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RESONANT BODIES

Ecstatic Dance and live Sound bath experience.

exploring our bodies as vibrational entities in resonance with our surroundings.

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Resonant Bodies is hosted by 

Emma Winter & Maria Rita Salvi.


Our collaboration has seen us over the years in various projects in the UK in festivals such as

Heartwood, Wasinga project, Medicine Festival & Ritratti d'Artista, Italy as well as private and corporate workshops.

 

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Photography - Marco Biancucci for Ritratti d'Artista 

Mari & Emmas last collaboration in Ascoli Piceno September 2024


RESONANT BODIES

is

a journey of vibrations

inside and out,

a sonic experience

accompanied by Afro-South American electronic music,

rhythms and melodies of organically ancestral and atavic instruments

and the multi-directional, pure and mesmerising sounds of Crystal Bowls, Gong and other resonant instruments including Emma's unique intuitive vocals.



Our modern physics conception of matter is changing fast;

we are slowly integrating Einstein’s discovery that the matter of our bodies is in fact energy,

and so that all matter is inseparable from the energetic and vibrational background of the natural world, as it is constantly in resonant or dissonant relationship, affecting its speed and amplitude.

As we explore the awareness of this in the dance, we realise not only the natural world’s influence on our vibration,

but also that we have agency in this relationship and can actually generate the vibration

we are looking for using our intention and focus, releasing excess tensions and outdated patterns

and inviting higher levels of energy, both mental and physical.

So working as a group we also explore our collective vibration.

 

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The Ecstatic dance journey is an opportunity for joyful unedited self-expression and untamed self-expression - tension release and movement meditation.

A collective experience that will go through a map, following "waves" of music that warm up through the body to a vigorous high point of complete abandon, to then warm down again via more subtle poetic movements tending towards stillness.

Everyone is invited into a dance meditation to activate their own creative process while the energy of the group rises to celebrate the opportunity to connect through dance.

There are no rules or expectations, the movement is free- simply let the music and the energy of the space guide your body.

Rediscover the joy of movement, embrace the freedom within, and embark on a truly uplifting and transformative journey!

As you complete the wave of the dance and slowly find your way into savasana

you will then be gently guided and transported inward through the power of vibrational sound.

For centuries, people have harnessed sound’s profound healing effects on the mind, body, and soul — an ancient method of recalibrating our systems to rest, rejuvenate, and self heal. It is one of the simplest forms of meditation, allowing you to access altered states of consciousness beyond your usual waking state. 

As you slowly awaken from this experience you will have an opportunity to reflect and journal. 

If you wish to share your thoughts together you may but there is no pressure too.

 

 

Teas & fruit infused water will be provided to complete our time together. 

YOUR HOSTS

 MARIA RITA SALVI 

Maria Rita Salvi is an Italian dance artist, choreographer and a certified Skinner Releasing Technique Teacher.

She moved to London in 2001 to study at the International School of Corporeal Mime (E. Decroux) and has a Diploma and a Post Graduate in Teaching and Directing. Since 2005 she has been training in contemporary and somatic dance practices, performing and collaborating with various artists internationally.

As a choreographer and a dancer she finds Skinner Releasing Technique (Introductory level) intrinsic to her creative process with a particular interest in devising site-specific work. 

Maria Rita is currently based in Italy teaching to a wide range of participants from long-term professional dancers to those new to dance. In collaboration with Freddy Drabble she has approached the ecstatic dance practice by creating together the format of Free Dance and Silent Dance in nature.

She runs Being in Motion and she is the artistic director and organizer of Ritratti d’Artista international dance festival in Ascoli Piceno, Central Italy.  

https://www.ritrattidartista.it/

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EMMA BIO & LINKS

Emma is a multi-disciplinary Artist & Vibrational sound guide.

 

Emma, harnesses the power of creativity and imagination, along with the alchemy of sound,

to facilitate multi-sensory immersive spaces and embodied experiences.

Emma’s sonic immersions encourage participants to release, playfully explore, and take a journey of expansion using sound as their guide

To find out more explore this website!


There are no spectators or age limits.

There is no right or wrong way to move.

 

This is a mindful movement experience where you are invited to let go and deeply listen to your own body and learn to express emotiond through movement. The euphoria that is released when we truly learn to let go and as we feel the energy & support of the group is unparalled.

 

The depth of the meditation in savasana that can be acessed after such expression of movement is magical.

 

Anybody can access this.

 

We invite you to join us.

YOUR EXPERIENCE

Everyone will be having their own unique experience throughout this session.

Trust that we always receive exactly what we need in these meditations.

Thoughts and emotions will arise, allow these and remember that everything is transient.

Nothing that we provide in this experience will take you to unchartered realms.

Opening your eyes will bring you back into the present space immediately.

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