Østmarka Ecosomatic Immersion

July 6-10

10-17:00 every day

Østmarka, Oslo

This workshop is an opportunity to center yourself and reawaken your innate capacity for connection with what is going on inside and around you. 

Together we will practice breathing, moving, sensing, perceiving, digesting, dying, and decomposing to help us perceive more of our living and the whole scale of the sensitivities and intelligences within us, the human and non-human, the transforming spaces, the before and after. Together, we will deepen our skills to listen, improvise, play, experiment,  grieve, dwell in the unknown, and trust the deep resources of our bodies to navigate challenge, sustain ourselves, and thrive.

Ecosomatics helps us understand that we are not only organisms hosted by a planet but that we are also a planet hosting many other organisms. The biodiversity of these planets ecosystems is what makes life possible and extraordinary.

Through somatic practice we can engage with scientific concepts building bridges between ideas and lived experience. This allows us to generate different kinds of being, feeling, understanding, and thinking which can generate new ways of relating, behaving, and giving value to the more than human world.

This workshop is for anyone and everybody interested in movement, ecological bodies and consciousness regardless of experience or ability.

The workshop does not include accommodation or food. We will work in the forest within walking distance  from Østmarksetra utfartsparkering. Accommodation can be sought in Oppsal, Oslo, nearby or central Oslo using public transport. 

We will be working on the peripheries of the Østmarka National Park. Learn more about Østmarka.

“I am deeply grateful for the ecosomatics intensive this July. Olive and Otto held the space with such sensitivity to what was unfolding in the group moment by moment, relationally, somatically. It was one of the most attuned facilitated spaces I’ve been in. Their approach to facilitation was rooted in radical tenderness, marked by curiosity, openness, and deep care. The wealth of knowledge they carry is immense, and they share it with such generosity in ways that feel accessible, inspiring, and grounded in practice. This workshop has been beyond generative for my work, it has sharpened my sensitivity and attunement to my own body and in relation to other organisms and ecologies. I am left with a sense of being softened in boundaries, in perception, in sensing. A new intimacy with myself and what is possible. THANK YOU!!”  – Alena Grahn

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