Amber Gray

Dancing the Wild Home // TONGA
2019-08-27 00:00 - 2019-09-05 00:00 (America/New_York)
A Restorative Movement & Whale Encounter Retreat in TONGA
The Ocean is home. Considered the mother of us all in many sacred traditions, she absorbs more carbon dioxide than anything else on our planet. For every breath we take, we have the ocean to thank for offering the gift of oxygen, and therefore, of life.
Whales are magnificent wisdom carriers of the ocean, with much to share about compassion and generosity. Our own bodies are 70-80% water; the remnants of oceanic living, still inside us and available to teach us about flow, creativity and resiliency. This restorative movement retreat combines daily whale and often, other ocean dweller (dolphins, turtles, manta rays) encounters, with daily movement and dance practices, explorations, and “dives.”
We will also have an opportunity to visit stunning coral reefs and beaches. Our Tongan whale guides have grown up with Humpbacks, and create whale encounter experiences that are respectful for the whales and safe for all.
This is a magical retreat that uniquely combines Continuum, yoga, and other healing movement with whale encounters in the soothing environment of the South Pacific.
Each day will be a journey into the sacred and the restorative through continuum, restorative movement, yoga, sacred dance and whale encounters.
For costs, travel, & registration:
restorativeresources@gmail.com
+1 (505) 603-702

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Summer Winter Virtual Dive Series // The Space In Between
2019-07-16 06:00 - 2019-08-15 07:00
This brief virtual series of 90 minute classes are scheduled for:
Wednesday June 19, 6am AEST
Tuesday July 16, 7am AEST
Thursday August 15, 7am AEST

Trauma & the Moving Body // Seattle
2019-05-17 00:00 - 2019-05-18 00:00
Expressive Arts and Dance Movement Therapy Approaches to Working with Trauma
Amber is teaching Trauma and The Moving Body in Seattle; this course is approve for Alternate Route for dance therapy students seeking their R-DMT, and is also approved for 13 CEs for mental health professionals nation-wide by R Cassidy.
REGISTER HERE
R. CASSIDY CE LINK

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Boukman Eksperyans: Workshop + Performance
2019-05-10 00:00 - 2019-05-12 00:00
Share in the spirit of Haitian tradition through song, dance, drumming & performance.

Amber, Elise Gent and The Railyard Performance Center invite dear friends and members of Grammy-nominated Racine band Boukman Eksperyans to teach and perform in Santa Fe.

PERFORMANCE

WORKSHOP

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Essence – Here & Now PDF

Body as Voice Part III: The Collective Body // Bologna, Italy
2019-05-02 00:00 - 2019-05-05 00:00
Approved for ADTA Alternate Route (2 credits) and Mental Health CE’s through RCassidy.

For details and registration:

Trauma & the Moving Body // Bologna, Italy
2019-05-01 00:00
“Trauma and the Moving Body” upcoming in Bologna, Italy:

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Rebirth, Re-align, Re-generate: The Continuum of ReGenesis
2019-04-09 00:00 - 2019-06-11 00:00
The Continuum of Regenesis: Continuum Santa Fe Spring Dive Series
The next Continuum Santa Fe dive series, The Continuum of ReGenesis, begins April 9:

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Master Class - Uncovering Unconscious Resistance: Navigating Change Through Movement
2019-03-29 00:00
Amber and Continuum colleague Sharon Weil are co-presenting a Master Class on Continuum as a movement practice (“Uncovering Unconscious Resistance: Navigating Change Through Movement”) on Friday, March 29, 2019 at the Los Angeles Expressive Arts Summit.
Conference link here.

Napa Wellness Conference
2019-03-13 00:00 - 2019-03-15 00:00
Amber is presenting on self care and practical approaches to working with children affected by trauma foe educators and school counselors in Napa Valley. Click here for conference information.

