ICMTA Teachers Gathering - London

• Lots of deep dancing
• Input from specialist teachers (more information to below)
  
• Peer supervision
  
• Tea, chats, hugs and laughter
  
• The ICMTA General Assembly
• More quality dancing 
  
• Nutritious delicious vegetarian lunches provided by Carolina Cooks For You (optional)
  
• Dinner out with the group (optional).

We're delighted to confirm that the Gathering will include four special workshop sessions: 

• Sue Kuhn will be leading a session on recognising and working with trauma; 
  
• Ellen Watson (and possibly co-creator Daphne Tse) will be offering an introduction to their practice SpiritDance/ SoulSong^TM 
  
• Plus there will be introductions to both Movement Medicine from Christian de Souza and Open Floor with Sarah Davies.

Recognising and Working With Trauma on our Movement Floors, with Sue Kuhn

In this two-hour workshop we will be looking at some ways that trauma might present itself in our participants. How to recognise it and have some understanding of what’s needed and provide it. How to resource the group, or someone that is triggered, through movement, to help them stay grounded, present and conscious, and how to help someone 'back' should they go out of their window of tolerance.

Sue Kuhn is a registered Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Trainer and has been working in this field for more than 35 years. She is just completing Level 2 of the Sensorimotor training working with trauma in the body. She is trained in Family Constellations and completed the leadership training of the Marion Woodman Foundation.

She is a 5Rhythms^® teacher of both Waves and Heartbeat levels of the work, and she is a staff member for The School of movement Medicine and a Movement Medicine Facilitator. Her background is in the Arts. She is a student of the Ridhwan School’s Diamond Approach to Inner Realisation. She has facilitated movement in psychiatric hospitals, rehab centres and schools as well as with the general public. www.suekuhndance.com

SpiritDance SoulSong: It's Good Medicine^TM

SpiritDance SoulSong^TM, conceived and developed over the last 30 years at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, and in Bali, Indonesia, combines two of the oldest community building practices on Planet Earth: Dancing and Singing. Still alive today in developing countries and tribal communities, music making, dancing and singing weave together the fabric of village life. If you can sound you can Sing, if you can move you can Dance. Your Body is Your Musical Instrument.

SpiritDance SoulSong^TM engages and activates the eight chakras, the eight senses, and the five elements. As we sound, sing and dance ourselves through the portals of the five fears that hold humanity captive, personal healing and empowerment transform each practitioner.

Each class includes tuning our instruments through Qi Gung, Sounding, Singing, Moving, and Dancing. We Contact, Enter, Allow, Express, and Embody our senses, feelings and emotions. Engaging visualization and affirmation we import supportive messages into our database, deleting, emptying and replacing old, limiting, non-supportive internal dialogue. 

SpiritDance SoulSong^TM fosters physical, mental, emotional and spiritual fitness and inspires enthusiasm, vitality, restoration and rejuvenation in all who participate. Informed by Ellen's and Daphne's combined study of Singing Gestalt, Continuum Movement, 5Rhythms^®, Holotropic Breathwork, The Eight Limbs of Yoga, QiGung, The Hoffman Process, The Berkeley School of Music, The Diamond Approach, Gestalt Awareness Practice, Sound Healing, A Course in Miracles, and the Center for Spiritual Healing, SpiritDance SoulSong^TM supports personal healing and empowerment through personal inquiry and group process. 

Ellen Watson, a 30 year member of Esalen's staff and faculty, continues to practice on the Healing Arts and Movement Arts staff, and is a senior Trainer of Esalen^® Massage & Bodywork, Touching Essence^TM (a 200 hour certification training in Massage, Essential Oils, & Sound Healing), and co creator of SpiritDance SoulSong^TM.

Daphne Tse, singer and songwriter, recording artist, and concert touring diva, has practised and taught Yoga and Kirtan, and Vocal Toning, for the last 20 years. Daphne's mentor, Shiva Rea, set her free in 2008, to pursue her bliss: recording her first CD, Mata, in Bali, while being the Director of Programming for The Bali Spirit Festival, from 2008-2012. Daphne's second CD, Finding Water, recorded in Kauai, was released in 2014. Daphne is in the midst of a three-year world tour, spreading her heart-filled practices of SoulSongs^TMand SpiritDance SoulSong^TM.

5Rhthyms®, FreedomDance and Movement Medicine.