Being Nature Workshop 6-8 July Koh Phangan, Thailand

6-8 July 2020 Koh Phangan island, Thailand Being Nature with Dolores Dewhurst-Marks Being Nature project is about connecting with deeper self and the natural world. To live a life embodied - empowered by authenticity and intuitive wisdom. Alive in the poeticality, beauty and mystery of everyday life. Developed through the practice of contemplation and dancing with nature. Schedule: 6th - Monday 9:00-11:00 water; 15:00 - 19:00 land 7th - Tuesday 9:00 - 11:00 water; 15:30 - 19:00 land 8th - Wednesday 10:00 - 12:00 sharing Place: will be shared privately. Description: This workshop will provide entrance to experience the nature of self in communion with the natural world. We will work on sensitively opening and resting into being, deepening awareness for our surroundings, observing nature's inherent qualities and influence through self explorative movement and partner work. Involving listening, giving space and receiving. Mornings we meet in the water to tune with the ocean. Afternoons we will be on a wild beach, embraced by rocks and forest. The final day we meet to harvest observations and poetry from our experience of being nature. In the water we will meditate, slow down, surrender, relax tension and thinking, deeply breath and sound. With a partner, give space and time for deepening connection with self and water, embody its qualities, receive its wisdom. On the land we will discover new ways of being with nature; how to approach the elemental world differently, and ourselves being undefined. Employing meditative movement, contact improvisational tools, individual and group scores. We will connect, embody and dance with trees, rocks and wind. And open ourselves for the timeless gifts nature shares with us. Price and registration: 1500 baht Only 8 places available. It is required to attend all 3 days. In order to reserve your place, write me a private message. About Dolores: Independent artist engaged in poetry, dance improvisation, water dance, performance and film, teacher of Contact Improvisation and Somatics. Involved in the organization of alternative environments for educational research and production of art; residencies, festivals, retreats, workshops, films and performance projects in Europe and Asia. Dolores' movement research focuses on developing awareness for the inner landscapes of the body in relation with others and the natural world. How embodiment can provide easeful ways of moving and communicating in improvisation. In teaching, she is curious to shape spaces where knowledge can unfold in a mutual stream of creation, beyond the usual format of student - teacher relationship. Providing an environment for the investigation of body intelligence in relation to spatial awareness and the imagination. In collaboration with Sasha Dodo, their artistic work is based on contemplation; through visual arts, movement and text they seek pathways to unfold poetic vision of life and uncover the presence of the unknown. An important part of the research happens in close relation with nature. Founder of art continuum nomadic residency and Thailand Contact and Movement Arts Festival. Graduate of Roehampton University with a Bachelors degree in Contemporary Dance and Choreography. Student of Body-Mind Centering SME training. For more information http://artcontinuum.space/sashadolores/