Roots Of Play | Opal Goldring & Charlie Holt

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An Ongoing Research Into The Dynamic Relationships Between Human And Non Human Forms🌿 Touring Europe in 2026 ⬇️
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ITS OFFICIAL 🎊 Roots of Play is touring Europe in 2026! It’s been one hell of a long time coming and we’re beyond stoked to finally bring this to life with you🌿 If you’re ready to:🤸🏽‍♂️ Train together. Play as a tribe. Meet like-minded humans and connect over shared passions. Explore fears, meet edges. Move, dance, climb, jump, and immerse ourselves in the magnificence of nature… Then this is where youll find us! 👇 Copenhagen 🇩🇰 - 2-3May Fontainebleau 🇫🇷- 31-7 June Varese 🇮🇹- 4-5 July Slovenia 🇸🇮- 1-9 August Germany 🇩🇪 - 12-13 Sept This is going to be one hell of a ride🚀 Wanna learn more?! ✨🧩 Follow the LINK IN BIO 🔗 🎥🎬 filmmaking & edit by @alexias.films #RootsOfPlayTour2026 #treeclimbing #primalmovement #play #natureconnection
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ITS HAPPENING!!💚 This has been in the works for a very long time now. We have heard from so many of you the desire to “come to Europe!!!!” Now we are answering that call, expanding the Roots Of Play mycelium out into new territories! We cannot wait ✨ If you want to catch us see below the dates/ locations: - Copenhagen, Denmark 🏔️ Roots Of Play Workshop 2-3 May - Fontainebleau, France 🏔️ Evolve Move Play Retreat 31-6 June - Varese, Italy 🏔️ Roots Of Play Workshop 4-5 July - Metta Farm, Slovenia 🏔️ Youth Exchange 1-9 August - Cologne, Germany 🏔️ Roots Of Play workshop 12-13 September LINK IN BIO 🔗 With love the Roots Of Play Team 💚
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MEET THE ROOTS OF PLAY TEAM 🏕️✨ It is with full hearts and grounded presence that we introduce the incredible team behind Roots of Play — a collective of gifted, passionate humans who have come together to co-create, guide, and hold space for the journeys unfolding in 2025. Every single member of this team brings their own magic — unique movement styles, deep wisdom, playful energy, and unwavering devotion. This year, with even more depth, clarity, and commitment to our craft, we step forward with strong hearts and soft eyes, ready to meet the wild beauty of what’s to come — and ready to meet you. We are Roots of Play. And we can’t wait to move, breathe, and belong with you this year. ⸻ JOIN US IN 2025 🌿 MYCELIAL MOTIONS 4–8 June / Lake District, UK An immersive retreat rooted in natural movement, mycelial intelligence, and embodied ecology. 🌳 WILD WAYS 12–14 September / Lake District, UK A weekend of primal play, deep nature connection, and co-regulation with land and body. These gatherings are more than retreats — they’re rituals of reconnection. Capturing the essence of this team so beautifully, these stunning photos were taken by the insanely talented @hasandfilm — thank you for the vision behind the lens. 📸 Let’s root down, rise up, and return to the wild. #RootingToRise #RootsOfPlay #NatureConnection #EcoSomatics #WildMovement #MoveWithLand #ParkourInNature #PlayBasedLearning #EvolveMovePlay #LandPsyche #CommunityInMotion #BackToTheRoots #WildRetreats #MycelialWisdom #BelongingInNature
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It’s here… 🌱 The Tarzan Movement X Roots Of Play Collab ~ Fontainebleau, France 📍 ~ 17/18 July 2026 📅 See you there Wild Being🐉 LINK IN BIO 🔗 @rootsofplay #TarzanMovement #RootsOfPlay
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CI artistic residency organized by Nea ecosomatic performance-study proposed by @bazzart_who with @giuseppe_carone817 @bboyfede @s__irene @jumpjk @deva_ahora @marta__carnelli “sand, sand and wind, glass that carves the skin. Mountain layers carved by metals, wounds and scars on the slope of time a sandglass turning over, shines. first of may, in the world of today what is the “work” that we need? they buried us to stop us, little they know that we were seeds ready to grow” Attunement, conflict and peace as a process in the relationship with ourselves, others and the world will be the themes we will investigate in our next Ecosomatics events: 4-5 July “roots of play European tour workshop”, Varese 1-9 August “Peace as a Pathway” Erasmus+ Youth Exchange, Slovenia You can find the link to apply in @bazzart_who bio Dm him for info or questions The experience lived in this sand quarry was an extraordinary example of the complexity of the topic, while dancing we encountered contrasting emotion, embodying the tension between beauty and suffer, death and alive sensitivity. #contactimprovisation #ecosomatics #natureconnection #naturalmovement #ecopsychology
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Understanding Belonging. It’s a huge question for me, and I feel that before it can be answered, I must first recognise what it feels like inside my body, like what is the visceral sensation of belonging? How does it actually situate itself inside my body? For me, there’s a deep sense of rest, a letting go of needing to get somewhere or create something else, because my fundamental needs in that moment are met. I also try to track this, where and when in my life I experience this sensation of “I belong here right now.” I notice this sensation spans across many facets of experience, whether it be a hug, a spot under a tree, a pool in a river, or an opening of sunlight onto the forest floor. I notice I struggle to identify a place, a landscape, a house, or a situation where I feel a deep sense of belonging. The feeling that “I belong” exists, but I notice I feel it more strongly in wild places or in the bodies of others. In other words, places that come from this earth and will die back into this earth. I belong to this earth. So do you. I hope you find a moment to feel it too. #understandingbelonging 🎥 ~ @bazzart_who
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Contact improvisation with the non-human world Roots of play Workshop 4-5 July Varese, Italy Link in bio to apply Merging movement and outdoor education, , ecopsychology and ecosomatics, playfulness and deep listening, “Roots of play European tour” is happening this summer. Other opportunity to study with us: 1 - 9 august “peace as a pathway”Slovenia Youth Exchange funded by the European Union Deep gratitude to my Contact impro teachers form the project @feelthegap_ , check their page for classes of both CI and Composition in Varese, there are new projects in development with them and the course group. #ecosomatics #ecopsychology #natureconnection #movingwithnature
