In this talk Giovanni will speak out of his 30 years of experience, working with people through touch and movement, as a Rolfer, yoga teacher and movement therapist. He will show how the very young science of human movement uses the term “embodiment” to herald a new way of understanding how we come to “know” our bodies and how we humans get up on our two feet and move about in a world.
Through art, nature and anatomy he will help us to see how our body is more than an object that we measure, idealise and perform good or bad deeds in. How much more is “embodiment” the very tissue of relationship made to go beyond itself as naturally as a flower loses its petals, an apple tree drops its fruit in autumn and snowdrops or wild garlic come up through the ground in spring.
To journey into this understanding we will connect with moments of one the oldest stories told in the human family — the biblical story — to shine light on how our “embodiment” is the ground and key therefore for the promise of a face to face encounter with the Divine.
Leader
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Giovanni Felicioni
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Giovanni Felicioni is the Associate Director of Bonnevaux Centre for Peace, the international home of the WCCM. He has been involved with the WCCM since its inception, serves on its Guiding Board and is a Benedictine Oblate. Before his role at Bonnevaux, Giovanni’s professional career spanned 30 years as a bodyworker, movement instructor and therapist in London and Europe. He studied yoga with visionary and pioneer Mary Stewart (Vanda Scaravelli) and regularly taught on her London-based Yoga Teacher Training. He is a certified Advanced RolferR, a Rolf Movement™ practitioner and has served on the faculty of the Rolf Institute since 2000. Giovanni taught for Independent Dance, founded in London by Siobhan Davies, Gill Clarke and Fiona Milward. He taught the Masters in Creative Practice at Trinity Laban, run by Independent Dance and Siobhan Davies Dance. He was also a contributor at the PAL, Movement and Meaning laboratories, founded by Gill Clark and Susan Benn. In 2012 He founded the British Academy of Rolfing in London. Most importantly, these 30 years of personal research into the relationship between touch, movement, awareness and contemplation led him to over two decades of study with movement scientist Hubert Godard during Hubert's development of Tonic Function Theory.
Register for the Full Series
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Register for full series (get 10 talks for the price of 7))
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All sessions include a led meditation
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Time to interact with the speakers
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Lifetime access to recordings (single sessions registrations give 1 year access)
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