Movement Program 2009-1

Prapto in Britain and Eire 2009

Avebury Nature and Human May 27 / June 5, Avebury Kristina Bourdillon, Keith Miller, Simon Slidders

together with confidence and giving time for female sensitivity and eccentric clarity.

Create Music ‘Garden Chatting’ June 22 / 23rd ; August 17 / 19th, Dorset

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Tim Jones [email protected]

At Avebury we wish to explore Opening to Nature and Opening to Human through use of the themes of Circle, Oval and Square; opening to the ancestral spirit of the land, to our body nature in circulation with the land, and to cultural dialogue with each other and the land. We will be working at Avebury and other ancient sites. On the final day there will be an early morning movement session at Stonehenge. This will be followed by a celebration of World Environment Day at Avebury.

An Sanctoir

Ecological Body Workshop June 7 / 13, Dorset Sandra Reeve [email protected]

Female Space June 15 / June 21, Bristol/St Hughes

Prapto and Tim Jones will begin to create a dialogue on/in sound and music for human tuning, in square, circle and oval. This idea is in gestation, the first meeting private, the second perhaps more open.

June 25 / July 2, West Cork Claire Osborne [email protected] Theme – some of the ideas and themes arising from 2008 workshop included; cultural communication and understanding, nature moving indoors, human meeting nature, light and shadows, hidden and revealed, fire in the heart, sharing garden history revealed, healing in meeting, earth and sky.

Bowing Mountain August 8 /16, Michaelchurch

Judy Cole [email protected]

Stephen Hopkins, Isabel Moros [email protected] [email protected]

Last year by co-incidence or perhaps design we were a workshop of women, blossoming in a familiar source within a different atmosphere. Our sense of time and timing altered, communally and individually evolving as different women came through offering their diverse skills for support and the rhythm of the workshop. Growing

The Bowing Mountain Workshop is connected to the land and to the borders, the borders between England and Wales and the borders between the horizontal and the vertical, listening to the song of the land, to the inner landscape of our bodies and our souls and to the outer landscape of the mountain, the garden and the home.

Writing poetry between the lines, exploring the image, moving between the spaces, finding our own rhythm alone and together, in community. With a meditative base and strong collective focus the Bowing Mountain Workshop is the longest running residential Prapto led workshop in the UK. We work both in whole group and small group settings, indoors and outdoors. In August 2009 this eight-day workshop will offer movement and poetry, and movement and video options for a maximum of eighteen participants.

Collaboration in Family Sense August 20 / 27, Brighton Sean Williams and Una Nicholson [email protected] [email protected] We are always working towards or away from collaboration. It is always there. At times it is elusive, at times it appears when we weren’t expecting it. In this workshop we will be opening to the practical possibility of family having collaboration and collaboration having a sense of family. Family sense means the quality of being open to others with a sense of inclusion and welcoming the gifts that people and life brings. This family sense has a relaxed, homely quality where our starting place is the collective rather than the individual. How can we honour and express our uniqueness and be part of something larger? The 2009 workshop will also involve some storytelling and home video!