Language and
Somatic Movement
In this workshop we will explore how language supports and defines us. We will allow ourselves to explore how we make meaning and the impact this has on our movement and expression. We will discover how we can loosen the fixed stories within which we confine ourselves.
As we enter more fully in somatic movement explorations, language may at some point completely fall away and we may enter into a dynamic place of stillness where a potency and potential to move in any direction unfolds.
3 - 4 July 2010
Weekend workshop in London
This workshop is based in the theory and philosophy of Somatic Movement Education and will draw from the following ideas:
Operating from an open framework
• Heart centered and non judgmental communication
• Developing an inner witness
• Developing an ability to come from heart presence
• Bringing attention (body self) and intention (care for body self)
• Cultivating presence and lived now moment
Exploring through movement
• Recognising habitual patterns of perceptual, postural and interaction with ourselves and our environment
• Refining perceptual, kinesthetic, proprioceptive and interoceptive sensitivity and listening
• Methods - Guided somatic meditations, body scans, experiential anatomy and active imagination, Authentic Movement, Continuum
Re-patterning of movement - transformation
• Discovering new ways of moving - for example, core periphery, spatial awareness, micro movements
• Finding new relationships to our body - our structure, form, fluidity, heart, breath - through sensory explorations
• Creating new meaning for ourselves - through our movement, image making, writing and dialogue
• Discovering new ways to engage with other and environment
Connectivity and support
• Deeply sensed connection with body (self, other and earth)
• Belonging as opposed to isolation and fragmentation
• Breath - as source of movement, expression, connection to earth
• Heart and fluid systems - connection to own rhythm and flow
• Muscular and skeletal system - structure, definition, space
• Gravity, weight and space - support, resting into
• Coming into biological temporality - slowing down
Silent level of being
• Dropping out of realm of language
• Allowing deep rest and potency
• Living connection with the sacred
• Present within the continuum of cellular and cosmic awareness - non-local awareness
Internalizing authority - a foundation of self-care
• Finding balance between subjective and objective. No longer operating from imposed ideas and ideas of health and well being.
• Creating a foundation for self-care
• Reclaiming self-education
• Self-reflection and self-realisation
