Earth Embodied | Eco-somatic Dance Workshop in the forest

A somatic dance workshop & community gathering in the late-summer forest

EARTH EMBODIED: Moving with our inner and the outer nature

A somatic dance workshop & community gathering in the summer forest

“We can sense the world around us only because we are entirely a part of this world, because - by virtue of our own carnal density and dynamism - we are wholly embedded in the depths of the earthly sensuous. We can feel the tangible textures, sounds and shapes of the biosphere because we are tangible, resonant, audible shapes in our own right. We are born of these very waters, this very air, this loamy soil, this sunlight. Nourished and sustained by the substance of the breathing earth, we are flesh of its flesh. We are neither pure spirits nor pure minds, but are sensitive and sentient bodies able to be seen, heard, tasted, touched by all the beings around us.” - David Abram, Becoming Animal

When we connect to nature, to its qualities, we really touch upon our inner nature, our inner landscapes. It's a process of unfolding, of peeling away those layers that make us feel separate - from what's around us, from each other and from our innate knowing. It's raw. It might be exposing. It's deep. To sense the rough bark under your skin, to find your body softening, leaning into the curviness of the mossy ground, to really feel the soft rays of the sun and to take in with your whole presence, with your full awareness, the utter awe that everything is.

I'm planning this last eco-somatic workshop to be a sort of harvest of the summer months: to make space and time to be with the remnants of the radiant summer as well as to calm down and let ourselves smoothly enter the darker, more inward-facing yin season of the year.

Let's gather for a day of embodied exploration in the heart of nature. Through guided eco-somatic practices, improvisational movement and mindful connection, we’ll attune to the rhythms of our bodies and the living landscape around us.

It's an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and move with presence — grounded in the earth, open to aliveness, and connected to community.

📅 13.09 (Saturday)

11-3pm: workshop

3pm onwards: community gathering with picnic (optional)

📍 Meeting point: S Grunewald

We'll meet between 11-11:15am in the Sbahn station S Grunewald and we'll take a little walk together to a sweet spot in the forest. Please be mindful of arriving on time :)

What to bring:

• comfortable clothes that you feel comfortable touching the ground with :)
• notebook & pen
• enough water & snacks for yourself
• something to share afterwards if you feel like
• optional: blanket, swimwear, towel in case we feel like jumping into Teufelsee

Contribution

Sliding scale: 25-30€

(Please paypal me if possible instead of buying the ticket here! Address: eszterkaloz at gmail dot com)

Registration

via email to eszterkaloz at gmail dot com or DM via IG and by sending the registration fee

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About the facilitator

Eszter Kalóz (she/her) is a Dancer, Holistic Dance-Movement Pedagogue and Yoga teacher based in Berlin.

She’s dedicated to inspiring personal transformation through embodied practices. Her work is based on dance pedagogical, dance- and body therapeutic as well as holistic methods. Her teaching style can be described as sensitive, caring and playful.

She's studied Authentic Movement extensively with Sabine Parzer, Contact Improvisation mainly with Andrew Wass, Body-Mind Centering with Ka Rustler and Nina Wehnert, as well as many contemporary & improvisational techniques from various wonderful teachers.

Whether yoga or dance/movement, what she offers is influenced by an ongoing research into her own body-mind-spirit and therefore has a constantly evolving form.

“Movement is not something we do nearly so much as what we are, and harbinger to what we can become.” — Sonja Fraleigh