Morning sessions for people who work with movement and wish to connect with their bodies, awaken their awareness, and discover new and forgotten connections in movement.

The practice is based on the somatic approach of Body-Mind Centering® and combines experiential anatomy with conscious movement, improvisation, and imaginative exploration. Through movement, touch, breath, attention, and anatomical visualizations, participants can experience how what happens inside us influences the way we move. How does movement change when we listen to the body from a different perspective? What can emerge at the intersection of sensation, imagination, and action?

The somatic warm-up series will focus on basic neurocellular patterns—the earliest ways of organizing movement that develop before birth and during the first year of life. These patterns form the basis of walking, dancing, and the way we relate to our surroundings and to others. Throughout the series, participants will explore how selected patterns support movement and open up new qualities of sensation, presence, and perception. This work will also incorporate other body systems, such as organs, fluids, and bones.

The series consists of four 90-minute sessions. Each session will include individual work, work in pairs and small groups, as well as group activities. Some exercises may involve self-touch and touch with other participants. The sessions have been designed as a series of interconnected themes, and participants are encouraged to attend all four. Please wear comfortable clothing that allows you to move freely.

The warm-up will be a process of gradually arriving in the body, awakening attention and sensitivity, and tuning the senses through grounding in physicality and becoming “awake, alert, and available.”
The sessions will be conducted in Polish, with instructions repeated in English when needed.
Each exercise is an invitation that participants may choose to follow, modify, or opt out of. Rest is possible at any time.

Some exercises may involve touch; participation in these is voluntary and takes place with the consent of all participants.

Music will be used during the sessions. The volume can be adjusted at participants’ request.
No previous experience in somatic practices is required.

Somatic Sanatorium – Yuliya Dzichkouskaya and Tomasz Jagusztyn-Krynicki

Tomasz Jagusztyn-Krynicki and Yuliya Dzichkouskaya are somatic movement educators, performers, and co-founders of the Sanatorium Somatyczne Foundation. They work with the Body-Mind Centering® approach and have completed the Somatic Movement Educator training. They are currently continuing their studies at the second level of the program—BMC® Practitioner. They have completed over 1,000 hours of training and assisting at BMC® schools in Germany, Spain, Italy, Estonia, and Poland. Their work combines somatic practice with movement improvisation, ecosomatics, new choreography, and theater pedagogy. They are members of the Body-Mind Centering Association (BMCA) and the Association of Theater Educators.