🌿 Just as our bodies don’t have a choice but to be in the present moment all the time, so are they in nature all the time – there’s no way out of it. Ecosystems, other species, mountains and oceans – nature, yes. Cells, tissues, and organs of our bodies – also. But what about the human psyche, our minds, consciousness, relationships, paradoxical behaviour, culture, societies, cities, politics, economies, art, history, and technology? Deeply coded in our languages, nature is often understood as something excluding, opposing all these aspects of humankind. But I actually believe there’s only nature, all our parts are part of nature, we are nature. 🌊
👯 It is one thing to understand and agree with this, and to have a deeply felt, lived experience of it – that’s another thing. That’s why we come together to practice. Join us on the Open Floor to move, to dance, to shake it all off, to play, to cultivate mindfulness, and to reconnect with ourselves, with each other, and with nature on a deep, experiential level. Every inch by which we can narrow the inherited imaginary sociocultural gap between us and nature, is a step towards more freedom, and the body is the only place for taking these steps. While this practice asks for the dedication of showing up, the medium for it is our shared love of movement and dance, so having fun, getting silly, not doing it right, messing up are more than welcome. 🍭
🕊️ Every body welcome, no previous experience needed. The space is queer-friendly and wheelchair-accessible. 🌱
🗣️ Language: English and/or German
⏳ Times: Mondays 20–22h
🗺 Venue: UrbanRaum, Urbanstraße 93, 10967 Berlin
💰 Prices:
15–20€ sliding scale
Students, people with low or no income, BIPOC, people with disability: 10€
If you need to pay less, pay what you can.
🌿 About Bence:
Open Floor embodied mindfulness teacher, biologist • Berlin-based, from Budapest, Hungary • Studied economics, critical social theory, biology • PhD in evolutionary ecology (Tübingen, Germany) • bringing the experience of over two decades of dancing, almost as much yoga, and over a decade of conscious movement
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I weave critical social theory, evolutionary biology, and an ecological perspective into our shared embodied mindfulness practice, which is usually fun and focused at the same time. With a similarly broad musical palette, I aim to give space for an exploration through movement as diverse as possible.