The Warming Darkness
2019-03-12 17:30 - 20:30
A Continuum Series
January 22 • February 12 • March 12
Puerta de la Luna
546 Harkle Road
Santa Fe, NM
5:30-8:30 PM
$35 per class
Movement is life. This Continuum class series invites our bodies into moving divination. Continuum is a movement and life practice, originated by Emilie Conrad, that weaves breath, sound and movement into a landscape of internal exploration and self-choreographed movement and dance. This series is inspired by this season of dark, transforming to light. Each class will explore the warmth of darkness and the gestation of light to inspire freedom, openness and freshness in our bodies and their primary language of movement. Every body is welcome; Continuum is appropriate for all ages and fitness levels.
For information or to RSVP contact Amber Gray, Continuum Teacher:
restorativeresources@gmail.com
505-603-7021

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Earth to Sky: The Body-Sea In Between
2019-03-02 11:00 - 2019-03-03 17:00
A Continuum Workshop with Amber Gray
As movers on an evolutionary pathway, our bodies harbor the potential for free, unconstrained, authentic movement. We have innate abilities to be fluid; to live beyond the constraints, densities and restrictions that can bind us in tension, pain, isolation or distress. This two day Continuum workshop weaves breath and sound together with movement sequences to restore our wholeness.
Continuum is a wonderful self care, movement and life practice for healers and therapists. A practice that involves simple sound streams, breathing patterns, and slow, organic movements. It restores fluidity to the body after injury and when life’s demands compromise us. Emilie Conrad, the originator of Continuum, teaches that “all fluids are basically one element, resonating with all other fluids”. Our bodies are living systems and, like the earth, we are 70% water. Our movement roots are an ancient connection to the sea. They function as a kind of umbilical cord supplying us with the pulsing undulations of life.
This workshop is open to movement artists and practitioners, performers, therapists, body workers and all those committed to a deep exploration of how life reveals itself in each and every breath.
WHEN: Saturday – Sunday, 2 & 3 March, 2019, 11am – 5pm
WHERE: Level 3 Rialto South Tower, 525 Collins St, Melbourne
COST: Early Bird – AUD 375 (before 31 January) Full – AUD 425 (after 31 January)
For more information and registration:
Zac Jones, 0410660508, zacjones77@yahoo.com.au
or Amber Gray, amber@ecentral.com

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Body as Voice: Polyvagal-Informed Movement Therapy for Trauma: Part II
2019-02-15 09:00 - 2019-02-18 17:30
Body Wisdom, Body Narratives: Focus on dyadic and therapeutic relationship and healing in relationship; clinical intuition and clinical reciprocity.
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Body as Voice: Polyvagal-Informed Movement Therapy for Trauma: Part I
2019-01-04 09:00 - 2019-01-07 17:30
Body-Mind, Beginners Mind: Focus on embodiment, self care, self compassion and self-practice.
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BODY AS VOICE: 3-Part Workshop Series In Restorative Movement Psychotherapy
2018-01-19 09:00 - 2018-01-22 17:30
Santa Fe University of Art and Design
1600 Saint Michaels Drive – Santa Fe
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Body As Voice: Restorative Movement Psychotherapy For Survivors Of Trauma
2017-12-22 00:00
Centro Om Yoga
Castellata 10/A – Bologna
Amber is returning to Europe to offer her unique body, movement and rhythm-based framework for promoting resiliency and processing traumatic experience in clients who are survivors of traumatic life events.
This 3-part training is based on the facilitator’s 20 years experience as a Dance Movement Therapist and Somatic Psychotherapist specializing in interpersonal trauma, including torture treatment, refugee mental health, ritual abuse, childhood trauma and human rights violations, in crosses cultural contexts. Part 1 and 2 are currently approved for ADTA Alternate Route (Graduate Level) Training, and Part 3 is in process.
The training emphasizes:

Ongoing cultivation of somatic self-awareness, self-compassion and self-love,
Prevention and mitigation of vicarious trauma,
Enhancing somatic listening skills,
Contact, connection and relatedness through promotion of internal state-shifting and social engagement
“State-shifting” to resource through the body, and dampen negative affect,
Integrate breath, body and movement based practices and processes into trauma processing to restore meaning and belonging.

