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Somatic Art® Practice, a Body-Mind Centering® approach to artmaking

Marina Tsartsara RSMT

November 15, 16, 17 2024 from 12 - 2:30 pm ET

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Registration deadline: November 8

Somatic Art Practice® is an embodied artmaking practice that explores the relationship between the psychophysical personal experience of corporeal structures & artistic gesture. In this class series, we will integrate in a layered way the somatic methodology of Body-Mind Centering® with visual and final art methods, enhancing sensitivity, presence and authenticity in the artmaking processes. Somatic Art Practice® integrates these disciplines/fields: Body-Mind Centering®, Drawing, Collage, Sculpture, Creative Writing. 

The interdisciplinary methodology of SAP® offers the possibility of application to a variety of individuals and groups with different abilities, ages and 'languages'. Experiential Anatomy and Somatic Movement (BMC®) are at the center of Somatic Art practice. Fine arts, visual arts and creative writing interweave and support expansion not only into somatic depths but also cognitive connections and personal meanings. The fine art materials are used as embodiment tools, by either matching or countering the material and 'mind' qualities of body tissues/body systems with the material and 'mind' qualities of the art materials themselves, including textures, rhythms, weight, sensorial input, consistency, temperature, and size. For example, the use of water-based art materials enhances and supports our somatic experience of the Fluid System. Lastly, artmaking during the somatisations or at the end of the sessions also serve as integration of all lived (physical and emotional) dimensions of experience. 

LEARNING GOALS: 

In this workshop, participants will learn: 

• Embodiment & Psychophysical integration tools from fine & visual art practices 

• Transdisciplinary methodology 

• Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement based artmaking for enhanced personal expression and professional practice with clients 

Marina Tsartsara

RSMT

Marina Tsartsara is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (ISMETA), Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, a Dance & Visual Artist (MSc), a certified Chinese Acupressure Massage Therapist (TCM London), a Yoga Ashtanga Vinyasa & Mindfulness Instructor (Yoga Alliance) and a Holistic Life Coach (Holistic Harmony GR). She co-directs the official Body-Mind Centering® Training in Greece and teaches in the official trainings in Greece, Spain and England. In Barcelona, where she lives, Marina co-directs the Postgraduate Degree in 'Expressive Arts, Trauma and Embodiment' at the Poiesis Institute. She has taught, exhibited, and performed in national and international venues since 2007. https://www.somaticwellbeing.info/marina-tsartsara.html