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.
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 weaving with.
Open Hearts Dance is a hybrid conscious dance space, following the Open Floor‘s movement cycle and resources. It takes various expressions, merging Dance Theater, Butoh, Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement, into a collective ritual.
It is a brave and safe container to welcome our inner dancer and all our parts with acceptance and explore our emotional landscapes.
Since 2017, this space has been dedicated to the rawness of heart-soul expression and body-poetry. A journey through individual expression and collective invocation.
What do we do ?
We start by warming-up, then we are guided into embodiment explorations (solo, duo, or group), then comes a spacious soundscape of lived-mixed music, followed by integration.
We focus on sensing, feeling, experiencing, exploring the movements of our heart-mind-body-soul. Our breath is our rhythm while music support us.
Open to all bodies willing to dive-in and explore, and to dancers wishing for an held space to find their intuitive dance again.
“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 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.
Music : Richard Skelton – The Complete Landings 02 Noon Hill Wood 04 Threads Over The River
Kit for autonomous research
If you don’t like to be guided, here is a music-only track and the text of the Butoh-Fu (danced invitation) :
BODYSILK
you are silk a spider is stretching you very slowly in the space each movement leaves a silver trace in the space as you reach the end you roll yourself back into a cocoon in the cocoon you become an unborn human baby you discover your limbs, your mouths, your hands, the sole of your foot in the space your hands discover your face for the first time your face is ancient you feel time you feel all your life under your hands your hands explore your body hold, rest, feel they perform their own ritual of honoring time on your body honoring your life
