ARRÁBIDA CONTACT | Community Lab 3 Portugal, February 2018 nature contemplation breathing grounding touch stillness motion sound awareness creation joy << research retreat >> .: from 3 to 11 Feb (1 - 2 seed camp & welcome days) 3 - 4 1st Weekend Program 5 to 9 Week Research Lab 10 - 11 2nd Weekend Program (12 - 13 clean up & farewell days) .: at SerVivo, Arrábida Natural Park .: hosted by Oficinas de Corpo Inteiro dancing for all our relations ********************************* this retreat is an open platform dedicated to whoever is discovering contact improvisation, dance and meditation as tools for self-discovery and community togetherness. ********************************* Oficinas de Corpo Inteiro opens and holds a space/time opportunity - research retreat - for connecting with oneself in a group process, embracing a temporary community environment ..this research retreat has the intention of practicing personal and collective awareness for all our relations ..the practice of awareness is daily sustained by the sunrise meditation - stillness and sunset real time creation - jam ..the core dynamics of the retreat are dance and contact improvisation ..enriched by nature walks, energetic practices, nutrition, massage, deep touch, music, singing, celebration, talking circles and spontaneous happenings ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .: RETREAT DAILY FRAME There are two 'sacred spaces' in this process: the Sunrise Meditation and the Sunset Jam Both this self-managed moments grounds our collective field. ~ sunrise meditation and energetic practices breakfast ~ morning sessions lunch ~ afternoon sessions snack ~ sunset jam dinner It's good to arrive at least the night before you decide to begin. You can come some days early or stay a few days after. Let us know! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~ ~ ~ Opening Celebration || 2nd Abril at sunset CACAO CEREMONY + WELCOME JAM (dance, contact, music) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~ ~~ ~ ~ .: FACILITATORS AND MUSICIANS 1st Weekend 3 and 4 Feb >> facilitators Deolinda Fernandes - zhineng qigong (chi kung) and the art of health and longevity Eric Gonçalves - contact massage, therapeutic intimacy Howard Sonenklar - being Pedro Paz - reconnect dance Peter Michael Dietz - blowing in the wind >> musicians Baltazar Molina - percussions Patrícia Domingues - voice Pedro de Faro - guitars Week Lab 5 to 9 Feb >> research circle facilitators Ana Guerra - the space in between us, the invisible Dafne Vaz - nutrition for a new earth, activating / sprouting seeds Eric Gonçalves - joint mobility and structural integrity Pedro Paz – the shoal and the collective energetic field Pramod - easy motion | emotion = energy in motion = available body Rita Goldrajch - the heart yoga Virgílio Beatriz - moving voice Victoria Kovalenko - grace embrace 2st Weekend 10 and 11 Feb >> facilitators Eric Gonçalves - contact massage, therapeutic intimacy Kula - rhythm, movement and voice (taketina* practicing group) Lydia Muller - contact tango Pedro Paz - qi dance Rita Vilhena - moving through >> musicians Somfala | Kula and Guests Nós Voz | Mariana e Virgílio * Taketina is a collective and meditative process that leads us into transformation, liberation and joy. This innovative and ancestral practice awakens us to the innate wisdom of the body, through sounds, words, palms.. walking, breathing.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .: STAY AND FOOD all included Everyone's accommodation is in cantonment, this means we sleep together in a large room. Bring mattress, good sleeping bag, blanket and extra blanket for supporting the foreign participants ;) Camping is not possible, we are in a natural park, but you can bring your van! *** We invite us to a vegetarian and conscious diet. The organization provides the basic meals, prepared in a lab perspective! However, participants are invited to bring what they feel, for example: ... dried fruits, honey, cereal drinks, seitan, tofu, delicious pates and other supper good home made goodies, seeds, berries, vegies from the garden, good cookies and snacks, gojis, yeast of beer, spirulina, chocolate… we are moderated with alcohol drinking. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .: COSTS all included 35€ per day - weekends 20€ per day - during the week 180€ for the whole 9 days You can choose witch days to attend. No detailed program reveled! Check on time, limited participations! >>> BANK TRANSFER Transfer half of your contribution, for you to be registered and as well to support production and logistics! The other part you can give at the beginning of your participation in the retreat. BANCO SANTANDER, IBAN: PT50 0018 0003 2182 3349 0207 1 (Carolina Paz) Identify the transfer by mail: oficinascorpointeiro@gmail.com ~ name ~ amount transferred ~ days of participation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .: MORE INFOS AND REGISTRATION oficinascorpointeiro@gmail.com +351 925 872 344 Pedro Paz (for questions) + 351 966 605 163 Paula Silva (for registrations) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .: LOCAL COORDINATES AND CONTACTS Espaço SerVivo (link) SerVivo Telf. 91 581 24 54 | 91 580 88 25 *************************************************************************** ...about Contact Improvisation "Contact improvisations are spontaneous physical dialogues that range from stillness to highly energetic exchanges. Awareness is developed, trusting in one's basic survival instincts. The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion - gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement. Practice includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner. It is a free play with balance, self-correcting the wrong moves and reinforcing the right ones, bringing forth a physical/emotional truth about a shared moment of movement that leaves the participants informed, centered, and enlivened." -- early definition by american choreographer Steve Paxton and others, 1970s ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “By spending this focused time practicing and feed-backing together, developing awareness and accurate presence, hearing and sharing with each-others, we have not only a lot more fun, but also a greater openness and expansion of ourselves among others and nature, honoring natural boundaries, being free and dancing with everyone else’s freedom. Hearing ourselves we become aware and connected with natural laws and cycles.. in harmony and equilibrium. In stillness or in motion. Probably then we understand how we need no rules. Just good sense. Flowing Self. Being... ...when i observe without judging... i am present and i let go the ego.. When i am present, i accept things the way they are.. when i accept things the way they are, i choose either to let them be, or to change them.. and i'm happy with my choice. When i'm happy, i'm grateful!! ..i feel to be full of Grace! In this state my frequency rises.. and deeper is Peace within... In Peace i am capable to observe even more clearly.. with less and less judgment, less ego struggle..” Oficinas de Corpo Inteiro