passed on by SRT creator Joan Skinner & early practitioners, & integrated with Skura’s/OSF’s improvisational research.  This level of the practice is sophisticated, deep, and evolved in alignment approaches — richly navigating states below conscious level. Stephanie is the only still-practicing facilitator who worked closely alongside Joan Skinner for over a decade, & had the precious opportunity as close friend, to roam inside Joan’s brilliant mind with questions & curiosities. We’re the only SRT or OSF teachers on the planet, that we know of, currently creating classes at this advanced level ! 

“These classes are amazing, beautiful, releasing, healing, vital and a bargain.”  Julia Sasso, SRT teacher, Toronto

Participant numbers are limited to ensure responsible facilitation. Hold your place by registering for the whole series at a discount, or register in advance for single sessions. 

Series of 8 sessions at 10% discount:  $225 USD (thanks for paying full price if you’re able!)
Series of 8 sessions, low-income price: $160 USD 
Single session, full price: $31
Single session, low-income price: $22
Please register for single sessions at least 24 hours in advance
Prerequisites: Full spectrum of Introductory OSF or SRT (3 consecutive weeks). 

REGISTER HERE

“What a delightful time to spend by the screen that normally just brings tense body & stressed mind — but now what a releasing, healing, creative, touching & funny time it has brought. Thank you for your courage, efforts & generosity to realize this.”  Titta Court, SRT teacher, Finland

Photo by Anja Hitzenberger: Wendy Perron, Juliette Mapp and Stephanie Skura in Skura’s ‘Surreptitious Preparations for an Impossible Total Act’   

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2023 Annual OSF Open Workshop in Seattle

With STEPHANIE SKURA

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One week: 3 – 7 July 2023
Monday – Friday, 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM
19th Ave & Roy, Capitol Hill, Seattle

Open to all! Those without prior experience in SRT, OSF or traditional dance, as well as experienced practitioners are welcome.  One week of introductory OSF work as well as daily improvisation, with advanced options for those with more experience.

Now in its tenth year, this annual Seattle OSF workshop assembles a worldwide community for movement, creative practice, and deep immersion in a catalytic environment of colleagues with diverse experiences in teaching, healing, therapy, performance, theater, visual art, writing & organization-building.  Sessions are inclusive, welcoming and vitally useful for newcomers to the practice and experienced practitioners.

Deeply rooted in and fluidly expanded from Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT), OSF involves shedding outer layers, accessing primal energy, agility navigating subconscious realms, imagery as potent tool for transformation, and developing a high degree of consciousness without self-consciousness. The practice celebrates diversity, collaboration and individual empowerment: free of inhibition, accessing intuition, inviting the mind to collaborate. OSF sessions offer potent tools to access freedom, specificity and courage in movement, vocal practice and creative practice. A key aspect is individual creative empowerment as an instigator of positive change on the planet.

Drop-ins are limited to those with comprehensive experience of Introductory Level OSF or SRT.

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Fall 2022 Weekly OSF Advanced Practice (Online)

Sundays 2 October – 20 November 2022

10am – 12pm Pacific Time (Find the time at your location at https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ )

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Following rewarding experiences offering Open Source Forms programs ONLINE VIA ZOOM since July 2020, we’re offering another series of eight two-hour weekly online Advanced Practice OSF Sessions, Sundays October 2 – November 20, 2022.

For those who’ve experienced the full spectrum (3 weeks) of Introductory OSF or SRT, and want to deepen their practice and/or pursue OSF Teacher Certification.

Though most Open Source Forms programs are now in-person, we’re continuing to offer weekly advanced sessions online, because so many advanced practitioners in our community live at great distances. We’ve discovered we can indeed feel in-community despite inhabiting separate far-flung environments. That for many, this community became a psychic lifeline during the challenges of a long pandemic. That we can experience rewarding levels of intimacy, adventure, trust & compassion. And that with a playful approach to screens, we’re finding new forms while avoiding the dreaded ‘zoom fatigue.’

