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Bodywork into movement: conne-x-ions

Start Sun 11 May '25
14:00 - 17:00

4 sessions

Prices

Standard price: € 106
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Location R7
New Yorkstraat 7
9000 Gent

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Language & teacher(s) Dutch/English

Our bodywork sessions focus on taking time for recovery, renewal and gaining a better understanding of our body structure. This helps us to dance and move in a healthy way and more generally: integrate healthy movement patterns into our daily lives. Highly recommended for every dancer and by extension for everyone!

For this series, Oona starts from the idea of "connection," in the broadest sense of the word. The concept of conne-x-ions is about making connections on different levels.

We look for connections in the body itself: how can we engage our whole body when we move, how can we fluidly go on/off balance, how can we connect movement and breathing ... But we also look for connections that transcend the merely anatomical: between body and mind, between body and imagination, between dancing body and music, space. We look for the connection with each other.

Keywords during each session are: grounding, expansion, flow and attention. Through an anatomical approach and focused bodywork, we look for ways to ground while moving and from that grounding to look for expansion. We then connect this grounding & expansion with flow and attention. Each session we deepen our dance potential step by step.

Those who have already taken classes with Oona know that you walk out of the studio refreshed, enriched, inspired and with a conscious body! Oona draws inspiration for this course from different traditions. Somatic practices such as Klein Technique™and Vijnana Yoga or the insights of Thomas Meyers (Anatomy Trains) and the Elemental Theory are certainly covered here.

Practical

Wear clothes which allow you to move freely, and a warm jumper if you get cold easily. We dance and move barefoot. Bring a yoga mat, a tennis ball and a bottle of water for during the class.

Level of experience

Level X: for everyone, regardless of previous movement or dance experience.

Sessions

  • Sun 11 May '25
    14:00 - 17:00
    R7 - danszaal
  • Sun 25 May '25
    14:00 - 17:00
    R7 - danszaal
  • Sun 15 June '25
    14:00 - 17:00
    R7 - danszaal
  • Sun 22 June '25
    14:00 - 17:00
    R7 - danszaal

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Teacher

Oona Van Aken

Oona Van Aken is active as a dancer and dance teacher. She graduated with a degree in dance and…
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