The Art of Attention
Through enlivening and activating our perceptual awareness, and as we slow down we will begin to recognize the familiar patterns, cultural imprints and limitations that sets the tone in our daily activities in life. Being aware of these patters, we can consciously turn our attention and focus towards the more minute movements, shapes and currents that might still lay in the unknown territory of our organism, waiting to be experienced, felt or expressed in new ways.
In the process of learning to recognize and embrace the more silent realm of movement and sensory awareness inside, we use sound, breath and movement sequences, images and metaphors, contact with self and surroundings through touch and sensing, witness and being witnessed, we call upon the elements, using language to make meaning.
We share insights, discoveries and our experiences/exercises in smaller group or with a partner, as well as in the larger group. Leaning on the group as an intelligent and nourishing playground for learning.
What does this workshop focus on?
• use your curiosity as a guide in self-exploration
• be patient with yourself and rest in the not-knowing
• dissolve some of the cultural and habitual and move to a more silent level of being
• widen and expand the capacity to listen, taste, see, hear, feel, move, think…
• experience what we call a body as a living event, as an ongoing movement through life
In time, hopefully the practice of Continuum can color and inform the way you are making choices, moving, thinking and being in life.
For registration and more information contact:
www.somatische-akademie.de
