A Personal Empowerment Retreat for Individuals ready to take their personal & professional relationships to the next level of success
Dates: July 21-25, 2008
Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 noon
Fee: $200 (Financial Assistance available. Please call number below)
No more than 12 participants.
Instructor: Bridget Palmer
Call (707) 483-5800 or email bridget@artoflivinginstitute.org. To reserve a place, please send a non-refundable check for $50 made out to "The Art of Living Institute" to the address above by 7/18.
The Short Story
Join me in my beautiful airy studio in eastern Santa Rosa for a delightful week of creative exploration that will catapult you toward fulfilling your dreams. Retreat activities will combine Feldenkrais® movement lessons with actor training, and life coaching. Each participant will leave with an enhanced capacity to cope with stress and a clearer vision of the action steps needed for self-actualization.
The Long Story, Abbreviated
To reach our highest potential and experience the deepest satisfaction, we need freedom to make our own choices and follow our creative impulses. In essence, to star in a life story of our own creation, not merely make do as someone in the crowd, a spectator to someone else’s saga.
Taking a starring role, however, evokes so much anxiety in most people that they give up on their dreams. Engaging with the energies of fear and stress in a retreat setting, through playful movement explorations and creativity, changes our brain patterns, so that rather than acquiescing to fear, we physically, mentally, & emotionally come to know that energy as the excitement and anticipation that proceed novel learning experiences. Approaching life as an actor, a student of emotional energies, body language, and verbal strategies, heightens our awareness to new possibilities and turns life into a magnificent learning opportunity rather than an exhausting rat race.
An actor’s body is the instrument upon which his or her success depends, and so does yours. Feldenkrais® movement lessons will greatly enhance your awareness of how your musculoskeletal system functions, while simultaneously taking advantage of your brain’s neuroplasticity to introduce more efficient, fluid patterns of movement into your nervous system. This process of neural reorganization will give your movement a quality of lightness and ease which makes daily functions easier, enabling you to feel younger and preserving more energy to cope with life’s challenges.
To get the Whole Story, Treat Yourself to this Retreat…
You’ll be glad you came!
“Life is an improv. The greater our courage and creativity, the more fun we can have making choices which will shape our future and the lives of the people in our sphere of influence.” Bridget Palmer, GCFP
Bridget Palmer’s Bio – The Short Story
Bridget holds a B.A. in Art & Society (1989), with a Theater Focus, from World College West and studied Directing in a Ph.D. program at U.C. Berkeley (1991-93) after two seasons of actor training and performing at the Second Studio of Wroclaw, in Poland. In 2007, she became a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner (someone who improves brain function through movement experiences) and Director of Santa Rosa Children’s Theater for the Santa Rosa Recreation & Parks Department. This Fall, she will also teach theater improv to adults through SRRP. Her children’s drama classes were given a gold medal and voted “Best Drama Classes” by the readers of Family-Life magazine in 2008.
Bridget Palmer’s Bio – The Long Story, Abbreviated
Bridget has been fascinated with how to become an extraordinary human being since early childhood. She has extensive experience as an actor, director, scholar, teacher, producer, entrepreneur, spouse (20 years!), friend, daughter, sibling, & parent (3 children), which she is excited to share with others in her first retreat. Bridget knows from experience that extraordinary change happens most readily when we remove ourselves from our ordinary routines and engage our imaginations and movement in novel ways. Bridget wants to support you on your journey of personal empowerment and fulfillment by creating a space for you to practice instantly influencing your state of being through whichever portal is most advantageous or accessible in a given moment- thoughts, feelings, or movement. She has repeatedly been told in her work with children that she is a “saint” which she takes to be a compliment about her reservoir of patience. Bridget views her patience as love and compassion for all people, and faith in their ability to succeed when they have sufficient inner resources for the challenge at hand. She also credits her actor training with giving her a high capacity to courageously face the unknown. Bridget has always enjoyed creating learning environments and witnessing people create themselves and their destinies.