Begin with your body...

Leap out of your familiar patterns and find yourself embodying place, ideas, art and spirit!

Anatomy of Grace is an exploration of the art of living well and founded on an engagement with history, (ancient Rome is the mother of Western Civilization), landscape and movement, in community.

Our intention is not simply to have an Italian experience, but to engage in experiential learning together, catapulting us out of our familiar and working toward embodying place, ideas and spirit.

We study the poetry of Virgil in the very landscape in which he lived and about which he wrote so eloquently over 2000 years ago - reading in English translation and delving into the original Latin as well.

Every morning we learn how to pay very close attention to ourselves and our surroundings in Awareness Through Movement lessons. We take walks along the Adige river, visit cathedrals and basilicas, Roman ruins (for example, a huge Roman villa built on the site where the Latin poet Catullus lived), and discover something about our connection to our surroundings, how we fit in to this idyll.

Back at the villa, having observed the art and architecture, the perfect Renaissance proportions, we construct geometric designs with a straight edge and a compass. At the same time we experience these proportions, that harmony, in the structure of self - in our body, our mind and our spirit, in the structure of relationship, and in the structures of our Italian environs. We go further, moving together more formally in Connecting through Movement, working clearly and specifically with partners and discovering how to move in easy response to each other to develop spontaneity, intuition and creativity.

We cook and study, write and eat together and participate in local traditions,

 engendering community and relationship in myriad ways.


Verona, Italy
31 March - 14 April 2012