Level 1 Workshop 1
Activation Sequence for Awakening Instrument Consciousness
Learning Outcomes: By the end of all three workshops and levels, participants will
- Acquire a warmup yoga routine that will help alleviate potential spinal compression and misalignment and strengthen head-tail connections.
- Obtain basic techniques of contact improvisations.
- Develop an authentic individual and collective repertoire from the inside out.
- Deepen awareness of modes of operation that enable direct expressions from the Source as an improviser of dance and/or music.
- Gain clarity on potential blockages (karma) for release and one’s life purpose (dharma) to establish one’s true Being and perform more focused actions.
- Build a movement portfolio as an audition recording for a musical film.
- Apply choreographic/acting principles based on Laban Movement Analysis.
Targeted Audience: All body types and levels of experience are helpful for fully representing the diversity of the human gene pool through authentic human movements and emotions. Experienced dancers and aerialists/acrobats with the ability to finetune the co-improvised choreography for ground and/or aerial performances/audition recordings are particularly welcome!
Instructor Bio:
Dr. Hope Rising (hopehuirising.com) is the creative director of OM Creation Studio, a multi-media performing and visual arts organization that uses Triune Yoga as a Universal Creative Law to help conscious cocreators create conscious creations as directors, performers, and the audience. As a choreographer, Hope specialized in improvisational techniques, creative arts therapy, and Laban Movement Analysis. Her movement teaching is influenced by her training in contact improvisation, neurophysiology, Yoga, contemporary dance, such as Limón, Cunningham, and Graham, and somatic practices, including the Feldenkrais Method, Body-Mind Centering, and the Alexander Technique. Dr. Rising is a registered yoga teacher and the inventor of Triune Yoga.
Hope has practiced CI in Pennsylvania, Oregon, California, Texas, Italy, and Spain since 2011. Her CI teaching is influenced by her studies in partnering yoga and dance and the teaching of many impactful CI practitioners from around the world, such as Félix Arjona and Sarah Gottlieb from Spain, Yochai Ginton from Israel, Alessandro Rivellino from Brazil, Angela-Mara Florant from France/Germany, Rene Alverez, Anya Cloud, and Ishmaeil Houston-Jones from the U.S.
In 2012, she created an interdisciplinary class at the University of Oregon where she used Triune Yoga as the improvisational process for the dharmic theater to engage dance, choreography, filmmaking, and design students in improvisational performances as a public practice that transforms the performers, the audience, and the public realm. She has used the process to intersect movements, neurophysiology, and design for her teaching and research at various universities. Most recently, she was invited by the National Institute of Health to present her research on the use of evidence-based principles from neurophysiology to integrate movements with fractal sounds and conscious pathways to enhance human adaptive capacities to respond to stressors.
In addition to showcasing her choreography as a dancer and choreographer in Washington D.C. and New York, Dr. Rising also performed her music compositions in India, Brazil, Spain, Australia, and the U.S. Her improvisational composition and performance with her Indian Fusion band for the Musical entitled “OM Creation: SatChiAnanda” were created using Triune Yoga as a process of collective creativity. The opening soundtrack for the Musical was nominated for the Independent Music Award. As a designer and visual artist, Hope has won competitions and designed award-winning performance spaces and art installations for the St. Paul Public Art, the Union Colony Civic Center for Performing Arts in Greely, Colorado, the American University Katzen Performing Arts Center in Washington D.C., the Wharf District Park in Boston, and the John Carlyle Square in Alexandria, VA
Time:
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. on Saturdays (07/07, 08/04, 09/01)
Place:
The Interchange, 1815 Cleburne St, Houston, TX 77004
Bring:
Three 4” or 5” yoga blocks, yoga strap, small stool, resistance band, & ankle weights, and Three Monochrome costumes (black, red, and white)
Triune Yoga
Triune Yoga is an embodied theory of bringing higher consciousness down to transform matter. Established in Being (Witness Consciousness), perform action (Instrument Consciousness). Actions lead to counteractions to restore grace from the fall, balance darkness with light, and uplift us back to the Source (Unity Consciousness) to bring Heaven on Earth.