Where We Study

Ghost Ranch - Our Main Campus

Ghost Ranch, New Mexico (about 1 1/2 hours north of Santa Fe) is home to The Movement School and is well known as a center for learning worldwide. Ghost Ranch has become famous from the work of Georgia O’Keefe whose art and life was profoundly inspired by its raw, powerful beauty.

Our classes sometimes take place indoors, though quite frequently we work outdoors – aside giant red cliffs, under old cottonwood trees, among ravens and trickling arroyos. Short day trips take us to other places of natural beauty.

Once, while teaching at the Omega Institute, Bruce met John Stokes and his fellow trackers. One of the trackers asked Bruce what he did. Bruce told him he helped to open people's senses. The tracker asked, "How do you do that without the help of nature?"

At Ghost Ranch we begin to sense the landscape as a living body and our bodies as living landscape. We are moved by nature. Nature moves us. Being in nature, we discover our own natures, our inner natures.

"It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it…The skies and land are so enormous, and the details so precise and exquisite that wherever you are, you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro, where everything is sidewise under you and over you, and the clocks stopped long ago."
-Ansel Adams to Alfred Stiegliz on Ghost Ranch

"New Mexico liberated me from the present era of civilization, the great era of material and mechanical (technological) development. It was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had. Touch this country and you will never be the same again."
-D.H. Lawrence on New Mexico



The Pueblo of Pojoaque – The Wellness Center

Between Ghost Ranch and Santa Fe lies Pojoaque Pueblo.

Heading south to Santa Fe, we stop at Pojoaque Pueblo to use their Therapeutic Pool, which is part of their beautiful and immaculate fitness complex.

The Movement School is engaged in researching the relationship between buoyancy and balance, between letting down and rising up, between surrendering and surfacing.

Alexander once said that his work was but a signpost leading the patient pioneer to places undiscovered.

In the Tai Chi Classics we are told to move as if we were water moving within water. Here, in Pojoaque, we get the chance to experience the therapeutic power of water, integrating this experience into our Tai Chi practice.

Santa Fe

After our stop at Pojoaque Pueblo, we pull into Santa Fe in time for Friday night Canyon Road art gallery openings. We have dinner at our Canyon Road Retreat House before heading home to Ghost Ranch.