The Return to Embodiment: consciousness, culture, creativity and flourishing

In a time of social distance due to Corona virus, Luz de Olano reminds us of the tenderness and beauty found in the embrace. Luz is a tango dancer and a tango singer who has performed internationally.  Luz  teaches tango with a  playfulness that promotes ease in the learning process, and she provides tours of milongas throughout Buenos Aires. Luz has studied psicotango with Monica Peri and offers insight into how tango teaches embodiment for the individual and the collective.  Luz can be found on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/LuzdeOla) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/luzdeola/?igshid=1k0nq3if1196f).

Lisaura Lozada-Goode is a licensed clinical professional counselor, dance/movement therapist, and partner dance instructor. Through her private practice, Drawing Closer Counseling and Wellness, she helps couples and adults create safe bonds and develop thriving relationships through couples counseling, individual therapy and dance/movement therapy. Lisaura completed an Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy, and uses this modality in her work with couples.

Lisaura sees partner dancing as a creative, fun, and fruitful way to support wellness, where socialization, safe contact, and joy can be practiced. She offers a private format for couples called Therapeutic Partner Dance, where partners can explore relational dynamics as they “show up” on the dance floor.  To contact Lisaura or to learn more about the services she provides, please visit: www.drawingclosercounselingandwellness.com

As we practice social distancing and stay at home as much as possible during the time of the corona virus, Rachel Sherron has joined me to offer a concrete and accessible resource for creating external space within ones home to practice or to find peace within.  Practice yoga with Rachel online by going to www.innersensehealingarts.org/onlineclasses 

Shannon Suffoletto MA, LCPC, BC-DMT, GL-CMA, R-MPA specializes in a public health apporach, applying dance/movement therapy and movement analysis concepts in her work as Director of Health Promotion and Wellness at DePaul University. Shannon tracks her professional development, examining the places, people and opportunities that lead to her current work, enlisting embodiment as a key to learning, self-awareness and cultivating a culture of wellbeing. 

The Return to Embodiment is a love song to the ordinary, the poetic, the implict world of the body itself as a place of knowing, and movement as our very first language. it's a phenomenological exploration of how and what moves us as we travel among the social, cultural, historical, environmental settings in which we find ourselves.  Each individual i interview offers particular experiences grounded in this knowing.   Thank you to Josie Rothwell for the music and acknowledgement that the official title of Joan Fontcuberta's photomosaic mural is El món neix en cada besada, [The world begins with every kiss].