PT : Bela Escuridão é o relato das deambulações pelas nossas paisagens interiores, obscuras e abissais, luminosas e infinitas. Na espontaneidade do instante, o corpo, a voz, a respiração, dão forma às energias em movimento e a todos os matizes da dor. A figura da amada mistura-se com a do divin. As fendas do coração deixam entrar a luz. O murmúrio mudo dos antepassados, filtrado pelo chão, e acompanha os nossos passos e as nossas esperanças.
FR : Bela Escuridão (Belle obscurité) relate les errances dans nos paysages intérieurs, obscurs et abyssaux, lumineux et infinis. Dans la spontanéité de l’instant, le corps, la voix, le souffle, donnent forme aux nuances du deuil et toutes les énergies en mouvement. Les fêlures laissent passer la lumière. La figure de l’aimée se mêle à celle du divin. Le murmure muet des ancêtres, filtre du plancher, accompagnant nos pas et nos espérances.
EN : Bela Escuridão (Beautiful Darkness) tells the wanders through our inner landscapes, obscure and abyssal, luminous and infinite. In the spontaneity of the instant, body, voice, breath, give shape to the nuances of grief and all the energies in motion. Cracks let the light through. The figure of the beloved merges with the the divine. The ancestors’ mute whisper filters through the floor, accompanying our steps and hopes.
Dança : Louise Chardon & Anaïs Tamen Poesia : Anaïs Tamen Tradução & voix-off : Marta Lince Música : Andy Benz Direção artistica : Anaïs Tamen Apoio artística : Louise Chardon Com o apoio do Munícipio de Odemira.
An Art in Motion series where we move and write into and from the ritual space of liminality and myth. A dedicated space-time to enter the underworld, the mythical imagination, and witness the dance of the energies we have marginalised.
6 online sessions for your dreaming body to re-imagine the world.
2, 9, 16 December – 13, 20, 27 January 10am-11.15am GMT Check your local time here
An Art in Motion online series where we move and write into and from the ritual space of liminality and myth.
We have been called to re-imagine the world, call back what we have sent to exile and co-create our mythical movement.
In each session we move through a particular mythical image. We dance paradoxical energies and explore othering with curiosity and compassion.
In its essence we find our offering to the world.
In times of hard separation, we humans are challenged to answer the call of the heart, to enter the underworld, the mythical imagination.
Theories and politics failed us, the mind further divides, emotions are out of control and communities are struggling to hold. So, we turn to the mythical body, to the ancestral wisdom of storytelling and move and write by the communal fire this winter.
Consciousness calls us to some outrageous action.
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
~ Alice Walker
How to nourish unity, when there is so much you feel opposed to? How to love in the face of global violence & hurt? How to live and breath, when others are given half a chance to survive? How do you recognise the other within, when there is so much you disagree with?
No more freezing in the margins. We find our ground and move in the center.
No more pointing fingers to the tyrants. We dance and explore through the body.
No more staring into the light. We put our back to the moon and follow the shadows.
It is easy to be Vassilisa the Beautiful, but how does Baba Yaga moves through you?
You may identify with the Handless Maiden and the Hero, but what is the dance of the Evil King?
“Have you come on your own volution or you were sent by someone?”, Baba Yaga asks at the gates of the other world. We have all learned the hard way that, a one sided and right answer will not satisfy her.
In a suffering world, humans are called to the in-between. righteousness no longer serves us. For the soul to ascend, the ego must descend.
We stop asking, where is our community, we inquire, what the community needs from us.
Metamorphosis is open to all bodies willing to explore with some experience of movement/dance exploration.
Each 75min sessions will involve: movement, writing/journaling, and self-enquiry.
Note: The hours you are attending are accountable for the pre-requisites of Open-Floor International teacher trainings and special programs such as the Ground Floor Lab, Therapy in Motion, Art in Motion, Embodied S*xuality Labs, etc.
Please take some time to read the following document and select the most fitted amount according to your financial reality. Contact us if you need clarity or assistance.