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Sharing with you an incredible opportunity to research and work together funded by the European Union, thanks to the Erasmus+ project. It will be possible to apply only for people with a residency in the country mentioned in the infopack due to the Erasmus+ rules (Italy , Czech Republic, Slovenia, Hungary). Only 30 spots available. Taking part in a youth exchange is a great opportunity to develop your skills, become aware of social realities and cultural differences and reinforce values such as solidarity, democracy and friendship. Youth exchanges will give you the possibility to live together with other youngsters to work together on a common project for a short but intense period. Finally, your learning experiences will be recognised through a Youthpass, a tool which recognises learning outcomes from youth work and solidarity activities. We will have 8 days of yet to explore possibilities with both activity guided by us, the @exploring.animamundi collaborating with @rootsofplay team, and horizontal space to research together. Other opportunity to study with us are: 4-5 July Varese Italy “roots of play European tour” Here you will be able to taste the themes we will explore during the youth exchange. 16-17 July Budapest “Kaland summer workshop” @kaland_budapest team will be also joining us for this in depth experience in ecosomatics, ecopsychology and movement with nature. Apply now, link in bio Dm me @bazzart_who for any question
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Why is it called falling? Will learning how to fall teach me also something about love? Does surrendering, accepting, allowing have something to do with love? I might have fallen in love with each one of you for a few seconds, for three days, while rolling on a tree, falling into a stream of water, holding each other upside down, sleeping under the bark. Kaland also means, from my understanding, spontaneity, to remain authentic to what is, and whenever you lose it, to come back to it. In your presence, I felt the same power that cracks the seed and turns it into a sprout, the same force that makes the seed fall and bury itself underground. What we held for one another were embodied ideas, accepted, supported, and expanded through the collective intelligence of ourselves and nature. To live this experience with some people I already know and deeply love, and with others I didn’t know, but came to love in the process, leaves me with a deep sense of gratitude for the sense of belonging that remains from this adventure. I am looking forward to the next opportunity to experience Kaland together again. Footage from the spring workshop by @kaland_budapest Facilitated by @orsi_vagner and @klausz_veronika , which @chazmotions and I had the gift to participate in. Next opportunities to explore together: 16–17 May “Ascend and Descend,” Bologna, Italy 4–5 July “Roots of Play European Tour” Varese, Italy 16-17 July “Summer movement workshop” Budapest, Hungary September — “Roots of Play European Tour,” Cologne, Germany #ecosomatics #ecopsychology #natureconnection #naturalmovement #movingwithnature
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falling in love 🍃 🎥 @bazzart_who
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“Be a dandelion in a world of roses Inspire wishes in kisses of stolen breath Complete your phase in celestial dreams Of the Sun moon and stars While setting your roots deep In the warm earth amidst blades of humble grass.” -teaganell How does it feels in your body as you watch this video? What does it mean to you to be connected to nature? How you find restoration for your psyche in nature? The research process shown is based on “grounding the restorative effect of the environment in tertiary qualities: an integration of embodied and phenomenological perspectives”(F.Biassoni et all, 2023)the claim is that nature has certain qualities that emerge in the embodied relationship with her and that are the foundation of its restorative power. Mirror neurons and the process syntonisation are the neuropsychological bases behind the capacity to connect to nature and pass from an ego-centred perception of self to an eco-centred one. Ecosomatics offers a pathway for attunment to nature and re-member the sensation of belonging, learning how to talk a language beyond words made of complex pattern, allowing to feel that we belong to the dance of the world. Here we explore the quality of lightness and ascension, as a part of a larger research on how we develop our relationship with ourself, others and environments. Our work interlace artistic performance, academic research and outdoor experiential education. Next workshop: 16-17 may Bologna “Ascend and Descend” 4-5 July Varese roots of play tour Dm us for more info on our next event, we are touring Europe. #ecosomatics #ecopsychology
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Is the goal to experience life? Or is it to create, build, seek success, establish stability, and other pathways of being humans share? This has been a question in my mind for a long time now. Is there a way I’m ‘supposed’ to go, a direction I ‘ought’ to take? It’s becoming clear to me that a lot of these questions come from what is happening outside my skin, the decisions I choose to make that determine how I relate and interact with the world. However, If I consider the possibility that my main concern and purpose for being is to experience. And I don’t mean this passively; I mean to exist inside my own body and life so fully and richly that I don’t miss a moment that passes. Everything gets its chance to be felt, enjoyed, or disliked fully. I’m not sure where I’m going with this, other than if THIS^ is the goal and my priority in life, then surely whatever direction I choose to take in my outer circumstances loses its weight, as I know what I’ll be filled with opportunities to fully experience life whatever I decide to take on. Maybe this was interesting. I would love to hear your thoughts 💭 🧐 ••• Thank you for a beautiful hike into your amazing home @bazzart_who #experiancinglife
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