Events / Two Soma workshops
When:January 27th, 2008 @ 7:00pm TO January 29th, 2008 @ 10:00pm
Where:
Suigetsukan Dojo (Oakland), Station 40 (San Francisco)
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Enrollment
2/unlimited
Organizer:
Secret Agent
Description:
Soma is a series of sessions/experiences using body games to create a group dynamic, inspired by principles of self-organisation and solidarity. When Roberto Freire created 'Soma: an anarchist therapy' in Brazil, more than thirty years ago, he was looking for therapeutic methodologies that could help people emotionally who were fighting against the military dictatorship. Changing therapy into experiment, we have turned the Soma (which means 'totality of being' in Greek) approach away from an emphasis on neurosis (we have something wrong) towards the gaining of skills (we can learn something new).
This approach breaks with the traditional rational way to develop skills, where the mind is split from the body, the individual removed from its surroundings. Soma games are proposals to play in a group - sharing experiences of collaboration, trust and responsibility. It's this group dynamic created by Soma games that stimulate the whole being to engage with the world. After the games, the participants will process their experience, talking about their perceptions and behavior playing together.
The body is the material to work with: movement, perception and contact with each other to dare to be creative in everyday life. Play is a way to rediscover the body, just as collaboration helps to rediscover relationships.
Traditionally, the series of Soma sessions extends over a year's time, and involves the martial art, Capoeira Angola. These two workshops will be an introduction to the process and kinds of games used in a Soma group.
FIRST WORKSHOP: at the Suigetsukan Dojo, 103 International Blvd, right by Lake Merrit in Oakland. 7PM-10PM, Sunday, Jan. 27
SECOND WORKSHOP: at Station 40, 3030b 16th st. (at Mission) in SF. 7PM-10PM, Tuesday, Jan. 29
Suggested Donation: $3-$5 (to cover the cost of the space). No one turned away for lack of funds.
Drop a message or a comment if you have any questions.
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Isto nao era o meu expectacao quando fazei click em isto. Estava pensando da Soma de Huxley.
(Se o meu portugues e malo, o sento; nao sou experto na lingua.)
hugo: would be great to have you, and friends if they're game. Forgot to include in the write up--wear clothes that allow lots of movement if possible.
dok: yeah, that was the first thing I thought when I first heard of it. If you can find some for real, let me know.
(my portuguese extends only to understanding a bit; I'll learn to speak it one day)
Isto nao era o meu preconceito quando fiz [eu] um click ai. pensei na Soma de Huxley.
Click pode ser escrito 'clique.'
word up. adoro freire! os meus amigos no brasil se adoran... igualmente eu. vou tentar atender!