Dear friends,
This is a final call for registration for the Vital Acts workshop, beginning May 1. If you would like to join, please email [email protected] to reserve a spot. Full details in bio.
I look forward to creating and exploring together <3
photo credit: David Wong
In this workshop, we will explore the subtle connection between performative presence, our capacity for expression, and the innate sense of aliveness within the body. In response to today’s demanding and ever-changing environment, the workshop invites participants to access their inner resources of vitality, creativity, resilience, and potential for transformation.
Working through ritual and performance-based methodologies engaging with implicit memory as a source for artistic creation, the workshop guides participants toward a deeper expression of both individual and collective selves. Together, we will examine how performance art can deepen our state of presence, vitality, and overall well-being. We will explore ways to express and release limiting patterns trapped within our bodies, while envisioning and embodying the future we aspire to create through performance exercises, group work and presentations.
Combining relaxation and breathing techniques, butoh-inspired visualization practices, and somatic exercises that activate body memory and imagery, the workshop offers a space for anyone interested in performance art to reconnect with inner sources of vital force and expression.
No previous experience is necessary, only curiosity and openness.
Capacity: 15 participants (prior registration by email: [email protected])
Photo credit: Pierre Tran
Cost/ Coût: 3 days/ jours: $125
per day /par jour: $50
Schedule/Horaire:
May 1, 5PM-8PM
May 2, 1PM-4PM
May 3, 1PM-4PM
Location: Mile-End
VITAL ACTS
PERFORMANCE ART WORKSHOP
A 3-day immersive experience to reconnect with your body, creativity, and sense of aliveness.
Through somatic practices, butoh-inspired visualization, breath work, and performance exercises, we’ll explore how to access deeper expression, release limiting patterns, and create from a place of presence and authenticity.
Open to artists, movers, and curious beginners, no experience needed. Just come with openness.
May 1 (5–8PM)
May 2–3 (1–4PM)
Limited to 15 participants
$125 (full) / $50 (drop-in)
Full details in bio
To register and for more information: [email protected]
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Most of the time, I was unaware of the patterns running my life. Like underlying currents within my body, they defined my actions and the direction of my days, months, and years.
The loop was real. I kept finding myself in the same situations, with the same familiar pain, and the realization that I had stepped into the same pile of shit yet one more time. Meanwhile, life was consistent in throwing in people, circumstances, and events that would reliably trigger the same unconscious response. At least one more time.
And yet, each time something would shift. Lightly. Almost insignificantly. But surely.
Viktor Frankl, in Man’s Search for Meaning, writes:
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Eventually, I realized the entire loop was training me to expand and hold the space where true freedom manifests. Not the freedom to influence or control people and situations, but the freedom to be OK regardless of people and situations.
In that space of freedom, there is a sense of complete embodiment, recognition, and respect toward the person I call my Self. It is a space of ultimate safety, where I trust completely that my life and well-being do not depend on what is happening externally, but on my ability to remain grounded inwardly. In the simple knowing that while we are alive, life always wins.
Ultimately, what we call karma may be a school of life, teaching us to move beyond our overdependence on the external world, to which we so easily surrender our agency and power, and guiding us inward, into the space where we find our true Self, and a kind of strength and realization that moves beyond the individual identity and becomes inseparable from the spirit of life itself.
