Tracing the Self from Drawing Into Creative Movement

In this lab, we will explore how drawing and movement can be tools to get in touch with our authenticity through the portals of creativity. Through the use of colour and the graphic sign, we can make tangible the intangibility of the feelings that live in our unconscious, and through creative movement we have the opportunity to activate a dialogue with a deep listening of ourselves, triggering a process of transformation and self-knowledge.

Rebecca Marta D'Andrea is a movement artist. Her research explores improvisation and creativity as forms of dialogue to discover the intersections that intertwine perception, reality and imagination and the sense of community. Born in the Artistic Community of Bussana Vecchia in 1983, she graduated in Choreography at Dartington College of Arts (UK) in 2006, furthering her studies at SNDO Amsterdam(NL), Milon Mela Theater House in India (2009) in Berlin with ( P.O.R.C.H Ponderosa 2012) and obtaining a Masters in Creative Practices at the Trinity Laban and Independent Dance in 2016 with the support of the Gill Clarke Scholarship of the Leverhulme Trust.

Embodied Relating - Dance as a Developmental Opportunity

Explore the confluence of somatic awareness and psychological development. Through movement, language, somatic awareness and emotional presence we learn to embody a more healed and whole version of ourselves. Together we'll learn how to shift old psychological patterns by embodying a new dance.

Physical movement offers us a chance to change our inner world. Together we'll learn how to shift stuck or old psychological patterns by embodying a new dance. This workshop plays at the meeting point of contact improvisation and somatically informed movement with psychological states and emotional landscapes. We’ll focus on meeting ourselves and each other in genuine and vulnerable ways (in a safely held container and with full permission), and through this meeting learning what we can change in our movement patterns that will help shift our inner world to a more wholesome and integrated way of being.

Chris’ workshops are designed and delivered with care and structure ensuring that participants are invited along a learning pathway that has them meeting their edges in a good way. He teaches people the gifts inherent in embodiment practices and in particular the ways that we move. Dance offers us a wonderful opportunity for healing and wholeness. Expect careful guidance and lasting change from this transformative work.

Brazilian Forró Partner Dance

An introduction and all you need to dance this intimate, lighthearted, easy-to-learn and gentle partner dance from the northeast of Brazil.

Julia's classes are light and welcoming, starting with the basic rhythms and steps and moving on to more complex techniques to get a real feel for this beautiful and sensual dance. Everyone welcome - No skills or partner required!

Julia (the one in yellow) has been teaching Brazilian Forró for over 16 years as part of London's most popular Forró night - "Forró Family".

She has more recently expanded her offerings to incorporate elements of other movement practices as she shares her passion for moving connections in a variety of welcoming and refreshing ways. She has undertaken many dance training programmes over the last 20 years including a year-long self-enquiry through Moving Soul, Ecstatic Awakening teacher training, Dance Medicine Facilitator training, Counselling and more.

Move to Freedom

Through the power of music, we dance alive the many parts of us and make room for what is. Emotion is energy in motion, and when we move that energy through our breath and our dance, we can reconnect to our true nature and our deepest desires.

Conscious dance has been a somatic practice I’ve leaned on for the past decade, to find peace and clarity within. I know I can always come back into connection with my soul when I’m on the dance floor, even in my living room. To help create a sustainable future, I work at the intersection of inner and outer development, as an embodied transformation coach & conscious dance facilitator, and in circular economy, systems change.

Human Animal - From Earth To Sky

An ecstatic dance journey with a long slow flow warmup, and sounds that help your body yield, soften and roll. From here the beat touches us our body and the ground. Inviting us up to meet life, the beat and our tribe. From the intimate nature of being with the earth, to landing in as our expression to life and our dancing friends.

Jamus has spent most of his life dancing on one sort of dance floor or another. He has a rich music library with many tastes from techno through ethnic world beats and loves mixing the worlds of electronic with acoustic sounds from around the world. Jamus cut his teeth playing music through his work with Lee Bolton and their Embodied Presence Classes. Jamus also teaches contact improvisation, Somatic dance and anatomy classes and Somatic Yoga. He is a sight-impaired member of The Touchdown Dance Company.

Ecstatic Dance

I’m merging together my passion for music as a former DJ (in my 20-ies) and body awareness in movement to create a dance session of various music styles. Let’s move, have fun, open our bodies and hearts.

"Forget the dancer, the centre of the ego - become The Dance” - Osho

A holistic therapist specialising in movement, body and energy work, a certified Tantra Yoga teacher, Tantra Coach and Psychotherapist. Julita unites her love for dance, yoga, tantra and nature with her work and brings together the ancient wisdom of yoga and tantra, Western psychology and her own lived experience to bring healing and well-being to every aspect of your body, mind and soul. Julita has been teaching workshops and offering massage in Europe (Poland, England, Italy) and Thailand.