INDIVIDUAL MOVEMENT SESSIONS
Body ∞ Mind Awareness & Integrated Movement
guided by Ana Leonor Ladas
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it” (Rumi)
Brief intro
These sessions have been born and developed in an auto didactic way as natural consequence of many years developing and researching Life through my own work in the teachings of Dance Improvisation & Body ∞ Mind Awareness, with my work and research as a Shiatsu practitioner as well with a constantly questioning, observing, overcoming and transforming inner difficulties in my own life and existence. The work in the individual sessions has been revealing itself as a powerful tool for inner transformation.
About the sessions
These sessions are created and designed in the moment according with the persons needs and are focused on contributing to bring clarity, insight and transformation within the person’s actual situation, difficulty, problem, within what is bothering or simply not flowing at the moment in your Life. This applies to any level such as existential, emotional, psychological, physical, relational, practical… dimensions. The very essence of these sessions is the embodiment and the materialization of the situation. Meaning it is to bring into the physical realm the situation itself, laying down a ‘physical mapping’ that manifests ‘what is’ present at the moment with the actual issue of the person.
The process
Through the unfolding of these sessions with various people and with many different situations, a natural, essential and ‘matrix’ process has been revealed:
Encounter – meeting in a safe space - verbal sharing
Laying the ground - ‘The physical mapping’
Navigation into ‘what is’ – ‘Seeing it’ creates space and perspective
Answers revealed by the situation itself
The power of symbolic action
Integration – Contemplation, gratitude and celebration
The session starts with a meeting of two beings, the person and myself in a safe, clean and proper environment. Two energetic beings sit together in silence for a moment. They feel each other. The person is then invited to verbally share what brings her/him here. Based on what is revealed, the ‘materialization’ process begins to happen - Laying the ground - ‘the physical mapping’ of ‘what is’.
There is not a pre-set form for this process of materialization. How it happens it is created in the moment and it depends on the person and on what the situation itself is ‘asking for’. It is possible it happens by using objects that are in the room (such as pillows, blankets, ropes, chairs, objects, etc.), to make drawings, graphics, writings, words on paper, through movement, etc.
The ‘physical mapping’ is done in a collaboration between the person and myself. It is the person’s own journey to which my role is to serve, stimulate, support, witness and guide. This collaboration, in a safe environment, where I am in a neutral position as an empty vessel, creates a strong and transformative mirror effect.
As the ‘physical mapping’ of ‘what is’ starts to take form, there is an intrinsic phenomenon that takes place and we are ‘carried’ into a journey of navigating this landscape. This navigation naturally creates space and perspective and consequently the ‘materialized’ situation itself starts to reveal not only ‘what is’ but also what needs ‘to be seen’ and dealt with, clarifying and revealing answers by itself.
Once ‘it’ it is seen, there is a natural flow and urge into action. And here is when the power of symbolic action operates. Once again there is no form or pre-set methodology. It is discovered and revealed in the moment. The person moves along this journey at own pace and willingness.
This is followed by a moment of integration, where space is created for what is needed (maybe talking, or simply contemplating, celebrating the moment). All objects are returned into its place finalizing into a (differently) informed, organised, clean and empty space.
What these sessions can bring you
What has been revealed through the work itself, it is that these sessions and process are a powerful tool of insight, expansion of awareness and fundamental, sustainable transformation into oneself life journey.
The beauty of this work is that it is effortless. Once the ground and conditions are created and we are present with it, with open heart and wiliness to dive in, ‘it’ - the situation itself, starts to reveal what it needs and wants to be seen, experienced, learned.
The blockages and suffering are gateways of possibilities to see further within, to learn something meaningful and to reintegrate what has been separated, fragmented into the ‘whole’, with renewed information. The invitation is to visit that landscape, without escaping or trying to find solutions. In the presence and contemplation of it, answers and orientation emerge from within the person and the situation itself.
Furthermore, these sessions contribute to create space and silence from within, to inner growth and autonomy of thinking and action, to develop inner flexibility and stability, to connect to the source and authenticity of our being, to simply be true with who we are, and in general to improve the quality of our living.
We can benefit and be inspired by external support but this can only contribute as a reference or pointers.
“It's your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” (Rumi)
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PRACTICAL
Duration
Each session takes 2h
In general it is needed only one session.
Price
Individual session – 75€
Two persons – 140€
(it can be a relation of a couple, two family members, two friends, a relation that needs to deal with something in between each other)
Locations
Sana Maresia - Aldeia da Praia
Avenida do Atlântico,S/N
Praia das Maçãs, Colares, Sintra
Antiga Colónia de Férias da CP
Sandhi House - Ericeira
Largo Santa Marta 14b,
2655-319 Ericeira, Portugal
Quinta Tenchi - Sintra
Rua Moinho do Gato,
2710 - 650 Sintra, Portugal
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It is advisable to wear comfortable clothes to move.
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Appointments & Info
analeonorladas@gmail.com / 00 31 623893878
Appointments are possible during the week and weekend from 9.00 till 21.00
