Strata - Autobiographical Movement

Strata: The Process Lens

Dates:  11th - 17th August, 2014
Location: The Boghill Centre, Kilfenora, Co. Clare


Open to all

For anyone wanting a sustained period of time to attend to their own movement practice as a resource for professional and personal development.

Select a theme or narrative that is present in your life, move with it and explore it in different surroundings.  

Stimulated by the geological and historical strata of the beautiful Burren: the Green Road, limestone pavements and seaside rocks, this workshop offers the chance to slow down, move, breathe and become aware of the particular song, echoes and resonances of your inner life as you move in different environments.

You will work alone and in small groups. 

At the end of the workshop, you will be invited to create and share a short movement piece of your choice to help you to crystallise your experience and to be witnessed by the others. By attending to your process in this way and through the support of witnesses, congruent creativity emerges and changes are affirmed.

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STRATA is an opportunity, through the art and practice of movement, to get a new perspective on the stories you tell yourself about yourself.  

Six days offers enough time to be curious about your ever-changing self, to interrupt       habits, to receive feedback, to appreciate the sheer joy of movement, to embrace the  unknown and to allow creativity to emerge from your life experiences. 

Through movement scores and simple activities you will :

• Stop. Feel your position. Relax. Move, following the sensations of your body.
  
• Experiment with different lines, angles and points of view.
  
• Play with proportion and perspective.
  
• Learn to commit to a movement for as long as it takes.
  
• Receive impressions  and initiate actions through movement: movement reading.
  
• Practice noticing what you notice and giving it value - the particular qualities, textures, landscapes and movements that hold meaning for you.
  
• Play with balance and off-balance.
  
• Find the ever-shifting threshold between spontaneity and awareness.
  
• Become aware of yourself as part of your composition in movement. You are a part of life’s movements.
  
• Experiment with new rhythms and sounds in movement.
  
• Exercise somatic awareness.  
  
• Become aware of the muscle of atmosphere.
  
• Be in a condition of witnessing, feeling, listening and moving.
  
• Becoming your own guide/an involved witness through this creative process.

Participants will be invited to begin preparing for this workshop from the end of May onwards, in a variety of ways, with the intention of integrating the workshop into the process of daily life. 

There will be an opportunity to organise a follow-up weekend later in the year for the same closed group, subject to interest. 

See the flyer for this workshop.

The Boghill Centre

STRATA is a residential workshop based at the beautiful Boghill Centre with its delicious food, stunning movement space and peaceful surroundings, on the edge of the Burren, in 50 acres of wetland, and in easy reach of the music centre of Doolin and the Aran Islands.
Boghill Centre details  ~  Boghill map

Costs and Booking

Prices are all inclusive and cover all course fees, full board for the six days and a choice of accommodation (but please book early if you need a single or double room).

Early Bird rate

To get the Early Bird rate, you must book and pay a €250 deposit before 21st March.

€830  (single room or per person sharing                   a double room)   

€760  (dormitory)   

€708  (camping)  

Because we have to pay deposits to the venue, your deposit cannot be refunded under any circumstances.

Contact the Ireland organisers for information or to make a booking.

Book on this workshop and pay by Paypal/credit card. 

Full rate

If you miss the Early Bird Rate, you must book and pay a €250 deposit before 25th April to guarantee a place. (After that, ring/email in case places are available.)

€890  (single room or per person sharing                a double room)   

€820  (dormitory)   

€768  (camping)  

Sorry, your deposit cannot be refunded under any circumstances.

Contact the Ireland organisers for information or to make a booking.

Book on this workshop and pay by Paypal/credit card. 

Flowers on The Burren

"The degree of stimulus and the depth of reflective-ness I am left with after the completion of the workshop is testimony to the exquisite quality and richness of the work. I can sincerely say I find this work transformational."

Moving at Boghill

Boghill, Co. Clare