Prapto in Britain and Eire 2009
Avebury Nature and Human
May 27 / June 5, Avebury
Kristina Bourdillon, Keith Miller,
Simon Slidders
keithmiller@homecall.co.uk
kristina@homecall.co.uk
simonslidders@hotmail.com
At Avebury we wish to explore Opening to
Nature and Opening to Human through use
of the themes of Circle, Oval and Square;
opening to the ancestral spirit of the land, to
our body nature in circulation with the land,
and to cultural dialogue with each other and
the land. We will be working at Avebury and
other ancient sites. On the final day there
will be an early morning movement session
at Stonehenge. This will be followed by a
celebration of World Environment Day at
Avebury.
Ecological Body Workshop
June 7 / 13, Dorset
Sandra Reeve
info@moveintolife.co.uk
Female Space
June 15 / June 21, Bristol/St Hughes
Judy Cole
judycole@talktalk.net
Last year by co-incidence or perhaps design
we were a workshop of women, blossoming
in a familiar source within a different
atmosphere. Our sense of time and timing
altered, communally and individually
evolving as different women came through
offering their diverse skills for support and
the rhythm of the workshop. Growing
together with confidence and giving time
for female sensitivity and eccentric clarity.
Create Music ‘Garden Chatting’
June 22 / 23rd ; August 17 / 19th, Dorset
Tim Jones
tim@thenatureofsound.com
Prapto and Tim Jones will begin to create a
dialogue on/in sound and music for human
tuning, in square, circle and oval.
This idea is in gestation, the first meeting
private, the second perhaps more open.
An Sanctoir
June 25 / July 2, West Cork
Claire Osborne
osborneclaire@hotmail.com
Theme – some of the ideas and themes
arising from 2008 workshop included;
cultural communication and understanding,
nature moving indoors, human meeting
nature, light and shadows, hidden and
revealed, fire in the heart, sharing garden
history revealed, healing in meeting, earth
and sky.
Bowing Mountain
August 8 /16, Michaelchurch
Stephen Hopkins, Isabel Moros
stephen.hopkins@ukonline.co.uk
I.Moros@exeter.ac.uk
The Bowing Mountain Workshop is
connected to the land and to the borders,
the borders between England and Wales
and the borders between the horizontal
and the vertical, listening to the song of the
land, to the inner landscape of our bodies
and our souls and to the outer landscape of
the mountain, the garden and the home.
Writing poetry between the lines, exploring
the image, moving between the spaces,
finding our own rhythm alone and together,
in community. With a meditative base and
strong collective focus the Bowing Mountain
Workshop is the longest running residential
Prapto led workshop in the UK. We work
both in whole group and small group
settings, indoors and outdoors. In August
2009 this eight-day workshop will offer
movement and poetry, and movement and
video options for a maximum of eighteen
participants.
Collaboration in
Family Sense
August 20 / 27, Brighton
Sean Williams and Una Nicholson
sean@seanwilliams.co.uk
una.nicholson@virgin.net
We are always working towards or away
from collaboration. It is always there. At
times it is elusive, at times it appears when
we weren’t expecting it.
In this workshop we will be opening to
the practical possibility of family having
collaboration and collaboration having a
sense of family. Family sense means the
quality of being open to others with a sense
of inclusion and welcoming the gifts that
people and life brings.
This family sense has a relaxed, homely
quality where our starting place is the
collective rather than the individual. How
can we honour and express our uniqueness
and be part of something larger?
The 2009 workshop will also involve some
storytelling and home video!