MOVE YOUR TRUTH - DANCE & EMBODIMENT INTENSIVE

Move Your Truth

3 Day Dance & Embodiment Intensive

DANCE ~ EMBODY ~ FEEL ~ GROW

Friday 13th – Sunday 15th of September 2024 Athens, Greece

Embark on a transformative journey of dance, profound embodied explorations and the depth of emotional growth.

Over three days, we will dive deep into the essence of dance and movement, rediscovering playfulness, curiosity and creativity. Identifying and honouring personal boundaries and unlocking the power of emotional work.

This Intensive is held by two professional dance movement psychotherapists who provide a therapeutic and safe environment for participants, to enhance self-awareness, emotional expression and holistic well-being.

Dance & Movement Intensive Tools and Techniques:

We draw inspiration from various dance movement psychotherapy concepts and techniques, such as authentic movement and structured improvisation, mirroring techniques and Laban movement efforts.

On a somatic level, these practices aim to enrich our movement vocabulary, help us to explore dynamics, textures and intentions in our dancing.

The benefits of the Dance and Embodiment Intensive, extend beyond the movement practice, allowing us to dive deeper into our emotional landscape.

Shining light into and reflecting on the way we relate to ourselves and others and rediscovering the sheer pleasure of moving our bodies freely to express our truth.

What you will gain:

1. Cultivate Self-Awareness: Help participants develop a deeper understanding of their bodies, emotions, and intentions, promoting greater self-awareness and mindfulness.
2. Provide Tools for Growth: Equip participants with practical tools and dance movement psychotherapy techniques, such as authentic movement, structured improvisation and Laban movement efforts to continue their movement and emotional journey beyond the workshop and integrate newfound insights into their daily lives.
3. Develop Movement Skills: Provide participants with tools and techniques to enhance their movement vocabulary, dynamics, and expression, regardless of their prior dance experience.
4. Explore Emotional Work: Facilitate exploration of emotions through movement, enabling participants to process and express feelings in a safe and constructive manner.
5. Honour Boundaries: Emphasize the importance of respecting personal boundaries, both physical and emotional, to create a safe and comfortable space for exploration and growth.
6. Foster Self-Expression: Encourage participants to explore and express their authentic selves through movement, supporting a sense of liberation and empowerment through truthful expression.
7. Encourage Playfulness: Cultivate a sense of joy, spontaneity, and curiosity in participants movement practice, encouraging them to playfully explore new ways of moving, being and relating. letting go of inhibitions, embrace the unknown.
8. Nervous system restoration: Release tensions and blocked emotions. Restore your nervous system.
9. Build Community: Create a supportive and inclusive environment where participants are being seen and supported to connect with each other, share experiences and practice to form meaningful relationships.

Who is this Intensive for?

The dance and embodiment intensive is for you if you are open minded and curious to be present to your embodied experiences. This is an ideal opportunity for individuals who are looking to deepen their personal growth, self – inquiry and be part of a supportive community. This intensive is open to professionals but also to individuals no matter of their previous movement, dance or therapeutic experience, physical ability or age.

Facilitators:

Caterina Cosma Laschke

International Dance Movement Psychotherapist, Movement Specialist, and Yoga Teacher

A nomadic mover at heart, Caterina ’s experience as a senior teacher and facilitator of dance, movement and embodiment practices stretches across two decades and 3 continents, including New Zealand, Indonesia, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Italy and the UK.

Caterina has extensive experience as a dance artist, pedagogue and dance movement psychotherapist, facilitating in clinical and non-clinical settings.

Holding group spaces as well as one to one facilitation across all age groups and abilities.

It is her passion to facilitate a safe space and invite people back into their bodies, the connection of their primal medium of expression that withholds such depth of knowledge and the essence of our authentic self.

Eftychia Nikolopoulou

Dance Movement Psychotherapist, Psychologist

Eftychia is a licenced psychologist and dance movement psychotherapist coming from Greece. She has over a decade of experience facilitating therapeutic groups and individual psychotherapy sessions for both adults and children in various community and psychiatric settings of the UK and Greece.

She is currently based in Athens working psychotherapeutically with people of all ages and walks of life as well as with a diverse range of emotional and mental needs.

In her work, she encourages playfulness and creative exploration inviting this way the authentic parts of the self to become alive, to be seen and heard while respecting the natural pace of the therapeutic process. She is a strong believer that working with the body and movement, we can gain access to deeper parts of ourselves that might be otherwise difficult to reach verbally. Thus, the body acts as a powerful tool of self-awareness and personal growth.

Event Details:

Times:

Friday 13/09 19:00-21:00

Saturday 14/09 10:00-13:00 & 15:00-18:00

Sunday 15/09 11:00-14:00

Location: Omikron 3 artspace, Millerou 17, Athens, 104 36, Greece

Standard Ticket Price: 360 Euros

Early Bird Price until 1 August 2024: 290 Euros

What’s included:

· Full course access

· 11 contact hours

CPD Certificate A Certificate of Attendance will be provided as part of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for professionals in relevant fields such as mental health professionals, arts therapists and dancers.

Refund Policy: A full refund will be issued only in the case of cancellation of the event from the facilitators.

Contact details:

dance.therapy.yoga@gmail.com

What’s app:

Eftychia +306947553308

Caterina +6282340390328