Dates are May 8th-12th for EAT 2025! – You can now register
NatureMoves invites you, dear one, to our annual Embodied Arts Transformation. Let’s cherish this special opportunity to be with our bodies, breath, and creativity together. Are you joining us on the beautiful land here in the Rocky Mountain Foothills? We welcome you to dance the wild elements alive in your unfolding life and art process with us.
In the heART of the Colorado Rocky Mountains!
EAT is our foundation training for the full series of wilderness art programs sponsored by NatureMoves.
Multi-modal Expressive Arts,
Life-Art Process, Soul-guided Movement, Butoh, Gene Keys, Scoreography, Voice, Writing, Song and Performance Journeys on the LAND are all offered in this professional level Embodied Arts Training.
We explore the full expanse of our bodies and voices, revealing our purpose, celebrating our gifts and activating our genius with self-created immersive rituals on the land.
“A dance can be a tribute, a memorial, a ritual, a ceremony… and a healing” ~ Anna Halprin
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⇓ General INFO ⇓
OUR IN PERSON LOCATIONS:
The stunningly beautiful VISTA CREEK SPACE for Dance, a retreat center on 15 wild + secluded acres @7000 ft altitude in Rocky Mountain foothills near Boulder, CO. Dance deck, creek, rock climbing, hot tub, dance studio and deck, instruments, visual art supplies all included.
PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTORS
in 2 Leading Embodied Arts Lineages:
Melinda Harrison
Founder, Artistic Director of NatureMoves, Facilitator of LifeArt Process of Tamalpa Institute and Anna Halprin.
Maureen Momo Freehill, MFA, CYI,
Facilitator at NatureMoves, Gene Keys Ambassador/Guide, Founder and Director of Pacific NW Center for Embodied Arts in Nature; Instructor: Kazuo Ohno Butoh lineage, Embodied Voice, and DanceWaves.
WHAT we DO at EAT ON THE LAND?
~~We attend classes and create scores in the primary modalities and lineages.
~~We learn how to practice Embodied Arts on Land as a healing modality for self, community and environment.
~~Each participant has at least one private session with facilitator(s) for personalized guidance and support. Choice of: LifeArt Process, Butoh, Scoreography, Gene Keys/Human Design.
~~We create personal ritual performances (“Scores”) for transformation on the stunning acres of private wild land and in sacred landscapes near your homelands.
~~We journey into a variety of landscapes that engage the full range of our true nature and expressive capacity.
~~We embody and share our Unique Soul Essences with one another to experience the profound gifts and breakthroughs possible in community contemplation; being seen and heard with love, acceptance and celebration.
~~Participants share a love of sovereign Self Expression as a means of living and growing together.
We Create a Community of Coherence
with 17 Humans and ALL Beings.
EAT modalities have powerful APPLICATIONS in the fields of arts, therapy, healthcare, performance, event/festival/retreat hosting, nature education, stress reduction, holistic coaching and more.
EAT offers in-depth training building a strong foundation for integrating nature Immersion, intermodal and embodied arts process into your artistic +/or professional work It is our gateway course to participate in advanced courses and facilitator trainings with NatureMoves.
Past Participants Rave:
“Nature became my partner in my artistic and healing process”
“The changes from the journey will last a lifetime”
Register for EAT 2025 Inquire by E-mail
DATES ARE MAY 8th-12th FOR EAT 2025
NatureMoves Wilderness Art Programs
EAT on The LAND is the foundation training in a series of wilderness art programs offered by NatureMoves (www.naturemoves.org), including the WilderDance retreat (WDR) in the high alpine regions of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Please be in touch if you are EAT or WDR grad and wish to join one of these events.
ALSO
~ FOR THOSE READY TO GO VAST AND DEEP ~
FACILITATING THIS WORK OF NATURE BASED EMBODIED ART AS A LIFE PATH and PROFESSION
In 2019 NatureMoves began our 9 month intensive training program
“Dancing on the Edge”
for people ready to facilitate this work in public arenas. If you think this might be calling you as a way of life, please contact us for an interview to discern if this could be for you in 2025/26.