ABOUT HAWK DANCE

Hawk Dance Ceremonies of Transformation is a process for discovering what matters to us, in creating happiness for ourselves and others. Through the ceremony of drumming, movement, art work, and creative contemplations, we discover the alchemy of how to transform fears. What first seem to be obstacles, become allies as we unfold our dreams of happiness.

This work springs from the richness of different cultural paths: West African drumming, Tewa/ Hopi medicine tradition, and Expressive Arts Therapies with its basis in European (western) depth psychotherapy. Through these pathways we come to our senses in the resonance of the inner and outer drum. We create music within the circle human community, and find how our own voice is supported in our humanity. We awaken conscious connection to the circle of Earth and All That Is. We touch into the creative source that expresses our authentic dreams. We find words to contain new intentions and pathways in the alchemical process of evolving emotions, transforming obstacles to allies. Through these methods we experience authentic being within the concentric circles of community: inner being, human relationships, earth and cosmos; and we can walk pathways of beauty and joy as we discover how to manifest our dreams in happiness.

These workshops grew out of an experience on retreat where I was confronted with my core fears. Masterfully led by my teacher I worked with this experience through a multi-leveled process, including writing stories and breaking my experience into six feelings: Resentment, Outrage, Guilt, Blame, Judgment and Control. I was asked to consider how these feelings might transform, what they would transform to, and what was the pathway of transformation. The workshops of Hawk Dance have evolved out of this intensive work of spiritual training.

In a series of six workshops, which can be taken individually or as a whole, we find how fears may hold the seeds of our dreams. Each workshop addresses a quality of being that emerges as an ally. We see how these qualities awaken as we bring consciousness to the inner process We discover in body, mind and feeling, how our intentions in Appreciation, Passion, Allowance, Compassion, Discernment and Freedom evolve to support our dream in Happiness.

Workshops are offered in two different formats,
1) as a one-time 4-hour experience, (currently taught in 3 locations - more info)
2) as two 2-hour workshops (currently taught on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month at The Healing Circle in Providence, RI)

The workshops
Appreciation: Seeing What You’re Missing
Passion: Seeking What is True
Allowance; Freedom to Be
Compassion: Opening the Heart
Discernment: What’s What
Freedom: Being Alive

To register for Hawk Dance workshops or for more information
call (401) 226-5583 or write info@hawkdance.com

ABOUT ANNIE GEISSINGER

Annie Geissinger , M.A. LMHC
co-creates and leads Hawk Dance Ceremonies of Transformation workshops. She is an expressive arts therapist, teacher, editor and musician, with degrees in Music and in Expressive Arts Therapies. Her backgrounds in movement and in drumming in a variety of cultural settings have supported her experience of community in creative and spiritual relationship, and are significant to the design of these teachings.

Authentic Movement has been a practice, study and passion since 1994. She has trained with Janet Adler, and for 13 years served as a founding editor of A Moving Journal. Another great passion is West African drumming, which she has studied for over 20 years, primarily in the US, also traveling to Senegal and Mali. Her main teachers are Abdoul Doumbia, Seydou Coulibaly and Issa Coulibaly. She is a universalist with a broad range of interests including yoga and chanting, Zen Buddhism, Tai Chi, the Council of the Grandmothers, sacred geometry and anthroposophy.

Her guide in Hawk Dance Ceremonies of Transformation is her teacher, Willow Tequillo, Tewa/Hopi medicine Woman. Through of the generous offerings of Willow and other teachers, Annie is practicing and now also teaching emotional evolution to support the awakening of dreams of being in Happiness.

Annie has taught at Kripalu Yoga Center, Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, and at Meeting Street School in Providence — as well as offering performances, workshops and residencies in numerous schools, holistic centers and performance sites. She helps to run The Healing Circle in Providence, RI, where she lives with her family.

For further information on the teachings of Willow Tequillo, see www.sacredreflections.com.

For further information on the
Healing Circle, see www.providencehealingcircle.com.

For further information on Annie’s drumming and performance work with storyteller Abigail Jefferson, see www.dancedrumstory.com.

For further information on A Moving Journal, see www.movingjournal.org.