Current Offerings
Dancing the Inner Landscape
Authentic Movement + Opening to Expression
Sundays 11 - 1pm
May 5, 19, June 16, June 30
(and June 2 1:30 -3:30pm)
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with Teresa Smith
$20 / per class
Score Dance Studio
59 Oneil Street, Kingston, NY
Drop in and sing up. Questions: Teresa.Earthbodydance@gmail.com
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Authentic Movement is a practice of moving, vocalizing and witnessing in a deeply supportive, connected community. It is a way to experience, express and integrate material of the psyche and soma (body) through movement. Interpersonal connection is developed in this practice through the non-judgemental relationship of mover and witness. Authentic movement is also a fertile source for creative inspiration and the development of physically expressive virtuosity.
Each class will include a warm-up and improvisation exploration drawn from Contact Improv, Skinner Releasing, bodywork or post-modern dance to inform and develop our dancing. Occasionally guest teachers will add their movement resources to our experience. This class is open to people of all levels of movement experience and ability, teens and adults.
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Teresa Smith brings to her teaching a warm appreciation of each person's essence and delights in awakening the creative spirit. Her teaching and performing spans the fields of post-modern dance, authentic movement, contact improvisation, release technique, butoh, ballet, breathwork, sufi dance meditation, and consciousness studies. She is a graduate of Bennington College and The European Dance Development Center, a teacher of Dancemeditation™, and a facilitator of Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork. Many years ago Teresa toured and performed in the US and Europe with post-modern choreographers and collaborative improvisation ensembles. Currently, through Earthbody Events she presents performance and workshops emerging from an intimate conversation with the body, psyche and nature environment.
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Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork
June 7 - 9, 2024
Residential Weekend Workshop
with Jace Langone and Teresa Smith
Earthdance Retreat Center, Plainfield, MA
Open to your Psyche and somatic landscape. Dreamshadow Group offers a weekend workshop of holotropic breathwork, as developed by Stan Grof and Christina Grof. (Breath-assisted inner journeying in 3hr sessions). Join us for an embodied, expressive and integrative experience of expanded states of consciousness. During this special Earthdance weekend, dance meditation, process philosophy, and a collective sound circle will be included to support your breathwork experience.
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This Dreamshadow® produced workshop is co-facilitated by Teresa Smith and Jace Langone, PsyD, licensed clinical psychologist specializing in spiritually-integrated adult psychotherapy, certified in MDMA therapy, and Process Thought and Practice.
Past Workshops
Earthbody Breathwork
April 27, 2024
1 day workshop in Woodstock, NY
with Wendy Leffel and Teresa Smith
Join us for a special day of holotropic breathwork in Woodstock, NY with Dreamshadow® and Grof® certified breathwork facilitators Wendy Leffel and Teresa Smith. In this workshop we'll dive deep into expanded states of consciousness through the holotropic breathwork process developed by Stan Grof and Christina Grof (long-form breath assisted inner journeying in 3 hour sessions). Hosted in a peaceful countryside home, with opportunities for integration outside with the mountains, streams and trees. This will be a special time to connect with self and others in a safe and supported group setting. Scholarship available.
What is holotropic breathwork?
The basic components of holotropic breathwork are intensified breathing, evocative music, focused bodywork, expressive drawing, and group process. Participants may enter deep, expanded states of consciousness during breathwork, vividly connecting to biographical material and embodied mystical states. They may relive experiences from birth, or connect with experiences of other people, lives and life forms. Cathartic emotional release and archetypal, mythic and transcendent realms of consciousness are often experienced. Bodywork in breathwork is a somatic process that moves energy towards release, support and integration, as needed. Particular attention is paid to creating a safe space for individual and community healing and evolution.
Teresa Smith is a certified facilitator of Dreamshadow® Transpersonal Breathwork, Grof® Legacy Breathwork and Sufi Dancemeditation™. Teresa's facilitation of Breathwork draws on a background in dance, bodywork, yoga and consciousness studies. She brings to all her endeavors a warm appreciation of each person’s essence and a delight in awakening the creative spirit.
Wendy Leffel, MD is a certified facilitator of Dreamshadow® Transpersonal Breathwork, also trained in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and hypnosis. Wendy recently retired from a career in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine, previous to that she taught yoga. She looks forward to supporting your inner journey to wholeness.
Breathwork and Shamanic Nature
February 17 - 18, 2024 in Woodstock, NY
(with a Zoom 'Intro to Breathwork' Fri 2/16, 7 -8pm)
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with Teresa Smith and Shakti Smith
In the enchantment of winter, an immersive weekend...
Join us for a special weekend connecting breathwork and shamanic practice! In this workshop we'll dive deep into our ecological, collective and individual subconscious through holotropic breathing as developed by Stan Grof and Christina Grof (long-form breath assisted inner journeying in 3 hour sessions). To prepare for the breathwork sessions, we'll practice shamanic techniques from Siberian and South American lineages, connecting our breath to the earth's breath, to the trees, and to the star's light.
No experience with Breathwork or Shamanism needed, beginner's mind encouraged! Hosted in a peaceful countryside home, with opportunities for shamanic work outside with the mountains, streams, trees. This will be a special time to connect with self and others in a safe and supportive environment.
Teresa Smith is a certified facilitator of Dreamshadow® Transpersonal Breathwork, Grof® Legacy Breathwork and Sufi Dancemeditation™. Her facilitation of Breathwork draws on many years of in-depth training and personal experience in this modality, and a background in dance, bodywork and consciousness studies. Teresa’s breathwork facilitation and certification is in the direct linage of Stanislav Grof, originator of holotropic breathwork. Teresa also directs Earthbody Events; performance, artwork and participatory events connected to our interior, relational and ecological nature.
