Corpus Mundi

September 12 @ 10 h 00 min 13 h 00 min Lisbon


Corpus Mundi
(collective) body oracle
with Anaïs Tamen

A cycle of 4 sessions.
4 portals of 3h dedicate to deep listening and sponteanous expression of our intuitive bodies.

Space to rest, dream, unfold, unknot, dig, tell, realease, find, be in awe, be in grief, be.
To be the living connective tissue that hold us all, that we all are.
To be fish, ancestor, bird, star, belly, cell, tree, nothing, everything.

Authentic Movement has been developed by Marie Starks Whitehouse & Janet Adler. Cosmosomatology is a body of work I am developing with Louise Chardon.

Practiced in silence (no music).

🗓 Saturdays 12 Sept , 17 Oct, 14 Nov & 12 Dec.
⏰ 10am-1pm
🛖 Monte Maravilhas, São Martinho das Amoreiras.


First session open to all.
Full cycle in a closed group.
Limited to 10 participants.

Pre-requisite: personal call for collective and individual research, blending arts, somatics, and spirituality.

Full Cycle: 70€-120€
1st session only: 20-30€

💌 Reservation necessary
Contact :
+351 966 486 923
+ 33 782 269 919 (Telegram / Signal / Whatsapp)
email me

Open Hearts Dance – EAST

September 11 @ 19 h 30 min 21 h 30 min WEST

New arch of Open Hearts Dance for this autumn: 7 sessions, 7 directions
🪶 Open to all who want to nourish presence, body oracle and the mycellium to all we are connected to.

Sept 04
EAST
Intention. Beginning. Clarity.
Orientation

As the world around me speeds up again, what’s my rhythm?
What’s my intention for the season ahead of me?
What do I want to learn, attract, bring the gift of my presence to?


Reservation necessary.
12-20€ or swap.
Please bring drinking water and comfy layers of clothes.

Space open 30min before, at 6. 30pm with an optional transmission of Open Floor tool and Anaïs’ tools

Contact :
+351 966 486 923
+ 33 782 269 919 (Telegram / Signal / Whatsapp)
email me
OHD Telegram group link for Alentejo

Silent Move – CI workshop

August 12 @ 18 h 30 min 21 h 30 min WEST

Contact Improvisation
Silent Move with Anaïs Tamen at Dancers’ Village Initiative
Wed 5 & 12 August
6.30-8 pm class – on donation
8-10 pm CI silent jam (5-20€)

An invitation for subtle listening.
In the class we will explore tuning in and tuning to (the space, the other dancers) with the practice of Authentic Movement (Marie Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler) and scores from Lisa Nelson (CI living ancestor).
Taping into the no-time, sensoriality, antenas.

We will pour this quality of listening, touch, receptivity and co-breathable-attunement-response-echo into the jam.
The jam will be silent, without music or score.

Please note:
☎️ If you feel called to join the class please register early as it helps me to tune in with the group needs ahead of time and craft the container with care.
Contact: Anaïs @openheartsdance +33782269919 / +351966486923
🙏 respect our space as smoke & substance free
🚗 park only at official parking
🛏️ check in for sleep over conditions in advance
🐕 leave your dogs at home
💧 bring your drinking water, snacks if needed, flexible clothes, no fragrances

♥ Pix from  Barbara Mrazkova, during a workshop from Yaniv Mintzer (both highly recommended).

€10 – €25

Dancers’ Village Initiative

Vale Bacias
Colos, Beja Portugal
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Silent Move – Contact Improvisation

August 5 @ 18 h 30 min 22 h 00 min WEST

Contact Improvisation Silent Move with Anaïs Tamen at Dancers’ Village Initiative Wed 5 & 12 August
6.30-8 pm class – on donation
8-10 pm CI silent jam (5-20€)

An invitation for subtle listening.
In the class we will explore tuning in and tuning to (the space, the other dancers) with the practice of Authentic Movement (Marie Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler) and scores from Lisa Nelson (CI living ancestor).
Taping into the no-time, sensoriality, antenas.

We will pour this quality of listening, touch, receptivity and co-breathable-attunement-response-echo into the jam.
The jam will be silent, without music or score.

