Exits & Entrances: Explorations in Presence and Improvisation with Meditation

With Vicki Tansey

September 3 - 6, 2010

Through daily sessions of meditation practice and exercises in movement and sound, participants will learn how to integrate body, mind, and breath. Thus participants deepen awareness, sharpen intuition, cut through habitual patterns, and dissolve conceptual and emotional barriers that inhibit and fragment us. In an atmosphere of joy and fearlessness they will strengthen confidence and discover new ways to energize and expand their ability to sense, respond, and connect.

A pioneer in the art of improvisation, Vicki Tansey - dancer, singer, and visual artist - has been performing and teaching for over 40 years. Trained in both classical and contemporary dance, she is an accredited Tai Chi teacher, longtime meditation practitioner, and has been on the faculties of the National Theatre School of Canada, the Visual Arts Centre, the Saidye Bronfman School of Fine Arts, and the Dance, Theatre and Fine Arts Departments of Concordia University in Montreal. She is the subject of an in-progress documentary film by Quebec artist Louise Abbot: 'Vicki Tansey: In the Moment, and she is creator and director of the on-going multi-disciplinary performance work, 'The Physical Choir Theatre Project'.

Skills learned in this retreat have benefited persons in a variety of fields, including medicine, law, healing and performance arts, poetry, and education. The retreat is open to all-professionals and beginners.

Former participants say:

"This workshop expanded my palette of expression and awareness, and is still impacting my life."

"Vicki offers a unique and profound teaching. We are relearning our bodies, what they actually have to say."

"Vicki's joy and guidance gave me the confidence to trust being in my body, and to leap into open space without fear".

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Registration limited so please register early. Program start time is 7:30 on the first night (Friday, join us for dinner at 6:30) and will end at 4:00pm on Monday.

Tuition: $375.00 Program fees include 3 meals per day served by the Karmê Chöling kitchen.

About Vicki Tansey

One of Canada's leading pioneers in the art of improvisation, Vicki Tansey, dancer, singer and visual artist, has been performing and teaching for over 40 years. Trained in both classical and contemporary dance, she is also an accredited Tai Chi teacher and longtime Buddhist practitioner, having taken refuge with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1972. A passionate and inspired teacher, she has been on the faculty of the National Theatre School of Canada, and has taught improvisation and creative process in the Dance, Theatre and Fine Arts departments of Concordia University in Montreal, as well as at the Visual Arts Centre and the Saidye Bronfman School of Fine Arts. She is the subject of an in-progress documentary film by Quebec artist Louise Abbot: Vicki Tansey: In the Moment, and is the creator and director of a new multi-disciplinary performance work entitled The Physical Choir Theatre Project.