She brings to all her endeavors warm appreciation of each person's potential and delight in awakening the creative spirit.
Shakti Smith is a psychotherapist, somatic movement educator, energywork professional and master Shamanic Reiki teacher (certified with Llyn Roberts). Her other shamanic teachers include Malidoma Some, Susan Grimaldi, and Robert Murphy. She has trained in advanced yogic breath techniques, Motherwave Breathwork, David Elliot style, and is currently in the training program for Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork. Shakti brings urban folks into nature in Brooklyn's Prospect Park to connect with the energies and support of the trees, plants, and cosmos.
BREATHWORK and Creativity Weekend
January 13 - 14, 2024 with Teresa Smith and Wendy Leffel
Tune in to your psyche and somatic landscape, invoke your inner healer and muse. In this workshop we'll dive deep into our individual and collective sub-conscious through holotropic breathwork, supported by time for dance meditation and improvised singing. Hosted in a peaceful countryside home, this will be a special time to connect with self and others in a safe and supported community setting.
The basic components of Breathwork are intensified breathing, evocative music, focused bodywork, expressive drawing, and group process. Participants may enter extra-ordinary, deep consciousness states during breathwork, vividly connecting to biographical material that lies below waking consciousness. They may relive experiences from birth, or connect with experiences of other people and life forms. Cathartic emotional release and archetypal, mythic and transcendent realms of consciousness are often experienced. Particular attention is paid to creating a safe space for individual and community healing and evolution. No prior experience in breathwork, singing or dance is needed, beginner's mind encouraged!
Your host Teresa Smith is a certified facilitator of Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork™ and Grof® Legacy Breathwork. Ms. Smith's facilitation of Breathwork draws on her 12 yrs of personal experience and healing through this modality, and her background in dance, art, bodywork, consciousness studies and Sufi Dancemeditation™. Teresa’s breathwork facilitation is in the linage of Stanislav Grof, originator of holotropic breathwork. This workshop will be assisted by certified Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork™ facilitator Wendy Leffel, MD.
Dancemeditation™ Workshops 2023
Monthly on Fridays 12/30, 1/20, 2/10, 3/10, 4/14, 5/12, 6/9
5:30 - 7:30 pm in Woodstock, NY
Open your heart, free your body, enliven your spirit through fluid yoga, meditation, intuitive movement, ecstatic vibration and Sufi whirling. Accompanied by a world music playlist. $15 - $20/class. Info / location here
Teresa Smith - teacher/performer/choreographer; founder of Earthbody Dance and Events. Ms. Smith is a long time Sufi dance practitioner and certified Dancemeditation™ teacher. Teresa brings to her teaching a warm appreciation of each person’s potential and delights in awakening the creative spirit. Particular attention is paid to creating safe space for individual and community evolution through movement.
Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork™ Journeys
March 25, 2023 one day workshop in Woodstock, NY
9am - 9pm $60-$75 (with optional overnight)
Inquire here for info, schedule and registration
Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork (DTB) is practiced in a workshop format that promotes experiential self-exploration, personal development and community building in a safe and supportive setting. The basic components are intensified breathing, evocative music, focused bodywork (optional), expressive drawing and group process.
Participants may enter extra-ordinary, deep consciousness states during breathwork, vividly connecting to biographical material that lies below waking consciousness. They may relive experiences from birth, or connect with experiences of other people and life forms. They may experience cathartic emotional release or enter archetypal, mythic or transcendent realms of consciousness. Particular attention is paid to creating a safe space for individual and community healing and evolution.
DTB is a direct lineage from Stanislav Grof, founder of holotropic breathwork and seminal figure in transpersonal psychology. Facilitated by Teresa Smith, certified as a facilitator of Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork™ and Grof® Legacy Breathwork. Ms. Smith's facilitation of Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork draws on her experience of personal healing through this modality, and her background in movement, bodywork, consciousness studies and meditation.
Individual Breathwork Journeys: Flexible dates to fit your schedule, 1 hr - 3 hr sessions by appointment.
Group Process Breathwork: Individual journeying in a group setting, supporting each other. Spring 2023 - Weekend Workshops and 1 1/2 hr Introductory Workshops.
Dancing the Landscape of the Imagination
Saturdays 2023: 1/7, 1/14 and 1/21 12-1:30pm, in Woodstock, NY
In these classes we’ll dance our deepest, most amazing selves supported by guided imagery, inspiring music and movement scores. The content taught is designed to release blocked energy and access deep states of consciousness, allowing people of all abilities to move with virtuosity, creativity and beauty. Inspired by Open Source Forms™ and Skinner Releasing Technique™. Additional ecological imagery drawn from Earthbody dance work.* $15 - $20/class.
Teresa Smith - movement teacher/performer/choreographer. Ms. Smith has a deep interest in the integration and development of the 'whole self' (body-mind-spirit) through creativity, dance, inner awareness and non-ordinary states of consciousness. Currently in the teacher training program for Open Source Forms, she has practiced Skinner Releasing Technique for 3 decades. She brings to her teaching a warm appreciation of each person's potential and delights in awakening the creative spirit.
Ceramic Community Hand-building Workshops
Open clay time in my home studio with instruction as requested. Clay and supplies provided. Join us for community creativity and socializing (or solo work), accompanied by music playlists and tea/coffee/cocao. Inquire here.
Best practices to avoid transmission of colds and Covid-19 are encouraged. Masks optional, wash hands, please stay away if you are feeling ill. For some workshops Covid-19 home testing may be required, depending on circumstances and comfort of participants.
