Embodied self: Coming Home to the Body

Where: Agora -Lisbon Rua Rafael de Andrade, 23.

When: Sat 15.04.2023 from 6:30-8:30pm

In-person Event

35 euros (23% Portuguese VAT included)

with Tobi Ayé

Description

Embodiment explores the relationship between our body and our mind. It’s a practice that breaks the body-mind duality and use the body as a tool for expansion through self-awareness. When embodied, we have the capacity to allow the moment-to-moment process as we experience life.

Through mouvements, visualization, touch, sensory awareness, exteroception, proprioception, Interoception, breathwork…..this monthly workshop will make room to connect our thought, feeling and sensing and experience ourselves and surroundings in a new way.

“The more embodied we are, the more present we are in our body, the more alive we feel, and the more we can experience our interconnectedness.”

Kind Words

  • "As an artist embedded in performative practices, I already took parts in many workshops about body and movement. But the one with Tobi was quite special and different in the sense that we worked other important parts of the body such as the eyes and the tongue, which leads us to the gaze and flavor, important senses to our artistic practices). The way it awakened very deep feelings and memories in my body helped me achieve some important and sensible aspects not only in my own body practice but also as a collective body."

    C.S., São Paulo, visual artist

  • Tobi's group workshop as like drinking water after a long period of thirst. She is gentle, attentive an knowledgeable. I felt both grounded and like walking on the air after.

    L.S- Visual artist - Berlin/Germany

  • "I’m not someone who can easily get out of my head and just be in my body yet Tobi brought a great energy and variety of activities that helped me do just that. She also made me feel comfortable that no matter what level I was at, I wasn’t doing anything wrong. So my mind could wander and then come back without feeling any guilt. What I loved most about her sessions were getting to share the space with other Black women and leaving with tools that I can use on my own at home and with my daughter. Thanks Tobi! "

    G.M - Portugal

About Tobi

Tobi is a somatic practitioner and a skilled group facilitator with a deep commitment to working with individuals and communities to repair connections and integrate collective, intergenerational, individual, and systemic trauma. She founded RECONEKT a space to deeply look how systemic trauma has fragmented us as collective body and ways to heal together. She believes that anti-oppression work begins within one's self and includes addressing all oppressed groups and identities as we work towards liberation of all beings.

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