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International Authentic Movement Day 2025
September 8, 2025
A Moving Journal October 4, 2025 Since 2014, practitioners within the wide and diverse field of Authentic Movement have celebrated International Authentic Movement Day on October 4th in small and large local and virtual groups or solo forms. More recently, Nina Kungurova, a teacher of the Discipline of Authentic Movement,
Remembering Janet Adler 1941 – 2023
September 6, 2025
On behalf of Circles of Four, Nina Kungurova offered an international online gathering on Saturday, July 19, 2025 in honor of Janet Adler (1941-2023), founder of the Discipline of Authentic Movement. This event features eight women who participated in Janet’s remarkable movie, Still Looking. Made nearly forty years ago in
Embodied Consciousness Developing
June 16, 2025
Where does the movement come from? This decades-old question first began squirreling around in my dancer mind as a yearning for a deeper source of movement. In her new book, Embodied Spirit, Conscious Earth, Linda Hartley takes her readers to the brink of movement’s mysterious and unseen source. She tracks the embryonic growth
Lineage & Transmission
May 5, 2025
Partly because I am a daughter and a mother, and partly because of consequential encounters with extraordinary teachers, I’m interested in transmission as a key to human development. In other words, the long arc of what gets passed on is time expressing itself through lineage. The seeds of one teacher’s
Today is the day
February 20, 2025
“Relationship in any form teaches us about our capacity to accept, endure, and survive suffering, our own and every being’s: thus the creation of our developing compassion.” – Janet Adler Today is the day. It’s been fifteen years since my father left me with a puzzling mystery after he died. Writing
Synchronicity and International Authentic Movement Day 2024
October 18, 2024
I’ve been thinking about synchronicity and the way it upends our experience of space and time. While I am always moved by the synchronistic arisings that happen within a moving and witnessing circle and the mystery of these spontaneous choreographies, I no longer find myself surprised. However, when it happens
Janet Adler Memorial
October 17, 2023
Paula Sager speaking at Janet Adler Memorial October 8, 2023, Northampton, MA I’d like to begin with a poem by W.S. Merwin: Looking for Mushrooms at Sunrise When it is not yet day I am walking on centuries of dead chestnut leaves In a place without grief Though the oriole
International Authentic Movement Day
September 30, 2021
INTERNATIONAL AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT DAY Honoring Mary Starks Whitehouse October 4th 2021, 12:00 – 1:30 pm EST, online. Seven years ago, I was sitting next to Elizabeth Reid at Aileen Crow’s 85th birthday party in New York City. Aileen had been an inspiring teacher, beloved by all of us gathered at