After an incredible workshop last year, we are super excited to welcome Christian back to Lisbon for another deep dance immersion.

The Way of the Dancer is an invitation to explore the fundamentals of conscious dance and deepen into movement as meditation practice.

 Dancing awakens us to the fact that we are alive.
It ignites joy, brings medicine into the cells of our being, and helps us metabolise what we’re living through. On the dancefloor we remember who we are and what we offer to the world.

What is it to be a dancer?
To really dance, feel the music, and open to the vast experience of body-spirit consciousness?
How do we do that — on the dancefloor and in our everyday lives?

The Way of the Dancer is an invitation to dance deep and explore ecstatic movement as a meditation practice for our times.

We will learn core practices from 5Rhythms and Movement Medicine, exploring how they help and inspire us to connect:
• with ourselves
• with each other
• with community
• and with the wider field of life.

We will move through a dancing ceremony to give thanks for life.

Who is a dancer?
Anybody and everybody. We all move. We all live in bodies capable of extraordinary things. Everyone is a dancer, and if we’re paying attention, all of life is a dance.

“If you have a body you are a dancer.”
– Gabrielle Roth

 IMMERSIONS 

Immersions are a way to dive deep into the dance.

They give time for experiential study of movement as meditation practice.
They create space for the natural healing and creative process that unfolds on the dancefloor.
And they ignite the possibility of surrendering to the ecstatic experience that is dancing for long periods of time.

We dance solo.
We move with each other.
We explore as a group.

All bodies welcome.

 SCHEDULE 

FRIDAY OPEN DROP-IN
2nd October
19h–21h30

SATURDAY
11h–18h

SUNDAY
10h–17h

(Friday night is included in the full weekend ticket. You can also book it separately and come only for Friday evening)

 VENUE

Liceu Pedro Nunes
Near Jardim da Estrela, Lisbon

A beautiful spacious studio with wooden floors and large windows, surrounded by gardens right in the center of the city.

 CONTRIBUTION 

Super Early Bird (until 30th June): 160€
Early Bird (until 31st August): 190€
Regular: 220€

Friday Night Only: 20€ online, 25€ at the door
(separate ticket available)

If you are struggling financially, do reach out. We have a couple of bursaries available for the whole weekend.

 ABOUT CHRISTIAN 

Christian de Sousa is a movement facilitator, DJ and artist who has held space for thousands of people through dance.

Creator of the legendary 5Rhythms space Sweaty Thursdays in London, he also initiated the dancingTao and Earthdreamers projects and worked with Movement Medicine from its inception as an MM Pathfinder faculty teacher.

Having trained with Gabrielle Roth and Ya’Acov & Susannah Darling Khan, he has also studied deeply with Suprapto Suryodarmo, Malidoma Somé and Jean-Claude Audergon.

 ORGANIZED BY SHIVANI 

Shivani brings presence, warmth, full heart, wilderness and softness, depth and authenticity, freedom and lots of dance to all her offerings.

Trained in Dance/Movement Psychotherapy and Movement Medicine in the UK, she has been teaching Movement Medicine for the past 10 years in Lisbon, Aljezur, the UK and online.

 BOOKING 

Tickets available through the booking link below:
https://bookwhen.com/movementmedwithshivani

We can’t wait to dance with you