Annotation lecturers/workshops

• Dr. Martha Eddy, CMA, RSME, RSMT (USA) 
• Rachelle P. Tsachor, MgA., CMA, RSMT, ATP (USA)
• Jim Mant, MgA. (Australia)
• Rock Ronan
  
• Jiří Lossl, MgA.
• Anna Línová, MgA.
• Blanka Lisá, PhDr.
• Katarina Žubra Žubretovská, (SK) 
• Anna B. Ronovská, PhDr. 
• Hana Polanská, MgA.
• Jitka Mozorová, MgA.
• Zuzana Vlčinská, Mgr.
• Rena Milgrom (ČR), CMA, RSME, DMT
• Steven Rasovski 

Dr. Martha Eddy, CMA, RSME, RSMT (USA) 

Rachelle P. Tsachor, MgA., CMA, RSMT, ATP (USA)

• Somatic Movement: Principles and Practices to Support Learning for the Whole Person: Movement is foundational to how we meet our human needs – from physiological and safety needs, through our need for belonging and self-actualization. Even our human ability to think and learn are considered to be grounded in movement: Embodied cognition is a well-founded theory that considers our mind and high-level mental skills, such as our capacity to conceptualize and use metaphors, to have developed from our ability to abstract our embodied experiences as human beings who move and act in space and time. Integrating movement into our daily lives can support healthier relationships to our body, to ourselves, to the people around us, and to the environment in which we live, but this doesn't work as an afterthought. For our body/mind to become more whole and healthy as adults, trust and practice in somatic perspectives needs support as we grow from early childhood, including through the institutions which structure our roles in society—our schools.
  

Jim Mant, MgA. (Australia)

• "Imagination is more important than willpower": 
Dance is an arena where the creative can speak and transform us. It is at its most alive when we are not robotically exercising what is already known. Yet, it is not always apparent how to access the unfamiliar so that we don't simply rehash old effortful patterns. I have found the feldenkrais method to be a wonder for creating the space needed for the imagination to flow and for new voices to speak. In this session, we take the time to tune our instrument with soft, slow and transformative subtle moving. We emerge to receive our new ways of moving and composing together.   
  
• Feldenkrais movement awareness "A Lever to Lift": Feldenkrais movement awareness classes provide a wonderful way to rediscover our capacity for learning. In this session, we turn down the ambition & striving and enjoy the increased sensitivity that emerges from soft, simple movements. We use this sensitivity to feel new ways to use our feet as a lever to create amazing lift through the whole body. Discover how the feet & ankles can do more than simply bump onto the ground like wooden posts. By linking all parts of the chain from the base of the foot through to the top of the head, we will discover the power of the ankle to lever and lift us into new levels of lightness.  
  

Rock Ronan (USA)

• How do we create inclusive practices that support transgender learners?: How do we address the somatic impacts of minoritized embodied identities? This workshop is focused on inclusive learning and teaching for transgender and queer students and educators from a somatic perspective. Many identities, LGBTQ+ identities included, have inherent embodied aspects, and a somatic approach provides a path for holistic support in the classroom. This workshop will provide hands-on time to explore and connect to our own embodied gender and sexual identities, and provide suggestions and techniques for thinking holistically about embodied teaching and learning for students.
  

Jiří Lossl, MgA. (CZ)

• TOUCH: Its intention, quality, depth, direction. Its making present, acceptance, inwardness, anchoring. Its communication with movement, breath, space, partner. His way of building support in his partner, in space, in the earth, in himself. 
  

Anna Línová, MgA. (CZ)

• CONDENSATION AND EXPANSION MOMENTUM SPACE: In the early weeks of intrauterine development, the fetus organizes and relates to itself through cellular condensation and expansion. First, the fetus coils into an embryonic arch through condensation, which later expands into space. When the phases of compression and expansion are developed, the wrapping and unfolding then appear in the body in a subtle alternating rhythm that persists throughout life. Through movement and touch condensation and expansion, we not only experience rhythm, but can consciously enter into an inner space that is moving and constantly changing. These alternating phases of compression and expansion in movement thus offer a new experience of being in one's own private space and of relating to others.   
  

Blanka Lisá, PhDr. (CZ)

• Embodied courage: "Love perseverance, value open courage and bravery, if it is needed, do not be afraid, there is no reason for it, and speak the truth." Milena Jesenska "Exercise your bravery for what it builds and not for what it tears down!" Milada Horáková "Once you define... the bottom, then everything that happens above that bottom seems universally positive. And it always leaves one with something to start from." Jiřina Šiklová Where does courage come from? Where does it originate in the body? Where do we feel and experience the upsurge of courage? I invite you into rest and movement and experiential exploration. Let's open our curiosity and be inspired. On our somatic journey to courage, we will be guided, in addition to our bodies and thoughts, by the words of three women who have etched their wisdom and courage into Czech culture and into my heart.  
  

