Rare opportunity to train with Japanese Butoh dancer and master teacher of Noguchi Taiso (Water-body Movement) Mari Osanai. The Noguchi Taiso work is for all humans who seek more connection inside their bodies. Similar to Tai Chi or Qi Gong, it is a moving meditation to better sense the interior body, subtle awareness, and fluid dynamics for ease in all movement. Take one, two or all three days for an immersive experience of this body changing practice.

Mari Osanai’s workshops focus on Noguchi Taiso combined with the influences of her early training in Tai Chi, Western dance methods, traditional folk dance in Aomori, Japan (her birthplace), and the connection between one’s thoughts and sensation of weight. Osanai’s approach to movement research and exploration begins with a heightened awareness of gravity’s influence on the body and the body’s connection with the center of the earth. Exercises in the workshop train the body to embrace its weight and heighten its sensitivity to move from its most relaxed and receptive state. Starting with images, such as washing the body with water, air, sunlight, workshop participants will discover the body’s vital energies rooted in its inherent hydrodynamics. Movement and form result as participants ingest imagery inside their bodies and allow the changes to shift the body’s interior.