Take a break together for a day. Stop. Find calm. Here is an invitation to actively and consciously connect with the moment, whether in stillness or in movement. The first part of this workshop is dedicated to experiencing different meditative, somatic, and movement-orientated approaches. The group will then be invited to leave the studio and experience the festival on the Freundschaftsinsel and its various events together in a performative act of observation and movement. Embodied Slowdown offers the framework to embark on a journey of mindfulness and creativity together and to experience the festival both as an observer and as an active participant. Laura Gary offers space for everyone to explore the interplay of movement and presence, and to tune into the fleeting beauty of the moment.
This workshop offers the chance to :
• Embody the experience of slowing down:
Together we will explore what it truly feels like to slow down.
• Make a statement:
We’ll publicly mark ourselves with fluorescent stickers and proclaim ‘Slowing Down’ as a state of being a form of contemplation and an artistic statement.
• Embrace timelessness
Allow yourself to be late or early within the program's frame letting go of any expectations around punctuality.
• Just be
Whether it’s staying still improvising or simply feeling we’ll find the in-between states of the anatomical and spiritual body.
• Practice non-Attachment
We’ll value the process of dissolving into a form and the process of disengagement, respecting these states of being.
• Create a parallel world:
Together we’ll imagine a space without beginnings or endings where we can truly slow down.
