Join us in movement to explore interconnections between

culture, nature & soma

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on the 5th April 2025 - at the HIVE - Epping Forest - London

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The Seedling is a workshop exchange series that connects the fields of dance and somatics with intercultural dialogue and environmental contexts of practice, and which is based around a given, annual theme. 

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This 2025 year's theme is:

 Inner Musicality of Landscapes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We will seek to explore different ways in which we can utilise somatic movement practices to foster resilience and wellbeing in connection to the inner musicality of both urban and rural landscapes around us.

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We will focus on finding new paths to inner listening and connecting to what moves us, melodically and what sounds, vibrations or sensations inspire the movement. We will be connecting to auditory aspects of the natural environment as an opening to access our inner selves, as well as examining our own relationship to self and others.

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The workshops will explore how we can trust our embodied experiences to build our own  resilience and promote wellbeing as well as how to adjust our mindsets and grow a toolkit of support strategies to use in daily life. Throughout the course of the day, we will seek to find new entry points into this year’s theme, always opening ourselves to emerging possibilities, perspectives and opportunities presented by the workshop facilitators, as well as the participants themselves. We will explore sensations, imaginings, and shared inspirations. 

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We will celebrate individuality of movement and learn new ways of accessing more freedom of expressing through movement. 

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​The participants will be able to explore their own qualities of movement and learn how they too can use movement for support.

 

From using dance and movement to support yourself, to helping others to provide support for themselves in a range of contexts of self-care, growth and wellbeing. 

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We will move and share in an open and inviting atmosphere, aided and enriched by the sounds of live music accompaniment inspired by the local landscapes.

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How can we better relate to the world and develop a more symbiotic relationship with it that can support our own wellbeing?

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Treat yourself to this wonderful opportunity to

 recharge 

 learn

 share &

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 open up

to new ways of supporting yourself

in movement and

creative wellbeing practices ​