Advanced OSF material is deeply rooted in and fluidly expanded from advanced Skinner Releasing practice. It’s where OSF/SRT Introductory work is headed! New alignment insights, new depths, more and deeper deep-states, transporting imagery. Joan Skinner did not intend Advanced Level SRT to be codified or limited to 12 ‘Ongoing’ SRT classes. She left us with a wealth of material not included in those 12 classes. Our advanced sessions are culled from decades of notes, explorations, & advanced material created & passed on by Joan and other veterans, and integrated with improvisation experiments — material developed & augmented by Stephanie and other experienced OSF & SRT teachers during the past 25 years. Stephanie is the only still-practicing facilitator who worked closely alongside Joan Skinner for over a decade, and had the precious opportunity, as a close friend, to roam inside Joan’s brilliant mind with any questions & curiosities.

“These classes are amazing, beautiful, releasing, healing, vital and a bargain.” Julia Sasso, SRT teacher, Toronto

We’re the only SRT or OSF teachers on the planet, that we know of, currently creating classes at this advanced level!

To ensure responsible facilitation, participant numbers are limited. Hold your place by registering for the whole series of eight at a discount, or register in advance for single sessions.

Once again, we offer three payment options: full, online & out-of-work price. Full price participants help subsidize those who are out of work — THANK YOU!

Photo Credit: Wendy Perron, Juliette Mapp, Stephanie Skura in ‘Surreptitious Preparations for an Impossible Total Act’, Sundays on Broadway, NYC, 2016. Photo by Anja Hitzenberger.

Advanced Practice –– Fall 2022 (Online)

Advanced Practice –– Fall 2022 (Online)

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New! Further Beyond Beginnings in Seattle

OPEN SOURCE FORMS
FURTHER BEYOND BEGINNINGS

July 11- 15, 2022 — IN-PERSON
Monday through Friday
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Russian Community Center
Capitol Hill, Seattle
Facilitators: Stephanie Skura & Nate Dryden

Cost: $30/day or $130 for full week (5 days).

Join us! If you have at least two weeks’ experience with Open Source Forms or Skinner Releasing, we invite you to join current OSF Teacher Trainees for five daily sessions, encompassing material offered during the third week of OSF programs.

First-week material is what’s most often taught in OSF & SRT workshops, and itself comprises a body of foundational material that bears deeper & deeper exploration for many years. Those who’ve gone a bit beyond WEEK1 may have experienced some of the fascinating, valuable developments of WEEK 2 material.

The rarely-taught material of WEEK 3 — elegant, intricate and absorbing — offers a bridge toward the highly sophisticated, deeply nourishing world of Advanced Practice. Images are more sophisticated. We are ready to spend more time in deep processing mode, and more deeply within our own psyches. We find new effective alignment awarenesses and methods for opening our voices. Energy moves in spirals. Many concepts are integrated, and we discover the web-like connections within ourselves, with each other, & with the world. As awareness expands both inward and outward, we find new avenues for healing, a calming sense of compassionate connection, and ready pathways toward presence & suppleness that extend into our lives beyond the studio.

During what often feels like an increasingly stressful world swirling around us, we Open Sourcerors feel continually grateful for the valuable resource of this practice in our lives.

*Photo: Wendy Perron & Stephanie Skura in ’Surreptitious Preparations for an Impossible Total Act.’ Photo by Ian Douglas.

Further Beyond Beginnings

Further Beyond Beginnings

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Spring 2022 Weekly OSF Advanced Practice (Online)

A series of eight two-hour weekly online Advanced Practice OSF Sessions with rotating facilitators: Stephanie Skura, Nate Dryden, and Susanna Hood.

Sundays 20 February – 10 April 2022

10am – 12pm Pacific Time (Find the time at your location at https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ )

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Back by popular demand! Following rewarding experiences offering Open Source Forms programs ONLINE VIA ZOOM since July 2020, with weekly advanced practice series in 2020 & 2021, we’re offering another series of eight two-hour weekly online Advanced Practice OSF Sessions, Sundays 20 February – 10 April 2022. 

Designed for those who’ve experienced the full spectrum (3 weeks) of Introductory OSF or SRT and want to deepen their practice and/or pursue OSF Teacher Certification. 

We’ve discovered we can indeed feel in-community with each other despite inhabiting separate far-flung environments. That for many of us, this community has become a psychic lifeline during the challenges of a very long pandemic with its attendant isolation, grief, and health challenges. That we can experience rewarding levels of intimacy, adventure, trust & compassion. And that with a playful approach to screens, we’re finding new forms while avoiding the dreaded ‘zoom fatigue.’

