Healing Archetypes
Incarnating Healing Archetypes: The Circles and Etudes of Isadora Duncan
Presented by: Dicki Johnson Macy, ADTR, M.Ed., L.M.H.C.
Isadora Duncan expressed a theory of continuous movement that included sensitivity to the literal and metaphorical flow ofenergy into and out of the body. Herchoreographicetudes explore, through the action/ rest continuum, thedynamic relationship between affiliation and solitude.Celebrating the rhythmic unity of all things in Nature, as personified by the "Goddess", these dances remember ancient rituals and archetypes; they are simultaneously tribal and divine. The indomitable human spirit, ever hopeful, is present in these archetypal dances, and in all true healing.
Life cannot be sustained in isolation; therefore, compelled toward health and survival, it seeks connection to other life forms. Seeking balance and integration is a dynamic process; Disease (dis-integration) manifests as a static state of physical, emotional, spiritual or cognitive imbalance: occurring individually or collectively, it may be sustained for generations. Alienation from the body and the underlying disconnect from the larger "body of Nature" is the etiology of "Disease"; as we reconnect with the rhythms of Nature by participating in Duncan etudes, integration, balance and ultimately, health are encouraged. As we remember archetypal movement patterns, our sense of isolation is minimized as we experience our connection to a "greater reality".
This workshop, illustrates, experientially and didactically, the application of the Duncan vision for:
1) Reducing the experience of isolation created by Trauma/Disability
2) Contemporary translation of the Archetypal Ritual Circle (cross culturally)
3) Encouraging self awareness and social empathy
4) Reclaiming the lost image of "Divine Female" (necessary for individual and collective wholeness)
All life forms (human, plant, animal) respond rhythmically to the cycles of nature, the most primary of these rhythms being the action rest continuum. In health, life forms are responsive to the solar clock (Circadian Rhythm). Calendar time (linear perspective), contradicts biology as it teaches us to compete, to isolate, and to perceive any present action as isolated having no connection to the past or to the future. As individuals, we have become alienated from our bodies; as a culture, we have become alienated from the larger body of nature. We are out of touch with consciousness transforming practices, which have the potential to put us in touch with ancestral and archetypal patterns. Isadora Duncan, the Mother of Modern dance stated, " Free animals when placed under false restriction, lose the power to move in harmony with nature and adopt movement which is expressive of this restriction".