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 ?
“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.
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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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
Spontaneous solo home dance practice + spoken words.
These words emerged during a dance & poetry session held by Villy Tichkova.
I am not I I am it the infinite field of grasshoppers the infinite ripples of water circles the infinite song in your mouth
I am it the wind the grasshopper the pebble
I am it your breathe my breathe the eyelids of my babies opening to the world
the wolf the deer the gold
I am it the unspoken the bare truth the raw light of love
I am it your no my yes and everything in between
(25th March 2024)
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My skin is the sky* an infinite shadow of dust, leaves and pebbles. Some feathers maybe. Fallen grace in the absence of gaze. I would remember the sound of joy if you would scream my name. (…) Home. Nest. My skin as a soft nest for you for me. (…) LAUGHING EMPTY. LOVING EMPTY. FUCKING UNDERSKIN TATTOOS. FUCKING UNDERSKIN TATOOS. (…) I wish you could witness the gold on my heart skin.
(25th March 2024)
Notes :
* this sentence is not from me ** “underskin tatooes” is a reference to Audre Lorde in “Zami, a new spelling of my name”, who describes the memory of her lover as emotional tattoos left on her skin forever.
LIBIDO FUNDAMENTALS Open Floor Embodied Sexuality playshop with Monika Körschner 23.24.25 February Alentejo (Portugal)
Dancing with the flow of life force, exploring sexual energy as a source of creativity, vitality, presence & aliveness.
A 3-days dive, moving, experiencing & relaxing in being together in a closed group, in the safe womb of Monte Maravilhas’ yurt, in the heart of wild Alentejo
Our creative sexual energy is an essential part of our body’s natural expression and movement potential. Open Floor LIBIDO FUNDAMENTALS invites us to sense, move and integrate more fully this life force in all areas of your life.
From the first cells that evolve us into being, to the deep surrender of our last exhale, our lifespan is infused with libido. When sexual energy is acknowledged, supported and expressed authentically, our potential for healing is immense and empowering. We honour our whole self.
Dance awakens this potent energy in ways that can be electrifying, joyful, overwhelming, frightening, mystifying, and everything in between. Because sexuality is so often underground, ignored, or unconsciously acted out, the exploration of this territory tends to be intense, liberating, intimate and powerful.
Through Open Floor conscious dance we create an safe, sex positive environment to engage in this complex, mysterious and in-depth investigation with curiosity, mindfulness and compassion. We seek to understand how sexuality is shaped by culture, narratives, and social conditioning, and we explore ways to liberate ourselves as we move towards erotic wholeness.
WHAT HAPPENS IN A WORKSHOP?
We explore this lively, sometimes latent energy of libido with curiosity and mindfulness using the Open Floor Core Movement Ressources.
We open up physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual terrains of our life force. Next to intensive movement practices we will explore through related exercises, enquiries, sharings, and specific transmissions to deepen and integrate our experience.
There is no explicit sexual content or exercises.
Have a little taste of what you may encounter with this introduction film about Open Floor’s work on Embodied Sexuality :
WHO IS IT FOR ?
LIBIDO programs are open to all adults regardless of their gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and relationship status. We strive to co-create an environment that is inclusive, curious and expansive, and honours the experiences each person’s presence.
To participate you need some experience with conscious dance forms such as Open Floor, 5Rhythms, Movement Medicine, Biodanza, Open Hearts Dance with Anaïs, etc. This to ensure a base that allows you to deepen your experience.
Embodied Sexuality programs are for those who : * are looking to cultivate erotic intelligence and expand their capacity to love life * are interested in an embodied and healthy exploration of their sexuality * want to unpack the multilayered dynamics of attraction and attachment, as well as the cultural and social conditioning that inform our personal and collective stories, both past and present * want to intentionally connect through movement with the source of their desires to experience greater fulfillment and satisfaction in relationships of all kinds * want to harness the energy of libido for creative pursuits.
LIBIDO FUNDAMENTALS is a pre-requisite to the Open Floor Teacher Training.
ABOUT MONIKA :
Monika Körschner is an accredited 5Rhythms® and OpenFloor teacher and teaches dance as a conscious practice in the Netherlands and abroad for over more than 20 years. The last 12 years she specialized in Embodied & Conscious Sexuality.
Venue : Monte Maravhilas Saõ Martinho das Amoreiras (Alentejo – Portugal)
Energy Exchange :
Prices exclude food and accommodation.
– price before the 15th of January : 218€ – price after the 15th of January : 238€
If you experience financial difficulties, we offer 3 spots on supported price. Priority is given to local dancers. If you wish to contribute to the solidarity funds, to lower the costs for those with low income, your gifts is most welcome.
Lunch :
We will share a potluck lunch everyday on-site, in Casa Amarella. Each participant bring food to share. For people coming for abroad, there is a mini-market in the village and we will help to provide what is needed.
10€ / night in your own tent or van. Access to sanitary, hot shower and kitchen. 80€ / 4 nights (Thursday to Sunday nights) in a beautiful shared house Casa Amarella (1 double bed, 4 single bed in twin room). If you want to book a bed in this house, please reach out early.
All over-night guests have access to the swimming pool.
Monte Maravilhas
Registration form
The group is full. We don’t take registration anymore. Thank you for your interest.
Registration and Cancellation Policy
Registration is required to participate to the workshop. You are definitively registered when you have filled the form for registration. Then you will receive a confirmation of your registration with the details for the payment, and later you will receive an email with further practical information.
Payment is made by via PayPal or via bank transfer.
Please consider your registration carefully, as cancellation fees apply if you cannot come or changed your mind.
If you cancel, regardless of the reason, the cancellation conditions below apply :
At all times, regardless of the reason for cancellation (including Covid19 reasons) : a cancellation fee of € 50 applies.
Cancellation less than a month before the workshop : 25% of the workshop price
Cancellation less than 2 weeks before the workshop : 50% of the workshop price
Early termination of the workshop and/or missing classes : no refund possible.
Please cancel via e-mail, SMS or telephone with Anaïs.
Should there be a waiting list and someone from that list can join, or you find someone to take your spot, you will only pay the cancellation fee of €50.
If there are insufficient registrations, the workshop can be cancelled up to 1 or 2 weeks before the start. The amount paid will then be fully refunded. This also applies if the workshop is cancelled for other reasons.
