Dance as a path to yourself,

as a conversation with another person.

Return home – to your body.

I invite you to a practice that awakens, nourishes and soothes. A practice that allows you to meet yourself and another person in mindfulness, flow, emotion and joy.

To movement and dance that helps regulate the nervous system, shed unnecessary tensions, restore the free flow of energy in the body and “regain feeling”.

To practices that connect, allow you to strengthen and regain a sense of belonging and trust – in yourself, your body, in another person and the world.

After 6 years of conducting regular classes in Kontakt, after a year’s break in conducting courses (open workshops travelled around the world), I am returning to the south of Poland with this most beautiful and deeply moving form of practice – with a series of 10 meetings in a permanent group.

•• On March 11, there will be open classes, i.e. not part of the series – I invite you to participate if you need to check through experience whether movement from feeling is a practice for you. •••
I invite you to read the description and contact me (we can talk by phone, please contact me by e-mail first).

Movement from feeling – a series of workshops in a permanent group. March – May 2025

METHOD

We will use original practices of conscious movement, familiarization with free dance and cooperation with the body. The sources of my experience are: Body Mind Centering (experiential anatomy, somatic education), Life/art process by Anna Halprin, contact improvisation, meditation in movement, process-oriented psychology, butoh, solo and group improvisation, Thai massage, authentic movement, voice work workshops “singing as life practice with Emma Bonnici” and training in bodywork in psychotherapy (bio).

The foundations of our practice in these workshops are:

-deepening body awareness,

-conscious movement in harmony with the nature of the body (somatic practices, organic movement),

-free, intuitive movement and dance, allowing us to go beyond the patterns we know – solo, with another person and in a group (without repeating steps!),

– practice of (co)working with the body – through slowly introduced mindful, soothing touch, supporting the “recovery” of the body and feeling and establishing authentic contact.

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MORE ABOUT PRACTICE

We will lead our attention through the next layers, structures of our body, using work with experimental anatomy as a way – to awaken movement in harmony with the nature of the body. Through gentle and invigorating practices of returning to the body, we will land in OURSELVES.

We will open ourselves to the pleasure that flows from such movement, to the exploration of a new perspective of perceiving the body, the processes occurring in it – including injuries, 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 use the support that another person can give 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 experiencing together as a group. To the pleasure that comes from free movement, from moving frozen areas of the body, from discovering new forms of movement.

Remaining aware of what is happening inside us, we will meet another 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 pattern we usually fall into when dancing together.

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

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

During the workshops we will use simple, deeply relaxing “bodywork” – bodywork techniques that we usually do in pairs, introduced carefully and gradually, so that everyone can become familiar with being in the role of a person receiving and giving/supporting. Both roles are experienced by the participants as valuable:) The role of the person receiving can bring unexpectedly deep relief; in turn, the role of the one who gives can strengthen or awaken trust in your intuition, teaches you to align with another person and becomes a beautiful practice of being here and now.

We move in silence and to music. At the end of the workshops there will be space to share in a circle what we have experienced.

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FOR WHOM?

The classes are for you if you feel that (it is enough to find yourself in one sub-point):

Your body is giving you signals that it needs attention, and no movement practice you know or have access to has yet stolen your heart;

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

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

– you feel that something in you wants to dance, and something else has been holding you back for a long time (good condition, high fitness or experience are not required for these workshops – openness to new experiences and a bit of courage are more important);

– you dance, but you also want to express yourself and discover something more or you don’t have the head to repeat steps:)

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

pulls you in this direction…

I believe that conscious movement is a good that we can all draw from – regardless of ability, experience with movement or blockages in the head and other parts of us:) Come, if reading this description, you feel this ‘calling’!

Important – you don’t have to be a dancer/dancer, have experience in conscious bodywork. I am happy to invite people to my classes who “have never done such things”.

If you have them and you are immersed in this world not until today – I also invite you.

