Our body is the basic ground of direct experience. Feeling and sensing the body tells us the truth about our intentions, actions, fulfillment, the adaptations and the resulting compensations that shape our movement through life. Discover how your movement can be far more than an exercise routine, a series of positions you assume or energetic stimulation it creates. Learn to listen and tap into this source of intimate wisdom. It can unlock your flexibility, strength, coordination or open new doors of perception to heal and transform all aspects of your life.

Through movement, listening and hands-on practices we introduce and explore the following:

• Moving to Sense
• Inner space / Outer space, consciousness
• Function and intention
• Becoming aware of habitual patterns of perception and movement
• Proprioceptive Networking
• Tissue Quality, Structure
• Gravity and Breath

You will:

• Experience a radical shift in the way you approach movement.
• Access a new world of sensory awareness and be guided by it.
• Recognize habitual patterns, observe how and if they serve you.
• Learn basic principles that enhance movement independent of technique or method.
• Get familiar with natural supports for well-being and all movement.

2 days, 12 hours - Approx. base fee in the US $300. Final fee may vary slightly when the workshop is scheduled.

workshop 1 forms the basis for understanding the Stillness Moves approach and is required for participation in other workshops.

Prerequisite: This introductory workshop is open to all levels of experience.

In this workshop you perceive how your life experience has been crystallized in your embodiment, your structure, subconscious movement and posture subroutines. Many of your emotional and subconscious habitual ways of interacting in the world are intimately related to your embodiment. Deeper layers of crystallization are seemingly beyond your conscious control and untouched by generic routines and practices.

Learn to access and mobilize these deeper layers with precision. Develop whole body awareness to guide the re-organization process and avoid moving into other limiting compensations. Learn to re-integrate and develop new perceptual structures, organic movement and posture subroutines that will lead to a more liquid and unconditioned embodiment.  In this process subconscious tendencies underlying your embodiment will be resolved or will surface to be observed.  Some of topics we explore are:

• Structure and its models
• Dynamics of force
• Destinations / Transitions
• Mobilization, Flow, Integration
• Pathways to organic health
• Defining the core
• Essence qualities

You will:

• Access and mobilize deeper layers of your embodiment
• Develop whole body awareness to avoid moving into compensatory patterns
• Re-integrate and develop ways to maintain a more liquid and unconditioned embodiment
• Process and release subconscious limiting patterns or allow them to surface and be observed.

5 days (6 hours per day), 30 hours. Approx. base fee in the US $650. Final fee may vary slightly when the workshop is scheduled.

Completion of this workshop is a prerequisite for Stillness Moves 3.

Prerequiste: Stillness Moves 1 :Introduction

As you unravel deeper layers of your being, purging your dormant psyche, you need to establish a base of support and a ground for sanity. This is profoundly transformative experience. This workshop is dedicated to create such a ground through comtemplative practice. The main practice is that of being, the foundation of perfection:

• Not thinking
• Not meditating
• Not escaping
• Not learning
• Not knowing
• Not doing
• Not ...
• Not ...

This practice is the foundation of transcending all limitations. It is the point of departure and the destination. Once you just are, without the help of anything and despite everything you can begin your journey to get established in the center of your sanity..

5 days, This workshop is only offered in retreat setting with periods of silence. The fee is determined once the the workshop has been scheduled.

Completion of this workshop is a prerequisite for Stillness Moves 4.

Prerequiste: Stillness Moves 2 : Endless Patterns & Dynamics

In this workshop we bring together all the different streams of our practice to touch again the common essence that guides them, continuous journey of becoming and the ever presence of being. It is an opportunity to renew and deepen your understanding of the tools you have explored. You are invited to share your experience and unexplored aspects of your practice that has emerged in the process. New insights and more transparency will emerge always in this workshop, you can attend it many times.

This workshop is offered in 3-day to 7-day format. The fee is determined once the the workshop has been scheduled.

Completion of this workshop is a prerequisite for Stillness Moves 5.

Prerequiste: Stillness Moves 3 : Dynamics of Stillness

In this workshop you will prepare yourself to facilitate and guide others using the Stillness Moves approach. The knowledge you embody is the knowledge you can transmit, therefore it is essential that you are well-prepared applying the material from the previous workshops, your own explorations and your existing practice. This preparation is also needed to be able to integrate the skills presented in this workshop. 

Along with other participants you will learn and practice with each other observing and sensing movement dynamics, qualities and the influence of individual anatomy and state of being. You will learn and practice combining visual, verbal and hands-on cueing skills in effective ways. You become more attentive to individual ways of learning and how supporting an independent process of discovery educates and enriches one as a facilitator and empowers the individual.  

• Observed Anatomy
• Touch and Sensitivity
• Tuning into inner space to sense and to transmit
• Sensing and establishing rhythm.
• Learning styles

5 days, 30 hours - Approx. base fee in the US $650. Final fee may vary slightly when the workshop is scheduled.

Practical Application:

You will need to arrange for practical application of your facilitation skills according to your field of interest or profession. These could be in the form of working with individuals or groups in various contexts.

Prerequisite: Stillness Moves 4 : Confluence of practice

The essence of applying the Stillness Moves approach to facilitate and guide others is to transmit your own embodied knowledge through your presence. Your presence is developed as you explore creatively and understand your own dynamics, the inner space and its relation to the outer space and others. The visual, verbal, hands-on cueing and teaching skills develop according to each individual unique talents, the aim is not to duplicate a prescribed list of techniques.

In this workshop every participant will be spending two mornings with a volunteer who is curious and open to experience Stillness Moves. The afternoon sessions are dedicated to provide support for the participants and bring their attention to areas that require more focus and observation. The first day each participant will guide the group through a creative practice according to what they feel the group could benefit from.

3 days, 18 hours - Approx. base fee in the US $450. Final fee may vary slightly when the workshop is scheduled.

Prerequisite: Stillness Moves 5: Unfolding embodiment potential and completion of practical application.