MOVE - SENSE | CONNECT - ANCHOR | EXPAND - CONTRACT
Embrace the spirit of spring with movement, nature awareness, and embodied/ecological awareness practices. Experience the transformative power of living in harmony with the rhythm of the seasons.
MOVE WITH BODY | MOVE WITH PLACE | MOVE WITH PEOPLE…
MOVE WITH THE SEASONS
Move with the seasons is a 1-day workshop drawing upon the inspiration and wisdom of the changing seasons to explore the relationships of body, people and place and how they sculpt one another. I will share my ideas through guided individual movement practice, creative games and tasks to spark the imagination and fuel the muse for reflection. Shifting attention between working with your own body, with partners/within a group and interacting and moving through the surrounding environment.
Body - People - Place. Moving in, about and with the Seasons
Move with Seasons is an event to rediscover playful and natural movement in the context of nature and the season with a supportive group. Featuring woodland Parkour and treelclimbing, group and partner games to observe how you communicate and potential building solo work to give you a map to help cultivate your daily practice.
Spring awakens and resurrects our practice after the energy dip of winter, bringing the excitement to 'spring' into action.
Move with Seasons is an event to rediscover playful and natural movement in the context of nature and the season with a supportive group. Featuring Natural Parkour and treeclimbing, group and partner games to observe how you communicate and potential building solo work to give you a map to help cultivate your daily practice.
Winter practice teaches us to go within, in order to reflect on our experiences, build our reserves and return ready to rebuild our strength.
Move with Seasons is an event to rediscover playful and natural movement in the context of nature and the season with a supportive group. Featuring Natural Parkour and treeclimbing, group and partner games to observe how you communicate and potential building solo work to give you a map to help cultivate your daily practice.
Autumn practice is a time for transition and balance…We keep things mellow… we keep things moving.
Move with Seasons is an event to rediscover playful and natural movement in the context of nature and the season with a supportive group. Featuring Natural Parkour and treelclimbing, group and partner games to observe how you communicate and potential building solo work to give you a map to help cultivate your daily practice.
Summer practice brings more expression, where energy is at a high and physical creativity is easier.
Move with Seasons is an event to rediscover playful and natural movement in the context of nature and the season with a supportive group. Featuring Natural Parkour and treelclimbing, group and partner games to observe how you communicate and potential building solo work to give you a map to help cultivate your daily practice.
Spring awakens and resurrects our practice after the energy dip of winter, bringing the excitement to 'spring' into action.
Move With The Trees is a mini workshop by Ben Medder - and offshoot to its parent full day workshop, Move With The Seasons - with the focus on introducing Tree climbing / Arboreal Locomotion and reconnecting to our ancient arboreal heritage. Open to to all levels of experience, whether you are not sure you are ready to climb to those looking for one of the most diverse ways to challenge and nourish your body.
-It's not JUST climbing trees!-
Move With The Trees is a mini workshop by Ben Medder - and offshoot to its parent full day workshop, Move With The Seasons - with the focus on introducing Tree climbing / Arboreal Locomotion and reconnecting to our ancient arboreal heritage. Open to to all levels of experience, whether you are not sure you are ready to climb to those looking for one of the most diverse ways to challenge and nourish your body.
It's my absolute pleasure to come to Dublin to share what moves me and my movement practice at the moment.
Everything has a season. Our bodies, our relationships with people and our habitat, our challenges and phases in life. Life isn't static it contains patterns, cycles and rhythm and with it opportunity for awareness, adaption and harmony.
Move with Seasons is an event to rediscover playful and natural movement in the context of nature and the season with a supportive group. It is my invitation to start a journey. Along the way we explore the relationship, connection and interactions between body, tribe and habitat - your self, group and locomotive practice - and how they sculpt one another. Does what we practice explore qualities and relationships we can carry over into life? How do we adapt to change if we don't expose ourself to variety, adversity? Is it useful to recognise parallels between your life and the changing seasons?
Rediscover playful and natural movement in the context of nature and the season. Explore the blurred lines between expression and utility when interacting with the environment or another human(s) and how creativity is cultivated in both. Everything has a season - our bodies, our relationships with people and our habitat, our challenges and phases in life.
Ecological movement - Ideas around the cocreation of movement between body, tribe and habitat and a solo, group and environmental practice - Delving into movement choices made from a utilitarian perspective and movement born out of creative impulses and the muddied water that does not care for attempts to define a difference. Whether moving in the trees and through the woods, with a partner, or with your own body in space, awareness of ourselves, each other and the change and qualities of the season will be our guide and our muse.
We move to fit the environment (adaptability) and the environment MOVES us (impulse or emotionally).
"We evolved to move, to move in nature, to move with a tribe, and to develop ourselves through play. Reclaim your ability to move and live like a human." - Evolve Move Play
Adaption. Awareness of rhythm, change and ‘spirit of place’. Relationships.
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One Day Experience / Workshop, Sunday 13th January 10am - 4pm
We are delighted to announce this unique outdoor experience hosted by Ben Medder and Farid Herrera (Farid Herrera Coaching).
We are looking forward to sharing a framework of tools and experiences, and to facilitate an environment where you can create your own profound movement experience. Have elements of your movement practice put into context - and put to the test! - with individual and group challenges, team building and games, all within a beautiful outdoor environment.
Adaption. Awareness of rhythm, change and ‘spirit of place’. Relationships.
Most can relate to how they eat differently according to the season; the temperature, emotional connection, how they feel and what 'should' be most relevant - what is actually available to eat at that time of year. I believe the seasons also affect how we move, whether we are aware of it or not - from one’s body language (shivering with self-embrace from the cold or open and confident from the warm sun) to how we want to train and move, which if done predominately outside will influence what is practical and relevant. The conditions from a utility perspective, but also with awareness, can feed our emotions to impulses which feed our movement.
We move to fit the environment (adaptability) and the environment MOVES us (impulse or emotionally).
One Day Experience / Workshop, Saturday 12th August 10am - 5pm
Escape the heat of the city to climb through the cool canopy of the trees, and enjoy fun partner and group games to remember what moves you with this one day workshop.
One Day Experience / Workshop, Sunday 26th February 10am - 4pm
We are delighted to announce this unique outdoor experience hosted by Ben Medder and Farid Herrera (Farid Herrera Coaching).
We are looking forward to sharing a framework of tools and experiences, and to facilitate an environment where you can create your own profound movement experience. Have elements of your movement practice put into context - and put to the test! - with individual and group challenges, team building and games, all within a beautiful outdoor environment.
Join a community of movers and participate in seasonal training to rekindle the promise that autumn brings at Move with the Seasons October workshop on the beautiful Hampstead Heath.
