From feeling to dancing – workshops on cooperation with the body

Let this meeting awaken the wisdom hidden in you, allow you to listen to it…

Let it be a journey, a return home – to your body 🙂

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The relationship with our own body is an extraordinary relationship. Our body will always be with us, it will not leave us until death, and there is no doubt that we are created for each other;) It is a relationship that we create in every moment of our lives – every step we take influences it, creates it anew, it is a chance to deepen it and transform it. It is full of treasures, adventures, drama, complex and simple paths.

As in any relationship, in our everyday life we do not always find time to look at it and check:

what’s going on between us? what does the body need? but also… what does it want to give us?

There are a bewildering number of gifts, during workshops we often unwrap whole piles of them… marveling at how quickly hearing the body’s needs brings their fulfillment, experiencing how many of them come down to the basics – the need to be embedded in the body, security, touch and full awareness. contact with another person.

These workshops are one way to give yourself this time.

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I invite you to take the first or next steps in building a deep, full acceptance relationship with your body – through the processes of soothing, gentle unblocking, expression and returning to your own power.

How?

The road leads through:

– deepening body awareness

– conscious movement in harmony with the nature of the body

– free, improvised dance that allows you to go beyond the patterns we know

– (co)operation with the body – attentive, soothing touch, supporting in “recovering” the body and feeling and establishing authentic contact.

With mindfulness, gentleness, respect for the body and its hidden needs, we will immerse ourselves in conscious, free movement – one that:

– it will help release tensions accumulated in the body

– opens you to feeling pleasure

– deeply relaxes, reduces the effects of everyday stress

– it will reveal to you a new perspective of perceiving the body – its needs, injuries, problems

– it can both indicate a problem and be a tool for solving it.

***MORE ABOUT THE ROAD***

We will lead our attention through subsequent layers and structures of our body, using work with experimental anatomy as a way to awaken movement in harmony with the nature of the body.

We will open ourselves to the pleasure that comes from such movement and the exploration of a new perspective on the perception of the body, the processes occurring in it – including injuries and problems.

Through self-massage and gentle touch, we will learn how to trust our hands, how to give and receive such attentive touch, taking care of our boundaries. We will allow ourselves to benefit from the support that other people can provide us.

In silence, in music, in dance, which will be a natural development of conscious movement, we will open ourselves to the joy of contact, to the power of shared experience as a group. For the pleasure that comes from free movement, from moving frozen areas of the body, from discovering new forms of movement.

By remaining aware of what is happening inside us, we will meet the other person. We will create flow and freedom in this meeting by deepening mindfulness, but also by using various methods and techniques that allow us to notice, leave or fully use the patterns we usually fall into when dancing together.

We will learn tools that will help us open new ways of establishing contact in dance, but above all, together we will expand our awareness of what happens to us during a meeting in movement.

By observing the relationship that develops between us, we will examine what presence in contact means to us, capturing the moments when we really meet and those when something blocks us from meeting here and now. Together we will look for alignment and flow.

We move in silence and to music. At each meeting there will be space to share what we have experienced in the circle.

***FOR WHOM?***

The classes are for you if you feel that:

– you want to get used to dancing, but you don’t want to repeat and remember the steps

– you would like to enrich your dance workshop with a new one

perspective of experiencing the body in motion

– Your body gives you signals that it needs attention (tension in the body,

fatigue, feeling of numbness, chronic and mysterious pain)

– you want to get to know yourself better, take a gentle look at your relationship with your body and how you establish relationships with others 🙂

– you want to spend time with other people in an atmosphere of acceptance, freedom and mindfulness

– you have no experience with dance and bodywork, but something helps

pulls in this direction…

This meeting is for everyone who wants to give relief – to their body, mind, nervous system…

for those looking for answers by asking questions 🙂

for those who want to remember the multitude of treasures waiting for us in an authentic encounter with another person.

I believe that conscious movement is a goodness that we can all benefit from – regardless of fitness, experience with movement or blockages in the head and other parts of us 🙂 Come if you feel this ‘call’ while reading this description!

