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Practical workshop exercises for the mind, body and emotions.

• Introduction to breathwork (pranayama yoga)

• cold weather/water contact exercises (tummo)

• Walking barefoot in nature

• Silent walk with a primal scream at the end

• Trance-dance (blindfolded or not)

• One-on-one balance-imbalance game

• Qigong movements on music

• Making music with a group
  • singing games
  • beat poetry / rap

• Intuitive painting
  • optional: rotate place 3 times

• Art therapy idea's:
  • collaborative art
  • “voice liberation” exercises
  • theater?
  • …

• Meditation in nature
  • silent meditation
  • body-scan meditation
  • sensory mediation (food, drink, sounds, …)

• Reading aloud sort stories

• Find strange things in nature

• Go board game introduction

• Gardening introduction

• Holographic visualization (internal rendering) exercises (with the eyes closed)
  • topic: music of Simeon ten Holt (eg. the series “Horizon”)
    • imagine the music as a moving flow of shapes coming towards you
    • imagine the sounding keys on the piano
    • imagine the physical piano constellation
    • imagine the stream of emotional moods
    • imagine the stream of messages from the sounds
    • try moving around in this visualized space