Please note: ☎️ If you feel called to join the class please register early as it helps me to tune in with the group needs ahead of time and craft the container with care. Contact: Anaïs @openheartsdance +33782269919 / +351966486923 🙏 respect our space as smoke & substance free 🚗 park only at official parking 🛏️ check in for sleep over conditions in advance 🐕 leave your dogs at home 💧 bring your drinking water, snacks if needed, flexible clothes, no fragrances

♥ Pix from  Barbara Mrazkova, during a workshop from Yaniv Mintzer (both highly recommended ☺️)

Open Hearts Dance

August 7 @ 19 h 30 min 21 h 30 min WEST

detail from Edwin Austin Abbey, The hours (1909-1911)

A time space to feel and rise in our innate capacity to connect to bigger that us, with fellow humans, and through body wisdom.

Around this point of the year, the celts ancestors of the land were celebrating the golden tipping point of summer, between solstice and equinox. A time to reflect on what is fruiting in us, what harvest is emerging. And on what may be needed to make space for harvesting?

Registration necessary
Please bring drinking water and comfy clothes.
12-20€ or swap (always feel welcome).

Car-sharing option via the OHD community on Telegram.

Read more about Open Hearts Dance

Contact :
+351 966 486 923
+ 33 782 269 919 (Telegram / Signal / Whatsapp)
email me
OHD Telegram group link for Alentejo

€12 – €20

Dancers’ Village Initiative

Vale Bacias
Colos, Beja Portugal
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Moving Silence

Weekly collective practice
of moving kindness
om-line.

June 24 @ 9 h 30 min 10 h 30 min WEST

An island of sanity*
to cultivate curiosity,
acceptance and open-heartness
towards yourself and all that is.

We will tune-in,
nourish ground and center,
and let our movement practice,
like water,
create new pathways
within and without,
to bring us refreshed
on the other side,
more in touch
with what is it
to be a living breathing loving human,
connected,
and rooted in presence,
in service.

A time for you,
for self-enquiry through the body.
A time of collective sacred work
for all beings,
with simple and potent practices
infused by buddhism, animism
and authentic movement.

All this in silence,
with gentle guidance
and moments of sharing.

Practicalities:

on Wednesdays 9.30-10.30am BST (PT/UK)
on Zoom.

No recording.

How to book?
Send me an email to receive the zoom link.

Payment: 5-15€ choose what you can and want to contribute.
Details for payment Wise, MBway, PayPal or bank transfer are sent by email with the link.

* this term is from Pema Chödrön, Buddhist teacher.

Open Hearts Dance – online

February 27 @ 18 h 00 min 19 h 15 min GMT

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 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 then a spacious soundscape of lived-mixed music to journey in-through-with, 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.

No prerequisites. Open to all bodies willing to dive-in and explore.

Contact :
+351 966 486 923
or + 33 782 269 919 (T/S/W)
anais (at) anaistamen.com
Telegram group link

on donation
reservation necessary, email me to get the link

RAW – Sintra

March 12 @ 10 h 00 min 12 h 00 min

RAW
movement art space
for connective presence
& creation

2h of exploration of (our inner) movements.

Silence, music, solo/duo/group, witnessing, nature, words, sounds, lines.

A place to feel
to express
to reset and rejuvenate

with Anaïs, movement researcher, body-soul therapist, Open Floor teacher.

Next session: Thursday 12.03
12-2pm
Quinta Ten-Chi
Indoor & in the forest

Conscious pricing
Booking necessary

anaistamen.com
soundcloud.com/anais_openhearts

Contact :
+351 966 486 923
or + 33 782 269 919 (T/S/W)
email me

Dancers’ Village Initiative

Vale Bacias
Colos, Beja Portugal
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Grief ritual in movement

January 25 @ 10 h 00 min 12 h 00 min WET

Online ritual
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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.

Reservations before Friday 23rd
please 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.

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…).

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.

Looking forward to sharing this space with you.

Next session: 22/02 – 22/03

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Open Hearts Dance

October 4, 2025 @ 18 h 00 min 20 h 00 min WEST

Dancers’ Village Initiative

Vale Bacias
Colos, Beja Portugal
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