Past Weekend Workshops / Events
Posture and Stability | Breathing and Relaxation - with Susanne Dickhaut
After a warm-up and relaxation phase, the workshop includes exercises for the perception of posture, tips on how to improve posture in everyday working life as well as exercises based on the principles of the Pilates Method for strengthening the back, abdominal and shoulder girdle muscles, which stabilize the torso and support active uprightness.
The workshop will conclude with breath awareness exercises and a moment of relaxation inspired by Autogenic Training.
Date: June 20, 2021
Sunday: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Price: 20 € / 15 € (reduced)
Workshop languages: German, English
Workshop: New professional orientation and reorganization for artists - with Dagmar Regorsek
Even though every artist experiences their own unique situation, it is universally essential for artists to maintain their ability to perform. You work in a field that makes professional ups and downs very likely. Short-lived projects and contracts are fulfilled, hopefully bear fruit, and then you have to move on.
This leads to phases of reorientation or career transition and further development. These phases may arise from external circumstances, private situations, wishes for personal development, or health problems.
To increase the chances of success for these times of transition, we offer a workshop. It offers a guided space for personal reflection and assists in finding ways towards the carving out of an individual career path, economic stability and increased creative power.
This workshop takes place in a small group of 6-8 participants, which benefits from the strengthening connectedness and diversity of a group and at the same time allows enough space to develop individual solution strategies.
Contents:
Part 1 & 2:
Space to assess your current situation and possible next steps: explore your inner world, your interests and potentials, look at the opportunities and demands of the outer world, swing between the vastness of your possibilities and how to focus them.
Looking for suitability and ways to bring ideas down to earth.
Developing next steps and forming ways to take them.
Part 3:
Review of the paths taken
What does one need? … centering, strengthening......very practical aspects?
Developing further steps.
Website: www.dagmar-regorsek.de
Dates: January 22-23 ; March 20, 2021
Times: Friday, 22.1 : 18:00 - 21:00 ; Saturday, 23.1 : 11:00 - 16:00; Saturday, 20.3 : 11:00-16:00
Costs: 150 € / 130 € (reduced rate)
Workshops languages: German, English
Deadline for registration: December 15, 2020
TaKeTiNa® Workshop - with Christoph Barth
The body is the main instrument in TaKeTiNa®. By using the voice, clapping and stepping movements, the participants in the TaKeTiNa process are simultaneously guided to three different levels of rhythm. The level of stepping is stabilized by the pulse of a bass drum, while contrasting rhythms build up through clapping. An alternating song that changes constantly brings an improvising element and a destabilizing force into the process. In the interaction of stabilization and destabilization, individual participants fall out of rhythm. However, the rhythm of the group makes it possible to get back into the rhythm at any time, so that over a period of time a deep musical self-confidence develops.
The learning takes place in the alternation of phases of chaos and order. Sooner or later, learners can perceive and play with several different levels of rhythm at the same time. The apparent contradictions of thinking / feeling, active action / passive reception, speaking / listening dissolve. As several levels of rhythm are always interacting in the TaKeTiNa process, and the voice in the call-response vocals constantly varies, the learner experiences something new all the time, even if the rhythm of walking and clapping remains unchanged for a long time. In this way, someone who falls out of rhythm can effortlessly re-enter an unfolding musical event. Individual learning can take place collectively. Every participant learns in their own time - for example, take time off while lying, sitting or dancing - and is also part of a dynamic, musical group process. Beginners and experienced musicians can learn in the same circle thanks to the multifacetedness of the TaKeTiNa® process. Participants come into contact with their most fundamental knowledge of rhythm.
More information here
website: www.rhythmuskreis.de
Date: January 29 - 31, 2021
Friday: 16 - 19; Saturday: 10 - 16; Sunday: 10 - 16
Cost: 150 € / 130 € (reduced rate)
Workshop language: German
Deadline for registration: January 1st, 2021
Composing in Movement - with
Nina Patricia Hänel
Principles from somatic and artistic-compositional practices and methods can support us in evoking a process of composing and re-composing specific contexts of corporeality and movement. As part of this workshop, we will use principles from the Feldenkrais Method® as well as from Body Mind Centering®. We will create a space for your own creative and artistic design of physicality and movement. Through the repeated production of specific corporealities and movements using various approaches (for example: images, emotions, moods, movement scoring), specific movement qualities and complex relationships of movement can be recreated again and again. We mainly work in the context of a real-time compositional setting, i.e. in the space between choreographed and spontaneous movements. Each participant always has the opportunity to switch between different working methods and settings: input-oriented phases and phases of individual research are just as much a part of the process as developing and designing together in small groups.