Advanced OSF material is deeply rooted in & fluidly expanded from advanced Skinner Releasing practice. It’s where OSF/SRT Introductory work is headed! New alignment insights, new depths, more and deeper deep-states, transporting imagery.  Joan Skinner did not intend Advanced Level SRT to be codified or limited to 12 ‘Ongoing’ SRT classes.  She left us with a wealth of material not included in those 12 classes. Our advanced sessions are culled from decades of notes, explorations, and advanced material created and passed on by Joan and other veterans, and integrated with improvisation experiments — material developed and augmented by Stephanie and other experienced OSF & SRT teachers during the past 25 years.

“These classes are amazing, beautiful, releasing, healing, vital and a bargain.”  Julia Sasso, SRT teacher, Toronto

We’re the only SRT or OSF teachers on the planet, that we know of, currently creating classes at this advanced level! 

To ensure responsible facilitation, participant numbers are limited. Hold your place by registering for the whole series at a discount, or register in advance for single sessions.

Once again, we offer three payment options: full price, online price, and out-of-work price. Full price participants help subsidize those in our field who are, sadly, out of work for the duration — THANK YOU!

Photo Credit: Stephanie Skura & Debra Wanner in Skura’s ’Two Huts’Photo by Ian Douglas

Advanced Practice –– Spring 2022 (Online)

Advanced Practice –– Spring 2022 (Online)

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Fall 2021 Weekly OSF Advanced Practice (Online)

A series of eight two-hour weekly online Advanced Practice OSF Sessions

Sundays 17 October – 12 December 2021
(not including Sunday 28 November). 

10am – 12pm Pacific Time (Find the time at your location at https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ )

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Designed for those who’ve experienced the full spectrum (3 weeks) of Introductory OSF or SRT, and want to deepen their practice and/or pursue OSF Teacher Certification. 

This past year we discovered we can indeed feel in-community with each other despite inhabiting separate far-flung environments. That we can experience rewarding levels of intimacy, adventure, trust, and compassion. And that with a playful approach to screens, we’re able to find new forms while avoiding the dreaded ‘zoom fatigue.’

Advanced OSF material is deeply rooted in & fluidly expanded from advanced Skinner Releasing practice. It’s where OSF/SRT Introductory work is headed! New alignment insights, new depths, more & deeper deep-states, transporting imagery.  Joan Skinner did not intend Advanced Level SRT to be codified or limited to the 12 ‘Ongoing’ SRT classes.  She left us with a wealth of material not included in those 12 classes.

Our advanced sessions are culled from decades of notes, explorations, and advanced material created and passed on by Joan and other veterans, and integrated with improvisation experiments — material developed and augmented by Stephanie and other experienced OSF & SRT teachers during the past 25 years.

We’re the only SRT or OSF teachers on the planet, that we know of, currently creating classes at this advanced level! 

To ensure responsible facilitation, participant numbers are limited. Hold your place by registering for the whole series at a significant discount, or register in advance for single sessions.

Photo Credit: Wendy Perron & Stephanie Skura in ’Surreptitious Preparations for an Impossible Total Act’ Photo by Ian Douglas

Advanced Practice –– Fall 2021 (Online)

Advanced Practice –– Fall 2021 (Online)

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Spring series: Weekly OSF Advanced Practice

28 February – 2 May 2021
Sundays 10 AM – 12 PM Pacific Time [zoom]
[In your own time zone: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com]

Rotating Facilitators: Nate Dryden, Susanna Hood, Keely Isaak Meehan, Stephanie Skura

Pre-requisite: This series is designed for those who’ve experienced the full spectrum (3 weeks) of Introductory OSF or SRT, and want to deepen their practice and/or pursue OSF Teacher Certification. 

To ensure responsible facilitation, participant numbers are limited. Hold your place by registering for the whole series at a significant discount, or register in advance for single sessions.

Spring 2021 Advanced Practice Series (Online)

Spring 2021 Advanced Practice Series (Online)

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Due to the popularity of our weekly advanced practice classes this past fall, we’re launching a spring series!  Weekly Advanced Practice OSF Sessions beginning 28 February 2021. 

Moving online due to the pandemic, we discovered we can indeed feel in-community with each other despite inhabiting separate far-flung environments. We can experience rewarding levels of intimacy, adventure, trust and compassion. And with a playful approach to screens, we’re able to find new forms while avoiding the dreaded ‘zoom fatigue.