Important – you do not have to be a dancer or have experience in conscious work with the body. I gladly invite people who have “never done such things” to my classes.

If you have them and you are immersing yourself in this world that you have not yet experienced – I also invite you.

Each meeting with the body and feeling is another step to deepen this relationship, and each group process carries its own unique power.

PLACE AND TIME

Kontakt. Space for Movement, Dance and Music in Krakow, ul. Szpitalna 40

October 8 (Sunday), 3:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (i.e. 5 hours of workshops plus a 0.5 hour break)

*Don’t worry that it’s too long for a moving workshop – we start slowly, giving ourselves time to relax and rest in gentle movement… then you can adjust the intensity in accordance with your rhythm 🙂 time at the beginning and end we will devote the meetings to a circle, which is an important part of the workshops.

INVESTMENT

PLN 190 (PLN 160 for people who participate in the current series of workshops in a permanent group or took part in workshops open in September)

REGISTRATIONS AND QUESTIONS

ruch.od.czenia@gmail.com

If you have any doubts whether you can take part in the workshop – write! We can also arrange a telephone conversation 🙂

REVIEWS, i.e. a few words of feedback from participants of previous workshops:

Fantastic in every way. It’s important for me because I opened myself to NEW things… But here, both the idea for classes and the atmosphere are unique: joyful, safe, everyone has their own limits but at the same time there is no feeling/risk of exceeding them. All classes are conducted at a lively pace, no one falls asleep, there is always something going on. Regardless of whether we speed up or slow down to catch our breath. You engage the participants’ attention in a unique way. You’ve gathered a truly fantastic team of people. Grzesiek

,What also happened to me personally was opening up, putting aside shame, starting from a place where it was difficult for me to jump up, sigh or spread my arms and take up some space at all, and ending with comfort, joyful cavorting, enthusiasm and the mental ability to perform full, open, pleasant and spontaneous movements in various spaces. (…) These classes work both before, during and after, and they gave me a huge opportunity to observe and understand various mechanisms of my behavior and interaction with the world through something so relatively simple, and at the same time infinite in the possibilities it gives, like movement .’ Ania

I wanted to say that after the workshops you conducted, I feel grateful and relieved. I am extremely happy that I participated in them, and all the feelings and emotions that aroused in me are slowly dissipating in my body – both the pleasant and the more difficult ones. In the space you started, I felt safe and accepted. The fear of being with people receded into the background, as if it had dissolved. Thank you for accompanying me in the workshop process, for the warmth, wisdom and tenderness you shared.’ P

Hosted by: Joanna Książkiewicz

I love listening to the wisdom of the body, moving, dancing, connecting. I draw strength from singing, dancing and contact with nature. I am amazed by how the paths of our movement reveal and help transform what is playing in our mind and soul. I love traditional songs, discovering the secrets of the human body, myths and the other side of fairy tales.

A graduate of psychology, in 2017 she defended her master’s thesis “Body awareness and emotional intelligence in people practicing various forms of body work”.

My most important teachers are: Emma Bonnici (voice work, group process), Iwona Olszowska (BMC), Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (BMC), Marta Grabowska (contact Improvisation), Walburga Glatz), Paulina Stróż (Iyengar Yoga), Krzysztof Jerzak ( butoh) and everyone who took part in my workshops and shared their movement, words and feelings.

Bio

She has been dancing since the age of 7, and has been immersed in conscious work with the body for 11 years. A graduate of psychology and a two-year study in Process Psychology. The most important trainings are those within the Somatic Movement Educator program in the Body Mind Centering method (BMC Certification Program, Movimiento Atlas, Zaragoza); training in improvisation methodology with Iwona Olszowska, one-year training program ‘Dance and Gestalt therapy based on Life/art process by Anna Halprin ‘ at Ursula Schorn. He conducts psychological classes for children and adolescents at a day support facility. She constantly expands her skills by taking part in classes in various dance techniques and methods of working with the body and mind. For 6 years, under the Ruch od czuczu brand, she has been conducting regular, original dance and bodywork workshops in Krakow, weekend and away workshops, and for 3 years, preferably 7-12-week series of meetings in a permanent group.