Spring Seedling 2023

Join us for a two-day festival and workshop sessions exploring inclusive movement practices!Spring Seedling is an annual workshop exchange series that connects the fields of dance and somatics with intercultural dialogue and environmental arts, and which is based around a given, biannual theme.At the core of the event are two key 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 ecosomatic practices, which are more ecologically focused and which open our understanding of the self to larger contexts of being in the world.How can we better relate to the natural world and develop a more symbiotic relationship with it that can support our own self-care?The indoor workshops will 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 workshops will 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.Coming to you every April!Treat yourself to this wonderful opportunity to charge, learn, share and open up to new ways of supporting yourself in movement and creative wellbeing practices.

Dunami - Movement | Arts | Wellbeing

Spring Seedling '23 is a workshop exchange event exploring creative self-care in movement and reflection as inspired by coastal landscapes.

The Schoolhill Studio

Spring Seedling 2023 event will centre around the 'The Brick Body - fostering resilience and wellbeing in connection to the living matter'. We will seek to explore different ways in which we can utilise somatic movement practices to foster resilience and wellbeing in connection to the living matter and the natural landscapes around us.Experienced practitioners will lead workshop sessions, both indoors and outdoors in Aberdeen. Through the workshop exchanges, we will be exploring different ways in which we can find new paths of 'letting go' through exploration of our own vulnerability and courage. We will consider how we can begin to dig in to our brick bodies, using the ground and the natural environment as an opening to access our inner selves and to support our wellbeing, as well as examining our own experience and relationship to self and others. The workshops will explore how individuals can use the practice of somatic movement to build their own strategies to develop resilience and promote wellbeing in daily life, across a range of contexts. They will equip participants with the skills to adjust their mindset and provide a toolkit for individuals to use in the real contexts of their daily lives. Throughout the course of the day, we will seek to find new entry points into this year’s theme, always opening ourselves to emerging possibilities, perspectives and opportunities presented by the workshop leaders, as well as the participants themselves.​The participants will be able to explore their own quality of movement and learn how they too can use movement for support. 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 outdoor experiences will highlight how the natural landscapes around us can be used to explore ourselves, as well as our relationships to each other and the natural world.​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.For full details please see the website:https://www.dunami-somatics.com/spring-seedling-2023 Workshops:Flow - The Call and Response of the Landscapeby Francis AngolIn today’s global matrix where imagery to some extent shapes our reality, the social and economic structures that we are forced to live by, can impact our life in such a way that forces us to unknowingly define who and what we are by the values and norms that it boldly placed before us. In doing so, we slowly gradually move away from a centred and balanced existence with the natural environment and create more of a destructive flow to our presence.To address this issue, Francis Angol through his therapeutic practice – ‘Body in Rhythm’, draws from the philosophical teachings and practices of Western, and African Diasporic embodied movement traditions, to offer individuals an opportunity to explore the healing presence of the natural environment through his immersive workshop - ‘Flow - the call and response of the landscape’.Bringing a focus on the life cycle of the costal landscape as a metaphor for renewal and change, the workshop takes individuals through a widening field of possibilities to explore ways in which we as human beings, can bring greater balance and flow to our life cycle. An opportunity to reflect, explore and experience the meeting of presence with existence, to curate a deeper awareness and understanding of the benefits of the unseen properties of our natural landscapes.From an ecological perspective the workshop makes a parallel between the living body and what Angol calls the ‘landscape body,’ to infuse, inform and dissect indigenous knowledge of our environment. The workshop will allow participants to discover through a journey of play and exploration, ways of unearthing knowledge of unexplored ways of being that can further underpin our way of living, being and becoming.Through exploring the relationship with the living matter of our environment, the workshop primarily focuses on creating pathways into the body, inviting participants to play and take pleasure in the art of self-discovery to unlock barriers to self-knowledge. An experience that aims to allow the self to unfold within a more mental, physical, and spiritually centred and attuned body, adding to the enrichment and support of our health and wellbeing.​Embedding Change - Negotiating Health through Life Cycles of Living Matter by Anna DakoHow can one comprehend change when tuning into the time scales of the Earth’s life cycles? And how can one meet the life cycle of the rock, so present in the local landscapes of coastal life in the north-east, which has been shaped by geological processes over millennia. Slowness of erosion versus abruptness of eruptions. Ice versus magma. Rocks change, break and move over time.From igneous to sedimentary to metamorphic, rocks are the part of a cycle of creation, distraction and re-creation. Just like our human body, the body of earth is influenced by changes in temperature, pressure, humidity, weather exposure, etc. Minerals mix with organic material to form the soil on which plants and animals rely. Yet the rock is also the most reliable matter, that provides us with solid ground under our feet, and home-building blocks of granite, sandstone and marble.In our explorations of the theme we will pay attention to what it means to live and understand our own body as a geological site, connecting through historicity of experience while negotiating best paths for health and inner developments for positive change. Somewhere between movement and stillness lie our answers to what we are made of, and how we can best support the ongoing constitution of wellbeing.Inner sensing, movement contemplations and playful shifts in response perspectives will be our guides on this self-exploratory journey. Learning about qualities of change is a life-long adventure.

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