Date: February 19 - 21, 2021
Friday: 16 - 19; Saturday: 10 - 16; Sunday: 10 - 16
Cost: 150 € / 130 € (reduced rate)
Workshop language: German
Deadline for registration: February 1st, 2021
The Body as Refuge in Times of Uncertainty - with Ulla König
This weekend workshop explores possibilities of mindfulness and meditation in order to find islands of calm and clarity during times of stress and uncertainty. The focus of our joint exploration is on the body, which we wish to experience and sense in new ways. The weekend creates a space in which the body can be experienced as a companion, support and resource for insight, understanding and refuge.
“Meditation - Reflection- Engaged Practice: For me, these three principles go hand in hand. They are inextricably interwoven. The practice of mindfulness nourishes and informs our lives. It invites insight and knowledge to enrich our lives and to understand what we can let go of in order to grow.
In my work as a mindfulness and meditation teacher I combine aspects of bodywork (Qi Gong, Yin Yoga, respiratory therapy) that open mindful awareness of body and breath with Buddhist psychology, which teaches us to see and understand. At seminars and workshops, it is important to me to stimulate the power of reflection in individual participants. The aim is to create resources for the individual that support and carry forth into everyday life. Mindfulness is a way of gentle knowledge, a journey towards more togetherness and compassion for one another.”
Text: Ulla König
website: www.ulla-koenig.com
Date: April 16-18, 2021 POSTPONED
Friday: 19 - 21:30; Saturday: 10 - 16; Sunday: 10 - 12
Cost: 120 € / 100 € (reduced rate)
Workshop languages: English / German
Deadline for registration: November 14th, 2020
Vinyasa Dance with Brigitte Breternitz
‘Yoga to come home and dance to fly’ - movements from yoga and dance merge with music to develop a new body awareness. The flowing creative movements of this practice strengthen, improve flexibility, are enjoyable and provide energy. Go into yourself on a journey and develop your sense of yourself through dance and yoga.
Vinyasa Dance is a fluid combination of yoga and modern dance. It is aimed at anyone who wants to consciously move their body, mind and soul. The class is taught with music and in flow. You don't have to be a professional dancer or yogi to enjoy the effects of Vinyasa Dance. Rather, it is about being open to new experiences such as developing a new perspective on oneself and improve one’s body awareness. In this dynamic yet relaxing class one benefits from elements from Vinyasa yoga and modern dance as well as various breathing and meditation techniques. In these hours, you will embark on a dance journey that will train your physical and mental flexibility and bring you closer to your core. With this technique one learns to express oneself authentically through the body, to release physical and mental tension and to approach life in a more relaxed and joyful manner. All levels are welcome.
Website: www.brigittebreternitz.com
Dates: Workshop 1 : October 10-11, 2020
Workshop 2: November 28-29, 2020
Online because of Corona
Times: Saturday: 10-13; Sunday 10-13
Costs: 72 € pro Workshop (60€ Online)
Workshop language: Deutsch
Alexander Technique Intensive Workshop
In this workshop we will study the relationship between our thinking and our movement with a mind of inquiry. Through attention and self-observation, pausing and ceasing unhealthy movement sequences and through jointly developed solutions, a new, conscious way of thinking can replace old and harmful habits. The human organism is naturally an ideally functioning system - an inseparable interaction of body, mind and emotions - but if we disturb this system through unconscious tension and misconceptions about our movements, we impair the entire function of our body. Alexander puts it this way:
“When you stop doing the wrong thing, the right thing does itself.”
F.M. Alexander
More information here (auf Deutsch).
Date: because of Corona-Lockdown TDB
TBD
Cost: 50 € / 40 € (reduced rate)
Workshop language: German
FULL DROP - with
Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir
The workshop is an introduction to the sensation and state-oriented practice Full Drop. A practice which Icelandic choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir has been developing since 2010 in relation to and alongside her performance work. The workshop focuses on deep myofascial release through visualization meditation and verbal dialog aimed at guiding participants towards a so-called Full Drop into the body. One develops heightened inner listening and awareness of the multiple autonomous systems and rhythms of the body and learns how to be guided and moved by them, and to experience the various altered physical states that accommodate this type of listening. By fully dropping into the body and entering a meditative space where time ceases to exist, conditions have been created to release self-manipulation and control and allow active intentions to be released from the body. Through the unraveling of new subjective sensorial experiences, what was formerly unconscious becomes conscious, increasing awareness of the current as well as immanent inner states of each person. While the practice itself is gentle, the decision to let go of control and enter into the unknown, not yet discovered and subconscious parts of yourself is profound.
more information here.
Website: www.msgudjonsdottir.com
Date: October 16th - 18th, 2020
Friday: 16-19; Saturday: 10-16; Sunday: 10-16
Cost: 150 € / 130 € (reduced rate)
Workshop language: English