DAY 4 : Authentic Movement Session
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“My practice in Authentic Movement (AM) has shifted and deepened over the last 8 years, and the roots of this exploration of ‘impulse’ are finding more nourishment in more places: an undeniably enriching process. During this time I found my way to the therapeutic approach of Somatic Experiencing (SE).
Through my study and practice of SE, I have found a biophysiological language for the intelligence of impulse I had been practicing with in AM, and a deeper understanding of this impulse’s strategies to keep us alive. It was like bringing a microscope into my body. My curiosity about impulse and its relationship to survival responses has become a guiding factor in my somatic therapeutic work with clients and classes, in my creative processes with other dancers, in my parenting and life-partnership, and in my personal growth.
I am now exploring how these two modalities work together and where they are distinct from each other. My intention with SEAM is to offer an accessible frame to practice body-centered curiosity about how impulse shows itself in our physicality, and how we can use impulse to cultivate more wholeness in ourselves and in others.”
Weena Pauly-Tarr has been devoted to the fleshy experience of human movement since she started moving. Weena focuses her curiosity where the somatic therapy world meets the dance world, and it is there where she developed her body of work SE+AM, the synergistic location of Somatic Experiencing with Authentic Movement. Weena’s newest work, “Monster Mourning” premiered in NYC in 2023 with a sold out run. Along with running SE+AM groups and sessions, Weena currently works as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, a dancer and dance maker, a movement trainer, a Rooted team member and a mother to four. She delights in the incredible range of humans bodying.
