moving, sensing, breathing…
updated 15.06.24
I offer different moving spaces for adults :
* Open Hearts Dance
* Authentic Movement
* Senscapes
* blindfolded journeys
* jams for initiated CI dancers
* dance meditation classes
Since autumn 2024, I offer 2 more spaces in collaboration :
* Pulse, with Louise Chardon
* Metamorphosis, with Villy Tichkova
For upcoming sessions please join my Telegram group:
Telegram (link updated)
or contact me
+33 7 82 269 919 (T/S/W))
+351 966 486 923
email
Here is what you may encounter by stepping in…
Open Hearts Dance
Open Hearts Dance is an invitation
to connect
within and without,
to ourself,
to others
and to what we are weaved from,
what we are weaved with,
what we are weaving with.
Open Hearts Dance is a hybrid conscious dance space, inspired by 5Rhythms and Open Floor, that take various expressions, merging dance theater, butoh, contact improvisation, authentic movement, into a collective ritual.
We let all the influences interwoven inside us and in between rise in the moment. In this sense, the space is very much co-created by the dancers their presence in the now, and the interactions between what I pick up from them and vice-versa.
It is a safe time-space where we can can get in touch with our “inner dancer”, and all our parts, through acceptance and exploration of our emotional landscapes.
Since 2017, this space has been dedicated to the rawness of our heart-soul expression and bodypoetry. A journey through individual expression and collective invocation.
What do we do ? We start by warming-up, and guided embodiment explorations (solo, duo, or group), then a spacious soundscape of lived-mixed music to journey in-through-with our body-mind-heart-soul, then comes integration with light energy work.
We focus on sensing, feeling, experiencing, exploring the movements of our heart-mind-body-soul. Our breath is our rhythm while music support us.
When we allow it to happen, it is a dance journey to our true essence.
No prerequisites. Open to all.
Contact :
+351 966 486 923
or + 33 782 269 919 (T/S/W)
anais (at) anaistamen.com
Telegram group link
” Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free. ” Rumi
(photo 2018)
My mixes to practice Open Hearts Dance at home :
Authentic Movement
It is the raw expression of our truth in the moment, untamed, uncensored, without directions and expectations.
It allows us to meet and move in our inner processes and landscapes, on a psychological, archetypal, emotional, physical, energetical and global level. To meet ourselves on the deepest level.
It is the intuitive practice that we, conscious and sensitive dancers, embrace when we are in our intimate space, associated with the magic and healing act of being witnessed, of being held by a protective space and the loving heart of a witness.
The frame is simple. The “effect” is highly liberating.
Senscapes
Body~Heart~Mind~Soul Landscaping in Nature.
Sencapes is a journey through sensorial explorations, movement and expression, in our outer and inner wilderness.
I guide you to awake and refine your body awareness and senses, in solo, pairs and as a collective moving & sensing body. In this safe and creative container, we dive into the present moment, mapping what is rising inside and all around us, lifting the veils of separation.
Blindfolded journeys
A sense of my body of work
Click down, by Miriam Schneidewind, April 2023
In April 2023, the film maker Miriam Schneidewind asked me to share my “dancing truth(es)” in front of “baby red”, her camera. In the midst of a chaotic reshuffling of my life, the moment we spent together was a poetic suspension of time and space. A pause to tap in our essence, in a clic, in the blink of an eye. It became a joke and a piece of truth : just clic down (:
You will find more interviews of dancers on Miriam’s website (work in progress), and the description she wrote about our encounter and my Open Hearts Dance sessions
Past events (some) :
Dance videos : personal practice & research
Bodypoem (2024) – Dance video & spoken words
Beautiful darkness – grief rituals (2021-2023) (dance video, performance and poetry)
I am free (quick creation – movement & spoken words, 2022)
Authentic Movement, self-practice (2019)
The Dancer (dance video, summer 2017)
I am a member of the International Conscious Movement Teacher Association