Cycle 1 – Somatic Art Practice®

with Marina Tsartsara

August 11 – 18, 2026 | Lefkada, Greece

Exploring fascia, support, and creative expression through somatic and artistic practices.

About this cycle

This week invites you into a deep exploration of the relationship between rest and activity, through the lens of somatics and art-making.

Through movement, sensing, and creative processes, we enter a space where inner and outer worlds are experienced as a continuum—connecting body, environment, and perception.

What you will explore

• Explore fascia and internal support in the body

• Experience rest as an active, dynamic state

• Engage with nervous system and fluid system awareness

• Connect movement with drawing and visual expression

• Deepen embodied perception and relational awareness

• Move between individual exploration and collective process

The practice

Somatic Art Practice® (SAP®) is an inter- and transdisciplinary approach that explores the personal and interpersonal embodiment of what we are made of.

The work unfolds through somatic and creative journeys that connect the world inside the body with the world outside—others, space, and the natural environment—understood as a continuous field.

Drawing from Body-Mind Centering® (experiential anatomy and somatic movement) and visual arts, the practice integrates physiological, emotional, and cognitive dimensions of experience.

During this week, particular attention is given to:

• the nervous system

• the fluid system

• embryological development

These become entry points into understanding how rest and activity coexist as complementary forces.

From the micro-world of the cell to the macro-world we inhabit, the work opens a space for exploring how we move, relate, and create—within ourselves and with the world around us.

🎨 Somatics meets art

The tools of SAP® interweave:

• movement and embodied exploration

• drawing, sculpture, and installation

• creative writing, photography, and videodance

This creates a process that moves from individual somatic depth toward collective expression and shared meaning.

About Marina Tsartsara

Marina Tsartsara is a dance and visual artist, educator (MSc), and Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, teaching in official BMC® trainings in the UK, Spain, and Greece. She is also the Administrative Director of the Greek BMC® program ISTOS.

Since 2014, she has been developing Somatic Art Practice® (SAP®), an approach that bridges somatics and art-making through practices such as Mindfulness & Drawing and Body-Mind Centering® & Visual Art.

Her background includes a BA (Hons) in Dance & Visual Art, an MSc in Screendance, and an MPhil in Performance Autoethnography, exploring embodied experience through the lens of Medical Humanities.

She is also a somatic therapist, mindfulness teacher, and Hakomi student, with her work deeply influenced by leading figures in dance, somatics, and improvisation.