SMASH#7 Morning Training
Practices for Radical Embodiment
Satu Palokangas
In my work I’m curious how, when confronted by the unknown, we can switch out of defensive behaviors and recruit more advanced neural circuits for social and spatial engagement. I am interested in cultivating micromovements of positive resonance and adaptive reciliency through specific anatomical explorations combined with perceptual awareness exercises. This work is an orienting and retuning practice, which is ultimately about providing you with more choice. With our well-trodden habits, be they emotional, relational or physical, we only regurgitate what we already know or believe to be true. In these classes we seek to stretch that fabric of habit, so that another choice may become possible.
Each day we examine a somatic concept or an area of the body, mapping our internal experiences through touch, movement, voice and words. With these maps we navigate through improvisational forms, learning to align our inner and outer worlds, finding fuller and wilder expression. This work brings you to your senses, awakens the humanimal within.
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Satu is a performer, educator, researcher and somatic movement therapist based in Helsinki and Berlin. In her work she applies somatic and improvisational approaches to dance and movement education, therapy, choreography and ecology. As a performer she creates participatory performances and immersive movement rituals that serve to build community and address the critical issues of our times. Besides her initial dance training, she is a Moving On Center Participatory Arts graduate, Certified Massage Therapist and Bodyworker, Dynamic Embodiment Practitioner, Laban/ Bartenieff Movement Analyst, and hold an MA in Live Art and Performance Studies. She initiated and co-directed the Moving On Center's European programs 2013-14, and regularly teaches with New Theatre, Pedagogy and Dance/Choreography programs at the Theatre Academy of Helsinki. She serves on the faculty of Martha Eddy’s Dynamic Embodiment - Somatic Movement Therapy training in Cologne and Eino Roiha Institute’s Dance and Movement Therapy Training in Jyväskylä, Finland. Since 2008 she has collaborated with Action Theater™senior teacher Sten Rudstrøm and created Core of Expression, embodiment training combining somatics and improvisation. Together with Sten, they’ve teamed up with a group of neuroscientists from the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon, to research habits and transformation. Since 2001 she has held a private practice as a somatic movement therapist, combining Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, Body-Mind Centering®, myofascial bodywork and somatic psychotherapy.
website
www.satupalokangas.com
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Practices for Radical Embodiment
Satu Palokangas
In my work I’m curious how, when confronted by the unknown, we can switch out of defensive behaviors and recruit more advanced neural circuits for social and spatial engagement. I am interested in cultivating micromovements of positive resonance and adaptive reciliency through specific anatomical explorations combined with perceptual awareness exercises. This work is an orienting and retuning practice, which is ultimately about providing you with more choice. With our well-trodden habits, be they emotional, relational or physical, we only regurgitate what we already know or believe to be true. In these classes we seek to stretch that fabric of habit, so that another choice may become possible.
Each day we examine a somatic concept or an area of the body, mapping our internal experiences through touch, movement, voice and words. With these maps we navigate through improvisational forms, learning to align our inner and outer worlds, finding fuller and wilder expression. This work brings you to your senses, awakens the humanimal within.
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Satu is a performer, educator, researcher and somatic movement therapist based in Helsinki and Berlin. In her work she applies somatic and improvisational approaches to dance and movement education, therapy, choreography and ecology. As a performer she creates participatory performances and immersive movement rituals that serve to build community and address the critical issues of our times. Besides her initial dance training, she is a Moving On Center Participatory Arts graduate, Certified Massage Therapist and Bodyworker, Dynamic Embodiment Practitioner, Laban/ Bartenieff Movement Analyst, and hold an MA in Live Art and Performance Studies. She initiated and co-directed the Moving On Center's European programs 2013-14, and regularly teaches with New Theatre, Pedagogy and Dance/Choreography programs at the Theatre Academy of Helsinki. She serves on the faculty of Martha Eddy’s Dynamic Embodiment - Somatic Movement Therapy training in Cologne and Eino Roiha Institute’s Dance and Movement Therapy Training in Jyväskylä, Finland. Since 2008 she has collaborated with Action Theater™senior teacher Sten Rudstrøm and created Core of Expression, embodiment training combining somatics and improvisation. Together with Sten, they’ve teamed up with a group of neuroscientists from the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon, to research habits and transformation. Since 2001 she has held a private practice as a somatic movement therapist, combining Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, Body-Mind Centering®, myofascial bodywork and somatic psychotherapy.
website
www.satupalokangas.com
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