Flow Into Ease
A workshop with maRia Probst in cooperation with ImPulsTanz - Vienna International Dance Festival
Flow Into Ease
An experience of ease workshop with maRia Probst
Together we create an experience of ease by reconnecting with the potent resources a free-flowing breath has to offer. Listening to the language of the body, its expressions in movement, you can use your available potential to regain childlike ease in your daily activities and beyond.
We slow down while allowing our bodies to open and expand like a landscape. The willingness to interact with momentum, gravity, centrifugal and other forces create lightness in movement. We support each other with appropriate touch, studying biomechanical connections within ourselves in an embodied way – for example how to allow ourselves to fold deeply in our hip valleys as a base for effortless lifting of the leg. We learn about how fascia works and support it with imagination and joyful, dynamic movement. The shape, weight and gliding ability of our organs enable us to swing effortlessly through space. Within our bodily journey we draw from several somatic movement practices such as Trager – Mentastics, Qi Gong, Body Mind Centering, Skinner Releasing and others.
Duration: Approximately 100 minutes daily
SHARED MOMENTS:
Fun(gi) field trips
Look with us for mushrooms and discover the wildlife in the Umbrian fungi paradise! Christian will share his profound ecological knowledge about the world of mushrooms with us. Mushroom life offers insights in how an individual can be part of a bigger system. “Mushrooms can change our minds, heal our bodies and even help us avoid environmental disaster; they are metabolic masters, earth-makers and key players in most of nature's processes.” (See Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life). Mushrooms can also help us to realize the connections between the multiple crises and opportunities current in humanity, but above all they may help us to recognize connections among and within us.
We turn the mushroom foraging into a partnering with nature. A dance in which we
experience the mushrooms as “companion species”, to speak with Donna Haraway. Biodiversity also means diversity of movement and by means of improvised scores we might create spontaneous works of art - comparable to the popping up of a collection of mushroom fruiting bodies in a forest.
One field trip will take us into one of the medieval towns in the vicinity and enjoy the Italian dolce vita.
Fun(gi) Field Trips are included when you sign up for Flow into Ease!
Duration: approximately 100 minutes each daily
Flow Into Ease can be booked together with Christian Apschner's Flow Into Strength
Meet your workshop leader
maRia, originally studied at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz / Austria, has been a freelance dance and performance artist and contemporary dance teacher since 1999. In the course of her training at the Moving On Centre in San Francisco, she was certified as a Somatic Educator and Participatory Arts Practitioner. maRia Probst explores many facets of this form of art in various settings. She is engaged as a dance teacher nationally and internationally by ImPulsTanz, TQW, K3- Hamburg and others. As part of the School of Theatre, she accompanied drama students for many years, both pedagogically and artistically. For more than two decades, she has designed and managed the rollingpoint association (contact improvisation, contemporary dance and somatic learning) in a team with Christian Apschner. Together with colleagues, she has been conducting interdisciplinary basic artistic research as the Somex Group since 2007. She creates participatory arts settings in various context.
She is currently part of the Erasmus+ funded project Keep on Dancing! (KODA)
maRia Probst is a certified Tuina practitioner which is considered to be the manual aspect of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She is a trained somatic fascia therapist, Somatic Educator and a mum.
More information about maRia is available at https://rollingpoint.at/en/
- Accommodation for 7 days (6 nights)
- 3 vegetarian meals daily
- 5 movement sessions (~100 minutes each)
- Shared Moments: Fun(ghi) Field trips (~100 minutes daily)
- Talk with the teacher
- Access to pool and all other amenities of Tenuta di Poggiolame
- Shuttle to and from train station Fabro-Ficulle
Total costs for 7 days (6 nights) per person: from € 990 to € 1,680 (single or double room, private or shared bathroom).
Upon receipt of a deposit of 400 euro, the retreat is bindingly reserved. Please take note of our cancellation policy.
Number of participants: max. 16
A retreat in cooperation with ImPulsTanz
our rooms
Scaleni
28m² fits 2 people
Scaleni is part of the historic building and sits on the upper floor facing north and east. It features an open fire place and an open beam ceiling. Two beds (a single bed and a 140cm futon bed) furnish the room. Scaleni is directly connected to Axis, of which the guests will have to pass through Scaleni to get to the shared bathroom.
