Residential Research and Study: Somatic Exploration. Contact Improvisation. Intuitive Care
RIE: ES CI²
Retreat into Research and Study: Somatic Exploration, Contact Improvisation, and Intuitive Care with Anna Vilhelmine Wallin and Gonzalo Barales.
Date: May 3rd to 5th
Location: Tierra Luz Community, Arbucies, Girona, Catalonia.
RESIDENTIAL RETREAT for Research and Study: SOMATIC EXPLORATION, CONTACT IMPROVISATION, and INTUITIVE CARE
Facilitators: Anna Vilhelmine Wallin and Gonzalo Barales.
(Important: Anna will facilitate in English, with translation by Gonzalo)
RIE: ES CI² is an invitation to connect with oneself, to allow oneself to be and discover through feeling, play, and dance in the encounter with others.
The Residential Research and Study days has three main focuses:
SOMATIC EXPLORATION: Attention and listening to the subtle sensations of our organism. Recognizing unusual sensations that shape us. Giving our nervous system more time. Opening up to self-regulation and self-awareness through presence in movement.
CONTACT IMPROVISATION: The art of encounter and dance, embracing the unknown. (Re)Encounters: with oneself, with the earth, with spaces, with others. Living ecosystem. (Inter)Permeability.
INTUITIVE CARE: Availability and vital integrity from which every sentient being organizes itself by its own nature to manage the unknown and daily situations while respecting its internal space and structure. Physical and emotional well-being and comfort. Principles of structure and spatiality from martial arts, geometry, and nature.
SCHEDULE:
Saturday:
8:15-9:00 somatic exploration
9:00-10:00 breakfast
10:30-13:30 session facilitated by Anna
14:00-17:00 sharing lunch & free time
17:00-20:00 session facilitated by Gonzalo
20:30-22:00 dinner & break
22:00-23:59 JAM session
Sunday:
8:15-9:00 somatic exploration
9:00-10:00 breakfast
10:00-12:00 session facilitated
by Anna & Gonzalo
12:00-13:30 JAM session
13:30-14:00 Closing circle & reflections 14:00-15:30 sharing lunch
15:30-16:00 Farewells!
Friday:
18:00-19:00 arrive, land, settle your nest
19:00-20:15 group meeting, presentation
and first activity
20:30-21:30 sharing dinner
22:00-23:59 JAM session
Gonzalo's Research and Study Proposal:
"The reorganization of internal space as a source of movement, creativity, and care."
Keywords: Recognition, Permeability, Space, Care, Intuition, Mutability, Simultaneity, Regeneration, Enjoyment.
Provide tools to inhabit a state of continuous generation of intuitive and creative care (personal, communal, and spatial).
What is the limit to attention? What does what I perceive mean to me?
Current physicality as intuitive guidance. Discovery, exploration, and appreciation of discomfort as treasure.
Permeability and boundaries to create the internal and external. Mobility, stability, and freedom.
Non-action and allowing, temporality and three-dimensionality. Play to travel, enjoy landscapes.
Encounters, lands, and spaces, offering and containing. Presence, the previous, the new.
Mutability and reorganization, elastic integrity and intuitive care. Independence and interdependence, regeneration and expansion.
Sharing, co-creating, cooperating, sustaining, releasing.
Anna's Research and Study Proposal:
"From the Known to the Unknown: Reconcile, Connect, and Coexist"
Keywords: Somatic Cognition, Tensegrity, Perspectives, Collective Adaptability
A research into the depths of emptiness, and how we fill it. Navigating through what we know and what we don't.
Tools for improvisation, both within and beyond the realm of Contact. Relating through compositional exploration and performative patterns.
Focused on cultivating collective knowledge. We will listen, engage, connect, observe, write, and draw with our bodies and minds in shared movement research and coexistence.
Dancing with- and beyond the known, embracing somatic cognition to unfold dynamics of the space we share.
An intention of facilitating a continuous inquiry, where insights hopefully will be answered with new questions.
about Anna
Anna Vilhelmine Wallin is a dancer, choreographer, installation artist and mother based in south of sweden.
her art explores form and space intending to bridge art and therapy in movement
she search to find the ability to reconcile, connect and co exist
Foundationa training:
Acrobatics, Axis Syllabus, Authentic Movement, Ballet, BodyMind Centering, Contact Improvisation, Contemporary Dance, Experimental Street, Feldenkrais Method, Gaga, Improv Theater, Lip Sync, Mime, Object Manipulation, One Beat One Move, Physical Theater, Spoken Word, Tap Dance, Vaulting.
www.wallinworks.com/about
www.instagram.com/wallinworks/
about Gonzalo
Gonzalo Barales is a practitioner, teacher, and researcher of movement with a focus on health, empowerment, and freedom. His art combines martial arts with dance, philosophy, science, and nature.
He considers practice and meeting spaces as real spaces where we can recreate our reality to transform it by transforming ourselves through present actions and experiencing the new.
His quest is the integration, expansion, and integration of being, from the individual to the cosmic.
His training includes Traditional Kung Fu, Tai Ji Quan, Qi Gong, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Integral Yoga, Ayurveda, Contemporary Dance, Classical Dance, Floor Acrobatics, Physiology, Anatomy, Biomechanics, Reiki, Mime, Buddhism, Taoism, Vedanta.
http://vitalnexus.net/bio
www.instagram.com/vitalnexusnet
HOME & COEXISTANCE
The Beautiful Tierra Luz Community
https://www.tierraluz.es/
The community is a space of awareness, collective care, and nature that seeks to improve our relationship with ourselves and nature. It is a smoke-free and alcohol-free environment, as well as a temple of healthy and conscious eating with locally made products.
SLEEPING & MEALS
The event is designed for a maximum of 14 participants.
Tierra Luz offers:
Hostel with 12 beds in the same room, with direct access to showers and toilets. (This will be assigned primarily on a first-registered basis. If you have preferences or special needs, please mention them in your registration.)
Large Tipi with a central campfire with a capacity for 8 people.
If you prefer more privacy, the option of sleeping in individual or couples camping tents is also available.
If you have a van, you can bring it and sleep there if you prefer.
Meals: (If you are celiac or allergic to anything, please notify us in advance.)
The kitchen offers vegetarian/vegan meals inspired by macrobiotics, intuitive eating, and other health references through nutrition. During the stay, we will share all meals, which will be prepared with love, care, and dedication.
PRICES & RESERVATIONS
To reserve your spot, you must make a minimum payment of €60 through Bizum/transfer/paypal and fill out the registration form below. After making the reservation, please send the proof of payment with your name to (+34)600915832 or info@vitalnexus.net.
The event only has spaces for 14 participants. The value of RIE: ES CI² is €220, which includes all practices, accommodation and all meals.
If you are unable to attend the event after making the initial payment:
If more than 15 days remain, the full amount will be refunded.
If between 15 and 7 days remain, half will be refunded.
If less than 7 days remain, there will be no refund, but you always have the option to find another person to take your place and complete the payment (if necessary).