2 DAY WORKSHOP

MOVEMENT AND SOMATIC ART MAKING

 

Friday 18th - Saturday 19th July

10.30am-5pm each day

An Sanctoir, Ballydehob, West Cork, Ireland

 

With experienced movement guides Laura O’Brien and Claire Osborne

 

 

 

Claire and Laura will weave a tapestry of practices from their decades of experience in movement, somatics, yoga, psychotherapy and art. The movement work during the weekend weekend will be based primarily on a free-form movement practice called Amerta which Claire and Laura both studied extensively with it’s creator Suprapto Suryadarmo. They are both experienced guides of this work. 

This workshop will also contain movement practices inspired by their professional experience in other forms of movement and somatics.

 

We will move and make art, sometimes simultaneously, sometimes art making will be used as a response to our movement, sometimes art making will be a starting point. Our aim is to enable you to awaken your sensitivity, moment by moment awareness, physical expression and individual creativity. 

We open to spontaneity and expression, allowing life to move through us. As we listen to our bodies and movement the arising awareness brings recognition, understanding, integration and a new relationship with ourselves and our condition. It opens us to connection, it opens us to life, the world around us, ourselves, and each other. This work has the potential to inform and transform who we are and how we are in all levels of our body-being. 

Weather permitting we will spend some of the weekend outside in the beautiful 28 acres of nature reserve surrounding the venue, working among the trees, with the rivers, in the meadows, on the rocks.

 

Movement practitioners of all levels of experience and all backgrounds are welcome, including those new to this work. You do not need to be 'good’ at movement, dance or art-making to participate in this work.

 

 

Cost

120 euros per person, including tea and snacks, lunch and art materials.

 

Accommodation

Accommodation is not included. If you need somewhere to stay please send us an email saying how many nights you will need, and we can put you in touch with Dan who has very reasonably priced accommodation at the venue. There is also camping available on site.

 

Make a Booking

1. Fill in the booking form. Link to form: https://forms.gle/Zv13x1k3ubQaXEFE7 

2. Send your payment: Contact Laura for payment details bodybeinghome@gmail.com

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About Your Facilitators

 

Claire Osborne BA(hons), M.A. 

www.yogaandmovement.com

Claire is a Movement and Yoga teacher and Yoga Therapist, community artist and Art Therapist. Claire began facilitating groups in the early 1990’s and has worked as a therapist since 2012. She studied extensively with Suprapto Suryadarmo from 1997, including attending his only teacher’s training in Italy, a few months before he passed away in 2021. She also organised workshops for him in Ireland, and MAM. Claire has taught Amerta since 2001 and it has informed her personal and professional work. She has a special interest in movement with nature, and Amerta informing her work as a therapist. She is also a yoga teacher and yoga therapist since 2001.

Claire is a registered Art Therapist (I.A.C.A.T), worked as a community artist, specialising in working with people with disabilities and in psychiatric care units, and is a practising artist. 

Claire is committed to empowering students and clients towards embodied healing, awareness and to connect more deeply and vibrantly with the world, and to the essence of Being. She is committed to inclusive and trauma-informed practice, working whenever possible with community groups, people of all ages and social backgrounds.

 

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Laura O’Brien. M.A.

https://embodiedlifecom.wordpress.com

Laura O’Brien is a registered Somatic Movement Therapist, movement facilitator (https://ismeta.org/) and community educator. A student of Amerta Movement & Suprapto Suryadarmo for over 20 years, she has studied for extended periods in Asia and Europe, including his teachers’ training in Italy before he passed away. She has explored different applications of Amerta Movement including site specific work, performance, personal and creative development, eco-somatic movement, embodied practice etc.

In 2016 Laura completed a comprehensive three year Somatic training with Joan Davis. “Origins: the study of life from conception to standing “ combined aspects of Embryology, Developmental Movement, B.M.C, Craniosacral Therapy, Attachment Studies, Authentic Movement, somatic touch and Psychotherapy. After course completion she received accreditation with the professional body I.S.M.E.T.A and adheres to their ethics and professional code of conduct. 

Laura is passionate about authenticity, inclusivity and connection.She supports groups and individuals in spaces that enhance creativity, awareness, healing and transformation through movement, presence and embodiment.