The 6th Sense: First Move - Then Understand

Natural Dance, Somatic Movement and Embodied Anatomy

Training Retreat

In this training you will bring consciousness to movement  as a direct way to perceive, sense and express yourself. 
Movement is Life and Life is Movement. Beginning the journey from where your dance of life originated...your very first cell.. you will consciously embody your magnificent dance of humaness.
A unique opportunity to move, explore ,inhabit, feel safe and be at home in the body through natural dance, somatic movement, embodied anatomy, embryology,conscious touch,playfulness and meditation.

Somatic and embodiment tools can support your spiritual practices to be integrated into your regular daily lifestyle .In reality most lives are lived in motion,dynamic relation to other people and the environment and your spiritual practice needs to help you deal with this; to be grounded spiritaualy.
Everything in the body moves with life ...the heart beats,the breath of life expands and contracts,the blood flows, the cells pulsate and while many different rhythms of life are dancing throughout the body ,underneath it all continuously pulses a pervading mysterious life source.Movement is a language of life, a direct pathway of communication and a connection to an innate wisdom.
Our sense of movement called our 6th sense was the first cranial nerve to mylenate in the womb, indicating how important it was and still is for life support,growth,development and orientation.Later our education and culture placed more emphasis on the other 5 senses and in this training we will consciously re-establish the validity of this 6th sense of movement . A language which needs to first move ,sense and express in order to understand.

Experience in life first moved in the cells, the embryo and infant movement development and in bringing consciousness here we can repattern  habitual movement habits to become more flexible,change ,re-orient on ease,health and feeling good.You will embody and  find ways to rebuild your awareness of your boundaries ,the container and the inner spaciousness of the body and reestablish a perception of your life source centre (dantien or hara )  through a felt sense of its actual physical location in the body.This makes it more safe and tangible .You will discover the support of somatic movement as grounded spirituality.

"Soma" means awareness of the body from within. Somatic movement explores the essence of movement from the perspective of the interconnectedness, organisation, communication and respondability of the body systems,tissues and cells. Habitual movement patterns can be greatly supported to find new and healthier ways by bringing awareness to movement initiated from alternative body systems. For example,replacing the fitness industries emphasis on muscles and bones for movement by bringing consciousness to the organs as movement initiators .You will be amazed and delighted to find that each organ has a unique intelligence ,resource and energy.When embodied their contribution to the body moving as one organic unity is empowering.

In the group room a safe place is created to support your perception of movement as a powerful resource to stay connected to yourself, no matter what is happening inside or outside. Moving in a conscious and embodied way allows your dance to be an expression of your present internal state of being.This supports clarity,subjectivity and truth of your experience-bypassing the rational, analytical and cognitive interpretations- and feeling yourself more present,alive and whole.

By embodying and consciously experiencing your intrinsic body systems, dancing cells and movement development you re-establish internal resources that underly support as you express,relate and respond to the external environment and others.You will be exploring and playing with  this in the beautiful landscape of Greece - dancing,moving and responding in nature to support your creative, spontaneous and authentic movement.
Reclaiming  and living your authenticity in your Dance of Life: "First Move,Then Understand"

"There is a vitality,a life force,a quickening that is translated through you into action,and there is only one of you in all time,this expression is unique,and if you block it,it will never exist through any other medium;and will be lost .The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is ,nor how it compares with other expression.It is your business to keep the channel open."

Martha Graham

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