We begin the 11 day countdown before the final evening of @sense__ability . While we’re still running at @thecryptgallerylondon we invite you to encounter a setting that’s begin created for the intimate encounter with self and the foundations we rise from and return to.
Photography by @lens.of.tres
Sense Ability launches February 2026 at Crypt Gallery, London as an environment to pause, to listen inward, and to feel held.
Sense Ability offers a space you can drop into during the day to have a moment to reconnect with yourself.
The space is held in sound: evolving soundscapes created in collaboration with diverse artists, designed to ease the mind and support deep listening. A guiding scent-scape, crafted from local plants, grounds the experience, connecting you to the subtle energies of the surrounding environment.
Over five weeks, Sense Ability unfolds as a living programme, bringing together multidisciplinary practitioners through experiential learning, live music, screenings, conversations, walks, plant immersions, and daily after-work drop-in meditation sessions. Rooted in local plants, folklore, natural materials, and living wisdom, the programme fosters meaningful relationships with the modes of living the everyday.
Conceived as a cultural venue, community cafe, apothecary and gallery; a deep-listening and resting space.
By day, a freely accessible space for taking a pause and connecting with yourself and your senses, experienced through enveloping soundscapes, scentscapes of locally gathered herbs, foraged herbal brews, selected literature, and local material craft.
In the evenings and on weekends, the space shifts into an active programme of live sound, meditations, workshops, walks, talks, and more.
The project works alongside local and international practitioners, artists, educators, and celebrated change-makers to forge deeper awareness and relationships with the living wisdom of the body and the land, engaging with foundational subjects that sustain life as we know it.
Designed to hold space for intentional pausing, recreation, and embodied learning.
Music by @francescaterberg
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Beneath the layers of London’s clay and soil, @sense__ability found its home for five weeks at @thecryptgallerylondon of the St Pancras New Church.
The project sought the different ways to amplify the polyphonic voices of the local land, to celebrate the craft of artists and makers that reveal its multilayered presence, and to undust the traditions that enable us to remember our never-fading connection to it.
@sense__ability is a story of several friends who came together over a shared vision to create a new kind of space.
One that resurfaces and integrates the wisdom land into a lived and shared experience.
One that approaches design integrally.
One that approaches design as a space-holder for kinship and care.
One that weaves belonging into its essence.
One that sees the sense of belonging interwoven with our connection to the land.
And one that sees the connection with the land possible once space is created to have the opportunity to first connect to the senses, the body and the sensitivities of the inner-scape.
@sense__ability will continue to be held at @thecryptgallerylondon till next Saturday evening.
More information about the project can be found via @sense__ability ’s website (link in bio)
A moment of beauty and devotion marks the closing of Sense Ability. For everyone who’s been involved, felt inspired or a part of this work - come and receive. A time to honour what has been created, to give thanks, and to offer the work back for future growth.
In this last offering we will celebrate the gifts each person has brought, and the care held by the space itself, coming together in a healing flower ceremony to receive the benefits of gratitude, and beauty.
A flower mandala is created to seal this chapter, and each participant receives a personal flower limpia, a gentle cleansing, carrying prayers for renewal and the continued expansion of the work, individually and collectively.
To join this occasion, please book your attendance via @sense__ability ’s website (senseability.space)
Link in profile’s bio 🌿
An integral ‘AQAL’ model as road map for regenerative educational paradigms.
From the facilitator: “As an educator, I have spent my career exploring different paradigms in education to include having had the privilege of working with inspirational individuals in some of the most innovative school environments and cultures in the world (perhaps most notably time spent working at Green School Bali)
Drawing upon the work of Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory, this AQAL model is a reflection of my career-long inquiry into the assumptions and axioms on which most educational systems and institutions are based and attempts to identify previously unidentified holons in the field of education.
Stories of inspiring learners with whom I have worked will be used to exemplify the points made, whilst the implications of reimagining education through the lens of integral theory will be explored, especially in relation to education for sustainability, regeneration, shifting from interdisciplinary to transdisciplinary learning and ideas drawn from the field of spiritual ecology.
🌿 To join the session please confirm your attendance via @sense__ability ’s website (senseability.space) link in profile’s bio
On the final evening of Sense Ability, we gather once more to listen together at the edge of what has been opened.
In the candlelit depths of the Crypt Gallery, Manteio offer a closing sound ceremony shaped as a journey: moving through earthly textures and ancestral memory, opening outward into the cosmic, and gently returning each listener home to themselves.
Manteio’s practice draws from Hellenic-Greek, Anatolian, Sephardic, East Asian, and Celtic lineages, weaving together Turkish percussion, saz, Greek lyre, violin, cello, traditional flutes, and voice. Acoustic instruments meet subtle electronics and extended vocal techniques, dissolving boundaries between ritual and experimentation.
Rooted in the ancient Greek understanding of the Manteio - the Oracle, the place where listening becomes revelation — the collective works with sound as a threshold practice. Improvisation and tradition intertwine, allowing music to unfold intuitively, moment by moment, guided by attention, resonance, and shared presence.
This is an invitation into deep listening, collective attunement, and cultural remembering. A final evening to sit within sound, among others, and allow what has been cultivated over the weeks to settle, echo, and carry forward.
A closing. A return. A shared breath before stepping back into the world.
🌿 tickets available via the link in @sense__ability ’s bio
This solo concert marks a moment of gathering and integration in the final week of @sense__ability .
Through the kora, an instrument traditionally used to hold memory, guide dialogue, and bring people together, ancestral sound becomes a doorway, opening space for reflection, connection, and the renewal of community as we meet one another anew.
Jally Kebba Suso is a musical and cultural ambassador for Gambia in UK. He is a Kora player and composer.
In West African culture, the kora is the traditional harp of the griot. The griot plays a key part by bringing together the skills of a historian, musician, storyteller and diplomat to steer the community and its leadership to a better future. You can only be born a griot, inheritance being the only path. And Jally Kebba plays from a background of 74 generations of musical heritage.
Tickets are available via @sense__ability website (senseability.space) link in profile’s bio
Attune 14-3-26.
Extract from a video created using the visual content created by the participants of Attune, a workshop/performance, part of the ongoing exhibition Sense Ability @ The Crypt gallery, London.
Thank you to everyone who joined us last Saturday.
Thank you, Masha, for the invitation.
music: Gong session by Shyen Green @AwiKanta.comhttps :
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On March 26th, 18:45, Smoke Sauna Sisterhood will be screening at @sense__ability , followed by discussions.
About the film: In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength. The first documentary by an Estonian director @annahints to compete and win at Sundance, Smoke Sauna Sisterhood is a deeply moving, intimate and breathtaking approach to representing issues of trauma, healing, and community.
The screening will take place in an intimate setting beneath the earth at @thecryptgallerylondon . Tickets are limited to preserve the intimacy of the experience and the sharing circle that will follow.
Tickets are available via @sense__ability ’s website (senseability.space) - link in the profile’s bio.
Through the ethereal and rural, kanun and kaval played by @konstantinosglynos and @dover.oliver meet around the table to praise the past memories, smells and tastes of childhood summers —> March 25th at @sense__ability
🌾 The feeling of barley fields brushing our palms during eternal daydreaming walks.
The smell of hand picked lavender steaming and ready to sooth the soul.
The aftermath of dancing and singing, across and next to each other, while the sacred oaks illuminate and warm up our red euphoric faces under the starry night.
Sound will always be in the core of it, the air to breathe and remember.
Music will be the spark, the colours, personal and unique, to each one of us, to form it and shape it, into the happiest place to return to!
Event info and tickets are available via @sense__ability ’s website (senseability.space) link in bio
