Ecological Movement
an outdoor movement workshop
with Sandra Reeve and Therese O'Driscoll
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​Dates: 29th September - 3rd October, 2017
Location: Lenzie, Near Glasgow, Scotland 

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This 5-day workshop is an introduction to Ecological Movement.  The workshop begins from a sense of the collective and guides you to find your interdependent place ‘within the scheme of things’. 

We all move constantly and we are all constantly adapting to our external surroundings and our internal ‘condition’. As moving, adaptive beings, change is the only constant in our lives. So, in Ecological Movement, we study our relationship to change. 

Everything is in movement. How can we move more fluidly with change, reacting less to it and embodying less resistance or less grasping? How can we begin to shift our own attitudes so that the world becomes a shared habitat rather than owned territory? This sense of belonging and sharing is profoundly ‘ecological’.

Working mainly outside for 5 days, we will study movement ‘in any condition’ – different times of day, different weathers, different tasks. 

This practice brings us into contact with broader and deeper themes and habitual patterns in our movement and therefore in our lives. Through movement we cultivate a condition of being present to and within changing circumstances.
This workshop is led jointly by myself and Therese O'Driscoll. Read more about Therese 's eco-supervision and movement work here.

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 practice enables me to experience thoughts, feelings and physical sensations more clearly. For me it is connected with freedom and joy; a way to realise what life is and can be like."
​I use three different ‘lenses’ to explore an embodied sense of being ‘among’ rather than at the centre of the world. These ‘lenses’ are: Niche, Pattern and Emergence.

Looking at our movement through the lens of Niche, I will invite you to consider the conditions you choose; what you need to be comfortable with yourself, with others and with your environment; how you place yourself; your needs – for safety or excitement, for example.

Looking through the lens of Pattern, I will invite you to consider your own movement habits and patters, body patterns, patterns of thinking and behaving – as well as recognising the larger patterns that we are part of and to which we are constantly adapting.
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Looking through the lens of Emergence, I will invite you to experience yourself bodily as a creative and ‘emerging’ or ‘becoming’ part of ‘the scheme of things’, rather than as an isolated individual or as someone whose character and ‘self’ is already fixed.
Throughout the 5 days the intention is:
  • 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.
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."
Some movement experience is necessary for this workshop - please call or email to discuss this if you're unsure.

Cost: £250 for the 5 days (excluding accommodation).
Early-bird rate: £225 (save 10%) if you book and pay your deposit before 1st May, 2017.
Deposit: £100. (Your deposit is not refundable but can be transferred to any other Move into Life workshop in the next 12 months)

Accommodation:  Please contact Margaret Kerr by phone (07963 107102) or email. 

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