Upcoming Workshops and Events

  with David Gorman in Sweden

Open only to faculty and students of the Contemporary Circus Department

Further Information:
      Ivar Heckscher, Head of Contemporary Circus Department
      Telephone: +46 70-551-7317    

THE HEAD LEADS...
 — The Anatomy of Wholeness^™

A new workshop about how your system can organize poise, freedom and coordination for you in whatever you do... 
and how to get it working for you !

Open to everyone — you do not need to have attended any previous workshops.  Come to learn for yourself... or if you are a teacher or practitioner, come to enhance and expand your skills

This new 2 day workshop will be very experiential — full of demonstrations, explorations and practical activities.

In recent workshops we have explored balance and support. This is an important and often neglected part of our coordinating system. But even more important is what happens up at the other end. All the other coordinating mechanisms are about what happens with your head. In all vertebrate creatures it is the head that leads and the rest of the creature is then organized to follow in a coordinated way.

When I say the "head" leads, I do not mean that block of bone, brains and hair on your shoulders, i.e. not the physical head, but rather the functional head  the reason why a head is a head. It is through your head that most of your attention is grabbed (sight, sound, smell) and it is your head that leads most of your intention (looking, listening, turning to move, talking and communicating, etc.).

How we allow these coordinating mechanisms to work in the way they are designed without interference determines whether we can live any one moment with poise, freedom and coordination. This applies not only in our everyday activities, but also in any skilled activities like dance, athletics, singing, playing a musical instrument, martial arts, etc. It also applies to how the state of our own freedom affects others we work with, for instance, body-workers, physiotherapists, Alexander Technique teachers, Feldenkrais practitioners, etc.

This practical workshop will use many experiential demonstrations to reveal the way these coordinating mechanisms work and what interferes with them. We will explore how to go about daily activities in ways that allow your system to coordinate freedom and ease for you... and how not to do them.

And of course, you can bring up any specialized activities for us to look at also.

Out of these days you will come away with a much clearer understanding about how your marvellous system is already built to coordinate you easily and effortlessly in activity as well as taking away lots of practical ways to extend your experiences from the workshop into new and better ways of moving and working.
 

Dates / Times:

Saturday 13 October and Sunday 14 October from 10:00 to 16:00 each day with an hour for lunch.

Location:

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The workshop will be held in Stockholm at Schlytersvägen 43 in Hagersten (see map here).
The nearest T-bana station is Aspudden

Cost:

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Attending this 2-day workshop:
Early registration discount is 2000 kr for the 2 days. You must pay the full fee at the time of registration.

Concessions are available:
If you cannot afford the full fee, but really want to attend, we would rather have you there than not be there just for financial reasons, so contact organizer below for further details.

Payment methods:

1. on-line now by credit card or Paypal via secure servers or
2. by direct payment to a Swedish bank account (contact Åsa below to get bank details)

All fees must be paid at the time of registration.

Contact:
To register and for more details:

Åsa Öhlin 
Telephone: +46 (0)8-759-0147, mobile: +46 (0)70-730-6450

for more details:

David Gorman 
Telephone: +1 416-519-5470