Empowering Creativity

With Daria Halprin

July 31 - August 4, 2023

Workshop Schedule

Monday
5:00 pm – 5:45 pm *How to Drop Into Esalen*
7:15 pm – 9:30 pm
Tuesday
10:00 am – 12:30 pm
4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Wednesday
10:00 am – 12:30 pm
4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
Thursday
10:00 am – 12:30 pm
4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Friday
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

See general schedule information including arrival, departure and meal times.

  • Sleeping Bag Space – $1,120.00
  • Bunk Bed Space – $1,420.00
  • Standard Shared Space – $1,720.00
  • Standard Queen Room – $2,220.00
  • Standard Room Two Beds – $3,420.00
  • Premium Queen Room – $3,020.00
  • Premium King Room – $3,220.00
  • Premium Plus King Room – $3,620.00
  • Premium Wooden Yurt – $3,620.00
  • Premium Wooden Yurt Two Beds – $3,620.00
  • Price House Suite – $4,820.00
  • Rolf Suite – $6,720.00
  • Point House – $6,720.00
  • Fritz Point House – $6,720.00
  • South Point House – $8,220.00

Since time immemorial, movement, dance, and the expressive arts have provided individuals and communities with a sense of soulful expression, healing, inspiration, spirit, and connection. We now need to reconnect with these ways more than ever.

The Life/Art Process®, developed by Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin, bridges body awareness, art expression, and psychological processes, providing people with an opportunity to experience dance and the expressive arts as a way to learn, heal, expand creativity, and develop new strategies for personal and professional life. This groundbreaking, innovative approach to human development, embodied creativity, and transformative learning began in the 1950s, and the tradition continues today. 

Daria Halprin’s work connects dance, somatics, psychology, and artistic practices to foster personal, group, and community development and creativity. In this workshop, movement, dance, drawing, poetic dialogue,  reflective exchanges, and witnessing practices will generate new thresholds of exploration and expression, catalyzing new resources for daily life.

Morning sessions will focus on somatic awareness and individual and group movement exploration to tune the physical body to sensation and feeling. Afternoon sessions will facilitate creative encounters through dance, drawing, and spoken and written narratives to explore our life experiences. Evening sessions will be devoted to questions generated by the day’s work, reflection, and releasing activities, including creative play and meditative art practices. 

Participants will:

  • Learn how movement, dance, and expressive arts can be applied to their personal and professional practices.
  • Develop body/mind awareness and connection.
  • Expand creative expression. 
  • Experience improvisation and performance.
  • Explore old material in new ways and generate new resources to bring into daily life. 
  • Learn to use artistic expression as a psychological tool.

No previous artistic experience is necessary. This workshop is designed for everyone. 

About the Leader

Daria Halprin

Daria Halprin is among the leading pioneers in the field of movement/dance, expressive arts education and therapy. With Anna Halprin she co-founded Tamalpa Institute, and was instrumental in the development of the Halprin Life/Art Process, as an innovative approach to psychology, artistic practice, and dance as a healing force. Bringing a life-long practice in the […]

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