A Sensory Awareness workshop

with Shelley Hainer* and Stefan Laeng

Amherst MA, June 29, 2024

Location: Balance Art Center, 151 W 30th Street, 3rd Floor, Room 1

Times: 10am – 5pm

Cost: $75 for newcomers and SAF members / $95 regular price
(No-one turned away for lack of funds)

Beneath the clutter of contemporary life
is the reliable ground of presence
on which to stand and move
with sensitivity and intuitive intelligence.

When we turn outward to explore our world with open curiosity and increasing sensitivity, we are brought into richer contact with our own capacities, our deepest nature. And if we start from the point of inner exploration, we find ourselves awakening outward to a world of wonder, a renewed landscape in which to thrive.  Sensory Awareness is a remarkably simple approach to reconnecting with the living moment. Everyday movements rather than exercises, playful explorations, quiet attentiveness rather than effort, take us to a place of renewed engagement with an ever-evolving world.

* Shelley Hainer – Certified in anti-gymnastics/Therese Bertherat (1984-86) in the lineage of Elsa Gindler; with Carola Speads, Gindler teacher who wrote Ways to Better Breathing. Since 2015, Shelley joined Sensory Awareness Foundation conferences: New York City, Mexico, California, Monhegan Island, and Germany. Dancer, actor, poet, photographer, performance artist, Shelley created Bamboo Jacket Banquet, (2008), an immersive sensory experiment enlivening the ubiquitous parable. A meditator since 1988, Shelley invited to teach at Dhamma Dena Meditation Retreat Center offers classes in New York City; BA/Theater, MS/Exercise Physiology, with extensive exploration of somatic therapies.
www.shelleyhainer.com