Sensing Body - Mindful Movement Practices

THE PROJECT • Sensing Body promotes classes and events which interlace creativity, mindfulness and healing for raising awareness and well-being in life. All practices address the bodymind, dealing with an expanded notion of the body-being. We stand for interdisciplinary source of knowledge, regular practice and a sense of community. We believe this triad can favor transformation of bodymind habits and conditioned patterns towards consciously choosing to live a life we esteem and relish. If you feel in tune with this concept, you can try the involved practices in regular classes, workshops, specials and open classes. Keep track of our events to know what is to come.

THE PRACTICES • Sensing Body is also the name given to our two regular movement practices. They are based on somatic methods to expand perception and awareness towards and through movement and meeting the pleasure and healing power of the moving body. • Sensing Body eX is an unfolding of the class more towards expression and expressivity. From the same somatic-methods-based explorations, it deepens in movement investigation and elements related to the use of bodymind in scene (stage).

DETAILS about the practices:
Through a variety of somatic approaches – as observation of anatomical images, hands on, imagery and movement exercises – we drive ourselves into inner perception and dive into diverse body-mind states and movement qualities.
We explore different systems and layers of the body: bones, organs, skin, cinesphere or the extended body etc. Each of them bring very diverse sensations, states of being and qualities of moving. With the time of practice you become more and more free to navigate between these qualities and access them more easily. You learn to use this enlarged bodymind awareness as resource for moving what and the way it needs to be moved in each moment. The regular practice allows a flow and outflow of energy, tensions and emotions that we inevitably collect in our bodies.
In Sensing Body eX we challenge a little further the endurance for investigation and learn to turn the rich material of these personal experiences into scenic expression. We work deeper on stage presence, composition, uses of look and cleansing of gestural conditioning.

We work on a regular group basis, in order to develop the exploration in a deep and personal, growing and constructive way, in a protected and caring space. It is always possible to jump in, once a core group has been built. Please check how to sign up before coming.

BENEFITS you can get:
The classes are for everyone who is interested on:
• increasing awareness in the body
• expanding presence on life
• expanding presence on stage
• exploring expression through body
• finding the innocence of present in the movement experience
• meeting new sensations and states of being and move
• practicing acceptance and receptivity
• gaining flow and outflow of energy, tensions and emotions
• exercising give and receive care / attention
• training endurance of attention and investigation (mainly eX)
• increasing precision on movement and action (mainly eX)
• learning how to turn your personal experience into scenic expression (mainly eX)

CONTENT:
▷Somatic methods and movement exploration
►integrated anatomy/ layers of physical body: ✓bones ✓organs ✓skin ✓subtle body ✓energy-kinesphere
►use of weight and alignment
►mobility through space levels
►balance of tonus and effort
►variation of speed
▷Pre-expressivity, movement investigation and dance-theater improvisation (deepened in Sensing Body eX )
►moving image awareness
►composition awareness
►pauses and dynamic stillness
►uses of look
►grounding tools
►cleansing of gestural conditioning


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NEXT:

Sensing Body eX // Tuesdays 11:15 - 13:15 // 19.Sep to 5.Dec
at Studio 2 in Bethanien Kunst Quartier

Send an email to sensingbody@gmail.com to register


FOR WHOM:
❥ Each one who searches to deepen connection and awareness of their body-mind and expand the range of movement, presence and expression.
❥ Performers, actors, dancers and movers who long to open up for experiencing diverse bodymind states on movement off the control of the technique in their bodies and the professional performing context. Who wish to explore their own material, expand their presence, cleanse their conditionings and practice their expressive bodymind.

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XICA LISBOA has taught scenic body, dance and improvisation for stage performers, children and beginners since 2003 and takes ongoing craniosacral therapy education. She has also collaborated with theater groups and magician, as a trainer/coach for the use of the body on stage. Her concern is the internal experience of the body as a means for expanding presence and awareness. Presence both on stage as well as for fullness on life. Xica is interested in art and somatic practices as a possibility of distinguished use of time and space within the reality in which we live, regarding to subjects such as attention, relation and care.