Katarina Žubra Žubretovská (SK)

• My heart in your hands:  How is it – to sit with your heart? How does it feel – to hear it beating under the palms? How do you perceive it – when it's moving your body throughout the space? Can you be soft, quiet and patient enough to hear what it has to say? 
• The heart is an organ through which we are able to connect into interrelatedness, through which we are able to feel our compassion for others, it is an organ that makes us fully human. Through the cardiovascular system, the heart is connected to the palms. Through touch we can thus reach out to someone with our heart and in turn someone can reach out to us with their heart through their touch, as a sign of support or coherence. At the same time, the heart is also an example to us of how to practice this form of communication when giving and receiving. The heart itself first receives nourishment in the form of freshly oxygenated blood through the coronary arteries and only then sends it to other parts of the body. Similarly, we too should first nurture and resource ourselves and then we have a much greater ability and potential to help, support and nourish the world around us. In this workshop, we will reach our hearts. We will connect with them through touch, movement, listening, leading and following. We will attempt to nourish them with our full presence and mindfulness so that we can then enter a wholehearted connection in interrelatedness, kindness and human coherence.   
  

Anna B. Ronovská, PhDr. (CZ)

• The body and the unreal: possibilities of artistic and somatic approaches in education: Art and movement workshop with Anna Boček Ronovská We invite everyone to an art and movement workshop, which will be designed in two parts: experiential and methodological. We will explore the possibilities of working with the body in art and other education. During the workshop we will create our own or joint creative project, guided by and inspired by somatic approaches, experimental and process drawing. For creative project we will use the possibilities of the body, drawing, relaxation and nonverbal communication techniques. In the second methodological part we will discuss the didactic possibilities of expressive methods and discuss the didactic moments of the action. Please bring loose comfortable clothes to move in, everything else will be provided. Lecturer. Mgr. Anna Boček Ronovská, PhD., working at the Department of Art Education at the Faculty of Arts She works in the field of somatics, graphics, drawing and da 
  

Hana Polanská, MgA. (CZ)

• The effect of therapy by dance on older adults: Physical activity may have a positive effect on cognitive function in older adults due to the relationship between the secretion of certain exergins and their neuroprotective effects. What type of physical activity is most effective in terms of its effect on cognitive function in humans is an important scientific challenge. The main aim of our study was to investigate the effects of therapy by dance on exerkines, irisin and Brain derived neurotrophic factor, which have been shown to be associated with synaptic plasticity, neurogenesis and neuroprotection in seniors over 65 years of age. The study also includes a qualitative component. Themes from the focus groups included three main topics. Therapy by dance as a means to physical activity, the health benefits of dance therapy and social engagement through the intervention.  
  

Jitka Mozorová, MgA., DMT (CZ)

• Every Body Can Speak - Physical Disability as a Non-limiting Reality: Every body yearns for interconnectedness and functional organization. For the ability to express itself freely.and speak through movement, whatever movement means to it. Experiential workshop Introducing the possibilities of somatic and movement work with people with physical disabilities and limitations. Working with body perception, touch, bodily impulses, kinesthetic empathy, non-verbalism and movement dialogue, to enable the formation of a (new) relationship to physical disability as a non-limiting state of body and mind and a source of inspiration. The teacher draws on DanceAbility method, dance movement therapy and somatic approaches (Laban/Bartenieff).
  

Zuzana Vlčinská, Mgr. (CZ)

• Touch with the voice – Voice and movement workshop: We perceive voice in the body as movement, touch and vibration. With the voice we can touch ourselves at our deepest depths, feel and adopt back parts of ourselves that have been alienated, release and shape pent-up emotions, give voice to our most hidden feelings, smooth and clear the energies wandering within us.
  

Steven Rasovski, HAKOMI method 

• At the core of every person is a living and beautiful essence that deserves to be seen and expressed. As a somatic therapist and group facilitator, Steven helps people reconnect with their true selves by releasing fear, shame and distress that are rooted in the past. His approach focuses on creating a consensual, radically present and non-judgmental space for self-exploration. Within this space, participants are invited to bring compassion and awareness to the underlying feelings and beliefs that shape their lives.
  
• Steven has trained in Hakomi (somatic psychotherapy), Gabor Mate's compassionate inquiry, life coaching, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and several breathing techniques. He has worked with groups internationally on the topics of mindful movement, intimacy and authentic connection and is currently a facilitator for Holistic Life Navigation's Embodied Masculinity group.

Rena Milgrom (ČR), CMA, RSME, DMT (CZ)

• Authentic movement in clinical practice and as a source of physical and psychological recovery: Authentic movement has evolved both within and outside the field of dance/movement therapy. Because it draws on the wisdom of the body and bodily experience, and on the relationships between the conscious and unconscious, the physical and the symbolic, it has potential as a healing, integrative process. It can thus be a meaningful practice for groups outside the field of psychotherapy. Peer groups and authentic movement training groups contribute to the developing body of knowledge about authentic movement as a transformative process. In authentic movement, the moving person is engaged in an immediate, direct and intimate relationship with himself or herself in the presence of another person. 
• This process can be profound as clients are seen and accepted as they enter the unknown within themselves and listen deeply to themselves. For those whose relationship to their own perception is disturbed, this process can be both challenging and healing. The Authentic Movement Methodology has a clearly defined framework, but there are more ways to offer it , and what the goal of the encounter is. The deep process is a developmental matter and is not the goal of this workshop. Here I would like to experience with the participants a meditative and contemplative form that can tune you up for the rest of the day. 
  

Steven Rasovski