CONTINUING EDUCATION : Special Class series
Spring 2026 Course Descriptions for the Continuing Education classes offered at the SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ,
with Rulan Tangen, the renowned Artistic Director of Dancing Earth. Rulan offers her unique methodologies in forms accessible to all people in this series work. Anyone is welcome to take one or more of these focused series movement classes.
Remember to register 10 days before the series will begin. Register online at www.sfcc.edu/ce Register by phone or in person at 505-428-1676 or go to room 131 from 9am to 5pm M-F. These five sessions of somatic series classes will be taught be Rulan Tangen, renowned Artistic Director of Dancing Earth.
BECOMING ROOTED, WITH MOVEMENT Wednesday afternoons February 4-25 from 4:30-5:30 pm
Here we explore movement methodologies in forms accessible to all people. This inspires compelling imagery from the natural world that will allow memory and imagination to awaken body’s capacity to both feel and move. This practice uses chairs or working on the floor building mobility, balance and a stronger alignment of the spine and strengthening of core muscles. In the seated work we develop strength and mobility through movement that focuses on the spine, neck, arms, hips and torso. While standing the focus is articulation and alignment of the feet, knees and legs. Learning this work helps participants to integrate wellness breaks easily into daily life. No experience is necessary, and all are welcome to participate with “beginner’s mind. As we practice together participants will build more strength and freedom of movement.
EARTH BODY HEAT Thursday mornings , February 5-26 , from 8:45-9:45 am
In the Body Heat series we will be including inspired compelling imagery from the seasons, from nature. This can help the body to feel its spontaneous aliveness. This work focuses on a standing rhythmic movement practice. With this more continuous movement it builds fire within the body; it’s a great practice in winter that warms and energizes. We can stomp, sway and sweat accessing our connection with Earth and our own body’s heat!
EARTH BODY - THE WAY OF THE SPIRAL Thursday middays. March 5-26 12-1pm
The Way of the Spiral centers around a repeating principle of movement and nature that shows up as graceful beauty and power. Using a standing practice of movement , this practice follows the flow of energy inside and around us - in spirals, curves, undulations and circles. This series will be taught with minimal word cueing. The group will learn to organically build spiral forms and movement together. Individuals report how their energy is refreshed and revitalized and how this work helps them to experience their relaxed and energized physicality with mobilized joints, spine, and breath. It can reawaken our attunement, into the spiral of universe echoed in finding the sense of spiral from the inside.
EMBODIED STORY Wednesday afternoon/evenings March 18- April 28 from 4:30-6:30 pm
What is Embodied Story? it is the translation of themes into movement that also reveals our embodied wisdoms. Embodied story is experiential. It is both a somatic experience as well as a tool for building understanding in a resonant deep way that is beyond words or empirical thinking or logic. As well as movement practices this series includes a creative multi disciplinary approach developed to deepen our understanding of and connection to water. Using movement we explore the waters within, the waters of the high desert, the water than connect all life on Earth. Embodied Story includes a performance ritual on National Water Day, Saturday April 18th.
EARTH WALK Thursdays mornings April 9-30 , from 9-10:30 am
In this series we are outdoors for our practice. it is a guided conscious walking practice. Earth Walk focuses on the incredible inherent body technology of what is walking as meditation. This practice helps rebalance left and right hemispheres. Individually we tune-in to our respective alignment, balance, stability as well as the mobility of our feet, legs, hips, and upper body. Because we are outdoors it is also very much a multi sensory practice. With our awakening somatic awareness in nature’s environment we have more capacity to both feel the aliveness of the natural world as we may feel our own aliveness within. Together we renew an appreciation for the dynamic harmony that is inherent in walking. Here we build our coordination, our powers of observation, our relationship with all life forms, experiencing from simplicity to complexity the interwoven systems that sustain us.
