Elemental Movements

Awakening our Inner Dancer

7 — 14 Sept with Lynn Campbell and Gordon Sharp €400

Elemental Movements

Lynn and Gordon are both passionate about dance and how embodied, creative movement can enable physical, emotional and artistic well-being. Our work and study is an integration of body work, therapeutic approaches, performance/theatre and shamanic practice.

The focus of this course will be our bodies. Their physicality, their connection with our hearts and minds, each other and the wider world.

Every day we will awaken the dancer within us through a variety of body practices including:

A deep warm up connecting body with breath supported by live drumming. This will form the beginning body ritual for our day together—a chance to check in with how you’re doing? To gather resources and support for the day and to physically massage, oil and move our bodies with breath and movement.
Moving Meditations that develop our relationship with the Elements of Earth, Fire, Water & Air indoors and in nature. We’ll work with our awareness of the elements as part of our selves and our relationship with them. We’ll dance with the elements as inspiration and resources and think about ways we can access this resource in our everyday lives.
We will also give time for reflective practices including Ritual Theatre, Dream Awareness, Collaborative Mandala Making and creating Personal Rituals for our daily lives. These creative reflections will be an opportunity to integrate our personal and group experiences, our daily lives and the dance practice and our connections to community, environment and the wider world.

The details, structure and balance of our sessions will respond to the interests, passions and energy of the group.

We strongly believe that all bodies can dance, so we welcome anyone with an interest in and desire to move to join us for this exciting exploration.

About Gordon Sharp

I passionately believe that to change ourselves, our relationships with each other and the natural world, we must start from our perception of and interaction with our own bodies.

Since 1972 I’ve worked as a performance director, performer, musician and community artist running and developing a number of UK based performance and workshop companies including Skin and Bones, Puppets & People and Heart Performance.

I’ve lectured in performing arts at Newcastle, North Tyneside and Durham Colleges of Further Education and Northumbria University and taught Yoga and Tai Chi in Adult Education and for Her Majesty’s Prison Service.

I’ve also worked as a freelance creative practitioner developing, producing and coordinating a wide variety of performance and arts projects in schools, community centres and festivals with many children, young people and adults of all ages.

For over 20 years I have been actively involved in developing and participating in the 5 Rhythms Movement Practice of Gabrielle Roth. I have taken part in a wide range of 5 Rhythms workshops with teachers and practitioners in the UK, Europe and the United States. I am part of the “Live Rhythms” group of musicians and dancers in Northeast England exploring the connections between live music and 5 Rhythms Movement Practice.

During the last 30 years I have worked with practitioners of Core Shamanism including Simone Silverpath and Leo Rutherford. My own development of these skills and insights is ongoing.

I play a number of musical instruments including sitar, saxophones, djembe and hand percussion.

I am a visual artist creating digital and hand drawn mandalas for over 40 years. My work can be seen at www.naturemandala.com.

Our very affordable (€250) Living-in-Community program welcomes you to stay on a week before or after your retreat to relax and fully enjoy this special unspoiled region of Greece. Book now!

About Lynn Campbell

My practice and my work as a Movement Medicine Teacher is deeply part of who I am. I’ve now taught and worked in this field for many years: Elemental Movements

I worked for over ten years as a primary school teacher, teacher for children with special needs and as a special needs advisory teacher—movement play was always part of my passion.

I gave up teaching in 1998 to study on the MA programme at The Laban Centre and to develop my work as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist and as a freelance dance artist.

In 2000 I co-founded the Bare Toed Dance Company which specialises in offering movement play and dance to young children and their parents/teachers/carers.

I’ve also taught for the National Childbirth Trust and I’m an Active Birth Teacher offering movement for pregnancy sessions and Baby Play sessions with babies crawling and their mums.

In 2006 I began studying with the School of Movement Medicine (an integration of physical, artistic, shamanic, devotional and therapeutic practice) and recently completed their apprenticeship and have began work as an apprentice teacher.

Contact Gordon Sharp at

Tel +44 (0) 785 654 4286
Email:

Contact Lynn Campbell at

Tel +44 (0) 790 685 4092
Email:

You can book this workshop online now.

Kalikalos is run by and as a full community comprising the unpaid volunteer staffers and our guests. So, as a workshop participant you'll join the cooking team once in the week, and help occasionally with clean up, gardening or admin. The work is not onerous, about 6-7 hr of "Karma Yoga" in the week. This makes our programmes more affordable and helps us build community together.