Movimento Emoção Children
Movimento Emoção (in English: Movement Emotion) is the short version of the term
“Movimento Emoção - Emoção Movimento” which I used to describe the work I offer with movement.
Movement as a way of reaching the emotion and emotion as a way of reaching the movement, and so, in a circular way, we navigate what is alive in us, what we feel and experience in all our dimensions.
It was the method I found to capture something unique and very much in my image and experience, inspired by ZeroOne, Dance Therapy, 5Rhythms, Dance Movement Therapy, Gaga, Contact Improvisation and Ecstatic Dance, where the essence of the participant, what they feel, what they are, is the foundation of the exploration of movement and lived experience.
In the specific case of the Children's Movimento Emoção, these are sessions aimed at children mostly between the ages of 6 and 10.
Adults and teenagers also welcome. The main difference compared to the adult sessions is the depth of the dance "journeys" proposed, as well as a more active and intervening facilitation.
The main foundations of the proposed sessions are based on Dance Movement Therapy approaches, namely the use of grounding techniques, the Chacian circle and mirroring, giving children the opportunity to feel seen and recognise the other using the language of movement. My sessions are very much about getting in touch with emotions from an educational perspective: they are all welcomed and received by the group. Just as we are all welcomed and integrated by the group.
All these sessions are guided by me, with my voice and energy, accompanying a sequence of tracks.
Everything is done in a safe, non-judgmental environment and you don't need any dance experience, as what you do isn't choreographed or requires technique. I don't teach anything specific, I just help participants to get in touch with what already exists within themselves.
For this, the only ingredients the children need to bring are a genuine desire to explore, to play, to feel, something that is innate to them by nature.
Regardless of the results, the main objective is to offer each child the chance to get in touch with their most genuine and authentic self.
Where they arrive is always an individual experience, but one that is closely linked to the energy that the group creates. Sometimes it is in processes of empathy, opening up to the experiences of others, that something significant happens.
Other times it's the simple fact of being able to move without conventions and expectations.
Group sessions.
There are currently no regular sessions planned. Events for children will be posted on the main page.
The duration of each session can vary from 45 minutes to 1.5 hours. Each session is unique, with a different proposal from the previous ones. However, the structure of each session is the same:
1. we start with a check-in, how each person feels and where in the body they locate this feeling.
2. We move on to the dance "journey", where the path is taken very gently and with sensitivity.
3. Sharing circle, what is alive. Allowing us to give names to what we feel and experience and to practice active, empathetic listening.
In addition to scheduled sessions, I am also available for specific group sessions. For groups already formed that want to explore the dimensions of the self, expression, movement, emotion, feeling, the self and the other, the now, presence, the moment.
