We will go through all the developmental movements, from conception to upright posture. We will go back to what we experienced in these stages, we will have a chance to recognize and process it better. To deepen our awareness of ourselves in movement. We will look for ways to use different kinds of movement in professional practice. We will move a lot and explore practically.

The workshop will be appreciated by all people working in nursing, occupational therapy, bodywork, dance and movement therapy, yoga, psychology, craniosacral therapy, birth psychology and paediatrics, as well as fitness trainers and other professionals working with movement.

Content/theme of the workshop:

This two day deep immersion will begin with conception and move through embodiment in the fetal period through birth and the developmental movements that bring us into our unique mammalian humanness of standing vertically on just two feet.  We will explore the push, pull, reach patterns of infants, the development of the natural curves of the sacred human spinal architecture, the finding of the feet and development of foot cartilage to bone, and the connection of the feet to the spine.  We will practice developmental movements of head/tail; lateral, contralateral, rolling and yielding to rest and gravity that help us find our unique skeletal architecture and the strength of our core.  Partnering, kinesthetic imagery, body tracings, and guided movement experiences will be our daily practice along with the use of art materials to map and anchor our experiences.  The dance of the center line will finalize our journey from fetal floating to using gravity and our skeletal system as a source of aligned joyful exploration in embodiment.

Workshop flow:

Begins Monday at 9am and ends Tuesday at 5pm.
There are lunch breaks and occasional short breaks throughout the day. Two days' lecturer fee and organisation fee included, accommodation and meals to be paid separately on site.