Belonging (week-end) | 21 - 23 Jul 2023 | EWC

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Self | Other | Community | Lineage | Source

BELONGING is an invitation to return to the places of connection that can become more accessible when we  welcome the intelligence of our awake moving bodies.

Many of us both ache to feel we belong and fear it.
What does belonging mean to each of us?
Can we belong and stay the shape we are?
Where do we feel excluded or find it hard to include ourselves?

We will lean into the Movement Medicine elemental, heart and relational maps so we can safely dance with the questions that arise in and between us here. Giving permission, expression, care and love where it is needed. Noticing and encouraging balance and inclusion in a time we are invited to move towards extremity and polarisation.

So we may remember how we do belong; to ourselves, each other, community and our environment, our place in the lineage of life and the gossamer threads weaving us. Noticing and encouraging balance, space and inclusion in a time we are invited to move towards extremity and polarisation.

Remembering we belong; to ourselves, each other, community and our environment, our place in the lineage of life, with spirit and the gossamer threads weaving us.

We will be dancing with awareness in these 5 Dimensions of Relationship that underly all Movement Medicine practice:

  • Self - our relationship with ourselves
  • Other - our one to one relationships (friends, family, colleagues, animal companions)
  • Community - our connection to local, national, international communities and the community of life on earth
  • Spirits - our relationship with our ancestors, descendents and the spirit world (whatever that means to you personally)
  • Source - also called the great mystery, the divine or love, where we dissolve in connection to all and land in something broader than the sum or our parts.

This is precious time to revive ourselves in the medicine of the dance and goodness of human connection, much needed for many of us in these uncertain times. We will also draw on Processwork, creative expression/reflection and intentional focus to clarify, remember and restore what matters to us. So we can re-enter the world and our communities better equipped to support that which brings life, connection and kindness.

 "I felt the safety of strong boundaries, but pliant as willow. The real loving care you offer, the balance between Yin & Yang, internal mother & father weaving together." Claire Renard (Movement Teacher)

Planned sessions (3)

  • Session 1: Friday 21 July 2023 - OWC Antwerp
    19:30 - 22:00 2,5 hrs
  • Session 2: Saturday 22 July 2023 - OWC Antwerp
    11:00 - 18:00 6 hrs
  • Session 3: Sunday 23 July 2023 - OWC Antwerp
    10:00 - 17:00 6 hrs
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Rosie Perks
Totnes, Devon, GB

Rosie offers a place in which to land and explore that is safe, non-judgemental and expertly held, her guidance is both sensitive and clear. In group dancing spaces she gently encourages the emerging voice as extra support for the body in motion.

Rosie has many years experience teaching movement internationally. She is a senior Movement Medicine Teacher and professional mentor. As one of the first cohort of trained Movement Medicine teachers she developed her work on the pioneering edge of the practice. Her teaching is underpinned by over three decades of personal practice and interworwoven with an understanding of our shared humanity. These sit alongside trainings in the systemic modalities of Processwork and Internal Family Systems.

Find out more about her here: dance-scapes.com

"I felt the safety of strong boundaries, but pliant as willow. The real loving care you offer, the balance between Yin & Yang, internal mother & father weaving together." Claire Renard (Movement Teacher)

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