Echo Gustafson performs, choreographs and teaches. She lives in Santa Fe New Mexico. She performs her own work and she collaborates with Catherine Cabeen and Company and Tricky Pony. In the past she has danced for the Martha Graham Dance Company, Pearl Lang Dance Theatre, Moving People Dance, and Robert Wood Dance NY among others.  She is a GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Master Trainer. She teaches and practices Wild Goose Qigong. She is currently in the Berkeley 7 Professional Training Program for the Feldenkrais Method.

Her current teaching schedule is on the blog.

For a full Bio and/or CV or other info email echo.gustafson@gmail.com

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‘From all comparative material the conclusion emerges that societies
where non-aggression is conspicuous have social orders in which the
individual by the same act and at the same time serves his own
advantage and that of the group…not because people are unselfish and
put social obligations above personal desires, but when social
arrangements make these identical.’ Ruth Benedict

‘The age old opposition between heart and head… was seen to
disappear where they became synergic rather than antagonistic… the
dichotomy between selfishness and unselfishness disappears…. Our
subjects are simultaneously very spiritual, and very pagan and
sensual. Duty cannot be contrasted with pleasure nor work with play
when duty IS pleasure… similar findings have been reached for
kindness-ruthlessness, concreteness-abstractness,
acceptance-rebellion, self-society, adjustment-maladjustment…
serious-humorous, Dionysian-Appollonian, introverted-extraverted,
intense-casual… mystic-realistic, active- passive,
masculine-feminine, lust-love, … all coalesce into an organismic
unity and into a non-artistotolean interpenetration… and a thousand
serious philosophical dilemmas are discovered to have more than two
horns, or paradoxically, no horns at all’. - Abraham Maslow

“Whenever ‘will effort’ is necessary, there is un-recognized
cross-motivation, and this is an extremely wasteful method of
obtaining results. Only immature people need will effort to act. The
mature person clears up all the irrelevant motivations and uses
interest, necessity, and skill unhindered by un-recognized emotional
urges.This ability of inhibiting the distracting tendencies is
acquired by the mature person through careful and painstaking learning
of her own functioning.” -Moshe Feldenkrais

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Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that -perhaps you won’t, but it doesn’t matter, just listen to this- you will find that there is an extraordinary space in the mind, and that space is freedom. So you must demand freedom at the very beginning, and not just wait, hoping to have it at the end. You must seek out the significance of freedom in your work, in your relationships, in everything that you do. Then you will find that meditation is creation. Creation is a word that we all use so glibly, so easily. A painter puts on canvas a few colours and gets tremendously excited about it. It is his fulfillment, the means through which he expresses himself; it is his market in which to gain money or reputation and he calls that “creation”! Every writer “creates,” and there are schools of “creative” writing, but none of that has anything to do with creation. It is all the conditioned response of a mind that lives in a particular society.The creation of which I am speaking is something entirely different. It is a mind that is in the state of creation. It may or it may not express that state. Expression has very little value. That state of creation has no cause, and therefore a mind in that state is every moment dying and living and loving and being. The whole of this is meditation. - J.
Krishnamurti, The Book of Life

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