SOMA Festival 2024
SOMA Festival Praha
September 15-16th, 2024 (Sunday + Monday)
We are proud to be supported by ISMETA
(International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association)
tickets: EUR 210
THEME OF THE FESTIVAL:
Humanity in today´´ s world
Our media partner: Movementis
Activity and Rehabilitation
Movement and Cognition
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
13-15 September 2024
Prague (Charles University)
PROGRAM Soma Festival 2024
🎤 Translation from CZ to ENG / from ENG to CZ is provided
Sunday, Sept. 15th
9.30 - 10.45 am
- Registration
10.45 - 11.00 am
- Welcoming participants, foreword
11.00 - 12.30
- Room 1: Katarína Žubretovská (Slovakia) - Heart as an organ of perception
- Room 2: Rena Milgrom, CMA, DMT, RSME (CZ) - Authentic Movement for ballancing the Autonomous Nervous System
- Room 3: Jim Mant (Australia) - Feldenkrais movement awareness
Lunch break 12.30 - 2 pm
2.00 - 3.30 pm
- Room 1: Anna Línová, MgA. - Movable Space in Expansion and Condensing
- Room 2: Jitka Mozorová, Mgr. - DanceAbility
- Room 3: Zuzana Vlčinská, Mgr. - Voice as Movement in the Body, CZECH ONLY (singing of czech/slavic songs)
4.00 - 5.30 pm
- Room 1: Anna Ronovska, PhDr. - Un Real Space: Pedagogy of Somatic Art - experiential workshop
- Room 2: Blanka Lisá, PhDr., RSME, RSMT, DE - Embodied Heroines, CZECH ONLY
- Room 3: Hana Polanská, PhDr. - Research presentation - The effects of movement for elders and as a prevention for Alzheimerś disease
7.00 - 9.00 pm
- Dancing, Moving together with live music of Thomas Kerle
Monday, Sept.16th
the studio is open from 8:30
9.00 - 10.30 am
- Room 1: Rachelle Palnick Tsachor, CMA, ATT, RSME/T - Keynote presentation: Embodied Cognition
- ISMETA presentation/slides
11.00 am - 12.30 pm
- Room 1: Dr. Martha Eddy, CMA, RSME/T, DE: Slowing Down to Feel, WORKSHOP ends at 1 pm (lasts 120 mins)
- Room 2: Milca Leon, MA (IZ) : Conscious Breath into dance/movement
- Room 3: Ronan Rock, PhDr. - Somatics for non-binery gender oriented teenagers
lunch break
2.00 - 3.30 pm
- Room 1: Rachelle P. Tsachor, PhDr., CMA, RSME, ATI - practical workshop : Embodied Cognition
- Room 2: Jim Mant, MgA. - Feldenkrais into Dancing
- Room 3: Steven Rasovski - Relational Embodiment: Deepening Capacity and Presence
4.00 - 5. 30 pm
Room 1: Panel discussion: AI and Humanity
Gathering together and saying goodbye
THE WORKSHOPS OF THE CZECH FACILITATORS WILL BE translated into English
Lectures will be presented in original language.
The programm may change....Thank you for your understanding.
The capacity of the festival is occupied.
If you have any questions, please contact Karolina Kavan: kheroldova@gmail.com
Whatsapp: +420 607 543 580
PRESENTERS CV
Martha Eddy, CMA, RSMT, EdD
- Martha Eddy is a sought-after authority within the field of Somatic Movement Education & Therapy & Dance Somatics (www.DynamicEmbodiment.org), author and lecturer on how to apply dance and body awareness to neuro-motor (www.WellnessCKE.net) & socio-emotional development (www.InnerResilience.org ), as well as to peace education/ conflict resolution (www.EmbodyPeace.org ) and ecological issues (www.GlobalWaterDances.org ). She holds a doctorate in Movement Science and Education specializing in Exercise Physiology as well as Curriculum Development.
