HomeClasses and EventsClasses and WorkshopsWorkshopsEmbodying change: Winter Alchemy
  • Mon-Fri, Jan 22 - 26, 2024 | 3:30-5:30PM EST
Daria holds her index and middle finger together and looks at it. We see the back of her head, her hair in a low bun while she crouches in front of a bright yellow wall. Photo courtesy of the artist.
ID: Daria holds her index and middle finger together and looks at it. We see the back of her head, her hair in a low bun while she crouches in front of a bright yellow wall. Photo courtesy of the artist.

This workshop will support the Water energy in the kidneys or Jin. The kidneys hold the emotions of trust and fear. Jin is the “essence of the physical body.” It is deeply connected to our sexual energy. This is a time to store our most profound resources to cultivate Willpower with gentleness in the long term. A time to nourish our desire or life force to persevere toward what needs to be done.

Can we move beyond our given constitution and conditions to a blissful state and lucidity intrinsic to our being?

Daria uses Chinese energetic and contemplative action modalities to tap into the Chinese 5 Elements theory within and without, considering the constant transformation of the environment and seasonal influences. This practice opens the experience of the interdependent alchemy of the physical, emotional, energetical, causal, and intellectual bodies, journeying in our constitutive forces and the process of transformation and realization of potential. Between the contemplation of inner arising and action, there is an open state where possibilities are endless in the immediacy of our fundamental unconditioned nature.

 

Participants should bring a notebook and writing materials to the workshop.

Accessibility Notes

  • This workshop includes auditive guidance.

To request ASL interpretation or Audio Description, please email accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “ASL/Audio Description Request, Daria Faïn” at least three (3) weeks prior to the class start date.

For access-related questions and requests, please contact accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “Daria Faïn.”

Past workshop

Location

MR, 122CC – Ninth Street Studio
150 1st Avenue
New York, NY 10009

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Artists

Daria Faïn

Daria Faïn

Daria Faïn is a New York choreographer and director originally from the Mediterranean. Her work fuses her European cultural background with three decades of practice in Asian philosophies of the body, American dance training and theater.

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