Advanced OSF material is deeply rooted in & fluidly expanded from advanced Skinner Releasing practice. It’s where OSF/SRT Introductory work is headed! New alignment insights, new depths, more & deeper deep-states, transporting imagery.  Joan Skinner did not intend Advanced Level SRT to be codified or limited to the 12 ‘Ongoing’ SRT classes.  She left us with a wealth of material not included in those 12 classes. Our advanced sessions are culled from decades of notes, explorations, and advanced material created and passed on by Joan and other veterans, integrated with improvisation experiments — material developed and augmented by Stephanie and other experienced OSF & SRT teachers during the past 25 years.

We’re the only SRT or OSF teachers on the planet, that we know of, currently creating classes at this advanced level! 

Once again, we offer three payment options: full price, online price, and out-of-work price. Full price participants help subsidize those in our field who are, sadly, out of work for the duration — THANK YOU!

A way of moving toward wholeness, sanity, & creative empowerment in our increasingly challenging political climate. 

“Brought me back into a place of great buoyancy & creativity…Such a profoundly empowering, healing & creative body of work.”  Gillian McGinty, California

“It was very important for me to engage in this creative practice, awaken new pathways of my imaginative & physical self, & to be held with such care even in the virtual medium.”

“What a delightful time to spend by the screen that normally just brings tense body & stressed mind — but now what a releasing, healing, creative, touching & funny time it has brought. Thank you for your courage,efforts & generosity to realize this.”  Titta Court, SRT teacher, Finland

Photo Credit: Stephanie Skura & Sally Dean in Surreptitious Preparations for an Impossible Total Act, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY (2016). Photo by Ian Douglas.

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OSF Advanced Practice Weekly Online Sessions

18 October – 20 December 2020
Sundays 10 AM – 12 PM Seattle time [zoom]
[In your own time zone: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com]

Rotating Facilitators: Nate Dryden, Susanna Hood, Keely Isaak Meehan, Stephanie Skura

Following our surprisingly rewarding experiences offering Open Source Forms programs ONLINE VIA ZOOM in July and September, we’re excitedly following up with two-hour weekly online Advanced Practice OSF Sessions beginning October 18, 2020. 

Designed for those who’ve experienced the full spectrum (3 weeks) of Introductory OSF or SRT, and want to deepen their practice and/or pursue OSF Teacher Certification. 

We discovered we can indeed feel in-community with each other despite inhabiting separate far-flung environments. That we can experience rewarding levels of intimacy, adventure, trust and compassion. And that with a playful approach to screens, we’re able to find new forms while avoiding the dreaded ‘zoom fatigue.’

Advanced OSF material is deeply rooted in & fluidly expanded from advanced Skinner Releasing practice. It’s where OSF/SRT Introductory work is headed! New alignment insights, new depths, more & deeper deep-states, transporting imagery.  Joan Skinner did not intend Advanced Level SRT to be codified or limited to the 12 ‘Ongoing’ SRT classes.  She left us with a wealth of material not included in those 12 classes. Our advanced sessions are culled from decades of notes, explorations, and advanced material created and passed on by Joan and other veterans, integrated with improvisation experiments — material developed and augmented by Stephanie and other experienced OSF & SRT teachers during the past 25 years.

We’re the only SRT or OSF teachers on the planet, that we know of, currently creating classes at this advanced level! 

To ensure responsible facilitation, participant numbers are limited. Hold your place by registering for the whole series at a significant discount, or register in advance for single sessions.

Once again, we offer three payment options: full price, online price, and out-of-work price. Full price participants help subsidize those in our field who are, sadly, out of work for the duration — THANK YOU!

Advanced Practice Series (Online)

Advanced Practice Series (Online)

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A way of moving toward wholeness, sanity, & creative empowerment in our increasingly challenging political climate. 

“Brought me back into a place of great buoyancy & creativity…Such a profoundly empowering, healing & creative body of work.”  Gillian McGinty, California

“It was very important for me to engage in this creative practice, awaken new pathways of my imaginative & physical self, & to be held with such care even in the virtual medium.”

“What a delightful time to spend by the screen that normally just brings tense body & stressed mind — but now what a releasing, healing, creative, touching & funny time it has brought. Thank you for your courage,efforts & generosity to realize this.”  Titta Court, SRT teacher, Finland