IAHIP Autumn/Winter Workshops 2018/19
BELOW IS A LIST OF OUR UPCOMING WORKSHOPS FOR NOVEMBER
BOOKINGS STILL AVAILABLE ON https://iahip.org/workshops-2
A few places still available on the below workshops – please book soon
Saturday 10th November 2018
Dancing the Inner Body: Tuning In, Being Moved: Exploring the Unconscious Through Movement
Facilitators: José Castilho & Jessica Cottee
In this experiential workshop, Jessica and José show how Butoh can be used by Psychotherapists to explore different ways of expression, with the body as a living entity as the raw material. Through transformation – one of the most important elements of Butoh – the body plays with surreal themes and androgynous forms with total disregard to the intentional creation of beautiful movements; instead dancers express primal human conditions. Movement in Butoh starts deep inside the flesh and bones until it breaks on the skin of the dancer, as the unconscious finds its expression into consciousness through movement. For that reason, Butoh movements can tap into both physiological and emotional aspects of the body, embrace the entirety of time lived from birth, and arise from intuition or spirituality. “The manifestation of these inner elements and transformation from one to another are not expressed through techniques; rather, they have already been present within the dancer’s body and are actualized out of their dormancy.” (Masaki Iwana, Essays on the Art and Philosophy of Butoh) Jessica and José will guide participants to experience their own physical expression of hidden inner elements through a day of Butoh.
Jessica Cottee is an IAHIP pre-accredited counsellor and psychotherapist, who trained at Dublin Counselling and Therapy Centre and currently works with adults in private practice. With a background in languages and a passion for dance, she is curious about the ways of bringing a form to sensations and using creative practices as a vehicle for expressing uniqueness.
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Original post: Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy