Workshop
Movement Liberation Begin Again
A Conscious Dance workshop designed for all self-identified Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
Saturday, January 16, 2021 10am-1pm
WITH: Valerie Chafograck and guest teacher Dominique Cowling
WHERE: ONLINE via Zoom
REGISTRATION: Pre-registration required. We have 35 fully funded scholarship spaces available. Apply here. (As of January 5th, 2021 all scholarships have been claimed. Filling out the application will put you on the waiting list if any spaces become available). If you have the means to pay for this workshop please do, so as to support those that do not at this time.
Register here.
WHAT: Are you ready to embody MLK's vision and create collective dreams alone and together?
Please join Valerie Chafograck and Dominique Cowling on Saturday, January 16th for Begin Again workshop to welcome in the year of 2021!
This conscious dance workshop will offer freeform movement, mindfulness meditation and embodiment practices to integrate the spiritual and radical transformation we fiercely commit to.
Open to all movers that identify as Black, Indigenous & People of Color (BIPOC). No experience necessary. Bring your open heart to invite in a new vibrant energy of healing, connection and joy.
Participants will be required to attend the entire duration of the workshop. NO late arrivals, early departures, or partial attendance.
5% of proceeds from this workshop will be given to the Sogorea Te’ Landtrust as Shuumi Land Tax to support current and future indigenous people of the Bay Area to thrive. We give thanks to the Ohlone people for welcoming us on this land.
Praise
“The first daylong Conscious Dance Workshop for People of Color was a stunning success—and from the collective reaction, an answer to a deep longing that had harbored in all our hearts. The trajectory from beginning to end was seamless: Valerie facilitated with a light but expert touch that invited everyone’s full expression of their ancestral identities. She created a soulful, safe container—inviting us all to relax and trust and feel free to animate what is too often suppressed in other contexts. Many meaningful patterns of powerful self-expression and connection emerged from this sweet guidance! I felt enveloped by a great archetypal wisdom emanating from the participants, an emergence of profound gifts that were deeply nourishing to the heart, body, and mind—a kind of mutual healing.
I cannot begin to express my gratitude for this gorgeous, life-giving experience, particularly because it evoked the possibility of the kinder, more beautiful future that is possible when all our voices are included.”