- Contact & Connection - the connective tissue in Environmental Somatics

DE or EN | Introduction & deepening workshop for Environmental Somatics

Jul. 11 2025 – Jul. 13 2025

This workshop allows you to experience Environmental Somatics. It doesn`t matter how much experience you made before. It is recommended for people with ample experience as well:

to deepen the anatomy of the fascial connective tissue
to deepen the advanced training of Environmental Somatics
to practice body-awareness outside

What is focused within the Workshop?

Slippage, interconnectivity and sensitivity of the connective tissue form the physical prerequisites for our moving and interconnecting in the world. By touching something, we always experience ourselves and by moving, we experience the world. In this immediate interconnectedness, the fragility and potential of the living are revealed.

In this workshop we use experiential anatomy and somatic practice of fascia connective tissue to harness this knowledge into experiencing and nurturing the deep, wide, interwoven being of ourselves with the more-than-human world and to create beneficial relationships with the environment.

What does Environmental Somatics mean?

Environmental Somatics is a form of body-oriented learning in relation to the environment, which promotes orientation and the ability to act in our environment through movement and perception. It supports body-perception processes to understand and accompany, to use them for the care of our I-world-relationship and the shaping of our living environments, and to bring them into our responsibility for the community well-being! Environmental-Somatics practice is oriented towards experienced sensing ability and bodily presence and thus strengthens the ability to act and situational adaptation and attunement.

Please do not hesitate contacting Katja Muenker directly if you have questions. The workshop will be held in German or English (with German translation), depending on the group composition.

Ausführliche Seminarinformationen

Seminarleiter*innen

Katja Münker

www.movement-muenker.de/

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.

Costs and Dates

Costs

Single workshop

300€ | 230€ early bird until May 30, 2025

Complete professional training Environmental Somatics

2200€

Dates

Jul 11-13, 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, depending to the group.

Module 1	May 28 - Jun 01, 2025 \| Body & Environment \| in & around Berlin Basics of somatic pedagogy and its application in environmental contexts Experiences in the application of somatic approaches will be gathered in different urban & natural landscapes and compared in their effects Based on Feldenkrais Method and experiential anatomy, understanding of states of presence, of movement and environmental awareness Improvisation & meditation exercises are used to train the ability to be in place
Module 2	Sep 27 - Oct 04, 2025 \| Orientation & Ways \| In the Alps Development of movement, orientation and navigation in mountainous terrain Based on Feldenkrais Method & experiential anatomy, teaches human orientation skills using the nervous system and senses Exploration of both the inner body and landscape pathways to allow a location-based, improvisational action and a satisfying connection with the environment
Module 3	Mar 28 - Mar 29, 2026 \| Research & Documentation \| Berlin Somatic Academy Strategies and forms of reflection from artistic research are applied to somatic processes Basics of Artistic/Somatic Research Critical reflection of one's own somatic and creative process Development of one's own documentation practice appropriate to the object of research
Module 4	May 23 - May 20, 2026 \| Dimensions & Connectedness \| At the Baltic sea Expands and deepens orientation skills by exploring the experiential dimensions of height, depth, expanse, closeness, and distance Philosophical and neuroscientific foundations are used to provide a deeper understanding of relatedness and empathy The somatic emphasis is on the perception of space and environment, the breath, and the ability of resonance
Module 5	Sep 29 - Oct 04, 2026 \| Design of environmental references \| In & around Berlin Strategies for designing lively, inspiring and responsible body/perception expereiences Developing topic- and site-specific, somatic outdoor projects For dealing with groups, body/perception-based skills in leadership/leading and going along/following are trained

Anmeldeinformationen

Zeiten
Jul. 11 2025 –
Jul. 13 2025

10:00am - 5:30pm

Preise

Earlybird: 230.00 EUR
Full Price: 300.00 EUR

Zahlung Banküberweisung, PayPal

Hinweise

Dieses Event ist ein ergänzender Workshop zur Fortbildung Environmental Somatics, kann aber auch einzeln gebucht werden.

Nach Absprache kann damit der Einstieg in das 2. Modul der Environmental Somatics Fortbildung möglich werden. Für weitere Informationen und Fragen gern direkt Katja Muenker kontaktieren.