Dance in Nature

DANCE IN NATURE is based on movement explorations, instant composition, mindfulness and somatic movement. The Latin word soma means “the living body.” Somatic Movement is a field within bodywork and movement studies aimed at experiencing and feeling movement from within the body. As we recognize ourselves with our breathing bodies, the perceived world itself begins to shift and transform. From this place of sensing and being we can receive an poetic access to whatever is there. We build connection and interaction with our surroundings. Basically, when we touch the skin of the tree, at the same time, we can feel ourselves touched by the tree.

Our understanding of life rises up from our living bodies. We can experience things – we can touch, hear and taste things – only because we ourselves are part of the sensible world we perceive! The breathing sensing body is nourished from the environment surrounding us. Indeed, we are not separable from nature though our civilization with it’s technologies and architecture can make us feel disconnected. Moving Heart wish to create an experience without countless human artifacts such as asphalt roads and streetlights, virtual realities from phones, computers and television-screens. With dance in nature you can experience a stronger sense of community in a technologically advanced world. Here you can nourish your bodily sensations and a space beyond words.

show that dance and nature has a healing ability in reducing stress and to increase well-being. After only five minutes walk in the forest, the pulse goes down and the blood pressure and the stress hormones in the blood decreases. Brain growth is dependent on being stimulated by what is in nature; to hear the song of birds, to feel the wind and to see all the natural shapes and colours. Spending time in nature with dance can create new perspectives and a greater access to ourselves.

ElinMaria and Gabriel have spent daily hours, sometimes months of living simple in nature and exploring dance, meditation and yoga in and with nature. We love to share our treausers and bring you to places where nature is dominating our sensorial participation; in the naturally grown forests with old trees and swamps, on islands without cars and full of weather and wind or on the snowy mountaintop. Most of our courses and events happens in the abundant areas where sounds of civilization are limited or none; in the north or countryside of Finland and Sweden or in the national park of Finnish Archipelago. This part of the world are measured to have one of the cleanest nature and air to breath on Earth. The archipelago’s cultural landscape and habitats belong to one of the most diverse in Finland and are listed as one of UNESCO’s biosphere reserves. Here you can simply rest in your movement exploration, share a meal around the camp fire or sit in silence under the stars. We hope to nourish your connection to the nature, yourself and receive a sense of being alive and nourished.

Let yourself be moved by the wind, the raindrops after a thunderstorm, the silence of the dark night full of stars, the whispering old forest and the symphony of the birds. Welcome to join us and explore nature in you and be touched by nature around you.