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In-person and Zoom class

BWL has continued to practice on the zoom platform with small group of people that have participating partners in their household (as the practice involves partner work and hands-on interaction).

I’d like to open to larger group of participants with and without partners.

In-person class at Electric Lodge:

Sunday: 8:45 am ~ 11:15 am Pacific Time (GMT-7:00)

Body Weather Manipulations class Zoom remote:

Wednesday: 8:00 am~9:00 am Pacific Time (GMT-7:00)

Participation fee: $20/in-person class|$10/Zoom remote | Monthly flat fee of $70 for Sunday and Wednesday. (if you have financial difficulties, pay what you can for each session)

  • VENMO: @naoyuki-oguri

  • ZELLE: bodyweather@gmail.com

  • PayPal: bodyweather@gmail.com

Body Weather Laboratory (BWL) a research forum open to anyone interested in investigating expression through the body within different environments. A demanding attitude toward a thorough reexamination of the body and movement is a main theme in all the aspects of the training.

M.B.
is a core training in Body Weather Laboratory. Through rhythmic, dynamic repetition, this rigorous practice awakens the deep layers of the body and cultivates both resilience and sensitivity.

  1. Anatomical: Muscle/Bone

    For strength and skeletal alignment, developing explosive power and physical endurance.
    The training enhances awareness of internal structure and pushes the body beyond habitual limitations with rhythm and imagery.  

  2. Functional: Mind/Body

    Improves joint mobility, spatial awareness, and overall coordination. It also fosters elasticity of the body—its capacity to contract and expand—and encourages functional segmentation and simultaneous control of multiple body parts.
    By refining the dialogue between mind and body, the practice breaks through unconscious movement patterns and sharpens sensory precision.

  3. Neural: Movement/Brain

    Activates the feedback loop between the brain and body through continual information and responses.
    As in horology, where a “movement” refers to the intricate mechanism inside a watch, M.B. hones the body's inner calibration—an interwoven system of perception, intention, and action.
    Here, the nervous system is challenged to recognize and control multiple movements simultaneously, enhancing responsiveness and complexity in motion.

Body Weather Manipulations
A structured series of partner-based precise exercises concerned with stretching and alignment, touching and being touched, active and receptive. These manipulations examine the condition of the body through tactile feedback, cultivating awareness, trust, and responsiveness.

Fieldwork
Explorations designed to sharpen focus and develop the scope of expression through the body. The work encompasses sensitivity training and discovery of movement from images, improvisation practices and cultivates.

Weekly workshops and intensive at the Electric Lodge in Venice, California. Intensive BWL workshops (often incorporating nature and wilderness) have become an integral part of the development of the group and serve to introduce the work to newcomers. In integrating the environment with dance, the dancers become prepared for the sensitivity necessary for site-specific performance.

2026 Intensive workshop schedule.

TBA

Please contact: bodyweather@gmail.com