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Axis
18m² fits 2 people
Axis is a cute little double room (two single beds) facing east on the upper floor. It features open beams with terracotta tiles. It is connected to the front room (Scaleni), through which one will walk through to get to the hallway and to the bathroom, which is shared with Scaleni.
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Mana double
16m² fits 2 people
Mana double room looks out towards the pool. It is part of the Mana apartment which is a bit away from the other rooms. It shares a bathroom with Mana single.
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Alba
18m² fits 2 people
Alba is a double room on the upper floor of the original building with open beam ceilings and faces east and south. Its doublebed (160 cm wide) features a canopy. It shares a bathroom with Psoas and Vitus
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Psoas
16m² fits 2 people
The Psoas is a double room located on the upper floor of the original building with a historic open beamed ceiling. The windows face south and west. Psoas has a double bed (160 cm) and shares a bathroom with Alba and Vitus
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Gracilis
18m² fits 2 people
Gracilis is a double room and looks out the west side towards Montegabbione. It contains a double bed (160 cm wide). It shares a wheelchair accessible bathroom with Soleus, with whom it makes up an apartment
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Amiata
30m² fits 2 people
Amiata is a double room apartment with a gallery. Upstairs: double-bed (160 cm) & bathroom. Downstairs there are two single beds and a kitchenette. Private west terrace with a lovely view of our olive orchards and Monte Amiata.
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Iris
30m² fits 2 people
Iris is a double room apartment with a gallery. Upstairs: double-bed (160 cm) & bathroom. Downstairs there is a single bed and a kitchenette. Private west terrace with a lovely view of our olive orchards and Montegabbione
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Atlas
35m² fits 2 people
Atlas is a double room and located on the upper floor of the main building with windows and balcony doors facing north and south. It has a private terrace of 30 m2 with a view from Monte Peglia to Monte Cetona. It also has a huge double bed (180x200) made of solid cherry wood.
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Mana single
14m² fits one person
Mana single is a single room looking towards the pool. It features its own terrace looking directly onto an olive grove and is part of the Mana apartment which is a bit away from the other rooms. It shares a bathroom with Mana double.
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Vitus
15m² fits one person
Vitus is a single, east-facing room on the upper floor of the historic building featuring original beams. The bed is 140 cm wide. Vitus has its own terrace and entrance (outdoor staircase). It shares a bathroom with Psoas and Alba.
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Alba (as single room)
18m² fits one person
Alba is a double room on the upper floor of the original building with open beam ceilings and faces east and south. Its doublebed (160 cm wide) features a canopy. It shares a bathroom with Psoas and Vitus.
our rooms
Psoas (as single room)
16m² fits one person
The Psoas is a double room located on the upper floor of the original building with a historic open beamed ceiling. The windows face south and west. Psoas has a double bed (160 cm) and shares a bathroom with Alba and Vitus.
our rooms
Gracilis (as single room)
18m² fits one person
Gracilis is a double room and looks out the west side towards Montegabbione. It contains a double bed (160 cm wide). It shares a wheelchair accessible bathroom with Soleus, with whom it makes up an apartment.
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Soleus
22m² fits one person
Soleus is a single room and sits at the south west corner of the terrace, with its own furniture on the main terrace. It contains a medium size bed (140 cm wide) and a kitchenette. It shares a bathroom with Gracilis, with whom it makes up an apartment.
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Piriformis
12m² fits one person
Piriformis is a single room with its own bathroom. Piriformis has a north-facing private terrace, which is pleasantly cool in summer. Piriformis is close to the kitchen and is therefore best suited to guests who like to get up early or who don't mind kitchen noise.
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Iris (as single room)
30m² fits one person
Iris is a double room apartment with a gallery. Upstairs: double-bed (160 cm) & bathroom. Downstairs there is a single bed and a kitchenette. Private west terrace with a lovely view of our olive orchards and Montegabbione.
