Mask - workshop excl friday | 28 - 29 Jun 2025 | EWC

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Photo Mask - workshop excl friday

On this Open Floor, Art In Motion weekend we will work with the mystery and magic of pure presence and the stories and impulses that arise from our collective field.

 We will work with Neutral Mask, a simple expressionless white mask that invites the mover to experience a state of pure and physical presence, calmness and openness to space. A state where we can access archetypal stories and truths, open into a multi-dimensional web of connection, story-telling and witnessing.

In each of us there plays an interweaving tapestry of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual states.

Moving and playing with neutral mask can open up a chance to sense and move into these dimensions beyond our regular habits of movement and facial expressions. 
Allowing ourselves through, to move, witness and be witnessed. In so doing, opening to a deep state of listening, presence and creativity, awake and ready for being.

Absolutely no experience of mask work required and there will be plenty of dancing! We will embody, play and move with the Open Floor movement resources  and the 4 hungers and dimensions of embodiment.

Friday Evening is optional but the workshop material is part of the Friday, you will miss a key piece if you choose to come from Saturday.

Planned sessions (2)

  • Session 1: Saturday 28 June 2025 - OWC Antwerp
    11:00 - 18:00 6 hrs
  • Session 2: Sunday 29 June 2025 - OWC Antwerp
    10:00 - 16:00 5 hrs
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Cathy Ryan
EIRE, IE

Cathy studied and apprenticed with Gabrielle Roth, the founder of the 5Rhythms® movement meditation map and has been working with the practice for 16 years. She is a founding member of Open Floor International. She works extensively in Europe and the UK. Her background is in theater, writing, and shamanic practice. For more details about her work and her background, see www.humans-being.co.uk

"Cathy's strength as a teacher is her ability to be completely present wherever she is and respond authentically to whatever and whoever is in the room with her. She creates a refreshingly non-judgmental, unsentimental, open space where people can discover themselves, others and the juiciness of the world around them."
(Suzy Willson, Artistic Director of Clod Ensemble, www.clodensemble.com)"

Cathy has so many years of experience and wisdom both on and off the dance floor. Her passion for life is inspiring, dance with her, bring your willingness to wake up, be switched on and enjoy the ride. You are in extremely capable hands and held in a compassionate heart."
(Sue Rickards, 5 Rhythms® teacher, www.acalltodance.com)

"I have danced and participated in and benefited from Cathy's classes and workshops in Oxford, London and Ireland. She works with clarity, openness, insight and precision. She tempers honesty with humour, challenge with grace and holds a space and a group with deep integrity which allows the human body to move and the soul to flourish in trust, safety and honesty. In deep appreciation."
(Annie Davy, facilitator and writer for human, organisational and community development, www.thenatureeffect.co.uk)

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