A note on
Care & Playfulness
In our productivity-obsessed Western societies, tirelessly streamlining both objects and organisms, care and playfulness may quietly invite us back to the solace of our tender, imperfect humanity and our kinship with other forms of life.
Playfulness, as our ability to be creative with the possibilities inside ourselves and all around us. Playfulness as not taking things for fixed and solid. Playfulness for believing more is possible. Playfulness as not needing to rationalise or make sense. Playfulness as chaos and the beauty within that. Playfulness as noticing the tiniest tickle in your neck as the most powerful sensation you’ve ever felt.
Care, as an ability to feel, notice and tend to what we wish to nourish. Care as accepting to listen deeply to all the feels, the euphoric, the shattering, the soft ones. Care as a commitment to refusing to desensitise ourselves to our humanity.
EXPLORING THE WONDERLAND CALLED PRESENCE 🦪
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EXPLORING THE WONDERLAND CALLED PRESENCE 🦪 〰️
What if we could take break from the speed and quantity?
Venturing into slowness and, perhaps, into depth
Perspectives of Presence
Deeply moved and inspired by meditative states and contemplative practices, I decided to deepen my theoretical knowledge and practical experiences. And so, I trained as a secular Mindfulness facilitator in Berlin (the Dream Haus, 2019) and followed a complementary yearlong training with Mark Coleman & Martin Aylward in 2021 (Mindfulness Training Institute).
All the discoveries I have been living since then offer favourable grounds to share these practices with you. As best I can, with an accessible, playful and inclusive approach that encourages putting aside perfectionism, rigid norms, and performance of any kind.
To expand into more expressive and creative realms, I trained as a movement facilitator with Florencia Lamarca, and learned in-depth her Fluentbody approach which draws on intuitive dance practices from Gaga dance and somatic work like the Grinberg method. Fluentbody is about trusting the deep wisdom of our bodies and our ability to relate to life using movement.
After that, I trained in 2022 as Yin Yoga teacher with Liina Tael and Valerie Hartwich in Berlin. Yin yoga is a gentle yoga inviting us to ground in presence while contemplating and feeling the evolving bodily sensations as we hold a posture in stillness for several minutes. It can be a deeply grounding experience and the occasion to reconnect kindly with our bodies’ stories, needs and immense possibilities.
In my sessions, I let all these beautiful inspirations and influences translate into a sequence of varied exercises and explorations.
Softening into presence
ASPIRATION
PRESENCE
Are you here, in this very moment?
THROUGH THE FELT SENSES
Wherever you are when reading this, I invite you to FEEL the temperature of the air on your skin for a few instants. Is any sensation noticeable or maybe nothing at all?
NUANCED RATHER THAN BINARY
There’s no right or wrong answer, but your lived experience just as it is.
NOTICING THE UNNOTICED
In mindfulness we cultivate awareness of the states and fluctuations of our inner and outer weather patterns; catalysing this exploration with gentle curiosity, interest and kindness. Whether we encounter a clear blue sky, a thunderstorm or a soft wind.
PERHAPS OPENING NEW PERSPECTIVES...
Let’s peel off the crusted and maybe touch deeper layers of ourselves.
CULTIVATING LOVE AND INTENTIONALITY
In how we interact with ourselves and the world around us.