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This week’s Dance First Member Spotlight shines on  Margaret Wagner and Open Floor! Margaret and the facilitators at Open Floor are committed to developing self-expression, community, creativity and fun in their participants practices. Dedicated to open expression through movement, Open Floor has led the way in adding embodied movement into its dancers’ toolboxes.

One of the ways that Open Floor helps people shape their movements is through their Ground Floor Labs . Each lab is taught by two senior instructors in an immersive 5-day tour of Open Floor movement practice. The goal of the labs is to bring a diverse community of movers together, shaping mindful and engaging expression in each participant.

Participating in a Ground Floor Lab is an exercise in mindful, conscious dance. The lab contains a session for each of the 10 Core Movement Resources, a universal movement language found in all embodied practices. Dancers will also learn about the Four Dimensions of Embodiment and the Four Relational Hungers, and how these concepts relate to conscious movement.

Interested in becoming an Open Floor teacher? Prospective instructors are required to attend a Ground Floor Lab to gain an understanding of the intention, structure, and purpose of each experience. Learners will also be exposed to Open Floor’s philosophy and core values, including Dynamic Governance and its non-hierarchal, transparent organizational structure.

This year’s American Ground Floor Lab is being held in Santa Cruz, California on April 1-5, 2020 . (There is an additional international Lab being held in the Netherlands from March 25-29th, 2020). To attend, participants will need at least 50 hours of conscious dance practice, 15 hours of which are Open Floor workshops or classes.

Santa Cruz’s Ground Floor Lab is grateful to have two extremely talented instructors leading its practice this year, assisted by Dance First member Margaret Wagner. Heather Ehlers became an Open Floor teacher in 2016 and is the Operational Lead for Mentoring and a member of the Training Circle. She is also a certified yoga instructor, specializing in Integral Hatha, Kundalini, Vinyasa Flow, and Yoga Works styles.

Joseph Machado has a passion for teaching and has taught children and adults alike. His passion and curiosity surrounding how humans learn led him to earn an M.A. in Somatic Psychology. Joseph has continued to pursue his passions by teaching at an alternative public high school, working as a Somatic Therapist, and as an Open Floor Movement teacher.

More information on the program, as well as the Ground Floor Lab application, can be found here.

Ground Floor Lab :: Open Floor with Heather Ehlers and Joseph Machado
April 1-5, Santa Cruz, CA

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