The event will offer two ‘Practices in Conversation’ - Claire Loussouarn (UK) ‘Feral in the City’ and Sebastian Bechinger (UK) ‘Ecosomatic Gestalt’. This is the third of a series of community events co-hosted by IFEEA generative- and core-members aiming to create a platform for sharing & conversing on eco-embodied practices - starting from what members do. Join us for a journey of embodied practices that deepen our connection to self, community, and the more-than-human world while inspiring ecological care and creative reciprocity. Participants will have an opportunity to experience the proposed practices and will have time to ask questions and engage in the emerging conversation.
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London-based Claire Loussouarn weaves together her expertise as a movement artist, teacher, insight herbalist, filmmaker, anthropologist and author to create work that dissolves the boundaries between human and the more-than-human world. She is the author of How to Be Feral: Movement Practices to Re-Wild Your Body, through which she guides others in rediscovering their innate connection to the natural world and their own embodied wisdom. Since 2018, Claire has been immersed in a profound artistic dialogue with Hackney Marshes, collaborating with filmmaker Dominique Rivoal to document her movement practice as it responds to the shifting seasons of this urban wilderness.
Claire will share her practice of moving through the seasons over more than seven years on Hackney Marshes, a common land in East London. She will also discuss her book, How to be feral: movement practices to re-wild your body, which invites us, through movement, to inhabit the contradiction of being human—straddling nature and culture, not as separate realms, but in full interaction, ultimately embracing our feral in-between.
Sebastian Bechinger is a London-based artist, dramaturg, and Somatic Movement Educator in Body-Mind Centering®. His artistic research explores the intersections of embodiment, ecology, neuroaesthetics, and performance. In addition to Body-Mind Centering®, he has trained in the Six Viewpoints (Mary Overlie), Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies, and Chinese Martial Arts, and holds a BA (Hons) in Choreography with Community Practices from Dartington College of Arts. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Gestalt Psychotherapy, deepening his psychophysical fluency and psychologically informed facilitation practice.
Sebastian will share his interest in rethinking the relationship between organism and environment through an ecosomatic lens. Currently studying Gestalt Psychotherapy and grounded in a background in Body-Mind Centering®, he is exploring a shift from an organism-centred perspective to the organism/environment field. Drawing on Perls, Hefferline and Goodman’s vision from Gestalt Therapy (1951), Sebastian revisits their ideas as a way to connect Gestalt practice with contemporary ecosomatic thought.
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