Full series: 90-120€ for returning dancers 100-120€ for newcomers( welcome!)
Drop-in for one session: 18€ for returning dancers 20€ for newcomers (nice to have you join us!)
How to pay? Through Wise, Revolut or bank transfer.
REGISTRATION
Please fill in your details in the form below. If you cannot see it, here is the link. If you have any question or if you don’t hear from us after 2 days, please email us : vtich@icloud.com and/or anais@anaistamen.com
TESTIMONIALS
Testimonials
“It’s unique what you do and each time it’s different, which is really great, it’s always new. I want to continue!”
“A good place to come when you are wounded.“
“I want to express my gratitude and wonder on how deep this session was. The texture of the music, the expertise and skills, the instructions you gave with the music… It was so progressive and I got into such a deep place, I never been there, really. it was amazingly healing. I was able to laugh, to cry and to release things I had never been able to. It was really shamanic work of immense quality and depth.”
from METAMORPHOSIS participants of Autumn 2024
ABOUT US
About Villy :
Villy is fascinated with paradoxes, her favourite – the conscious wild leap between identities and forms. In her work she is inspiring people to cultivate and maintain presence in liminality.
Villy is a qualified Open Floor teacher, a psychologist and a homeopath and holds a master degree in Creative Writing. villytichkova.com
About Anaïs :
Anaïs is a movement researcher, oracle, massage therapist and writer, living in South Portugal. Dedicated to community well-being and personal blossoming, Anaïs invites us to dive into the luminous cracks of our fertile darkness, to nourish the mycelium within us and around us. How to build community within ourselves and among each other? How to cultivate presence, connection and acceptance?
Since 2017, they offer regular classes of Open Hearts Dance, grief rituals, explorations in nature, in silence. Anaïs’s work is rooted in Authentic Movement, contemplative practices and animism. soundcloud.com/anais_openhearts
Online body poetry cycle A six weeks Art-in Motion course centered on coming back to the roots of conscious movement practice, to nourish body wisdom awareness, presence, and creativity as a natural force.
Metamorphosis of the Movement Cycle
A 6- weeks Art in Motion online series
“The body contains many secrets, connection to it increases your vitality and sense of presence. Moreover, body awareness is a basic element of living in the moment.” – Arnold Mindell
7th of October – 11th of November sunrise (group 1) 10am-11.15am BST sunset (group 2) 7pm-8.15pm BST
Metamorphosis is an invitation to connect to the wisdom of the body-soul through dance, movement and free-flow writing. This time, we will explore in-depth the Movement Cycle of Open Floor, through weekly online inner space rituals.
We have designed this Art in Motion series to support you dance through your autumn (or spring if you live in the southern hemisphere). We aim to explore and support our ways to activate & settle, to regulate our nervous system, to engage and relate with curiosity and awareness with our inner phenomena and outer world.
“The Movement Cycle is a useful intellectual and embodied map of how physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energy moves through time and space. The Movement Cycle shows how, with awareness, we can support this cycling of energy to become a rich, meaningful, and creative learning experience. The four phases of our movement meditation spiral are continuous and never-ending.”– extract from the Open Floor curriculum
#6 sessions
#1 just as you are
Open your attention to what is within and without.
Cultivate awareness of the dimensions of your humanness: physical, emotional, mind and soul.
#2 body wisdom
Enter the wisdom of the body, notice and follow sensations, invite curiosity into what truly guides you.
Notice, embrace and include through movement the hungers for solitude, connection, belonging and spirit.
#3 uncharted territories
Explore new possibilities and bring your patterns to light, invite curiosity, open and broaden your perceptions.
Be guided through the continuum, find your edges, and practice the art of moving with opposites.
#4 follow follow follow
Reclaim embodied imagination as a force within you.
Explore playfulness and creativity as resources to lean onto.
#5 same same but different
Settle and gather the fruits of your exploration, rest in the map of your own creation.
This series is for you, if you need to resource and want to sustain an embodied life. Come dance and pull insights from the Movement cycle into your daily life!
