Body Tuning with Gong Meditation

BODY TUNING

a meditation-in-motion practice by

Claire Elizabeth Barratt

Body Tuning is for anybody who has a body.

Body Tuning is a holistic practice that integrates mind, body and spirit.

Body Tuning investigates the body as a medium for creative exploration.

Body Tuning is a valuable resource for dancers, actors, artists, yoga and bodywork practitioners, yet requires no previous movement method experience, involves no set poses or sequences and is accessible to all.

For each of the three Body Tuning with gong meditation sessions, we will focus on one single and simple action of the body.

1) Breath

2) Shift of Weight

3) Motion of Joints

The resonant vibrations of the gong will facilitate our movement meditation – as if carried by waves of sound. In turn, our motion opens the body to fully receive healing vibration on a deep, cellular level. It is a cycle of well-being.

Body Tuning was developed through a Masters Degree project at the Transart Institute for Creative Research and accredited by Plymouth University UK, as a component of the Living Art pedagogy for performance.

Claire Elizabeth Barratt - Biography

Claire Elizabeth Barratt (aka Cilla Vee) is an inter-disciplinary artist with a performing arts background. She is the director of Cilla Vee Life Arts  – an arts organization with a focus on cross-media collaboration. Her work utilizes artistic disciplines of dance, music, text, media, visual and installation art. 

Claire has presented her work in venues as diverse as Jacob’s Pillow, the New York Botanical Gardens, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center and Art Basel Miami. She has performed and taught throughout the USA and in Canada, Europe, Japan, Israel and Pakistan.

Claire received her professional training in London at The Laban Centre For Movement and Dance and at the London Studio Centre For Performing Arts. Her pre-professional training includes the Royal Academy of Dance and the Royal Schools of Music examinations. She also served an apprenticeship with the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation in New York and holds an MFA in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute with Plymouth University, UK.

On moving to the USA in 1992, Claire held the positions of Dancer for Unto These Hills drama on the Cherokee Indian Reservation and for Asheville Contemporary Dance Theater in North Carolina, as well as serving as a Co-Founder and Director for Circle Modern Dance and as Choreographer for the Knoxville Opera Company in Tennessee.

Once based in New York in 2002, Claire founded Cilla Vee Life Arts and, with the support of arts advocates such as Chashama, Bronx Council on the Arts and Arts for Art, began to develop and present her signature modes of work – including Motion Sculpture Movement Installations and The Sound Of Movement projects.

She is the creator of the Living Art pedagogy for performance.

Claire now uses Asheville NC as her home base and tours frequently to connect and collaborate with a variety of international artists.