WORKSHOP
Movement as Metaphor: Bridging Movement, Meaning, and the Creative Process
with Natan Daskal, RSME/T
September 19, 2026 • 1-5pm Eastern U.S. time
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The registration deadline is September 11, 2026.
Live participation is strongly encouraged. However, if you are unable to attend the session, a recording will be available to all who have pre-registered.
This workshop will use the Tamalpa Life/Art process, developed by Anna and Daria Halprin, as a way to bridge the sensing, moving, expressive body with emotion, memory, and meaning. Through experiential anatomy and somatic movement explorations, we invite the body as a gateway into the unconscious, into our life stories, and into creativity. Through the marriage of somatic movement and expressive art-making, our dances and our art express and reveal our life experience and offer new possibilities. Using movement, drawing, creative writing and dance, participants will explore connections between their physical bodies, their creativity, and meaning in their lives.
This event will support the professional development of both those within the field of somatic movement, and those from other fields. One of the unique and powerful aspects of this method is that it is interdisciplinary and crosses the boundaries of embodiment, psychology, art, dance, and creativity, health and healing, self-discovery, self-exploration, and self-expression, to name a few. Somatic movement educators can broaden their relationship to movement into the arts, and a much wider exploration of what it is to be human. Those in other fields can discover the power and depth that comes when we begin with deeply sensing into the living body.
Participants will:
• Be introduced to the Tamalpa Life/Art Process, a unique method that combines somatic movement, creativity, and psychology
• Explore the relationships between anatomy, movement, emotion, and imagination
• Learn expressive arts techniques to bridge movement with meaning-making
Natan (CST, RSMT, RSME, MA) is a somatic movement therapist, expressive arts educator, and somatic bodyworker. Natan met dancer Anna Halprin when she was 95 years old and was one of her last mentees before her passing at 100. On core faculty at the Tamalpa Institute since 2016, he carries forward her legacy of using movement, dance, and the arts as powerful vehicles for healing and transformation. As a bodyworker, his approach combines Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy with Hakomi Mindfulness-Based Somatic Psychotherapy and Relational Somatic Healing, emphasizing present moment awareness of the client’s own experience; integration between body, emotion, and mind; trusting in the natural, healing force within each person; and remembering that healing happens in relationship.
Course Information
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If a participant cancels their registration to any paid offering in the Professional Development Center, they will receive the following refund:
Full refund minus the PayPal fees, more than 4 weeks before the event begins
75% refund from 1-4 weeks before the event begins
50% refund from 1-6 days before the event begins
No refund on the day that the event begins or while it is in progress ISMETA reserves the right to cancel any offering in the Professional Development Center before the course begins due to unforeseen circumstances. In this case, a full refund will be given.
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NON MEMBERS $140
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