first cycle

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A week of curiosity, deep listening, and creative unfolding—where movement, art, and awareness weave together into an immersive exploration of self and space. Through somatic practices, dance improvisation, and interdisciplinary creative processes, we invite both playfulness and depth, moving between sensation and expression, structure and spontaneity. The body becomes a canvas, a storyteller, a landscape in constant transformation. With nature as both witness and collaborator, we explore the rhythms of growth, adaptation, and change—allowing movement to bloom in its own time, in its own way.

In Somatic Art Practice®, movement meets fine arts, creative writing, and somatic research, guiding participants into embodied awareness through interdisciplinary artistic expression. Meanwhile, Bloom Inside™ offers a space for sensorial exploration and mindful movement, where dance emerges from deep perception rather than external form, allowing each body to navigate its own unique unfolding with clarity and presence.

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Somatic Art Practice® with Marina Tsartsara

 Bloom Inside™ with Kyveli Kouvatsi 

Bloom Inside™ is a dance practice focusing on the embodied aspect, the moving perception, and the present moment. It offers tools, methods, questions, and suggests ways around:

• Noticing our patterns, being inspired by our contradictions, and accessing different qualities and dynamics by drawing from the materials we already have—our bodies.

• Developing kinesthetic awareness, movement/self-awareness, and self-observation, bringing us into the here and now, realizing the movement that already exists in both our physical and energy bodies.

• Strengthening and becoming resilient through release and adaptability.

• Regulating the nervous system, exploring our natural paces of motion, questioning what rest is for us.

• Gaining access to our own personal movement, unique change, and constant motion, treating the body and dance holistically and not through dipoles, comparison, or hierarchies.

• Embracing with our inner gaze what surrounds us, absorbing its essence into our dance, while realizing the imprint our presence leaves in return.

• Seeking clarity and allowing dance to restfully and consciously flourish under different conditions and in a variety of ways.

 

We will allow the body to engage in organic and spontaneous movement within a structured yet flexible guided environment through:

• Dance improvisation through the lens of experiential anatomy

• Conscious touch in pairs

• Exercises influenced by nature, SRT, BMC, Losing Ground, and meditation techniques

• Somatic imagery

• Sound stimuli

• Scores | open-ended questions/instructions

• Sensorial imprints

• Personal and collective time for reflection

 

All of the above will serve as pathways for reflective dances, sensorial explorations, and creative practices.

 

*Notes on teaching methodology

The “class” is like a watery bubble that envelops us, delineating the boundaries between the inside and the outside, yet remaining flexible and receptive, transforming according to the needs of the subjects entering it. As the facilitator of this bubble, I care for its interior and hold the space, so that those who step into it can experience something uniquely their own. However, I do not create the experience for you, nor is it my intention to offer yet another layer of knowledge for you to wear. Instead, I invite you to shape and nurture your own practice within it. The tools I share serve a practice of unveiling, cultivating the ability to recognize your naked, raw, ephemeral, eternal, fluid, present movement—your own continuous, unique transformation. Within this framework, there are no mistakes or correct answers, only exploration through honest self-observation, active listening, questions, and genuine interaction with respect for the Other.

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Bios 

Marina Tsartsara is a Dance and Visual Artist & educator (MSc), a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher in the official Body-Mind Centering® trainings in the UK, Spain & Greece. She is also the Administrative Director of the Greek BMC® program ISTOS. Since 2014 she has been researching and developing ‘Somatic Art Practice’, an transdisciplinary practice that interlaces somatics and artmaking via the two branches of Mindfulness & Drawing and BMC® & Visual Artmaking. Her BA (Hons) and MSc studies are on ‘Dance & Visual Art’ and ‘Screendance’ (Videodance). Her MPhil is on Performance Autoethnography researching on the subject of the personal experience of genetic/chronic physical illness via dance and visual arts (Medical Humanities). She is a Somatic Therapist, Mindfulness teacher and a Hakomi student. Main influences in her teaching come from dear teachers like: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Curious, Charlie Morrissey, Julyen Hamilton, Deborah Hay, Miranda Tufnell, Rosemary Butcher, Kirstie Simson, Liz Aggiss among others.

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Kyveli Kouvatsi is facilitating, researching and curating in the field of dance, based in Lefkada. She has graduated from National School of Dance and School of Drama – Faculty of Fine Arts – Auth. Her main interest revolves around educational processes and ways of holding the space for people to explore & flourish through the dance experience. Since 2017 she has been teaching dance and movement improvisation classes with focus on the experience of dancing, the development of creativity within non-judgmental contexts, the cultivation of body awareness and the relationship with rhythm and the environment, inspired by techniques and pedagogies such as Skinner Releasing Technique and BMC, as well as by meditation practices. The last few years she has been developing and sharing the dance practice Bloom Inside. Since 2020 she has been developing with Yorgos Sioras Deligiannis Losing Ground, a partnering movement practice. She is the co-founder and co-artistic director of the international dance program Unplugged Dance and of Paleohori art-space in Lefkada Gr. 

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