Ease into embodiment with this Mindfulness Meditation and Hula-focused workshop led by Zen priest/teacher and Kumu Hula June Tanoue
Mindfulness isn’t just about the mind. It’s also a practice of bringing our awareness back to the body, and finding a deeper presence in our physical form.
Ease into embodiment with this Zen and Hula-focused workshop led by June Ryushin Kaililani Tanoue, a Zen priest and teacher in the White Plum lineage and a Master Teacher of Hawaiian Hula.
The cultural dance of hula, known as the heartbeat of the Hawaiian people, is seen as an embodiment of nature. The dancer becomes the motion of the wind through the trees, the waves on the shore, the life-giving rains, and the fragrance of flowers. Hula portrays this rich spiritual interdependence through mindful movement of hands, feet, and body.
In this 3-hour workshop, you’ll explore a range of gentle movement and breath awareness practices—drawn from both the Zen and hula traditions—to help you experience the integration of meditation and dance.
You'll also learn a gentle hula honoring the harmony of body and mind.
Online and In-person Workshop includes:
Mindfulness meditation instruction and practice
Gentle warm up exercises to prepare your body for Hula
Hula instruction
Brief writing practice
This workshop is open to all levels and abilities. Please join us!
Bring a chair for meditation and to use if you want to focus just on hand motions of the hula. You may also bring a cushion if you prefer sitting on the floor for meditation.
Dress comfortably ready for movement. Bring a hula pa'u/skirt if you have one or a pareo to wrap around your hips.
Bring notebook and pen for brief writing exercise.
Technical Details
Zoom Link to access the program will be sent to you by email just prior to event
The dance will be recorded and made available to participants
Teacher
June Kaililani Ryushin Tanoue, MPH
June is a Kumu Hula (Master Teacher of Hula). She began studying Hula in 1988 with Kumu Michael Pili Pang and went through a traditional ’uniki ritual graduating as Kumu Hula in June 2000. She began teaching in 2003 and founded Halau i Ka Pono, the Hula School of Chicago in September 2009. The Hula School is a non-denominational program of the Zen Life & Meditation Center, Chicago.
Roshi June is also co-founder of Zen Life & Meditation Center, Chicago with her husband, Roshi Robert Joshin Althouse, has been practicing Zen since 1993 and is a fully empowered Zen Teacher and a Zen Buddhist Priest. She was born and raised on Hawaii Island and is sansei on her father's side and yonsei on her mother's side of the family.
June also enjoys writing and sewing.
june.tanoue@zlmc.org
A zoom link will be sent just before the event.
Cost: $55, $35 Halau members. Patrons $75
Scholarships available.
