This workshop is a combination of multidimensional imaginative work and in-depth movement exploration. Relationships permeate everything – family life, contacts with friends, community and nature. They can be full of harmony or tension. Building relationships begins with ourselves, especially our bodies, and the embodied perspective we will take. The body is a complex, multi-layered and fluid tool that allows us to be in the world and actively co-create it. It combines multiple functions, systems, rhythms, spaces and points of view. The body is our signpost: it shows us whether something is working or not, and how we can change it. A glance inward gives an immediate answer, clarifies an incomprehensible situation, and offers a solution. Relationships that we create “on the outside” are reflected in relationships “on the inside”; and perceptions flowing from our body affect relationships with other people.
In this workshop we will learn to work with body sensations. We will develop the ability to perceive, name and follow our imaginations. We will look at the relationships we build with ourselves, with other people around us, with space and our environment. The five-day class will consist of two interconnected but independent parts: the morning movement and the afternoon visualization. In the first, we will work physically on the relationship between mindfulness, imagery, and movement. We will develop sensitivity to the experience of the body. We will focus on strengthening the flow of attention, active relaxation, and developing an uninhibited willingness to change. In the afternoon portion, we will participate in visualization exercises that will allow us to look within ourselves and examine how bodily energy, and in particular body perspective, shapes the way we experience relationships in our lives. The visualization exercises will point out blockages and help you make a process of transforming them, leading you to experience greater rootedness in your life.
In 2016, Bonnie Buckner, Anna Nowicka, Renee Palkovsky and Dana Micklaweith created Dream Your World, a movement to support young women in pursuing their dreams and goals.