Somatic Beginnings
The body - experienced as the medium of life - is the first field of learning and the first means of learning for all of us, the basis of all learning. The American Feldenkrais teacher and founder of his own method, Thomas Hanna, coined the concept of "Somatics" in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In his writings, he defined somatics as the "field in which the soma is explored, i.e. the body perceived from within through self-awareness."
Our first - somatic - learning allows us the most amazing and profound learning processes: the first language acquisition, completely without textbooks and school, and the discovery of the possibilities of our own body. Both happen in a playful exchange with the environment, through perceiving, reacting, trying out, correcting and repeating.
Explore and experience what somatics mean to you in our 2-3h workshops.
The Language of Touch - A Mini-Series on Bodywork Exchange
DE+EN | drop-in
Touch is the first sensation we experience as embryos and babies, essential to stimulate our development and to foster a sense of security and trust. As we grow, our...
Final Performance Connecting Creating Appearing
Final Performance | free
CONNECTING CREATING APPEARING - Somatic Performance Project When the sensing and sensed body permeates every phase of the creation of dance & performance. Participants of...
Feldenkrais Methode Workshop in August
DE | drop-in | 1x month
The Feldenkrais method is a gentle movement and perception practice. These workshops "Awareness through Movement" are dedicated to everyday movements and focus on common...
Authentic Movement
2-day workshop to deepen or start your practice
Authentic Movement (AM) offers a space to be present in the here and now, to arrive at yourself, to find a break in everyday life and to find space to move what wants to be...
Embodying Textures
2-day workshop with Tiziana Longo
Everything is surrounded, wrapped, touched by the air and we are touched. This workshop starts from observing, contemplating, touching and deeply sensing the air at the...
Dancing Tigers
EN | series 6x Tuedday | T.R.E. Tension/Release and Trauma Healing Oriented Somatic Combo
Dancing Tigers T.R.E. Tension/Release and Trauma Healing Oriented Somatic Combo Healing comes by activating inner will and acknowledging the power of this choice to...
What is somatics?
EN | introduction in somatics | free
Somatics focuses on the potential of our sensing and sensed body in various body-perception approaches: for example, with accessible sensory and movement abilities, with the...
Resetting the Nervous System - how stress and trauma differ - with Dynamic Embodiment® Touch and Movement
EN+DE | 4-day workshop Somatic Hands On with Dr. Martha Eddy
We explore how stress and trauma differ, yet are related and how our bodies can help us perceive what state we’re in. Learn to recognize subtle triggers and larger pressures...
Contact Improvisation
DE + EN | 1x week | series in closed group
Together we will learn, research, and gradually discover the subtleties which allow us to dive into a deeply fulfilling experience – moving in solo and in contact. 2h Contact...
Authentic Movement
DE+EN | 3h workshop
Authentic Movement enables the expression of unconscious material and its integration. Practicing together is at the same time an invitation for everyone to come back to...
Somatic choreography & performance project with Body-Mind Centering®, Contact Improvisation & Authentic Movement
3x3 day performance project with Heike Kuhlmann
This performance project 3x3 is about co-creation. The open as well as complex question: How do people create together, is, besides the decision of the participants to get...
Atem-Tonus-Ton® in September
DE + EN | 1-day-workshop | 1x quarter
Atem-Tonus-Ton®, Maria Höller-Zangenfeind's body-oriented voice work based on the principles of Perceptible Breath according to Ilse Middendorf. This is based on personal...