Move into Life Introductory Workshop 
BODY IN MOVEMENT
30th November - 1st December, 2024
Maximum 12 people 
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The Body Lens

Location: Wootton Fitzpaine, West Dorset

​Make less the flat! 

"Sometimes movement is flat - it has no nuance, no sensing, no impulse and our receiving of the world and of the other remains flat. How can we wake up our recognition in the pool of life, wake up our understanding, our awareness and our sensorimotor life so that we can feel not flat?" (Suprapto Suryodarmo)

This Body in Movement workshop offers a comprehensive introduction to Move into Life practice (it's also a chance to refresh your practice if you haven't done this work for some time).

During the workshop I will give you individual suggestions for a regular personal practice to follow-up the work you do at the weekend.

We will begin with recognising and following the structure of the body.  Responding to the movement tasks I suggest for you, you will move in your own way -- and I will support you to realise and appreciate how you already move, and gradually to expand your choice of movement vocabulary and your embodied awareness of your moving self-in-context. I see ‘movement as being’ rather than ‘movement as function’: you are your movement rather than you do your movement. 

Areas of practice will include:
Yawning, stretching and breathing to enliven the being
Shaping of movement through the articulation of the joints
Body as a constellation with many possible variations
Movement at different levels in space.
Stillness through pausing, stopping, receiving without losing the flow of movement
Choices of rhythm, direction and tone within the flow of movement
Staying and going
Proportion/Scale in gesture and motion
Active/passive in movement – for example initiating and receiving 
Composition in context – with an awareness of  self, place and others = constellation
Moving with objects – introduction to the world of fact and the world of dream 

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Cost: £150 (excluding accommodation)
EARLYBIRD: Cost: €135 (excluding food & accommodation) if you book before 20th October 2024
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Accommodation:  Please book your own accommodation (see the Charmouth village website or TripAdvisor.) ​

Book and pay a £50 deposit 
Your booking is secured with a £50 deposit (non-refundable if you cancel). 
If the workshop is cancelled for any reason, any payment you have made will be refunded in full. 
You will be asked to pay the balance by bank transfer or in cash at the workshop.​

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“There is a clarity and simplicity in Sandra Reeve's teaching that enables even the most desk- and mind-bound of participants to leave behind any habitual sense of physical awkwardness and explore their body in space like a three-year old.”

For most of us, our daily movement is something we never notice. Yet our bodies and our movement store memories and habits that affect and condition our whole lives. 

This workshop gives you a chance to pay attention to the way you move and to identify ways you might move differently.  

The central teaching of this workshop is that there is no movement without attitude and no attitude without movement:

• The way we have learnt to move shapes our attitudes; changing the way we move changes our attitudes.
• Our attitudes shape the way we move; changing our attitudes changes the way we move.​

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