Open Hearts Dance LISBOA
Week-end PADME
Presence Awareness Devoted Movement Explorations
22-24 November
Friday 22 : 6-8pm
Saturday 23 : 10am – 6pm
Sunday 24 : 10am – 5pm
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A devoted time to
… nurture your own presence and authenticity
… reflect and integrate your last cycle while opening to the unknown.
… get inspired and receive insights
… resource yourself through bodywisdom, bodypoetry, contemplatives and creative practices.
For you…
Dancers and dance lovers willing to explore and dive into their own self-inquiry and movement research
All bodies, shapes, age, gender and beyond gender.
What to expect ?
Guided and free movement explorations (solo or in duo or group) based on Open Floor movement practices, contemplative somatics, Authentic Movement and body poetry.
We will be moving / dancing, witnessing, drawing, writing, sensing, sharing verbally, and on some occasions we may use touch/hands-on (optional, with consent awareness).
If you have any special needs or questions, please contact me.
What is Open Hearts Dance ?
Open Hearts Dance is a hybrid conscious dance space, inspired by 5Rhythms and Open Floor movement practice, that takes 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.
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. We become the dance, we are dance(d).
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.
Energy exchange
Full week-end : sliding scale to adjust to your financial situation.
Rebalancing: 180€ (you have investments and can afford travel/go on vacations)
Generous: 150€ (you have a stable income or access to financial support)
Standart: 120€ (you can afford occasional treats)
Supported: 90€ (you live on irregular low local incomes)
Lunch not included.
Swap welcome.
There are a few work-exchange spots available.
Only Friday evening : 10-20€
Reservation necessary : the earliest = the better !
The bright and comfy dance studio of O Rumo do Fumo – Espaço da Penha, that will host our journey
“I am grateful for what I could release through the connection with my body. I felt very safe and protected.”
C. – OHD participant, October 2024.
“I really appreciated your guidance and presence. It was wonderful.”
A. – OHD participant, October 2024.
“It is not a session, it’s a ceremony”
Z. – OHD participant, Dance faciliator and body-worker, September 2024
“You are the soundtrack of my life !”
A. – OHD participant, apprentice of Somatic Dance facilitation, June 2024.
“You brought the desert back to me. You have a unique way to bring the music to our bones“.
N. – OHD participant, May 2024.
About Anaïs :
I am a movement teacher living in Alentejo, South Portugal.
My spaces are dedicated to community care and well-being, and to personal blossoming into acceptance. In my research’s playground, my favourite questions are : how to dance with paradoxes and polarities, dive in the luminous cracks of our fertile darkness, and build bridges and rainbows between our parts, and between us? How to build community within ourselves and among each others? How to cultivate presence, connection and acceptance ?
I am known to offer eclectic soundscapes, that bring dancers to the edges of skin-ears pleasure or bewilderment, stir up life-force-fire and invite to devotional alternate states of consciousness.
I offer a bi-monthly class of Open Hearts Dance, my own modality since 2017, and hold space for grief rituals, blindfolded journeys, authentic movement, exploration in nature, and silent contact jams.
I am the parent of 2 young beings who needs bigger shoes than me.
I also offer soul and body-work, and express my heart through writing, photography and performative arts.
You will find more about by universe here on my website. `
Feel welcome.
How to book ?
Please fill this form 🙂 or contact me