Workshop Series of Body-Mind Centering® approach

FROM CELL TO COMMUNITY

 

 

Led by: Zrinka Šimičić, dance artist and certified somatic practitioner and developmental movement educator (CMA-SP, RSME, IDME).

 

The workshops will be held according to the following schedule:

24 January, 10 a.m.–2 p.m.: IMMUNITY AS A PROCESS
14 February, 10 a.m.–2 p.m.: EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT – Simplicity in Complexity
14 March, 10 a.m.–2 p.m.: CELLULAR AND INTRACELLULAR STRUCTURES

Venue: MO Šestine, Šestinski trg 10, Zagreb

 

The content of the workshops is based on the Body-Mind Centering® approach and learning, the LBMS system, the principles of Bartenieff Fundamentals, and the facilitator’s many years of personal experience in researching and teaching somatic movement.

 

The workshops are intended for everyone who wishes to:

  • – deepen their experience and knowledge of the body and movement for professional or personal reasons
  • – connect with the resources of their own body for survival, maintaining balance, and learning
  • – dive into the vast wealth of knowledge and experience stored in the body before birth, at the very beginning of embryonic development
  • – become aware of some of the fundamental structures that build our body

1st workshop in the series: IMMUNITY AS A PROCESS

The immune response ensures the balance and health of the organism through a complex process of intercellular communication, evaluation and learning through relationship with the environment. An appropriate response requires a process and time: not to rush, to rest, to store information, but also to be ready to encounter what is new and unknown.

Through the immune system, the body learns about itself: what it needs and what benefits it, what it does not need and what may harm it; what it recognizes as part of itself and what as a potential threat; where what I call “I” ends and the other begins, and whether the boundary that defines us is clear or imagined.

Drawing on the study of anatomy and physiology, in this workshop we will embody some of the principles that can support the awareness and strengthening of the immune system.

Starting from personal experience of the body, movement and touch, we will open some of the questions that form the basis of understanding immunology from a somatic perspective: questions of boundary, identity, dynamic balance, relationship and proportion.

 

2nd workshop in the series: EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT – Simplicity in Complexity

In this workshop we will return to the very beginnings of our existence and, by embodying some of the processes that shaped us, rediscover the extraordinary intelligence, complexity and clarity that guided our path – from cell to community.

 

3rd workshop in the series: CELLULAR AND INTRACELLULAR STRUCTURES

The theme of this workshop will guide us toward awareness of the fundamental structures that build our body – cells and intracellular parts; their structure, function, mutual relationship and connection with particular systems and the organism as a whole.

What can this dive into the microworld of our body teach us about ourselves as individuals and as a community?

 

Registration

It is possible to participate in each workshop individually or in the whole series.

The recommended donation is €50 per workshop. If you are able, please pay the full amount; if not, donate what you can. If you are currently unable to pay anything and would still like to participate, you are welcome. Your donation supports the continuation and development of the SomaHut initiative and programme. One of SomaHut’s goals is to make somatic work accessible to everyone it can empower, support and inspire.

Please register your attendance by e-mail: somahut.mmk@gmail.com