“This training transformed my embodied knowledge of trauma, its process and healing trajectory. On top of unpacking important theories, the course is especially thorough in integrating opportunities for experiential understanding. I really appreciated the rich case studies and demos Amber brings into the course, and opportunities to work in smaller groups or dyads to explore therapeutic applications and our own relationship to this work. Perhaps the most powerful for me, Body as Voice helped restore and enhance my own self-compassion and a more authentic presence with others.”
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Body as Voice in Australia: Restorative Movement Psychotherapy for Survivors of Trauma
2017-12-01 09:30 - 2017-12-04 17:00
Part 1: Body mind, beginner’s mind of a 3 Part Workshop Series
Melbourne, Australia
Dec Friday 01st to Dec Monday 04th 9.30am – 5:00pm daily
Amber Gray is returning to Australia to offer her unique body, movement and rhythm-based framework for promoting resiliency and processing traumatic experience in clients who are survivors of traumatic life events.
Contact Jane Guthrie on admin@dtaa.org.au
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The Untamed Body: Rewilding with Continuum at MOVE
2017-11-28 18:00 - 20:30
“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you” – Isadora Duncan
Wild Mind: Tuesday, September 26, 6-9 PM
Wild Heart: Tuesday October 24, 6-9 PM
Wild Flesh: Tuesday November 28, 6-9 PM
Cost: $35 per class
Classes are held at MOVE, 901 West San Mateo, Santa Fe
For Information and Registration:
Amber Gray, Continuum Teacher
505-603-7021
restorativeresources@gmail.com
The Body as Voice Series is Alternate Route Approved. Click here for more information.
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Amber is Presenting on her Work with Refugees at The American Dance Therapy Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas
2017-11-05 00:00
HYATT REGENCY SAN ANTONIO
123 Losoya Street – San Antonio
Never has the field of psychotherapy been filled with such hope and promise. From the world of neuroscience we are learning of the astonishing capability of the human brain and nervous system for plasticity and renewal. At the same time, the fields of psychology and other applied sciences are detailing the role of the body, movement and interpersonal connection in healing the deepest psychological wounds. These tracks of inquiry, while previously parallel, are beginning to intersect in a place long familiar to dance/movement therapists: body and movement as pathway to resilience, healing and connectedness.
Thus, this year’s conference theme is a call to dance/movement therapists to make explicit the knowledge we have known implicitly for 60+ years.
HYATT REGENCY SAN ANTONIO 123 Losoya Street, San Antonio,
TX 78205
Make your hotel reservations here
ADTA rate is $185 per night + tax; available until October 1, 2017
or until rooms are filled
Each person makes their own reservation, and if you are planning on having a roommate, make sure the hotel gets their name(s) on your room reservation as well. Then if you and your roommates get to the hotel at different checkin times, their name will be in the system and they will be able to get a room key. If you are looking for a roommate for the conference, please contact Renee, info@adta.org
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The Untamed Body: Rewilding with Continuum at MOVE
2017-10-24 18:00 - 20:30
MOVE Studio
901 W San Mateo Rd – Santa Fe
“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you” – Isadora Duncan
Wild Mind: Tuesday, September 26, 6-9 PM
Wild Heart: Tuesday October 24, 6-9 PM
Wild Flesh: Tuesday November 28, 6-9 PM
Cost: $35 per class
Classes are held at MOVE , 901 West San Mateo, Santa Fe
For Information and Registration:
Amber Gray, Continuum Teacher
505-603-7021
restorativeresources@gmail.com
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Amber is Presenting on her Work with Refugees at The Expressive Therapies Summit in New York
2017-10-13 00:00 - 2017-10-15 00:00
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Restoring Core Rhythmicity: Polyvagal-informed Movement Therapy for Trauma in New York City
2017-10-06 00:00 - 2017-10-08 00:00
Moving Body Resources
112 West 27th Street #400 – New York
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Dancing the Wild Home returns to Tonga
2017-08-30 00:00 - 2017-09-08 00:00
A Restorative Movement and Whale Encounter Retreat in TONGA
Whales are magnificent wisdom carriers of the ocean, with much to share about compassion and generosity. Our own bodies are 70-80% water; the remnants of oceanic living, still inside us and available to teach us about flow, creativity and resilience. This restorative movement retreat combines daily whale encounters, optional snorkeling and free diving lessons, with daily movement and dance practices,explorations and Continuum “dives”
