Personal
Growth Retreat:
The Wisdom of the Body
Sat Aug 9 - Aug 16, 2008
at the Feathered Pipe Ranch
Cost: $1895
We have forgotten that our existence as human beings is inseparable from our biological heritage. This separation from the wisdom of the body has produced a profound sense of alienation in our culture. When we deny the life of the body we're unable to organize ourselves towards fulfillment and we lose the capacity to experience compassion, delight, wonder and awe. There is in each of us the capacity to re-awaken the embodied intelligence that streams through us and enlivens the gestures, expressions, conversations, and experiences that make up who we are. To interact with the world in a responsive and enriching way requires that we live the wisdom of the body. This is the human capacity to transform knowledge and vision into a muscular commitment to action.
In this seminar we will engage in practices that allow us to flourish and help with the transitions necessary for a fulfilling life. This seminar will be experiential and include partner practices, conversations for reflection and action, contemplative time, question and answer periods, and some good laughs. It will help connect us to the life of our body and to what we truly care about. Utilizing practices from the Japanese martial art, Aikido, Somatic Psychology, Somatic Breath Work, Polarity Therapy, and meditation we will look at the identity, roles, and history that we have inherited over the years. We will then look at what new practices are necessary to fully commit to and live our passion.
Richard Strozzi-Heckler is co-founder of Strozzi Institute, Center for Leadership and Mastery, Lomi School, Tamalpais Aikido Dojo, and founder of Two Rock Aikido Dojo. He has a doctorate in Psychology and a sixth degree black belt in Aikido as well as ranks in judo, jujitsu, and capoeira. He is author of the nationally acclaimed In Search of the Warrior Spirit, The Anatomy of Change, Holding the Center, and editor of Being Human at Work.
Richard's pioneering work in somatics crosses a wide diversity of disciplines, from education to leadership to team building, organizational development, health, psychology, government and the military. His work spans being an advisor to NATO training the Afghan National Army, to designing and implementing an experimental leadership program based on aikido principles for his local high school.
He's a grandfather and lives on a working horse ranch in the Stemple Creek watershed in the coastal foothills of northern California. Regardless of what anyone says he's never run with the Lucia's Cabaņas Gang.