by Catherine Elvinger, Open Floor Teacher in Luxembourg
104 Av. Victor Hugo, 1750 Luxembourg “Deep listening is an act of surrender. We risk being changed by what we hear. » This quotation from Valarie Kaur’s See no stranger refers to the listening to others but it applies perfectly to our willingness and capacity to listen to our own body, heart, mind and soul. And …
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104 Av. Victor Hugo, 1750 Luxembourg 10.00-11.30 Move and Include! We start the weekend with a dance where we let ourselves be inspired by the music and where our main intention will be to Move and Include! When our body moves, everything moves. A gesture brings on a flood of feeling. A surge of emotion …
104 Av. Victor Hugo, 1750 Luxembourg 10.00-11.30 Vector Vector is the ability to turn the potency of our movement in a specific, intentional direction: to move here not there, now not later, right not left. Working with a vector means we choose to establish a certain direction or quality (or follow a direction that is …
104 Av. Victor Hugo, 1750 Luxembourg 10.00-11.30 Activate & Settle photo Activate is the ability to connect with an impulse to move, allow the movement to gather momentum, energy and intensity, and allow our physical, cognitive and emotional systems to reach states of intense arousal. To activate is literally to excite and ignite ourselves, to …
104 Av. Victor Hugo, 1750 Luxembourg 10.00-11.30 Dissolve During the last weeks we have been exploring (among other resources) Release and CenterThey are precious for learning to embody Dissolve. Dissolving is the movement of softening our sense of shape and physical form, of aligning with spaciousness rather than mass. This is a delicate and exquisite …
104 Av. Victor Hugo, 1750 Luxembourg 10.00-11.30 And we Release again…. This Saturday we will focus again on the resource RELEASE,We will explore how to move in order to let go, to be less tensed in our body. And if we manage to let go in our body we open up our mind and our …
104 Av. Victor Hugo, 1750 Luxembourg EXPAND & CONTRACT Sometimes we are confined in space and yet don’t want to lose our freedom and range of physical expression. Can we regulate our movement to fit situation and yet don’t feel narrowed and constricted? Sometimes we are constrained by emotions like fear, anxiety or grief. We …
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104 Av. Victor Hugo, 1750 Luxembourg On Saturday, we will explore PAUSE : Pause is an alive and receptive state where our larger outer physical movements cease and we can become aware of subtler physical, emotional, mind, or soul states.It is different than a stop. To stop infers to end or cut something off. In …
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104 Av. Victor Hugo, 1750 Luxembourg Spacial awareness This is the capacity to know where we are in space and to move confidently and safely in any direction.We bring our senses to our shape and size and get aware of how and how much we occupy the space around us, close to us and between …
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104 Av. Victor Hugo, 1750 Luxembourg Center Centering is the movement toward connecting with oneself. We focus our attention on sensations inside the body, an internal balancing point or alignment. The center can be found through midline, the core, the moving center or Hara. Knowing the dance between center and off-center provides a mover with …
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