Physical Alchemy presents: Repatterning Stretching & Alchemical Posture Work.
Description
come come
dancer, musician,
lovers of reading
it matters not
what one’s level
of familiarity
or accomplishment
with the body may be.
all are welcome
whom come
with open mind
and mercurial
essence.
learn and experience exercises, techniques and navigation of arcane states of consciousness aimed at the patterns humans have hidden within the sinuous depths and somatic recesses of the body.
not fitness, nor yoga, nor nei gong, nor any other extant body-based soteriological path. it draws heritage from: bodywork, martial arts, physical culture, stretch therapy, alchemy, shamanism, and zen.
it is a bardic art. one utilising body, language, perception, and mirth as prima materia in the creation of new forms.
Physical Alchemy
- What is the format of this workshop?
Held over two days, Saturday and Sunday, in a Long Class practicuum format; with some limited theorem and talk.
Formally beginning at 10am - 1pm on both days.
This is not an overnight event, attendees must have their own lodgings.
Ticket cost includes both Saturday and Sunday classes.
Wear loose, comfortable clothing that allows freedom of movement and is tailored to the weather forecast for the day. cotton or natural fibres are superior to synthetic clothing - as this can have slippage issues in some partnering postures.
Bringing one’s own hydration is likely a good idea, though water will be available. It is recommended that attendees to not eat too large a breakfast, but there is no need to come fasted either. caffination is suggested.
- What is Physical Alchemy?
Physical Alchemy is a post-scientific materialist, neoalchemical physical craft for navigation and experimentation within this illusion-cubed moment upon planet Earth that we find ourselves currently enmeshed within. Its aims and intentions differ significantly from all adjacent crafts within the sphere of the body by virtue of its primary focus upon the disenchantment [Cerberus] and the mercurial escape from this [reenchantment].
- What is within a long class [practicum] ?
On the menu for these Long Classes are the two sequential syllabuses: repatterning stretching and alchemical posture work. Taught simultaneously. The one bridges into the other. Not with flexibility competency or ability to hold complex postures: but with the stabilisation of certain qualities, properties, and states that change the dimensionality of the way in which the body is worked.
Both affect the mutability of the body - something inclusive of ‘plasticity’ but venturing further as we navigate both mutation and transmutational properties of the depth praxis of the body.
Long Class focus:
keystone postures that bridge between the syllabuses [and why they do this].
3-phase repatterning work diagram as map.
uses and benefits of complex and simple postures.
blending pressure, stretching, and tissue-wringing techniques into postures.
the art and importance of partnering in posture work.
how to have this craft interface harmonically and catalytically with one’s other practices.
sequential unknotting of structure and digestion of impressions.navigation of mutation [if applicable to the group].
- What is 'repatterning stretching'?
‘Repatterning Stretching’ involves exercises and techniques aimed at changing the patterns that humans have hidden in the sinuous depths and somatic recesses of their bodies. These patterns are woven tensions - old injuries, armouring of a number of orders, proprioceptive deficits, patterns of inauspicious configuration of the form within the gravitational field, residue of illnesses long past, ‘insults to form’, et al - that have crystallised within us during the course of our lives. But that exert pernicious affects upon the lived-present.
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