Mycelium
An Open Hearts Dance Journey
23-24 November
Espaço da Penha – Lisboa (Metro Arroios)
Reservation necessary (early booking appreciate)
How to embrace the complexities of our being and give attention and voice to all our parts while nourishing center and ground ?
What supports my unfolding ? What wants to unfurl ?
How to can I be all of me while I am in connection, while I am part of a group ?
How as a group can we integrate all of our individualities ?
How to create enough safety and braveness in ourselves and as a group to pause and feel ?
A devoted time to
… nurture presence, authenticity and loving kindness to ourselves and our surrounding
… reflect and integrate your last cycle while opening to the unknown.
… resource yourself through bodywisdom, bodypoetry, contemplatives and creative practices, and gather insights for inner and outer growth.
… get inspired by others and cultivate belonging
For you…
Dancers and dance lovers willing to explore and dive into their own self-inquiry and movement research
All bodies, shapes, age, gender and beyond gender.
What to expect ?
Guided and free movement explorations (solo or in duo or group) based on Open Floor movement practices, contemplative somatics, Authentic Movement and body poetry.
We will be moving / dancing, witnessing, drawing, writing, sensing, sharing verbally, and on some occasions we may use touch/hands-on (optional, with consent awareness).
If you have any special needs or questions, please contact me.
Read more about Open Hearts Dance further down (scroll down)
Practicalities
Time-line
Saturday 23 : 10am – 6pm
Sunday 24 : 10am – 5pm
Price
sliding scale to adjust to your financial situation.
Rebalancing: 140€ – Support others to join
You have investments and can afford travel/go on vacations.
Supportive: 120€ – Support others to join
You have a stable income or access to financial support.
Sustainable: 100€ – Ensure the sustainability of our work
You can afford occasional treats.
Accessible: 85€ – Supported by the dance community
You live on irregular low local incomes.
Lunch not included.
Swap welcome.
There are a few work-exchange spots available.
The bright and comfy dance studio of O Rumo do Fumo – Espaço da Penha, that will host our journey
What is Open Hearts Dance ?
Open Hearts Dance is a hybrid conscious dance space, inspired by 5Rhythms and Open Floor movement practice, that takes various expressions merging dance theater, butoh, contact improvisation, authentic movement, into a collective ritual.
We let all the influences interwoven inside us and in between rise in the moment. In this sense, the space is very much co-created by the dancers their presence in the now, and the interactions between what I pick up from them and vice-versa.
It is a safe time-space where we can can get in touch with our “inner dancer”, and all our parts, through acceptance and exploration of our emotional landscapes.
We focus on sensing, feeling, experiencing, exploring the movements of our heart-mind-body-soul. Our breath is our rhythm while music support us.
When we allow it to happen, it is a dance journey to our true essence. We become the dance, we are dance(d).
Since 2017, this space has been dedicated to the rawness of our heart-soul expression and bodypoetry. A journey through individual expression and collective invocation.
Testimonies
“I am grateful for what I could release through the connection with my body. I felt very safe and protected.”
C. – OHD participant, October 2024.
“I really appreciated your guidance and presence. It was wonderful.“
A. – OHD participant, October 2024.
“It is not a session, it’s a ceremony“
Z. – OHD participant, Dance faciliator and body-worker, September 2024
“You are the soundtrack of my life !”
A. – OHD participant, apprentice of Somatic Dance facilitation, June 2024.
“You brought the desert back to me. You have a unique way to bring the music to our bones“.
N. – OHD participant, May 2024.
About Anaïs :
I am a movement teacher living in Alentejo, South Portugal.
My spaces are dedicated to community care and well-being, and to personal blossoming into acceptance. In my research’s playground, my favourite questions are : how to dance with paradoxes and polarities, dive in the luminous cracks of our fertile darkness, and build bridges and rainbows between our parts, and between us? How to build community within ourselves and among each others? How to cultivate presence, connection and acceptance ?
I am known to offer eclectic and surprising soundscapes that stir up life-force-fire and support to tap into devotional alternate states of consciousness.
I offer a bi-monthly class of Open Hearts Dance, my own modality since 2017, and hold space for grief rituals, blindfolded journeys, authentic movement, exploration in nature, and silent contact jams.
I am the parent of 2 young beings who needs bigger shoes than me.
I also offer soul and body-work, and express my heart through writing, photography and performative arts.
You will find more about by universe here on my website. `
Feel welcome.
How to book ?
Please fill this form 🙂 or contact me
