PULSE movement language & creation Monday morning 10-12 from the 30/09 Espaço Movimento São Luis
with Louise Chardon & Anaïs Tamen in alternate dancing dialogue & creation
It’s for you if :
you wish to unfold further your movement skills and creative potential, and are interested to relate to the cellular/collective aspect of dance/movement.
What to expect :
an alternance of teaching and research.
Every other Monday, Louise will teach Motional : a choreographic language she developed.
And every other Monday, Anaïs will offer choreographic teasers and scores for you to explore and embody, appropriate what you learned with Louise.
What is Motional :
Motional addresses the most physical as well as the most vibrational aspects of movement. It approaches the body as a genuine and sensitive landscape, rooted into breath, permeated by resonances, and immersed into connectivity. We dance the depth of bones, folds of flesh, layers of skin and all embodied poetics.
space limited 50€/month (= 4 session = 12,5€/session) 15-20€ drop-in
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a weekly online inner space retreat (6 sessions) held by Villy Tichkova & Anaïs Tamen
January: 15th, 22th, 29th February :12th, 19th, 26th
Online 9.30-11.00 GMT (UK/PT) You can check your local time here : Time Zone Converter
Open to all body-souls who enjoy exploring movement and words. No pre-requisite
Come if you feel moved :
To dance, to write, to draw To feel your heart beat To explore your masks To nourish loving kindness, and a sense of joy and ease in the different layers of your being
If you have any question, please email us : vtich@icloud.com and/or anais@anaistamen.com
Villy and Anaïs are both Open Floor Teachers, lovers of words and therapists (with homeopathy for Villy, and with soul and body work for Anaïs).
Energy exchange :
Please select the most fitted amount according to your financial reality. Contact us if you need clarity or assistance.
Price for 6 sessions:
– Re-balancing rate 120€ – Support others to join You have savings or investments and can afford travel/go on vacations.
– Sustainable rate 90€ – Ensure the sustainability of our work You have a stable income or access to financial support, you can afford occasional treats.
– Access rate 60€ – Be supported by the dancing community You live on irregular low local incomes in a country with similar or lower living conditions as Bulgaria and Portugal.
Drop-in: 15-20€
You can send your contribution in euro by Paypal: anais@anaistamen.com or by bank transfer to Portugal: IBAN PT50 0045 6332 4033 6023 4794 0 // BIC CCCMPTPL If you want to pay in £ please contact me directly, or use Wise:
“I want to express my gratitude and wonder on how deep this session was. The texture of the music, the expertise and skills, the instructions you gave with the music… It was so progressive and I got into such a deep place, I never been there, really. it was amazingly healing. I was able to laugh, to cry and to release things I had never been able to. It was really shamanic work of immense quality and depth.” – METAMORPHOSIS’ participant, October 2024.
“It’s unique what you do and each time it’s different, which is really great, it’s always new. I want to continue!” – METAMORPHOSIS’ participant, October 2024.
About Villy :
Villy is fascinated with paradoxes, her favourite – the conscious wild leap between identities and forms. She hunts poems for breakfast, lunches on the boundaries of the unknown, and for dinner she dances and digs into the hidden light of the night.
Anaïs is a shape shifter, a dreamer, who loves to explore the space in between realms. A playful lover of wilderness, birds, trees, the invisible & the unnamed. A vigil and tender of heart-soul subtleties & feral expressions.
Please fill in your details below. If you have any question or if you don’t hear from us after 2 days, please email us : vtich@icloud.com and/or anais@anaistamen.com
Grief ritual in movement Online Friday 27.09 10am-12 BST (Lisbon/London time)
A dedicated held time for you to grieve and praise, to mourn and dance all the colours stirred and revealed.
Whether you are grieving the state of the world, someone dear to your heart, honouring a gate in your life,… there is place for you and your emotions.
We will circle together, honouring individual and collective grief, with emphasis on body-wisdom and presence, more than storytelling.
What to expect : movements and dance, with and without music, guided and free, some sounding, some journaling, some humour too. Lots of space for your own process and rhythm.
Blending contemplative practices, Authentic Movement and Open Floor movement practice, to create a safe explorative container.
With gentleness, loving kindness and reverence for what is.
Reservations : anais@anaistamen.com or telegram @openheartsdance (early reservations are always very appreciated).
Heart gift : 15-25€ or swap. If you experience financial scarcity, please contact me and feel welcome for a smaller contribution.
What to bring :
Water to drink
Your journal if you have one, some paper, a pen, some colours
Any comforting object (special blanket, pillow, precious stone to hold in your hand, etc…).