Metamorphosis is open to all bodies willing to explore. Whether you are new to Open Floor movement practice or wish to expand your understanding of the various stages of the Movement Cycle, feel welcome.
Each 75min sessions will involve: movement, writing/journaling, and self-enquiry.
Note: The hours you are attending are accountable for the pre-requisites of Open-Floor International teacher trainings and special programs such as the Ground Floor Lab, Therapy in Motion, Art in Motion, Embodied S*xuality Labs, etc.
Please take some time to read the following document and select the most fitted amount according to your financial reality. Contact us if you need clarity or assistance.
Price for 6 sessions: 120-80€. AbunDANCE, you feel it! Drop-in: 20€. Please note that the last session on the 11th of November is not open to drop-in.
How to pay? Through Wise, Revolut or bank transfer.
REGISTRATION
Please fill in your details below. If you have any question or if you don’t hear from us after 2 days, please email us : vtich@icloud.com and/or anais@anaistamen.com
TESTIMONIALS
Testimonials
“It’s unique what you do and each time it’s different, which is really great, it’s always new. I want to continue!”
“A good place to come when you are wounded.“
“I want to express my gratitude and wonder on how deep this session was. The texture of the music, the expertise and skills, the instructions you gave with the music… It was so progressive and I got into such a deep place, I never been there, really. it was amazingly healing. I was able to laugh, to cry and to release things I had never been able to. It was really shamanic work of immense quality and depth.”
from METAMORPHOSIS participants of Autumn 2024
ABOUT US
About Villy :
Villy is fascinated with paradoxes, her favourite – the conscious wild leap between identities and forms. In her work she is inspiring people to cultivate and maintain presence in liminality.
Villy is a qualified Open Floor teacher, a psychologist and a homeopath and holds a master degree in Creative Writing. villytichkova.com
About Anaïs :
I am a movement researcher, oracle, massage therapist and writer, living in South Portugal. My spaces are dedicated to community well-being and personal blossoming. My invitation? Diving in the luminous cracks of our fertile darkness, and nourishing the mycelium within us and around us. How to build community within ourselves and among each others? How to cultivate presence, connection and acceptance ?
A journey through individual expression and collective invocation
Open Hearts Dance is an invitation to connect within and without, to ourselves, to others and to what we are weaved from, what we are weaved with, what we are weaving with.
OHD is a conscious dance space, rooted in the Open Floor movement cycle and infused by Dance Theater, the animist nature of Butoh, Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement and Gaga language.
Since 2017, this space has been devoted to body-poetry, the rawness of our heart-soul expression, moving between the personal and the collective.
It’s a brave, “safe” and welcoming container to meet our “inner dancer” and all our parts, through the exploration of our inner landscapes with acceptance & loving kindness.
We let what stirs inside and in between us rise in the moment. Each dancer’s presence shapes the space, creating a living, pulsing ritual.
We focus on sensing, feeling, experiencing, exploring the movements of our heart-mind-body-soul.
Breath is our rhythm, music our support. When we allow it to happen, it’s a dance journey home to our essence.
What to expect? We begin with warming up and guided explorations (solo, duo, or group), flow into a spacious soundscape of live-mixed music, and close with gentle integration and light energy work.
Open to all bodies willing to dive-in and explore.
Contact & booking: +351 966 486 923 or + 33 782 269 919 (T/S/W) anais (at) anaistamen.com Telegram group link
“It’s a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness.”
-Pema Chodron
Feeling the need to dive into a topic you feel tender about or busy with? Schedule a 1:1 session with me to gently explore what is here through your body.
I will guide you with a tailored blend of somatic work, Authentic Movement and, depending on what emerges, tools drawn from systemic constellation and energy work.
A safe & brave time-space just for you, to be witnessed and held with what is present for you.
Trauma-informed & nervous system friendly. On-line or in person, inside or in nature.
a poetic journey with voice activation, dance and meditation with Zsofi and Anaïs Friday 31st of January 5-8pm Monte Maravilhas São Martinho das Amoreiras
On the night before Imbolc, the return of the light, we invite you to pause together. To soften and deepen our listening and sensitivity. Letting our breath guides us, letting our voice vibrate us.
