Tamar is back from her trip to Belgium, where she taught an all-day workshop at the APGDS, a method using muscular and joint chains. Tamar met really interesting people and learned so much about the body from the APGDS. We also had a screening of the Enter the Faun at the Best of 2017 Extraordinary Film Festival, where last year we won the grand prix! Before the screening, there was an exhibition of wheelchair dances. https://vimeo.com/294205781
Read more 0Cerebral Palsy and Vulnerability - By Robyn Lambird As a para Olympic athlete with cerebral palsy Robyn has a lot to share about her physicality. Her feedback, perspective and experience is amazing. Robyn will be in NYC in December so that we can work intensively together again. Sharing her blogpost with you. Stay tuned for what happens in December! --Tamar If you follow me on social media you may have noticed that I have been hanging
Read more 2Enter The Faun In Montreal + Exciting New Film Trailer! Hi Friends, Tamar will be traveling this month to Quebec City and Montreal. There will be several screenings of Enter The Faun, Q&A’s and attendance at activities surrounding the First International Symposium for Dance and Well-Being. Please let your friends in Quebec/Montreal know and click the following link for more information: Screening Information We are looking forward to returning to Brussels, Belgium in the fall.
Read more 1Gregg and Tamar In Belgium, Faun Returns to TV! Enter The Faun returns to TV! Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 @ 8 PM (7 PM Central) check local listings for the World Channel Streaming 12/13/17 - 3/13/18 @ http://bit.ly/ARF_EnterFaun Dear friends and supporters, We are still marveling at how Enter The Faun continues to travel the world! We enjoyed San Francisco but we were so sorry to see how the fires destroyed so much. More recently, we
Read more 0Dear friends, Enter The Faun will be screened in three different locations in October — Chicago, San Francisco, and Hurleyville, New York. Be sure to scroll down for more details about San Francisco. We hope you can join us and let people know! We had a successful screening in Paris at the Pompidou Center this summer along with a workshop. Tamar returned to Valencia for the third year to teach the children at Balletvale+ She was then invited
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Tamar recently found this photo of her Dad from the 1960's. She was shocked to see the confluence of their views. Even way back then, her father is quoted: "The patients who do best, says Dr. Rogoff, are the ones who know the most about their disease...they learn from the staff and from each other." At the top corner of the article are a few dangling words from a sentence that is cut away: "...respect
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It has been an exciting week for Enter The Faun! We had our New York City premiere at the Margaret Mead Film Festival, and also screened at the Washington West Film Festival and FilmColumbia. Also, earlier in the month, we won the Audience Favorite award at the Footcandle Film Festival in Hickory, North Carolina! Tamar, Daisy, and Véronique celebrate with the dinosaurs at Margaret Mead Friend and Faun supporter, Gordon Yip with Gregg at Margaret
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Dear Friends,We are beyond excited to announce that our New York premiere of Enter The Faun will be at the Margaret Mead Film Festival at 12:00 PM on October 25th, at the American Museum of Natural History. We hope our New York fans and supporters will be there to celebrate with us. Information and tickets here (on sale September 16th): http://www.amnh.org/explore/margaret-mead-film-festival/films/enter-the-faun Gregg and I will be at the Footcandle Film Festival in Gregg’s hometown of Hickory,
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I have been taking Tamar's movement/dance/laboratory class for about ten years. I stopped going in 2011 when I developed a neurological disorder called truncal dystonia. I was barely able to walk and experienced a pulling feeling as if a cumberbund was being tightened around my waist. This feeling was severe and made me bend at the middle as if I was going to pick something up off the floor. I started seeing Tamar privately and
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An update from our Australian Posse leader Robyn Lambird: Robyn Lambird (center) at the 2014 Junior National Wheelchair Basketball Championships Since first seeing the trailer for Enter the Faun I have been immensely intrigued by the techniques used by Tamar and Gregg. From then on I have read multiple books and watched countless talks on neuroplasticity and have found myself more and more invested in learning about this little old brain of mine. So needless
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New York Posse member Christine Bruno: I know I had a breakthrough last week and really want to keep investigating with our posse and work toward a plan that keeps me on track between our meetings. I have been realizing the past few months - especially at last week's meeting - that I need to make this work a priority NOW! Note from Tamar: Christine was working with Gregg and Shawn Shafner, our newest Posse
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I am thrilled to announce that Enter The Faun will premiere on April 15th and 18th at the Sarasota Film Festival in Florida. The team is terribly excited as you can imagine. Gregg and I will travel to Sarasota and do workshops and outreach activities. We will also celebrate the whole team's achievements to have gotten us this far! Thanks to all of you who have helped along the way these 8 long years. More soon from sunny
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I’m wondering about the role of empathy in healing. Is it true that scientists/doctors fear empathy because it may obscure the diagnosis/treatment process? Emotions might come in and we all know how unwieldy emotions can be—so it follows that getting to know your patient intimately might be a bad thing because you then could get confused on the scientific path. For me the empathy (I admit to being the empathy queen) sends me to the
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