Module 1 - Body
Sunday 5 may 2019 -
1st Part - Yoga
A vinysasa yoga class combining guided breath-work, meditation, a serie of postures that moves from basic to complex, while maintaining focus on good alignment.
A vinysasa yoga class combining guided breath-work, meditation, a serie of postures that moves from basic to complex, while maintaining focus on good alignment.
2nd Part - Tuning the instrument –
During this module, you will explore the full potential of your body as an instrument of expression. Specific exercises to sharpen sensory awareness will allow you to cultivate a strong embodied presence. You will become more aware of visual, sound, kinesthetic inputs as well as thoughts or feelings passing through your body and you will use that sensory information as a starting point to express yourself through movement. You will increase spatial awareness, expand your movement vocabulary and use your body as a resource for creating physical images and characters. You will see how imagination, facial expression, gaze or variations in muscular tension impact your inner state and make it possible to add detail and nuance or even modify the meaning of what you are physically expressing, while allowing you to generate new movements.
The human body includes the skeleton, the muscles, the breath, the digestive system, the five senses allowing you to perceive the world through pleasant, unpleasant or neutral sensations, the thoughts, the memory, the imagination. Often human beings are so busy with their own thoughts that they forget to stay aware of their present experience, missing the beauty of life unfolding as it is. But another choice is possible, you can see the
body as the container of all this information and the instrument you can tune to increase your awareness.
During this module, you will explore the full potential of your body as an instrument of expression. Specific exercises to sharpen sensory awareness will allow you to cultivate a strong embodied presence. You will become more aware of visual, sound, kinesthetic inputs as well as thoughts or feelings passing through your body and you will use that sensory information as a starting point to express yourself through movement. You will increase spatial awareness, expand your movement vocabulary and use your body as a resource for creating physical images and characters. You will see how imagination, facial expression, gaze or variations in muscular tension impact your inner state and make it possible to add detail and nuance or even modify the meaning of what you are physically expressing, while allowing you to generate new movements.
The human body includes the skeleton, the muscles, the breath, the digestive system, the five senses allowing you to perceive the world through pleasant, unpleasant or neutral sensations, the thoughts, the memory, the imagination. Often human beings are so busy with their own thoughts that they forget to stay aware of their present experience, missing the beauty of life unfolding as it is. But another choice is possible, you can see the
body as the container of all this information and the instrument you can tune to increase your awareness.
Module 2 - Pre-verbal language
Sunday 26 May 2019
1st part
A vinyasa yoga class combining guided breath-work, meditation, a serie of postures that moves from basic to complex, while maintaining focus on good alignment.
2nd Part - Rainbow Mood
You will explore the relationship between pre-verbal language (sounds) and movement. You will see how variations in pitch, volume, voice tone – but also in muscular tension and the dynamic of your movements – awaken moods and feeling states. You will explore the wide spectrum of human feelings for which language does not necessarily have words. You will express those feeling states physically and vocally. You will also see how your inner state colours and modifies the meaning of what you express.
The keys for making your expression clear and readable will be:
-to continuously pay attention to your sensory experience
– to create a balance between inner awareness and outer awareness
A vinyasa yoga class combining guided breath-work, meditation, a serie of postures that moves from basic to complex, while maintaining focus on good alignment.
2nd Part - Rainbow Mood
You will explore the relationship between pre-verbal language (sounds) and movement. You will see how variations in pitch, volume, voice tone – but also in muscular tension and the dynamic of your movements – awaken moods and feeling states. You will explore the wide spectrum of human feelings for which language does not necessarily have words. You will express those feeling states physically and vocally. You will also see how your inner state colours and modifies the meaning of what you express.
The keys for making your expression clear and readable will be:
-to continuously pay attention to your sensory experience
– to create a balance between inner awareness and outer awareness
Module 3
Sunday 16 June 2019
Language and text
1st Part
A vinyasa yoga class combining guided breath-work, meditation, a serie of postures that moves from basic to complex, while maintaining focus on good alignment.
2nd part -Make words sprout in your body-
You will not only focus on what you say, but also on how you say it, that is to say the form of language. You will play with the rhythm, the melody and the sounds of the words. You will learn to dissociate the form of the language from its content to give a different meaning or add sub-text to what you express. You will develop skills to stay aware of your body and your movements while you speak and thus let language become an integral part of a visual and physical experience.
You will also create texts and images spontaneously. To add detail, you will stimulate your imagination with question-games and free-association exercises. When you feel lost and you do not know what to say, you will learn how to use judgments, doubts and fear that usually block the spontaneity of language to enrich your expression.
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More than mental constructs and thoughts to convey information, language is also a sound, sensory and physical experience. Once you understand that, you can free yourself from the idea of what you think you should be saying and access a much wider content for your narratives than what your logical mind would allow.
A vinyasa yoga class combining guided breath-work, meditation, a serie of postures that moves from basic to complex, while maintaining focus on good alignment.
2nd part -Make words sprout in your body-
You will not only focus on what you say, but also on how you say it, that is to say the form of language. You will play with the rhythm, the melody and the sounds of the words. You will learn to dissociate the form of the language from its content to give a different meaning or add sub-text to what you express. You will develop skills to stay aware of your body and your movements while you speak and thus let language become an integral part of a visual and physical experience.
You will also create texts and images spontaneously. To add detail, you will stimulate your imagination with question-games and free-association exercises. When you feel lost and you do not know what to say, you will learn how to use judgments, doubts and fear that usually block the spontaneity of language to enrich your expression.
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More than mental constructs and thoughts to convey information, language is also a sound, sensory and physical experience. Once you understand that, you can free yourself from the idea of what you think you should be saying and access a much wider content for your narratives than what your logical mind would allow.