Participation is free, and playmates are welcome to attend any or all of the sessions. Wear something comfortable. Bring a notebook and pen.
Date: Wednesday, 28 Jan, 4 Feb, 11 Feb, 18 Feb
Time: 7pm-9pm
Location : Extrasensory space, 649 Plenty Rd
Preston VIC, Australia. ( Enter via the black door on the side )
Creative expressions are the truth of our body. In modern society we have normalised the suppression of our nervous system. So it feels normal to live life inauthentically to our core. But our body and mind pays the price as evolutionarily there's a psychological, emotional and physical cost when the body doesn’t get to express or live its truth.
Play is one of the most potent exercises for the nervous system. When we are playing, our state of being is continuously switching in between sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. It increases the adaptability and resilience of the nervous system.
The birds and animals sing (make sound, dance (move) not just to perform or to communicate but as expressions of the body's state of being. In modern human society, we are trained to have our face, gaze, posture, movement and voice disconnected from our state of being. Eventually we lose the capacity to listen and connect with our body over decades of structured, categorised, civilised ways to carry ourselves.
Can we let our body be free to explore voicing, moving and carrying ourselves with the truth of our body?
We are less self conscious and shy when we are doing physical exercise, lifting weights or running. We might never become an Olympian but we do exercise as it’s beneficial to our health. If we find out that authentically moving, sounding and embodied living is beneficial for our health, can we overcome the fear and shyness to incorporate creative expressions in our life?
There’s a lot of focus on Authenticity lately. Often the practice of authenticity, honesty and truth are limited to verbal language. However, our body primarily communicates nonverbally. During intense experiences of joy, pleasure, pain and suffering, the language centre of the brain deactivates. That’s why the nonverbal creative mediums ( art, music, dance etc) can absorb and express the deepest emotional experiences, which are impossible to articulate with literal words. So, how can we practice authenticity so that our body can remember to speak their truth to us and we can embody that truth?
In these four sessions we will explore play and creative expressions. It will include exercises, activities and reflections to enquire how we can embody our truth through non verbal and verbal creative expressions. We will enquire about our facial expressions, gaze, posture, movement, limbs, voice, sound , drawing, writing, playing and being silly.
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