Sunday 26th October 12-1pm @MIECAT
Expect invitations to:
- Engage Imagination and use creative visualisation to feel into invisible and unknown realms
- Be still and engage in short, embodied meditation
- Move your body; within your own limitations and capacity. We will be using movement as our primary modality, inquiring into our understanding of Guardianship, using our physical form.
- Listen – to invitation, to your own bodies explicit and subtle messaging, and to other bodies in the space during partnered and group exercises.
- Record and document what we are noticing, you might bring a personal journal
- Respond Multimodally, we will spend some time expressing our movement inquiry using other creative modes including mark-making and creative writing.
- Reflect and share, there will be time to be with and consider what we are noticing together. We will discuss our process and speak to our experience.
- Work Communally, while we begin our inquiry solo we will move into partnered, small and whole group exercises
in this context a guardianship practice focuses on our emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical capacities to be with other bodies and their associated energies.
Using felt sense we draw attention to where we are in the moment, recognise our needs and desires, and how much room we have to move within them. From this place we can assess how much of us might be available for others? How much can I give/take and how do I want to be with these ever-shifting states of capacity.
Acknowledging that we are living systems, forever in flux alongside other living systems, all with differing needs and wants.
As fluid, flesh and porous entities we will consider being “open”, as the possible body and being “closed”, as the boundaried body.
While the offerings are made with a sense of playful curiosity, you are invited to attend to the processes with an awareness and sensitivity of your own condition.
this workshop is suitable for all levels of movement and abilities but please note that it is taking place in studio 1 which is up a flight of 14 stairs.
no skills or experience required -simply a willingness to be curious and to inquire.