4 week mind-body home retreat
With Anna-Lise Marie Hearn
Dance & movement specialist and artist
and Flavia Deuchler
Holistic health coach & founder of Ora Collective
March 18th - April 12th 2023
Live classes Wednesday 19:00 - 20:30 CET (March 22nd, 29 and April 5th and 12th)
€ 139.00
Payment plans available. Should you not be able to afford this retreat, please reach out to us at hello@oracollective.com, we have a set number of sponsorships available. Members will receive a discounted price via "My Ora".A four-week experience designed to reconnect you to your body and rediscover its creative potential through movement and dance.
Together we will move through 4 themes: grounding, touch, qualities and space. Each will open up new possibilities for self-discovery. Every week we will dive deeper into these themes - exploring them through mind and body - in guided movement sessions led by dance artist Anna-Lise Marie Hearn and conversational coaching facilitated by Flavia Deuchler, founder of Ora Collective.
This is a deeply immersive and personal experience shared collectively within a supportive group setting. From the comfort of our own homes, we will dance, explore, play and connect with our bodies, opening up space for curiosity, creativity and presence. You can expect a safe, supportive and energising environment where you can explore personal creative expression through movement and experience being in your body in ways you never have before.
There will be an email sent to participants every Saturday to explore the weekly theme and journaling prompts. On Wednesdays, we will come together and be guided through a 1 hour live movement improvisation session with Anna-Lise, followed by a 30 minute group share with Flavia.
No previous experience is required for this home retreat. Sessions can be adapted to the nature and needs of the group, so please inform us of any injuries, physical impairment or disability.
Weekly themes
Week 1 – Grounding: connecting with the ground, rooting, exploring balance, shifting and leading movement from different places in the body.
Week 2 – Touch: our relationship to touch, touch to initiate movement, qualities of touch, creative responses to touch.
Week 3 – Qualities: moving with and embodying different movement qualities, textures, and sensations.
Week 4 – Space: expanding and opening up the body as you move, taking space, awareness of your body as you move (proprioception), the “essence” of movement.
Outcomes
Explore awareness through different sensations in the body: grounding, energy, lightness, power, 3-dimensionality, spatial awareness, proprioception.
Connect with your body in a way you may never have experienced before.
Discover your body's movement possibilities and a state of embodiment.
Expand your creative potential.
Feel settled in, connected with and energised by your own body.
Create a nourishing and joyful space to move, play and explore.
Schedule
Wednesday - movement and coaching (live).
Saturday - theme overview and journaling (email).
Your facilitators
Anna-Lise Hearn (she/her)
Anna-Lise Hearn is a dance and movement specialist and artist. She works across the dance sector as a choreographer, movement director, dance educator, and artist coach.
Anna-Lise works with dance and movement to find a textural, emotive language that can express felt sensations, embodiment, and physical relatability. Her artistic practice explores the intertwining of physical and emotional expressions of being, seeing the body as a vessel for our life’s experience. Movement improvisation is an important element in her creative processes and in her teaching, as it fosters an approach that promotes generosity and deeper research, allowing for spontaneity and visceral, bodily reactions to the material she is working with.
Flavia Deuchler (She/Her)
Flavia Deuchler is a certified Holistic Health Coach who is passionate about empowering people to reach their fullest potential. She received her training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and the School for Applied Functional Medicine. Flavia acknowledges a person’s unique body, lifestyle, preferences and resources in helping them move towards their ideal vision of health. With her knowledge and expertise, she helps individuals create personalised actions to meet their goals.
“Anna-Lise has the wonderful gift of creating a safe space wherever she goes. I don’t think the vulnerability and depth reached in this programme would have been possible without
this atmosphere.”
