a workshop series in dance, movement arts, and somatics
celebrating
Selfhood and Creative Wellbeing
with focus on intercultural and environmental contexts of practice
_edited_pn.png)
Join us in movement to explore interconnections between
culture, nature & soma
Every Year - A Different Guiding Theme!
The Seedling seeks to explore different ways in which we can utilise somatic movement practices to foster resilience and wellbeing in resonance to the living landscapes around us and places we come from.
The workshops explore how we can trust our embodied experiences to build our own resilience and promote wellbeing as well as how to adjust our mindsets and grow a toolkit of support strategies to use in daily life. Throughout the course of guided workshops, we seek to find new entry points into the year’s theme, always opening ourselves to emerging possibilities, perspectives and opportunities presented by the workshop facilitators, as well as the participants themselves.
Through open exchange and informed improvisation, we explore sensations, imaginings, the stored residue of memories, and individual ways of belonging and relating.
The Seedling is facilitated in ways helpful to explore your own qualities of movement and connection. From using dance and movement to support yourself, to helping others to provide support for themselves in a range of contexts of self-care, growth and wellbeing.
The focus on our inner connection to the landscapes highlights how it can also help to explore ourselves, as well as our relationships to each other and the living world.
We move and share in an open and inviting atmosphere, aided and enriched by the sounds of live music accompaniment inspired by different spaces and local landscapes.
At the core of the event are three overarching aims:
Firstly, to promote and facilitate intercultural dialogue by moving together and exchanging different professional perspectives on somatic experience of selfhood, while emphasising both inclusivity and diversity welcomed and supported by the practices.
Secondly, to promote the links between more traditional, largely indoor-based, somatic practices with eco-somatic practices, which are more outdoor focused and which open our understanding of the self to larger contexts of being in the world.
And finally, The Seedling is meant to explore all possible interconnections between culture, ecology and the living soma, to further somatic education practices and to create an open space for exchange, new knowledge and personal growth within the field of creative and inclusive wellbeing.
How can we better relate to the world and develop a more symbiotic relationship with it that can support our own wellbeing?
The event is designed to be fully inclusive and sessions are held in a welcoming and open environment, approached first and foremost with a sense of curiosity and exploration. It is an event open to everyone, whether you are familiar with somatic practice or not.
The Seedling offers both indoor and outdoor movement explorations inspired by the location where the event is taking place.
The indoor explorations focus on sharing and offering support tools arising from somatic movement explorations that can be utilised in daily life to support wellbeing across a range of personalised contexts.
The outdoor explorations focus on aspects of environmentally-mindful practices that help to explore the value of the natural world in supporting our ongoing wellbeing, expand of healthy sense of belonging in the living world around and reflect on moving towards healthier and more sustainable lives.
...
Treat yourself to this wonderful opportunity to
recharge
learn
share &
open up
to new ways of supporting yourself
in movement and
creative wellbeing practices