Elements of nature – more info about that when you register (so don’t wait for the last minute ! )
Preparing your dance space :
You will need :
A space vast enough to move in the comfort of your home, in nature, or any other undisturbed safe place
A computer. It’s much better to connect via your computer than your phone to have access to all the features of Zoom. Phone is ok if that’s what you have access to.
A good soundbox, sound-system, or wireless headphones
Comfy layers of clothes you enjoy to move in and with.
Music : Richard Skelton – The Complete Landings 02 Noon Hill Wood 04 Threads Over The River
Kit for autonomous research
If you don’t like to be guided, here is a music-only track and the text of the Butoh-Fu (danced invitation) :
BODYSILK
you are silk a spider is stretching you very slowly in the space each movement leaves a silver trace in the space as you reach the end you roll yourself back into a cocoon in the cocoon you become an unborn human baby you discover your limbs, your mouths, your hands, the sole of your foot in the space your hands discover your face for the first time your face is ancient you feel time you feel all your life under your hands your hands explore your body hold, rest, feel they perform their own ritual of honoring time on your body honoring your life
Spontaneous solo home dance practice + spoken words.
These words emerged during a dance & poetry session held by Villy Tichkova.
I am not I I am it the infinite field of grasshoppers the infinite ripples of water circles the infinite song in your mouth
I am it the wind the grasshopper the pebble
I am it your breathe my breathe the eyelids of my babies opening to the world
the wolf the deer the gold
I am it the unspoken the bare truth the raw light of love
I am it your no my yes and everything in between
(25th March 2024)
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My skin is the sky* an infinite shadow of dust, leaves and pebbles. Some feathers maybe. Fallen grace in the absence of gaze. I would remember the sound of joy if you would scream my name. (…) Home. Nest. My skin as a soft nest for you for me. (…) LAUGHING EMPTY. LOVING EMPTY. FUCKING UNDERSKIN TATTOOS. FUCKING UNDERSKIN TATOOS. (…) I wish you could witness the gold on my heart skin.
(25th March 2024)
Notes :
* this sentence is not from me ** “underskin tatooes” is a reference to Audre Lorde in “Zami, a new spelling of my name”, who describes the memory of her lover as emotional tattoos left on her skin forever.
WOMB WISDOM Unfurling motherhood stories with Anaïs Tamen & Jade Hamilton Wednesday 29th of November 10am – 2pm (+ post-space until 3pm) Monte Maravilhas São Martinho
We invite you to dive into your womb*, hearing her wisdom and memories.
Exploring and allowing ALL of your stories around motherhood, conception, pregnancy, birth, loss and health.
A 4 hour cocoon for you to be held and witnessed, as you are.
Through body-based practices, we will guide you to sound, move and speak out what rises in you, in the now, from your depths.
WOMB WISDOM Unfurlingmotherhood stories Sunday 8th of October 3-7pm Aniche land (São luis/Pegos/Monte d’Estrada)
Choosing to listen to the Wisdom of your Womb, allowing your own stories of motherhood to unfold.
Anaïs and Jade will hold space for this deeply tender work, to allow you to remember and listen to the stories kept in your depths, in words and movements.
A 4 hour cocoon for you to be held and witnessed, as you are, in your stories of birth, loss, pregnancy, longings, grief, choices, surrendering, delight and joy.
“Through our ability to acknowledge the layers of loss, we can truly discover our capacity to respond, to protect, and to restore what has been damaged.”
“Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss, and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry of what we once held close.”
Francis Weller
Grief and Praise Ritual for Womyn* Held by Anais Tamen and Rivi Marcus
Thursday 5th of October 10h-17h Monte Maravilhas (São Martinho das Amoreiras)
We invite you to gather in community, to witness, to tend and give space to what wants to move through you.
We will explore the different undercurrents of our lives through movement, grief ritual, and connection to nature. Our time together will be rooted in Joanna Macy and Francis Weller’s work, Authentic Movement and earth-based practicing.
Practicalities :
Energy exchange : 50-70€ Please reach out if money prevents you from joining.
Reservations required with Rivi Telegram : @rivimarcus or Whatsapp : +17203269290
More about us :
Anais Tamen is a movement facilitator, energy & bodyworker. Her dance spaces invites to presence and to the senses, to honour what is, release & replenish. anaistamen.com
Rivi Marcus is a community weaver, a land and human tender, a descendant of wise ancestors, a facilitator, and a ritualist. She came to the sacred landscape of ritual and liberation through her own journey. A journey through ecosystems, listening to people and the land, Joana Macy’s work – to learn and embody what it means to be in right relationship on this planet, in these times. Rivi is passionate about food justice, movement, and nature-based education. She is currently studying with Francis Weller. rivimarcus.com
