"LEGACY  ... LIFE BREATH INTO THE FUTURE"

Today -- more than ever before, we must give place to the psyche/soul and honor each human spirit and connection to a Greater Energy. Our times have sunk to disparaging cultures and religions. It is no longer about respect for race, creeds, cultures. Sadly politics, power and money separate people and claim superiority based on disconnect and discontent. 

The development of BRIAHWork is an outgrowth of years of listening and learning, training with great minds and spirits in the arts and sciences; in dance and movement, psychology, medical arts and the sciences. My lifetime journey has been in the arts and sciences - I continually ask:”why?” “how?” “what if?”…taking me in wonder to new horizons. The arts have been my breath, my rest and constant inspiration to more. Therapeutics have inspired me to keep re-searching!

Some of my teachers and mentors - For body and mind, I have worked and studied with Dr. Michael Conforti, Yoram Kaufman and F. David Peat through the Assissi Conferences and Seminars as well as the Pari Center for New Learning; the full curriculum in Craniosacral Therapy cerated by Dr. John Upledger from basic through advanced, clinical applications to obstetric and pediatrics, and Master Degrees in Dance in Education and Psychology and continuing classes through Harvard Medical School and more. BRIAH Work/Embodied Awareness (EA) has been developed from multiple movement forms including classical, contemporary and modern dance; Tai Chi, Yoga, Eurythmy, QuiGong, Alexander Technique, and Feldenkrais ATM as well as continued training and experience. 

In dance, the journey began at the Stuttgart Ballet, followed in the United States with training through Ballet Theatre School (ABT), Sandra Knoll Hammond, Barbara Chesney Schmir, The Joffrey School, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham,; the Royal Ballet (London) and more. See Jayne Persch Background.

The awareness and consciousness derived through my work in the studio with dancers, musicians and artists; in clinical settings with doctors, therapists and medical professionals have simply brought me to more wonder. I have applied my studies to movement, physical therapy, craniosacral and therapeutic massage, bodywork, counseling and consultations. I feel privileged to have witnessed wonders. I believe that we need more people who will teach and bridge new and old materials; allowing their awareness and consciousness to guide them in their use of this information in therapy, toward health and well-being of body, mind and spirit. BRIAHWork ultimately leads to HYPAXIS - (which simply means ‘I am’). It is the dignity of being to which there is no negation. BRIAHWork asks for an awareness…with breath and taking time, opening time, and space; letting go, growing, shifting, changing through the senses, honoring the systems and the fields of the body and all living things surrounding; integrating body, physche and Spirit!

APPLYING BRIAH

BRIAHWork can be for everyone and anyone who wants to take the time to look and see being human from an old-new way.

I offer the work to anyone who moves or teaches, coaches movement in dance, sports, athletic to artistic to esoteric in workshops, classes, seminars and invited presentations/applications in schools, conservatories, companies, therapeutic trainings, hospitals and clinics.

This approach offers an alternative perspective for understanding of body and mind, emotions and memories, psyche and spirit. It introduces new thoughts to be considered about the effects of colors and tones ~ their resonance and wavelengths; the housing of memories of todays and yesteryears not only in the mind but throughout the body - into its cells, molecules and atoms ~ the fields surrounding the body that have been known in many cultures since ancient times, DNA, physical and spiritual heredity and the promise of the future.  The information offered is a useful tool for individuals, parents, physical, massage and movement practitioners, counseling therapists, personal trainers, dancers, choreographers and others.

When I am asked, who should take my classes? Who should study this information, I will answer ~ anyone and who sincerely believes in the precious value of each and every living being. Everyone who moves. For me, BRIAH Work does not have answers… rather, it has openings that take us into more…wonder. 

Let’s Move in life; with grace and dignity… and a generosity of Spirit! BRIAH Work is useful and important to everyone. For all movers: dancers, athletes, performance artists such as skaters, gymnasts as well as to body workers such as massage therapists, personal trainers, yoga instructors and teachers of dance and movement... for choreographers, composers. In therapeutics, co-ordinationing information of muscles to organs, to systems, to memories; working with some perspectives of BRIAHWork can be invaluable.

From the moment we are born ( or perhaps a bit before…), this body is a living memory - BRIAHWork is a an approach of precious respect for each of us in this time and place.

