Ecological Body - Ecological Movement with Sandra Reeve The Ecological Lens
Dates: Summer 2020, to be confirmed Location: Wootton Fitzpaine and (nearby) Stonebarrow, Charmouth, West Dorset This is a week-long workshop introducing ecological movement. As moving, adaptive beings we study our relationship to change itself as the only constant in life. All is in movement. This workshop begins from a sense of the collective and guides each person to find their interdependent place ‘within the scheme of things’. Niche, pattern and emergence are the lenses used to explore the sense of being ‘among’ rather than at the centre of the world. Working mainly in a beautiful wild garden on the cliffs above Charmouth we study movement in any condition throughout the week –in daily life, during workshop sessions, visiting a sculpture garden. This brings us into contact with broader and deeper themes in our movement and therefore in our lives. The workshop cultivates an awareness of oneself as ‘part of a group’ in a particular place rather than as an ‘individual’ in the environment. Through movement we cultivate a condition of being present to and within changing circumstances. We learn to move more fluidly with change, embodying less resistance or grasping and reacting less to it. The world becomes a shared habitat rather than owned territory. This sense of belonging and sharing is profoundly ‘ecological’. As the week progresses you also choose whether to move from daily life, healing or performance sense. The week finishes with shared individual and small group movement pieces to crystallise each person’s experience within the group. The emphasis throughout the week is on learning to become your own guide in movement. |
Participant feedback:
"... the beauty of movement is that it bypasses the verbal, so let it be enough to say that working with Sandra invariably leaves me feeling energised and all of a piece. And it is fun!" "Move Into Life makes me do just that. The movement practice enables me to experience thoughts, feelings and physical sensations more clearly. For me it is connected with freedom and joy; a way to realize what life is and can be like."
Usha Mahenthiralingam
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Participant feedback:
"This is a beautiful workshop to explore the cultivation of wholeness. It gives time and space for the noticing and changing of deeply engrained patterns in an atmosphere of respect, mutuality and equal value to every movement, every plant, every animal and every other human."
"This is a beautiful workshop to explore the cultivation of wholeness. It gives time and space for the noticing and changing of deeply engrained patterns in an atmosphere of respect, mutuality and equal value to every movement, every plant, every animal and every other human."
Throughout the week the intention is:
Some movement experience is necessary for this workshop - please call or email to discuss this if you're unsure.
Cost: £350 for the 7 days (excluding accommodation). Deposit: £100. Book before 1st August for the Earlybird rate of £325. Concessions available.
Accommodation: I can often book low cost, comfortable, self-catering accommodation for participants on this workshop. It works out at around £100 per person for the week. Let me know very soon if you are interested. [Or investigate local B&Bs and campsites.]
To book a place and pay a £100 deposit (transferable to any other workshop in the next 12 months) click the Buy Now button below. You can pay by PayPal or credit card. You can pay the balance at the workshop by cash or cheque or beforehand by bank transfer.
- To understand embodied attention and to notice what we notice.
- To explore niche, pattern and emergence through movement.
- To experience our surroundings as a 'world-in-motion', as a 'becoming-world' - not as a static environment.
- To begin from a sense of motion rather than stillness - this challenges any fixed sense of self and allows us to experience our different, multiple selves as constantly changing 'becoming-selves'.
- To situate our self/selves as an integral part of a broader set of physical, social, cultural and environmental systems.
- To integrate our movement practice into daily life and vice-versa.
- To crystallise our experience into a creative form, individually and in small groups.
Some movement experience is necessary for this workshop - please call or email to discuss this if you're unsure.
Cost: £350 for the 7 days (excluding accommodation). Deposit: £100. Book before 1st August for the Earlybird rate of £325. Concessions available.
Accommodation: I can often book low cost, comfortable, self-catering accommodation for participants on this workshop. It works out at around £100 per person for the week. Let me know very soon if you are interested. [Or investigate local B&Bs and campsites.]
To book a place and pay a £100 deposit (transferable to any other workshop in the next 12 months) click the Buy Now button below. You can pay by PayPal or credit card. You can pay the balance at the workshop by cash or cheque or beforehand by bank transfer.
Pay a £50 deposit and book a place on the workshop |
Book on the workshop and pay the Earlybird cost : £325 |