Spring/Summer Events @ Butopia/SOMA Mark Your Calendars & Register Early as spaces fill quickly!   (subscribe to updates here or contact us for details/dates) A FULL SPECTRUM of Legendarily Effective Body-Mind Teachings in some of the most celebrated Contemporary Embodied ART Lineages: MINI-RETREATS ~~SAT May 26 ~ 2-5pm….BodyMind FLEXING, FLOWERING & FREEDOM Mini-Retreat featuring in-depth Hanna Somatics Lesson with Novato...

~~Aug 23-27: SEA LEVEL: a WilderDance 3-5 Day Residential Retreat featuring Life Art Process & RSVP Dance Making Cycles Led by Melinda Harrison of NatureMoves in Boulder, CO Assisted by your host Maureen “momo” Freehill, MFA  More info: www.naturemoves.com & Google: Anna Halprin & Tamalpa Institute SEA LEVEL ~ 3-5 Day WilderDance Residential Retreat @ Butopia on Whidbey Island, WA August 23-27, 2012 Butopia:...

KATACHI: Sacred Geometry of the BODY  A Butopia Mini-Retreat with Maureen Freehill, Ann Amberg & others in the field… SUNDAY JUNE 10th ~~12pm-5pm  This retreat is designed for people of ALL levels of non-experience, anyBODY.  Come on in~ the space is wonderful!   Love, Momo SPECiAL NOTiCE: Early Bird Registration by June 1st REGISTRATION/RSVP 24hr Deadline Sat June 9th @...

Monica Shumacher wrote this account of her experience at the 5Elements in the BODY Sanctuary Mini- Retreat at Butopia in March. Thanks to her for sharing an honest and in depth account of a sacred, enlivening & often challenging EMBODIED ART  process…: “I love dance. I love movement. I love the elements. I love a life lived in experiences.The body is empty. The body is nothing. You are space. All around you is space. One...

A Secret Sanctum of Earth’s Precious Light (if video is not visible click here: http://youtu.be/SfsqJWRDL9Q) ~~as deep as imagination & sensation can surrender ~~ unto gravity, unto ancestors, unto the universal inevitability of loss. On this Equinox Spring Eve of 2012…a simple solo, a duet, a trio, a quartet, a quintet, a sextet….and so on with the element of Earth in Balance. What is it to be in between? Above &...