Taketina – Experiencing Duality Through a Rhythm Process 7:00-9:00pm

Elaine Fong, (Taketina) Imagine being able to experience the duality of chaos/order, expansion/contraction, falling in/falling out, in a rhythm process that uses your body as the principal instrument. TaKeTiNa is a unique process capable of activating human and musical potential through rhythm. In TaKeTiNa, the body is the main instrument. Using your voice, your hands and your feet, you are guided into three separate rhythmic layers which directly affects the nervous system. The experience of simultaneity is therefore direct, intense and lasting. TaKeTiNa conveys rhythm in such a way that people can absorb, understand, and learn in the most natural manner. Instead of being taught random rhythmic patterns, TaKeTiNa guides its participants directly into the experience of primal rhythmic movements that are anchored in the sensory-motor system of every human being. This underlying rhythmic foundation expresses itself through music in every culture.

The TaKeTiNa process combines the rhythmic knowledge of ancient cultures with insights from our modern world including rhythm research, cybernetics, neuroscience, and chaos theory. Both information systems are present in this new path of learning.

TaKeTiNa is a rhythm process developed in 1970 by Austrian composer and percussionist Reinhard Flatischler (www.taketina.com). Today it is applied worldwide in the field of education and therapy in music universities, hospitals, rehabilitation-clinics, psychotherapy practices and pain therapy. It is also used in work with theater groups and corporate trainings. The effects that the TaKeTiNa Rhythm Process have on the nervous system are researched and verified in various projects with scientists and physicians.

Come to a Taketina rhythm circle and spend an afternoon in rhythm using your body.

Biodanza, Dance of Life – Experiential workshop combining music, movement and relationship providing a sense of oneness. 9:00-11:00pm

Belisa Amaro Feel the non-separation of body and soul through this experiential workshop open to all levels of dance experience. In Biodanza, we call our deep ecological awareness the “Biocentric Principle,” and provide an experiential understanding of our lives as moving parts in a greater living system: the universe. Through “vivencias” – moments of intense perception of the present moment, coined from Spanish root “viver:” to live – we strengthen our relationships with self, partners, the group and all things. Immersed in this synergy we re-discover deep joy, laughter, wellbeing and bliss. Join us in our dance of life and enjoy a practical understanding of oneness!

Created in the 60’s by Rolando Toro, Chilean anthropologist, psychologist and artist, Biodanza is an international movement with more than 100 teacher training schools around the world –including one in the U.S., located in San Francisco.

About the facilitator:
Belisa Amaro pioneered Biodanza in the United States, where she has been teaching since 1998. Born in São Paulo, Belisa brings her passionate Brazilian soul and her impulse to connect with others to her work. She is the director of the San Francisco School of Biodanza, the only school teaching this system in the U.S.