In understanding more and continually rediscovering in and through our bodies - we can prevent injuries, understand our physical and mental health, rehabilitate former distortions and potential injuries as movers, dancers and non-verbal communicators. We can embody and evoke emotions, portray a thought and resemble the effects and resonance of color and tone if we will only re-member, rekindle our sense(s).... to know how to move and where to move from. We can look at and bring an emotional and deeply sensual as well as mental quality into our work by understanding the housing of histories, memories, emotions and psychological responses in bodies.

This work would also serve visual artist such as painters, sculptors, videographers, photographers as well as they pursue their training and careers in performance, production and exhibition. Musicians, as they imagine and visualize their music with all of its tones and textures.

CLASSES, COACHING, MENTORING, TRAINING

BRIAH is a part of the groundwork for all of my Open Classes for teens & adults in multi-genres of dance technique as well classes in Embodied Awareness (EA) Conditioning. Tai Chi, Gyro, Yoga, from beginner through advanced professional. EA - Embodied Awareness is designed to help students to systematically build knowledge, develop skills with a new perspective, incorporating the new sciences with traditional training systems and ancient wisdom in positive and supportive environment. All classes, workshops and training are age and level appropriate. 

BRIAH DANCERS’ PROJECT is a pre-professional program for serious students wishing to study and train in  the finest traditions with personal somatic understanding through  a system of movement that cares for each individual; physically, mentally and emotionally.

As an artistic and educational organization, BRIAH Danse Company is a professional company that performs classical and contemporary ballet works based in the finest traditions carrying on the legacies of the masters and pushing the edge of contemporary ballet. The company reaches into local, state, national communities through its Educational Outreach Program with classes , workshops and open rehearsal and expands nationally and internationally through festivals, residencies, workshops and exchanges.

ARTISTIC PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND DANCE

At the cutting edge of movement and medicine, we have become aware of fascia and connective tissue, meridians and anatomy trains as opposed to only single muscle or muscle groupings. We are respecting and adding mind-body into movement for health and well-being as well as artistic expression, connection and communication in performance arts... and there is still a call for excellence, athleticism and the push beyond apparent limits for those who hold dearly to the art of movement. We can use research and discovery for the health and well-being of dancers and movers. We can 're-member' the philosophies and the history of movement (not just of the performance and entertainment but the why and where a movement begins). In ballet, we can look to the courts and body-types of that country and the schools of training that began to nurture and train dancers in the "royal" systems. In Tai Chi and Martial Arts we can look to the dynasties and provinces for schools and lines. History combined with present will help us learn new systems of movements. 

 A STATEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

The Arts can save a dying and muted world. BRIAH work/study/training provides dancers new places from which movement can come from. 

Jayne believes that in the changing times of today's world, it is imperative that we hold on to our feelings, retain awareness of our many senses, stimulate our children's imaginations, offer them inspiration and never dull or dampen their intuitions. We can all soon enough turn into machines or will it be that computers and artificial intelligence, machine generated images, emojis and efficiencies dominate the world in which human beings will merely exist... or not. 

ANATOMY TRAINS - CARL JUNG'S CONJUNCTIO MYSTERIUM - EASTERN AND WESTERN MEDICINE COALESCED

BRIAH Work is an additional voice to those who study muscles, the mind and Spirit! References to Dr. Thomas Meyer's work are through the course of study, however BRIAH continues it's study into healing, well-being and fundamentals of artistry. "People have asked me to write or teach what I am still learning about anatomy and kinesiology, Spirit, soul, mind, body... heart. I say come and discover with us."

Come discover more about this system of movement and BRIAH/E.A.S.E.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND ARTISTIC DANCE

At the cutting edge of movement and medicine, we have become aware of fascia and connective tissue, meridians and anatomy trains as opposed to only single muscle or muscle groupings. We are respecting and adding mind-body into movement for health and well-being as well as artistic expression, connection and communication in performance arts... and there is still a call for excellence, athleticism and the push beyond apparent limits for those who hold dearly to the art of movement. We can us research and discovery for the health and well-being of dancers and movers. We can 're-member' the philosophies and the history of movement (not just of the performance and entertainment but the why and where a movement begins). In ballet, we can look to the courts and body-types of that country and the schools of training that began to nurture and train dancers in the "royal" systems. In Tai Chi and Martial Arts we can look to the dynasties and provinces for schools and lines. History combined with present will help us learn new systems of movements. 

 Jayne now lives in New Hampshire and continues to enlighten, teach, journey with you and truly give of herself to those who come to discover themselves.