Zsofi will guide us through voice activation and a guided micro dance around the 7 main chakras to cleanse and energizing our body. Then Anaïs will offer a poetic soundscape to hold each of us into our unique inner journey. Soft & dreamy. We will close by meditating together. To land back in consciousness and connection.
Reservation necessary Limited spots to ensure cosyness Energy exchange : 20-40€*
Zsofi is a massage & dance therapist, aquatic bodyworker and musician. She has more than 15 years of practice with the healing aspects of the sounds and loves to create soundscapes for CI dance workshops. She has been the collaborator of Shai Dayan for Voice Being (the school of self-inquiry through voice). In the last years Zsofi is researching the combination of aquatic body work with voice activation work.
Anaïs is a movement researcher active in Alentejo since 2017 who loves escorting beings on their path to presence and authenticity through movement enquiry, dance, body work and soul care. She is known for her eclectic soundscapes and her deep, brave & free dance spaces. Anaïs is devoted to the heart, the wilderness and untamed feral expressions. Certified Open Floor teacher. Shape-shifter, writer, tree planter, oracle.
PULSE movement language & creation Monday morning 10-12 from the 30/09 Espaço Movimento São Luis
with Louise Chardon & Anaïs Tamen in alternate dancing dialogue & creation
It’s for you if :
you wish to unfold further your movement skills and creative potential, and are interested to relate to the cellular/collective aspect of dance/movement.
What to expect :
an alternance of teaching and research.
Every other Monday, Louise will teach Motional : a choreographic language she developed.
And every other Monday, Anaïs will offer choreographic teasers and scores for you to explore and embody, appropriate what you learned with Louise.
What is Motional :
Motional addresses the most physical as well as the most vibrational aspects of movement. It approaches the body as a genuine and sensitive landscape, rooted into breath, permeated by resonances, and immersed into connectivity. We dance the depth of bones, folds of flesh, layers of skin and all embodied poetics.
space limited 50€/month (= 4 session = 12,5€/session) 15-20€ drop-in
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A dedicated held time for you to grieve and praise, to mourn through movement and creative contemplatives practices.
Whether you are grieving the state of the world, someone dear to your heart, honouring a gate in your life,… there is place for you and your emotions.
We will circle together, honour individual and collective grief, with emphasis on body-wisdom and presence, more than storytelling.
A brave and safe explorative space supported by nature, with lots of space for your own process and rhythm.
Blending contemplative practices, Authentic Movement and Open Floor movement practice, with gentleness, loving kindness and reverence for what is.
“Grief is subversive, undermining the quiet agreement to behave and be in control of our emotions. It is an act of protest that declares our refusal to live numb and small. There is something feral about grief, something essentially outside the ordained and sanctioned behaviors of our culture. Because of that, grief is necessary to the vitality of the soul. Contrary to our fears, grief is suffused with life-force…. It is not a state of deadness or emotional flatness. Grief is alive, wild, untamed and cannot be domesticated.” – Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow
What to expect : movement and dance, with and without music, guided and free, some sounding, some journaling, some humour too.
Practicalities
Reservation necessary at least 24h before: email me or fill in the form below
Energy exchange: 20-50€ After attending the event, you can choose which amount contribute. Payment via Wise, Paypal or MBway.
For transparency my investment to hold this space is 67€ of costs, and around 5-6h of craft and attention (including the ritual). If you experience financial difficulties, please contact me and feel welcome.
What to bring
Water to drink
Your journal if you have one, some paper, a pen, some colours
Any comforting object (special blanket, pillow, precious stone to hold in your hand, etc…).
elements of nature (will be communicate after booking).
Preparing your dance space
You will need :
A space vast enough to move in the comfort of your home, in nature, or any other undisturbed safe place
A computer or your phone. Note that it is better to connect via your computer than your phone to be able to connect to the group easily.
A good soundbox, sound-system, or wireless headphones
Comfy layers of clothes you enjoy to move in and with.
