An intensive weekend of eco-somatic workshops to explore the ancient reciprocity between body and earth.
Breathing with plants, with Nathalie Mann (FR)
Duets with trees, with Dr Raffaele Rufo (IT)
Awakening the inner animal, with Valentina Vitolo (IT)
Body-earth osmosis, with Tiago Gambogi (BR/UK)
Check webpage for more infos on workshops: https://www.raffaelerufo.com/ecosomatics/returning-home
An ecosomatic dance workshop for embodying reciprocity with earth created and conducted by Dr Raffaele Rufo in the Taizé Community (France).
Organised by EUROPEAN LAUDATO SI’ ALLIANCE / SPIRITUALITY AND ECOLOGY as part of “The Ecological Conversion” (10-13 November 2022).
Ecological conversion is not only a mental conversion, it is also a bodily conversion. To restore our relationship with the earthly ground within which we are radically embedded we need to restore our relationship with our bodies in their living wholeness - our bodies experienced through direct sensory perception as a source of joy, connection and knowledge. This eco-somatic workshop offers participants a gentle pathway into simple processes, tools and perspectives for embodying reciprocity with earth.
Check webpage for more infos on workshop:
https://www.raffaelerufo.com/ecosomatics/ecospirituality-through-dance
A workshop on (re-)embodying reciprocity with plants conducted by Dr Raffaele Rufo at Floating University Berlin. Part of the Programme “(Re)Gaining Ecological Futures” curated by Berit Fischer (23-25 June 2022)
Photos by Lorène Blanche Goesele
How can a movement-based somatic engagement with plants help us restore our relationship with bodily movement as radically embedded in the larger body of the earth? In this 3-hour outdoor workshop, we will explore a series of improvisational ways to engage with somatic sensations, listen, and empathetically witness the sensory presence of trees, shrubs, reeds, and other plant creatures that inhabit the rainwater pool. Ways that challenge the comfort zone of our urban bodies—as clean, safe, and detached bodies—and humbly acknowledge that we are here because other life forms are here too.
Check webpage for more infos on the workshop: https://www.raffaelerufo.com/ecosomatics/ecokinetics-workshop-berlin-2022
Responding to the ecosocial crises of our time, the workshop aims to co-create a new model of ecosomatic ritual that interprets the need for roots and collective participation in the experience of grieving.
We are searching for “gateways” to perceive the reciprocity with the non-human and the material, and to arrive at performance as an act of healing, repair and cultural regeneration.
Check webpage for more info on workshop: https://www.raffaelerufo.com/ecosomatics/rituali-di-passaggio/workshops