This weekend gathering is meant to inspire you to explore, to expand and to engage your full self to awaken. To remain present and connected to your feeling self, to bridge awareness of others and to embody the space you occupy is a path of presence. By losing connection to self, your body lacks youthful energy and your mind is racing, full of distracting fear-based thoughts. This state of dis-connect of body awareness can result in the contracting of or shifting into unconscious body shapes, in diminished breath capacity, in discomfort and in blocked life force flow which magnifies panic-based, fearful decision making and inertia.
In this workshop, I promise to share effective ways of sourcing the authority living in your body, inspired by anatomical insights. I’ll empower you to enliven and to unlock your body-mind connection; I’ll invite you to free yourself of your mind’s games to distract your attention and dance you into a state of presence. Transforming these habitual patterns enlivens your spark of creativity and refreshes the passion of enriching your zone of genius. Awakening and sensualizing yourself in your full body awareness is a practice of self-love and playful presence that liberates you from generational and cultural patterns.
We will share stories, feelings, vulnerabilities and perceptions about growing and awakening through the 5Rhythms and movement awareness. And we’ll move together and relate in many creative shapes feeling our architecture and anatomy from the inside out. You will be invited to share and collaborate with fellow participants in the nourishing practice of integrating Somatomy into your walking/dancing life.
Join me in this playground of 5Rhythms® conscious movement and deep dancing where you will:
1. Discover your functional anatomy through guided experiences.
2. Expand your body intelligence through developmental movement .
3. Learn a new set of tools for awakening your bodymind relationship.
4. Connect your attention and awareness, your breathing and your movement into one integrated being.
About the title, Somatomy:
Somatomy is a word that came to me while snowshoeing one day in the woods. I had been formulating a series of foundational workshops at the request of my producers and returning students. I knew that at the core, I would be teaching the pathway to presence within our bodies, and combining that with the practice of gently and effortlessly orchestrating our attention with ease and flow. This is the essence of a loving connection with oneself, and the key to maintaining a high level of healthy vitality, even into your senior years – all things people have seen in me, and asked to teach them how to achieve.
“How can we grow old and still revel in a multitude of magnificent moments?”
- Ohad Naharin
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ABOUT THE TEACHER:
Erik Iversen is one of the most experienced 5Rhythms® teachers, and has been teaching since the 1980's. Erik’s life commitment is to playfully awakening the body-mind-heart connection. He produced the first 5Rhythms Teacher’s Training in 1988, and has been teaching across North America and Europe ever since, to movers from the ages of 4 to 92 years old.
Erik has taught in schools, in businesses, in meditation retreats and in reform residences for teenagers. He is also a certified Hellerwork Integrative bodywork Practitioner, and a certified coach of The Hendricks Institute of California and a graduate of their 2-Year Transformational Leadership Program. His teaching style is an invitation to discovery through creative expression and a path to transformation that is fueled by celebration, integrity and appreciation. Erik exudes warmth and authenticity, as well as a natural athleticism and joie-de-vivre, creating an inspiring atmosphere for learning and fun.
ABOUT THE PRODUCER:
Karoliina Valontaival is the first 5Rhythms® teacher in Finland. She has been dancing for 20 years and teaching the practice since 2016. She brought 5Rhythms to Finland with teachers from abroad starting in 2012. She has collaborated with Erik Iversen for many years. She creates a welcoming, accepting space where you can be as you are, with all that is here.
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PRICE:
Whole weekend
225€ early bird price (until 5 Nov 2025)
275€ regular price
Friday evening only (limited places)
55€
All prices include VAT 14%
REGISTRATION & MORE INFO:
valontaival.com/somatomy
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VENUE & WORKSHOP TIMES
Tero Saarinen Company Studio
Kaapelitehdas (Cable Factory)
Tallberginkatu 1, Staircase E, 3rd floor
Helsinki, Finland
Friday 5 Dec 18 - 21
Saturday 6 Dec 10.30 - 16.30
Sunday 7 Dec 9.30 - 15.30
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READ MORE:
www.valontaival.com/somatomy
FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA:
Karoliina:
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IG: @karoliina.valontaival
www.valontaival.com
Erik:
IG: @erikmiversen
www.erik.iversen.ca
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