WHEN: August 30 to September 8, 2017
WHERE: Serenity Beach Resort, Ha’apai, Tonga
COST: US $2700 shared room; US$ 3500 singles; all inclusive accommodation, meals, boat transfer, whale swims and movement classes and explorations.
Singles are only available until May 1, 2017.
FOR PLANNING, INQUIRIES, QUESTIONS AND REGISTRATION:
Amber Gray: amber@ecentral.com Mob: +1(505) 603-7021
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Join us at OMEGA for the Somatic Movement Immersion: Inhabiting the Body, Moving the World
2017-07-23 00:00 - 2017-07-28 00:00
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies
150 Lake Dr – Rhinebeck, NY
The Somatic Movement Immersion is hosted by Elaine Colandrea of Watermark Arts and cotaught with Mary Abrams, Priscilla Auchincloss, Megan Bathory-Peeler, Ellen Cohen, Ashima Kahrs, Bobbie Ellis, Melanie Noblit Gambino, Bonnie Gintis, Amber Elizabeth Gray, Caryn Heilman, Rebecca Lawson, Val Leoffler, Linda Rabin, Beth Pettengill Riley, and Bonnie Simoa.
Guest presenters include John Bianculli, Elisa Cotroneo, Martha Eddy, Marc Grossman and Susan Knittel.
Into Sunlight, a film by Moving Pictures, will receive a special showing during Immersion 2017. The film tells the story of choreographer and Continuum teacher Robin Becker’s dance, inspired from David Mariniss’ book, They Marched Into Sunlight, about the Vietnam era. The film perfectly exemplifies inhabiting the body, moving the world.
Are you curious about this summer’s Somatic Immersion? Read on to find out what’s happening “behind the scenes” in this 5-day exploration of Continuum’s contribution to the body of somatic knowing as it plays out through our personal and collective lives.
It’s more than serendipitous that Omega and Watermark Arts are bringing forth this workshop together. Nested in the landscape of the Hudson Valley, every aspect of the Omega site has been developed in consonance with the natural environment. We will have five days to dissolve into Continuum practice, nature and art, while being met with great hospitality. There is a range of accommodations for every taste and budget. This year Omega is also welcoming a new chef, who focuses on delicious, quality, locally-sourced food. Please join us!
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Where the Light Plays: Continuum at the Edge
2017-06-27 16:00
MOVE Studio
901 W San Mateo Rd – Santa Fe
This evening “dive” is an invitation to experience Continuum, a movement practice based on the undulating movements of Haitian dance, as play with our own inner light near the Solstice, when light is long and we begin to move towards darkness.
Time: 6-9 PM Cost = $35.00
Information & Registration: Amber Gray 505-603-7021
restorativeresources@gmail.com
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Psoas Above, Psoas Below: Embodying Ground and Sky
2017-05-14 11:00 - 17:00
Level 3 Rialto South Tower
525 Collins St. – Melbourne
The psoas is a deep core muscle, connecting legs to spine, and often referred to as the muscle of the soul by ancients and mystics. It stabilizes, and affects mobility, flexibility, balance and more.
The psoas spirals, fans and webs as it connects our core to our ground. This class explores the psoas as a muscle-moving -continuum from core strength to spiraling dancer that may increase our capacity for moving diversity. Moving from the emergent evolutionary “edges” of the psoas, we play with it as a promoter of flexibility, freedom and fluidity. That the psoas is important to physical and emotional health is well known; this class will also explore moving relationships between the psoas, heart and head using simple sound streams, movement sequences and breath.
WHERE: Level 3 Rialto South Tower 525 Collins St, Melbourne $225 early bird paid in full by 10/4; $250 afterwards.
$450 for both workshops
For more information and registration:
Contact Zac Jones
0410660508
zacjones77@yahoo.com.au
Amber Gray
amber@ecentral.com
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Inner Sacrum: Exploring The Root of Freedom with Continuum
2017-05-13 11:00 - 23:00
Level 3 Rialto South Tower
525 Collins St – Melbourne
A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain – Llewellyn Powers
The sacrum, described in Hindu as the “Seat of the Soul”, is a keystone structure in our human bodies. From its anatomical function to its place as sacred triangular and heart shaped seat of creativity, divinity and intelligence, the sacrum is initiator and recipient of wave motion; root and support; tail, portal, inner sanctum, and a source of fluid movement and pleasure. This day long Continuum immersion combines breath, sound and movement to inspire moving through and from the sacrum as a continuum of core strength and serpentine flow.
COST: $225 early bird paid in full by 10/4; $ 250.00 after. $450.00 for both workshops.
Info & Registration: Contact Zac Jones: 0410660508, zacjones77@yahoo.com.au

