- Orientation & Paths
Workshop with Katja Münker | in the Alps
This workshop focuses on the development of movement, orientation and navigation in mountainous terrain. Based on Feldenkrais method & experiential anatomy, the orientation ability of humans with their nervous system and senses will be taught. This ability is applied in the use of map & compass in the terrain. In addition to the intensive exploration of sensory experiences, the economic development of endurance, strength and dynamics are trained. Both body interior, as well as landscape paths are explored, which allow site-specific, improvisational actions and fulfilling connections with the environment.
Further information about the complete training you can see in the detailled information. Please do not hesitate contacting Katja Muenker directly if you have questions. This workshop is also a module of the full continuing education Environmental Somatics.
Ausführliche Seminarinformationen
Environmental Somatics is a form of body-oriented learning and movement education, enhancing orientation and the ability to take action while being embedded within a living, the surrounding world.
The Environmental Somatics training is an on-job specialisation in Somatic Pedagogy for the application and facilitation of body-awareness practices in environmental contexts.
Environmental Somatics is a form of body-oriented learning in environmental context based on movement-perception-practices. It promotes embodied orientation and the ability to relate and act in our living environment. The training enables personal and professional embedding of contents and practices in different fields of action.
This training includes the basics of Somatic Pedagogy & Practice as well as its application in differently formed and inhabited urban and natural environments. The specific relations and interactions in and with the environments are tested, analysed and understood. Improvisational and compositional principles support the diverse adaptation of Somatic Practice to cultural, social, architectural, aesthetic and landscape conditions. Philosophical and cognitive scientific background knowledge support deeper understanding of the practice and its effects. In addition, basic techniques in somatic-artistic research and documentation, for the accompanying development and evaluation of one's own work are applied.
Aim of the training
The aim of the training is to understand and accompany body-perception processes, to use this knowledge for the care of our self-world-relationship and the shaping of our living-environments. Environmental Somatics are oriented towards an experienced sensory availability and bodily presence. Thus, the practice strengthens the ability to adapt and attune to situations and to act in relation. The aim is to make the practice part of our responsibility for the common good!
Additionally to the regular modules the training includes:
- 3 individual coaching sessions of 60 minutes each outside the modules
- 3 group coaching sessions outside the modules
- Individual project support and peer evaluation
- Feedback on own text production
- 2 supervised trail-presentations
- Organisational and content-related support for the final presentation and its evaluation
- Additional teaching material
Applied methods in the training
- Feldenkrais Methode
- erfahrbare Anatomie & Physiologie
- Improvisation
- Meditationspraktiken
- Outdooraktivitäten
Including
- Body philosophy
- Cognitive Sciences
- Natural sciences
- artistic-somatic research
- fields of application
For whom is the training recommended?
The training is suitable as a complement to or a new orientation for a wide range of professional fields: for example, architects can incorporate the intensification of spatial perception into their planning designs, urban planners can take sensory aspects into account when designing social spaces, or teachers can learn mediation strategies in order to design experientially immediate spaces for their teaching in a world that is becoming more and more virtual.
The training is aimed at all those who want to use somatic strategies constructively, visionarily and respectfully to shape our living environments and our life together.
It enables the individual embedding of contents and practices in different fields of action and leads to certification by the Somatic Academy Berlin with a final public presentation. Participants learn to apply body awareness in their private, professional, social or political work.
Curriculum of the complete Environmental Somatics Training
This training includes 5 modules and 250 hours.
The modules 1-4 can be booked seperately as workshops as well. The training will be in english (with german partial translation) or german, it depends to the group.
Module 1 | May 26 - May 30, 2025 | Body & Environment | in & around Berlin
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Module 2 | Sep 27 - Oct 04, 2025 | Orientation & Ways | In the Alps
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Module 3 | Mar 28 - Mar 29, 2026 | Research & Documentation | Berlin Somatic Academy
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Module 4 | May 23 - May 20, 2026 | Dimensions & Connectedness | At the Baltic sea
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Module 5 | Sep 29 - Oct 04, 2026 | Design of environmental references | In & around Berlin
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Team
Pedagogical direction:
Katja Münker (Feldenkrais Method / Somatics / Dance/Choreography / Artistic Research / Walking Art / Mountain Guiding)
Guest teachers:
- Andrea Keiz (video documentation / video art)
- Susanne Martin (PhD, Dance / Performance / Research)
- Undine Eberlein (PhD, Body Philosophy / Somatic Research)
Video-Impressions
Seminarleiter*innen
Katja Münker
www.movement-muenker.de/
Dance | Choreography | Performance | Somatics | Artistic Research | Walking Art | Mountain Hiking Guiding
Continuing education lecturer and director of Environmental Somatics and EMERGE/ Somatic in Dance at the Somatische Akademie Berlin. Member of the German Feldenkrais Association & ISMETA-registered RSME/RSMT/RSDE.
Trained as a physical therapist, Feldenkrais teacher, and mountain hiking guide, as well as in contemporary dance, (contact) improvisation, instant composition.
Conscious and embodied learning, the potential between individual freedom and collective inclusion in the environment, as well as joy, ease, and consciousness in the movement are the focus of her teaching. Her research-oriented practice is informed by deep-sensing investigation and reflecting evaluation. Beyond teaching her work includes performance projects, conference papers, and publications focusing on somatics and choreography, as well as on walking. Regular teaching at universities including FU Berlin, UdK Berlin, and HZT Berlin. Artistic research collaboration with AREAL_artistic research lab Berlin.
Kosten
Costs
Single module - all modules can be booked seperately as well
690€ + costs for accommodation, meals and traveling (approx. €500 per person)
Complete continuing education Environmental Somatics
2600€
Dates
Sep 27 - Oct 04, 2025
Curriculum of the complete Environmental Somatics Training
This training includes 5 modules and 200 hours.
The modules 1-4 can be booked seperately as workshops as well. The training will be in english (with german partial translation) or german, it depends to the group.
Module 1 | May 28 - Jun 01, 2025 | Body & Environment | in & around Berlin
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Module 2 | Sep 27 - Oct 04, 2025 | Orientation & Ways | In the Alps
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Module 3 | Mar 28 - Mar 29, 2026 | Research & Documentation | Berlin Somatic Academy
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Module 4 | May 23 - May 20, 2026 | Dimensions & Connectedness | At the Baltic sea
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Module 5 | Sep 29 - Oct 04, 2026 | Design of environmental references | In & around Berlin
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Anmeldeinformationen
- Full Price: 690.00 EUR
This workshop is also a module of the full continuing education Environmental Somatics. Please do not hesitate contacting Katja Muenker directly if you have questions.