Montreal
Somatic Festival!
FEEL – LEARN – GROW
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Completely online
on zoom!
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-friday july 23rd-
4:30 pm to 8:00pm on zoom
friday, july 23rd at 4:30
opening panel:
what has somatic work brought to your life?
Opening panel featuring all teachers! Come listen to the teachers talk about how somatic movement has changed, affected and moved them.
Open to everyone.
SATURDAY JULY 24TH at 6:30
andréa pallotto MOVEMENT PLEASURE
*Please note this lesson will be taught in French.
Our society often uses the term pleasure to mean sexual pleasure. But in this class we want to make movements pleasurable! Movement pleasure is movement that feels easy, supported, weightless and fun. Holding in the breath is the first way to make a movement hard and painful. This class explores ideas of learning through a challenge and not letting the challenge create moments of anxiety but movements of pleasure.
-saturday july 24th-
11:00 am to 8:00pm on zoom
SATURDAY, july 25th at 11am
Mariko Tanabe
intro to BMC
Come move, vocalize and have fun with us! This class is for everyone. It is a great opportunity to discover BMC℠ for the first time, or to get back to BMC℠ practice, in a class that celebrates the body and mind in motion!
SATURDAY, july 25th at 1pm
george longshadow
SCI-FI SOMATIC
Sci Fi Somatic is an offering of communal play and solo imagination. It is a reminder of the richness and power of imagination and play that is in you and in the connections between us! An exploration of the possibilities of zoom and this weird future present time that we are in together/apart. George uses techniques from his training in Pochinko Clown and Contact Improvisation to create a comfortable space to be your weird self by listening and following impulses you might normally not feel safe enough to notice and then exploring them by being gently led to find characters and worlds!
SATURDAY, july 25th at 2.45pm
julien fatisson
cardiac coherence and eft
* Please note that this lesson will be taught in French.
Not only does the heart play a primordial role in our physiological balance, but it also acts in the management of our emotions. Due to the influence of multiple factors, the heart’s ability to cope with stressors may decrease: the heart cannot easily meet the demand and this is synonymous with health problems that can affect immune functions. and psychosocial capacities. But we can fix it. With this workshop, you will learn two simple techniques: cardiac coherence which promotes harmony between the different systems of the body, maximizes self-regulation in all individuals, and brings a certain calm, especially in a state of nervous stress; and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) to easily regain a state of emotional calm.
SATURDAY, july 25th at 4.30
julien fatisson
body sync
* Please note this class is taught in French.
In the Coherence and EFT workshop, you will learn how to more easily find a balance at the nervous and emotional levels respectively. To go further and maximize the balancing potential of cardiac coherence, I have developed a series of simple exercises, based on anatomical interrelationships. I have been teaching the full BodySync workshop for several years. Each exercise was studied and chosen to specifically release tensions that can affect mobility and therefore the function of the main players in our nervous balance, involved in heart-brain communication. You will therefore learn to gently mobilize your spine, to stretch the fibrous envelope of the heart or even to release blockages in your respiratory diaphragm, for example. Each of us has the capacity to harness the full potential of our heart.
SATURDAY, july 25th at 6.30
mireille painchaud
A Somatic Approach to Posture
*Please note this class will be taught in French.
Who does not want a better posture?
A great majority of people feel a bit embarrassed by their posture. As soon as the word is pronounced, a little voice goes in our head: Ooops… I have to stand up straight. We have an external image we try to copy…
In this class, mostly inspired from the Feldenkrais approach, we will explore different elements of what a posture, a position, an attitude could be. I will invite you to do slow, gentle movements and to listen to your reaction, and to your way of adjusting. You will need a chair and a space to stand up. We will visit many options and try to find: how do I want to hold myself seated on a chair, or standing on my feet, in my own comfort.
-sunday july 25th-
11:00 am to 8:00pm on zoom
sunday, july 25th at 11 am
coral short
hour meditation
A guided meditation with movement and sound exercises that will bring new sensations to our cellular life. We are releasing energy to make space in our bodies for collective liberation.
sunday, july 25th at 1pm
andréa pallotto
Self Hug – First Attempts in Caring for Yourself
This lesson is bridging art and care into one beautiful lesson. With arms wrapped around the self in a kind of hug, participants are encouraged to feel through the movement in a way that encourages them to really take care of themselves. Participants are encouraged to do the smallest movements possible, and to use play, pleasure and ease to find efficiency in movement and growth.
sunday, july 25th at 2:45
Aurora and Maxine
mask and move
Warmups and creative movement practices drawn from contemporary & improvisational dance practices, performance art & clown, yoga & qi gong, & more, to keep us alive and thriving together in as safe a way as possible in the thriving, bright, and joyful summer days!
sunday, july 25th at 4:30
jessica lieu
power in embodied pleasure
Pleasure is our birthright. Relearning and reclaiming this is inherently radical under systems that strive to keep us estranged from it. Our social intersections and power dynamics impact our access to embodied agency. The systems we live in influence our beliefs about our bodies and how we relate to each other. In this event I’ll be providing practical tools to playfully challenge these beliefs by working with our soma as well as our neuroception of safety.
sunday, july 25th at 6:30
closing panel
questions and answers
Pleasure is our birthright. Relearning and reclaiming this is inherently radical under systems that strive to keep us estranged from it. Our social intersections and power dynamics impact our access to embodied agency. The systems we live in influence our beliefs about our bodies and how we relate to each other. In this event I’ll be providing practical tools to playfully challenge these beliefs by working with our soma as well as our neuroception of safety.