Somatic & Mindfulness-based Approaches to Self-Care & Self-Compassion with Amber Gray
2017-05-06 09:30
Foundation House
4 Gardiner Street – Brunswick
Working with people who have survived extremes of violence and who face all the challenges of settlement or finding permanent safety creates serious challenges for the worker. Vicarious trauma, burnout and other forms of secondary suffering are an ongoing threat to workers’ well-being and their capacity to work sustainably.
In this workshop you will add substantially to your understanding of the risks involved and you will experience and learn embodied practices for self-care and self-compassion.
CONTENT INCLUDES:

Neurobiology of self-care & self-compassion
Scienti c rationale for somatic & mindfulness based practices
Understanding the risks of your work
Ethics of self-care
Mindfulness practices
Embodied self-compassion practices
Breath, movement & rhythm based practices
Compassion as resiliency practices

GENERAL ENQUIRIES
03 9389 8965 or pdregistrations@foundationhouse.org.au
TO REGISTER visit http://learn.foundationhouse.org.au
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Easing the Pain with Amber Gray: 2 Day Workshop
2017-05-04 00:00 - 2017-05-05 00:00
DAY ONE: Introduces principles and concepts for working somatically with survivors. Drawing from the theoretical knowledge base and practitioner case material, physical and psychosocial practitioners will be provided with a foundation for how to work with the mind, body, soul connection.
DAY TWO: Physical and psychosocial practitioners will extend their ability to use somatic approaches, with opportunities to develop skills collaboratively while learning from a world leader in the field.
CONTENT INCLUDES:
• Basic premises of somatic psychology
• Overview of somatic practices
• Relationship between developmental
progression and pain
• Physiological state shifts
• Selfcompassion
• Mobilisationpractices
• Belonging as a clinical outcome
• Introduction to Polyvagal theory
• Applying somatic approaches with your
clients
• Case presentations and discussions
DATES
4 & 5 May 2017
TIME
9.30 am – 4.30 pm
COST
$380 per person
Morning Tea, Lunch & Afternoon Tea Included
Places are strictly limited.
GENERAL ENQUIRIES
03 9389 8965 or pdregistrations@foundationhouse.org.au
TO REGISTER visit http://learn.foundationhouse.org.au/
BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL
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Walking Together: An Introduction to Clinical Work with Refugees and Survivors of Torture, Part 2
2017-04-28 00:00
Presented by Amber Gray, LPCC, MPH, MA, BC-DMT Dates, Times, and Locations
April 28, 2017 9:00 am to 4:30 pm Albuquerque, NM
Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
1. Participants will have an overview and framework with which to better understand the complex issues arising in clinical work with refugees and survivors of torture.
2. Participants will understand self-care as an ethical requirement of work with refugees and survivors.
3. Participants will understand the benefits and risks of empathy in psychotherapy with refugees and survivors of torture.
4. Participants will learn one compassion-based, self-care skill.
Participants will be introduced to the unique community, social, and health/ mental health issues that can exist within a community of people displaced by extreme hardship, war, organized violence, and human rights abuses.
6. Participants will have increased skills to assess refugees presenting with mental health, social, functional, and adjustment issues.
Registration
The deadline for registration is Tuesday, April 18, 2017. Please direct registration forms or questions to Karen Gonzales. Karen may be reached by email at Karen.Gonzales@state.nm.us or telephone at 505-476-3076. There is no cost for the training and CE credits in social work, counseling, and psychology will be provided for attending. Details on how to claim CEs will be provided during the presentation.
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LOVES BRAIN: Continuum and Embodied Intelligence
2017-04-25 18:00 - 21:00
MOVE Studio
901 W San Mateo Rd – Santa Fe
The human brain is complex, plastic and full of mystery. Our three brains — Gut, heart, and the brain itself – are subject of many emergent theories about human intelligence. This dive series is an embodied exploration of the heart of intelligence through sound and movement based practices. Theory and information from the fields of interpersonal neurobiology, neuroplasticity, and polyvagal theory accompany movement explorations of the relationship between our three brains, wisdom, and love.
COST: $35.00
For Information & Registration:
Amber E Gray
restorativeresources@gmail.com
505-603-7021
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