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

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REVIEWS

A few feedbacks from participants of previous workshops on movement from feeling:

“What happened to me personally was opening up, putting aside shame, starting from a place where it was difficult for me to jump, sigh or spread my arms and occupy any space at all, and ending in comfort, joyful frolicking, enthusiasm and the mental ability to perform full, open, pleasant and spontaneous movements in different spaces. (…) These classes work both before, during and after, and gave me a huge field for observation, understanding different mechanisms of my behavior and interactions with the world through something so relatively simple, and at the same time infinite in the possibilities it offers, like movement.” Ania

“I wanted to say that after the workshops you led, I feel grateful and at peace. In the space you gave birth to, I felt safe and accepted. The fear of being with people faded into the background, as if it had dissolved. Thank you for your company in the workshop process, for the warmth, wisdom and tenderness you shared.” Paulina

“Thank you for opening my heart through dance. For showing new qualities in movement. For softness, subtlety, a hint of madness.

I can say without a doubt that the “Movement from feeling” workshops were a breakthrough moment in my life. Magical things are happening now. Both with the body and the mind. I am mega grateful that our paths crossed at this point in my life. And you also express gratitude for this to other people. I have the impression that you can heal through dance. Thank you!!” A.

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PLACE AND TIME

We meet at Kontakt – Space of Movement, Dance and Music in Krakow, at ul.Szpitalna 40 (next to the Słowacki Theatre), on the 2nd floor in a beautiful oriental hall.

We start at 6 p.m., each meeting lasts 2 hours (approx. 1.5 hours of practice and a circle conversation, giving the opportunity to share experiences and jointly extract the essence of the practice of the day).

The dates of our meetings at Kontakt are 10 consecutive Tuesdays:

25.03, 1.04, 8.04, 15.04, 22.04, 29.04, 6.05, 13.05, 20.05, 27.05.

In case of absence, it is possible to make up for the hours missing to complete happiness and a sense of worthy exchange:) You can take part in one or two 2h workshops on other days or receive a discount for participation in full-day workshops. Details will be provided after gathering the group and setting the dates of open workshops.

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INVESTMENT

The cost of participation in the cycle chosen by you, in line with your possibilities at this moment of life, the amount in the given range:

1090 – 1290 PLN.

For people who took part in the cycles in 2023 and 2024: discount of 100 PLN (range 990-1190).

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REGISTRATIONS and QUESTIONS

Important – e-mail registration is required! If you want to reserve a place, please send me a message to the address provided here: ruch.od.czucia@gmail.com.

In the message, please write in a few words what made you decide to participate in the series. The content of the course is always a response to the words and movement of people who sign up for a given series.

If you have questions that are not answered in the description, you can arrange a phone conversation with me:)

Note: The number of places is limited. When registering, the order of applications is decisive, and ultimately the registration is confirmed by paying a non-refundable deposit. I will ask for the remaining payment during the 1st class (if you need the possibility of paying for the course in installments, please let me know when registering).

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LEAD

Joanna Książkiewicz

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

BIO

She has been dancing since she was 7, and has been immersed in conscious bodywork for 12 years. She is passionate about leading movement from feeling;) she is a psychologist by education, a graduate of a two-year study of Process Psychology, and is training in the field of integrative psychotherapy. The most important trainings are those within the Somatic Movement Educator program in the Body Mind Centering method (BMC Certification Program, Movimiento Atlas, Zaragoza), improvisation methodology with Iwona Olszowska, training “bodywork in recovery and personal transformation” with Alicja Heyda (Institute of Integrative Psychotherapy), training “Negotiations with the body – control and utilization of pain and other symptoms from the body” at the Polish Erickson Institute, a year-long training program “Dance and gestalt therapy based on Anna Halprin’s Life/art process” with Ursula Schorn and Singing as life practice workshops with Emma Bonnici (voice work and group process).

She also conducts psychological classes for children and youth in a day care center and works with youth in alternative education. She is constantly expanding her skills by taking part in classes of various dance techniques, body and mind work methods, such as butoh, CI, gaga, Bodynamic, BMC, clowning, stage movement and others. For 6 years, under the brand Ruch od czucia, she has been creating and running regular, original dance and body work workshops in Poland and abroad, as a guest, in Krakow, cycles in a permanent group and weekend and away workshops. This is her main job and greatest passion.