- Dr. Eddy created a somatic dance system - BodyMind DancingTM in 1986 combining knowledge from her studies with physical therapist and dancer Irmgard Bartenieff, founder of the Laban/ Bartenieff Movement Studies, and occupational therapist and somatic movement educator Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, founder of the somatic system called Body-Mind Centering®.
Rachelle Palnic Tsachor, CMA, RSMT, ATP
- Rachelle is senior faculty with the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies and a teacher of the Alexander Technique. A Registered Somatic Movement Therapist practicing for over 15 years, she coordinated LIMS ISMETA training and authored Laban/Bartenieff-based Somatic Movement Therapy... methodology and case studies. In Israel, Tsachor founded LIMS Certification Program in Laban Movement Studies in Israel, and has been a guest teacher at Wingate College, The University of Haifa and the Technion. She is also certified with the Center for Mind-Body Medicine and teaches Mind-Body Skills for Global Trauma Relief at the Israeli Center for Integrative Group Counseling, sharing her clinical experience with these evidenced-based practices.
- Rachelle Palnick Tsachor uses the art of movement to inform scientific research. She is co-author with Dr. Tal Shafir of Emotion Regulation Through Movement (Frontiers in Psychology) and A Somatic Movement Approach to Fostering Emotional Resiliency (Frontiers in Neuroscience), along with numerous studies in movement therapy. She is Assistant Professor of Movement at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she trains actors. She is a featured contributor to theLabanarium where she discusses a somatic movement approach to actor training in an hour-long podcast.
Rena Milgrom; CMA, DMT, RSME
- Rena graduated from the Laban / Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in N.Y. in 2011, and completed Dance Movement Therapy training (TANTER). She is registered as a Somatic Movement Educator (ISMETA). As a somatic artist,she practices and teaches non-stylized movement anchored in Mindfulness principles. She has created choreographies for Dance Meridian festival (2006-2011) and Global Water Dances (2011-2023). Based in Prague, she works in her studio DanceLab, teaching conscious movement classes and holding a private In-Soma clinic. As LMA/BF teacher, she workes at the Palucca Dance Conservatory in Dresden, Germany, as well as teaching for the Dance-Movement Therapy training programm in Prague. As a dance movement therapist, she works with Parkinson's disease patients under Parkinson-Help NGO. Currently, Rena continues to deepen her somatic education - specifically the Hakomi method, The Discipline of Authentic Movement, Environmental Theater and Body-Mind Centering courses.
- Rena has developed a somatic educational program called Conscious Body, which is opening every year for 15-20 students since 2012.
Anna Línová, Mgr.art, IDME
- Anna graduated from Eva Jaczová's eight-year Dance Conservatory and the School of Performing Arts in Bratislava, specializing in pedagogy of classical dance. In 2010 she finished the Infant Developmental Movement Education (IDME), which is part of The School of Body-Mind Centering®. Between 2001 and 2011 she was a free artist in the field of contemporary dance, movement theater and site-specific. In 2007, she received the award SAZKA PRICE for the best interpretation with the performance "Portrait". As an external pedagogue she worked at Theater faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, Czech Republic. In 2010 she co-founded the 'Baby and Parents Movement Games' Program, which she let until 2014 while focusing on individual development work to babies.
- Since 2011, he has been an internal dance instructor at the Duncan Center conservatory. Currently she runs the Motion Laboratory workshops for Adults in somatically oriented studio DanceLAB.
Blanka Lisá, PhDr., RSMT
Blanka was participating in somatic educational programm Conscious Body lead by Rena Milgrom btw. 2014 - 2018 and afterwards continued to study under Dr. Martha Eddy, CMA, RSMT, from 2018 to 2021:, She graduated from Body Mind dancing trainer program in 2019 and was certified in Dynamic Embodiment – Somatic Movement Therapy Training program in 2021.
