Online Masterclass: Elemental Earth Body Practice with Dohee Lee

Join Dohee Lee for a workshop to explore the natural elements - Tree, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.

ONLINE: Saturday, April 25th, 2026
9 am - 12pm Pacific Time
Cost (includes eventbrite fees):
$80

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The natural elements - Tree, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water - will be the guiding themes of this workshop.

How can elements teach us how to move, how to sound, how to listen to and how to be healed?

Starting with movement and sound, we will expand our practices into ritual performance that bridge ancient wisdom into daily life with personal meaning.

We will integrate this elemental wisdom with many spheres of relationship— personal, social, environmental, historical, and ancestral.

Dohee’s work is deeply influenced by her cultural background in Korean Traditional Arts, Ritual practice, East Medicinal Elements, ancestral knowledge and the Tamalpa Life/Art Process.

This workshop will guide you to learn Dohee’s unique approach to working with the elemental body through movement and sound, ritual and performance.

Learnings:

1. Elemental Body Movements: Tree, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water

2. Singing Body Practice: Tuning our bodies through sound, movement and rhythm

3. Exploring and expressing our bodies through creative art practice

4. Using the Halprin scoring process (RSVP cycles) to create individual and collective performances

5. Development of performance & ritual skills

Dohee Lee was born on Jeju Island in South Korea, and studied Korean dance, music, percussion and vocals at the master level in Korea, and trained at Tamalpa. Lee is artistic director of PURI Arts and instructor at the Korean Youth Cultural Center from 2002 to 2008, resident artist and instructor at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center from 2008 to 2011, has been a guest instructor at San Francisco State University, Saint Mary’s College, UC Berkeley, UC Riverside, and Northern Illinois University.

Workshops are for ages 18+ only and disability access is not provided.

To get the most out of this online class, please prepare a comfortable space to move in with access to your online device and reliable internet service. If you are using a handheld device, such as a pad or phone, please be sure to use a stand for your device so that it is held securely in place. You will want to have your hands free and be able to move freely and safely during movement exercises without worrying about your device falling. Also, have art supplies ready at hand for the drawing activity and paper and pen for journaling and creative writing exercises.

**Please Note** All workshop participants must pay the registration fee. If you will be sharing your computer with other participants during this workshop, each of you is required to pay for this workshop before it begins.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Registration will close 1 hour prior to the start time of the class.

REFUNDS: will only be given if cancellation is received at least 48 hours before the start of the first class. No partial refunds or transfers available. Eventbrite processing fees are non-refundable.