“LISTENING WITH THE PLANET”
ECOSOMATICS MASTERCLASS
An immersive day of outdoor ecosomatic education and artistic expression
with Raffaele Rufo (PhD)
IN-PERSON AND ONLINE
Photos FROM THE ECOSOMATICS MASTERCLASS by Valentina Vitolo (2024)
The masterclass offers a unique opportunity to deepen the somatic and artistic experience of movement, gesture and language in the open-air encounter with the non-human and matter, and to open up to the composition of a ritual of personal and cultural regeneration.
FIRST MASTERCLASS: ROME, SUNDAY 5 MAY 2024 10-16H
🔥online participation🔥 with audiovisual recorded material and a zoom meeting after the in-person event. ONLINE PARTICIPANTS will be invited to engage the guided practices in their human-nature places of choice in the two weeks following the in-person event. There will also be a two-hour online meeting for learnings integration with all participants after the in-presence event.
Please contact us for details
🎯Info: raffaele.rufo@gmail.com | WhatsApp or SMS +393271271656
“A practice immersion experience to rediscover the embodied resemblance and commonality with matter and the nonhuman, and map ecosomatic approaches and applications for personal and cultural regeneration. ”
⌛MASTERCLASS PROGRAM (in-person)
9:30-10am Welcome and registration
First Part: Outdoor Immersion - Grieving and Regeneration
Place, breath, touch and movement-based processes and approaches for embodying the connection with land and plants.
Shared Meal (Bring Your Own)
Second Part - Indoor Integration - Naming and Mapping
Processes and approaches for naming ecosomatic experiences and integrating body and earth as companions of inquiry, expression and care.
**The in-person masterclass is offered in Italian and English. Participants are asked to bring their own lunch, a water bottle, a yoga mat, and a notebook. Please bring also sun protection and comfortable clothes to move on.
🌐 ONLINE PARTICIPATION
Shortly after the masterclass, people opting for online participation will receive the audio-recordings and written documentation of the live sessions and will be invited to engage the guided practices in their human-nature places of choice in the following two weeks.
The masterclass will be followed by a 2-hour online meeting open to both in-person and online participants to share and integrate embodied learnings (date to be confirmed in agreement with participants).
**The online masterclass is offered in Italian and English.
“We will work in particular on the relationship between the awareness and affectivity of basic somatic processes (breath-touch-movement) and the embodiment of plant processes towards the composition of a mourning ritual for anthropogenic ecological losses as an act of care and gentle reparation. ”
🤸♀️ intended PUBLIC
The masterclass invites dancers, movers, visual and multidisciplinary artists, theatre, performance and holistic practitioners, writers, musicians, somatic educators and bodywork therapists, psychotherapists, teachers, trainers, facilitators, curators, coaches and other practitioners interested in the human-nature connection through embodied experience. The masterclass is open both to experts ecosomatic practitioners bringing in their experience and starters with an ambition to get familiar with ecosomatics. We aim to facilitate a collaborative and creative exchange among participants.
💡 ABOUT THE MASTERCLASS
This masterclass is a unique opportunity to approach or consolidate your experience in the field of ecosomatics. What is ecosomatics? How does it work? Where does it come from? What are its contents, approaches and fields of applications? Ecosomatics (from "oikos," home or habitat, and "soma," the living body in its wholeness) is a fast-growing field of practices that are spreading nationally and internationally by integrating artistic, educational, holistic and therapeutic knowledges oriented toward bodily experience with ecological, social and cultural knowledges oriented toward community and land regeneration. Ecosomatic practices are set to impact broader areas of society such as education, health, social work, urban planning, ecology and culture. The event is part of a series of masterclasses that will involve a network of national and international experts in this field.
“Engaging the experience of the embodied self as connected and continuous with an embodied nature requires exploring and affirming the value of sensoriality as a key gateway into knowing and being.”
The masterclass engages ecosomatics as a pluriverse of practices of listening with the planet and seeding human-nature reciprocity. Breath is the most vivid and accessible example of how life works through immersion and compenetration of the human within the earth and the cosmos, and of the earth and the cosmos within the human. Raffaele’s work draws attention to how listening and seeding reciprocity start from confronting the tragedy of our destructive cultural heritage and regaining the ability to grieve for ecological losses. Ecosomatic practices are a gateway to recognise the perceptual roots of ecological crises and seed the regeneration of humanity as a form of ecological regeneration.
🌱 VENUE
The masterclass will take place in the lived and living spaces of Piccola Polis, a pioneering eco-arts outdoor education project for primary school children. Based in the rural area of the Natural Reserve of the Roman Coast (Rome, Central Italy), Piccola Polis provides both outdoor and indoor facilities for training, discussion and hospitality. The venue is situated just five minutes away from the medieval town and the Archeological Park of Ostia Antica - and just a few kilometers away from the beach of Ostia Lido. For people coming by train, the Ostia Antica train station is only 5 minutes away, and the Fiumicino international Airport is only 20 minutes away. Rome city center can be reached by train in 30 minutes.
🚲 ADDRESS
Asilo nel Bosco & Piccola Polis
Via della Macchiarella 17
00119 Ostia Antica - Rome (Italy)
More info: https://www.facebook.com/p/Piccola-Polis-APS-61560857665573/
For hospitality and travel inquiries, please write an email to raffaele.rufo@gmail.com
🦄 PHOTOS FROM PREVIOUS PROJECTS
💰 Cost
IN-PERSON FULL DAY:
€100 for high income people
€80 for medium income
€60 for low income
3 concessions places available at €40 (available for unemployed and students)
It includes: 6 hours of outdoor and indoor sessions, audio recordings and written documentation of the masterclass, and a 2h online meeting.
ONLINE PARTICIPATION:
€60 for high income people
€50 for medium income
€40 for low income
3 concessions places available at €25 (available for unemployed and students)
It includes audio recordings and written documentation of the live sessions and a 2h online meeting.
📧 INFO & BOOKINGS
**Registration is required | minimum 10 in-person participants**
Book here: https://forms.gle/Pvn12xoEz95fUCTo7
Info: raffaele.rufo@gmail.com | WhatsApp / SMS +39 327 1271656
🎼 MINI VITA RAFFAELE RUFO
Photo by Valentina Vitolo
Raffaele Rufo (PhD) is a somatic dance practitioner, a mediator and facilitator of artistic and cultural processes, and an independent scholar with international reputation working with eco-somatic arts as a vehicle for individual and social transformation. He is the co-founder of the International Forum for Eco-Embodied Arts (IFEEA) and the co-editor of the special issue on ‘Ecologies of Embodiment’ of the videographic Journal of Embodied Research. His work on ecosomatics has been published in academic journals and books and presented in festivals and artistic programmes such as ‘(Re)Gaining Ecological Futures’ at Floating University Berlin and ‘Roots’ at the Italian Culture Institute of Bucharest (Romania, forthcoming). His recent ecosomatic pedagogical workshops and interventions include ‘Ecokinetics’, ‘Eco-Spirituality through Dance’, and ‘Returning Home: Body Earth Reciprocity’. Raffaele currently lives within the Natural Reserve of the Roman Coast (Central Italy) where, in partnership wIth Teatro del Lido di Ostia (Rome) and Intercultural Roots (UK), he coordinates ‘La Selva’ International Ecological Arts and Eco-Somatic Residency and the cognate local project of eco-cultural community regeneration.
More info: www.raffaelerufo.com