WORKSHOP:
Food & Body
Sunday August 17th to Saturday the 30th 2025
Applications open Tuesday, April 8th
Two weeks of sensory immersion prioritizing conscious relationships with land, gardens, food, and body. Through cooking, movement, and life with the land, we cultivate presence, intention, creativity, and pleasure in daily acts of living in deep resonance with place.
Food, Seasons, Land
Through SLUGS, Gerardo Gonzalez has developed a seasonal, plant-forward kitchen that emphasizes zero waste, preservation, and foraging—nourishing both residents and guests with meals that are intimate, ephemeral, and deeply connected to place. Much like movement, cooking becomes a ritual of attention: to the body, the environment, and the shared moment.
In this workshop, Gerardo will guide participants in a collaborative cooking process grounded in seasonal ingredients and site-specificity. Together, we will explore food as a daily practice of care, presence, and creativity—challenging the boundaries between chef and guest, nourishment and expression, kitchen and landscape.
Body, Awareness, Movement
Anna Halprin revolutionized how dancers and non-dancers alike approach movement and the creative process. Decades later, her teachings are still as potent as they were in the 1960s and 70s. Inspired by her work, and following in her footsteps, we will explore movement as a foundation for self awareness and creativity.
By studying our body mechanics, our sensory experiences, and our day to day pedestrian movements with attuned awareness, we develop building blocks for collective creativity that were hallmarks of the Halprin work. In doing so, we challenge the boundaries between movement and dance, performer and witness, stage and nature, art and life.
This workshop will include morning movement sessions on the dance deck where we will practice Movement Ritual (developed by Anna), followed by a variety of Halprin dance scores that develop our sensitivity to sensation, time, space, form, relationships, and environment.
Ultimately, we will be exploring movement and dance as vehicles for creativity, embodied awareness, and connection to self, other, and place.
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Applications open Tuesday, April 8th
Two weeks of sensory immersion prioritizing conscious relationships with land, gardens, food, and body. Through cooking, movement, and life with the land, we cultivate presence, intention, creativity, and pleasure in daily acts of living in deep resonance with place.
Food, Seasons, Land
Through SLUGS, Gerardo Gonzalez has developed a seasonal, plant-forward kitchen that emphasizes zero waste, preservation, and foraging—nourishing both residents and guests with meals that are intimate, ephemeral, and deeply connected to place. Much like movement, cooking becomes a ritual of attention: to the body, the environment, and the shared moment.
In this workshop, Gerardo will guide participants in a collaborative cooking process grounded in seasonal ingredients and site-specificity. Together, we will explore food as a daily practice of care, presence, and creativity—challenging the boundaries between chef and guest, nourishment and expression, kitchen and landscape.
Body, Awareness, Movement
Anna Halprin revolutionized how dancers and non-dancers alike approach movement and the creative process. Decades later, her teachings are still as potent as they were in the 1960s and 70s. Inspired by her work, and following in her footsteps, we will explore movement as a foundation for self awareness and creativity.
By studying our body mechanics, our sensory experiences, and our day to day pedestrian movements with attuned awareness, we develop building blocks for collective creativity that were hallmarks of the Halprin work. In doing so, we challenge the boundaries between movement and dance, performer and witness, stage and nature, art and life.
This workshop will include morning movement sessions on the dance deck where we will practice Movement Ritual (developed by Anna), followed by a variety of Halprin dance scores that develop our sensitivity to sensation, time, space, form, relationships, and environment.
Ultimately, we will be exploring movement and dance as vehicles for creativity, embodied awareness, and connection to self, other, and place.
Teachers
Gerardo Gonzalez is a chef, creative director, and founder of the SLUGS meal program at Salmon Creek Farm, a regeneratively stewarded artist commune nestled in the redwood forests of the Northern California coast. Inspired by communal traditions, the ecology of the forest, and the rhythms of the land, Gerardo’s cooking practice explores food as a sensory, creative, and relational act.
Gerardo Gonzalez is a chef, creative director, and founder of the SLUGS meal program at Salmon Creek Farm, a regeneratively stewarded artist commune nestled in the redwood forests of the Northern California coast. Inspired by communal traditions, the ecology of the forest, and the rhythms of the land, Gerardo’s cooking practice explores food as a sensory, creative, and relational act.
Natan Daskal is a teacher, dancer, bodyworker and somatic therapist. He was one of the last students trained and mentored by Anna Halprin, and has taught at the Tamalpa Institute for the last eight years, an outgrowth of her famous San Francisco Dancers Workshop. Natan has taught somatics and movement arts in a variety of settings and to a range of ages, and has a private practice combining somatic movement therapy, expressive arts therapy, and somatic bodywork.
Daily Schedule
Subject to change with weather and Sunday off.
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9:30-12: Morning movement, exercises and activities on the dance deck and on the land
- 12-12:30: meal prep
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12:30-1:30: lunch
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1:30-2:30: break
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2:30-4: food gardening and movement
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4-6:30: cooking class and meal prep
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6:30: dinner
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8: closing movement
Fees
Workshop & meals cost is $1750 plus accomodations, amount listed is total for single, couple, or group:
︎ Solo at Salmon or sharing Cedar/Dawn ($1500)
︎ Solo or couple in 1 bed at Moonlight, Walden or River ($1800)
︎ Solo, couple, or two friends in 2 beds at Rainbow ($2650)
︎ Solo, couple, or two friends in 2 beds at Cedar ($3000)
︎ Solo, couple, or two friends at shared cabin, in 1 of 2 separate bedrooms at Dawn ($2000)
︎ Group cabin for up to 4 people in three beds / two bedrooms at Dawn ($4000)
- Couples/groups encouraged to apply, each applies separately and accepted as a couple/group.
- Read about Life with the Land at SCF before applying.
- We are not able to host pets.
- Our programs are offered as affordably as possible while we fundraise for a scholarship fund. In the mean time we invite those who can afford more to contribute towards discounts for applicants of historically marginalized communities (especially BIPOC).
