This one-day workshop is an opportunity to slow down, centre yourself and reawaken your innate capacity for connection with what is going on inside and around you. Ecosomatics is a dynamic approach to living and learning which engages us in embodied practices to bring is into deeper relations with the world in which live. In this workshop we will engage with ecosomatic practices for living and dying together on a damaged earth. Together we will practice living, breathing, moving, sensing, perceiving, digesting, dying, and decomposing to help us perceive more of the whole scale of the sensitivities and intelligences within us, the human and non-human, the transforming spaces, the before and after. We will hone our skills, to improvise, to play, to experiment, to be receptive, to be in the unknown and trust we have the resources in our bodies to negotiate, survive, and thrive.

This workshop is for anyone and everybody interested in movement, the ecological body and consciousness regardless of experience or ability.

Saturday 7 Feb 9.30am-5pm

Bailieston, Taungurung Country, near Nagambie

Workshop fee includes nutritious wholesome Lunch

Please bring your own drinking water

Camping available overnight Friday 6 Feb

About the Facilitators

Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad (Oslo, Norway) have been collaborating as BodyCartography Project since 1998. Our artistic practice cultivates approaches to support our collective evolution in this moment of planetary crisis. We engage with the vital materiality of bodies, minds, and the more than human world, co-creating live experiences to generate re-enchantment, relationship, and presence through somatics, dance, choreography and performance. Through workshops, choreographies and performances, films, installations and festivals we create participatory spaces for collective imaginings for diverse publics, often beyond the usual institutional frameworks and spaces of dance production. Over the past twenty seven years BodyCartography’s offerings have functioned to deepen the conversation in dance, somatic practice and site work, to give value to other ways of experiencing and making dance. Movement research, somatic and improvisational practice inform the ground of our dance-making and teaching practice. Somatic practice, specifically Body-Mind Centering®, is an integrated and embodied approach to movement, the body and consciousness. We are certified teachers of Body-Mind Centering® working internationally and directing Somatic Education Australasia’s Somatic Movement Educators program.

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