With a background in Adult Education and Personnel Management (PhD. Degree), along with two decades of experience in the international corporate environment, including managerial roles since 2007, she understand the stress and pressure associated with professional work and its effects on the body and mind. She strives to bridge the gap between the corporate world and somatics, integrating somatic principles into her HR work and sharing well-being tips with colleagues. As a volunteer consultant and somatic movement teacher, she facilitates individual and small group sessions focusing on releasing tension, fostering body awareness. She is particularly interested in the expressive and creative aspects of movement, actively participating in improvisational collectives - collaborating with dance-movement groups such as Pohyb JáMy and Improvisit.
Hana Polanska, PhDr.
- Dancer, performer, choreographer, dance pedagogue, dance journalist and scholar Hana Polanská graduated from the Dance Conservatory, History of Art at the Catholic Theological Faculty of Charles University and choreography at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. As part of her postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, she is working on the topic of dance-movement therapy on cognitive and physical abilities of the elderly. She worked as an outreach caregiver for the elderly during the covid pandemic.
- During her rich professional career she has worked as a soloist at the National Theatre in Prague and has collaborated on dozens of projects with renowned choreographers and artists.
- Currently, she is mainly engaged in scientific and pedagogical activities. She collaborates with a number of institutions on research projects focused on the influence of dance on neurodegenerative diseases.
Katarina Zubretovska
- CI Dancer, somatic movement teacher, therapeutic facilitator. She began her somatic path in 2012 in the Conscious Body program and since then, she is deepening her anatomical, therapeutic and pedagogical skills in different organisations, gaining her knowledge mainly abroad.
- She is very active in Slovakia, teaching her own somatic movement series and is one of the leading teachers at the Slovak University of Conscious Life. In Prague, she is collaborating with Rena Milgrom, CMA, DMT, RSME and co-teaching in the Conscious Body program. She is living in nature, leading meditative quiet life.
Jitka Mozorová, Mgr.
- Head of the Proty boty organization, where she has been working since 2010, dance movement therapist and certified DanceAbility lecturer. She is dedicated to individual and group therapy with children and adults with disabilities and inclusive dance arts.
- EDUCATION: Graduate of a four-year psychotherapy training in Dance Movement Therapy under the auspices of TANTER (Dance Movement Therapy Association of the Czech Republic) and training in the DanceAbility method. Graduate of one year Spiraldynamics Basic course and Conscious Body program.
Zuzana Vlčinská, MgA.
- Lecturer and author of experiential singing, musicologist and psychotherapist. In her work she combines voice, music, body work, emotions and imagination. She is interested in the psychological and physical processes related to singing and voice. The connection of body and psyche in singing leads me to a psychosomatic therapeutic approach. For her work she seeks out interesting and experientially authentic folk songs from a world where singing your feelings was common, and adapt them into multiple voices. She also work with single sounds and improvisation. She believes that the voice, and even more so singing, has the ability to connect and tune different parts of our body and soul, and that song can work as medicine.
Education:
- Musicology at the Faculty of Music, Charles University in Prague, graduation 1997
- Music and movement education inspired by the Orff School with Pavel Jurkovič and Libuše Kurková - two-year cycle of seminars - 1994-1996
- Body as an instrument - basics of movement training Body Mind Centering (BMC), lecturers Jiří Lössl and Anna Línová, Artama Prague - 60 hours, 2008
- Systematic psychotherapeutic training Instep - 800 hours, 2004-2
- BodyVoice - training program for facitilization of psychological and physical processes with the voice, Smadar Emor and Rena Milgrom - since 2018 - 2021 - 350 hours
Jim Mant, MgA.
- Jim is a scientist in a field of biology, CI mover and teacher, Feldenkrais method teacher based in Australia, teaching in Europe since 2012. His Feldenkrais teaching is especially designed for dancers and body workers.
LOCATION
The Festival will take place at the ITAKA, Korunní St. 35, Prague 2
Cancellation policy: Cancellations later than 2 months prior the festival cancellation fee is 50% of the admission price. When canceling a month before the festival and less the fee is 100%. Thank you for your understanding.
