30-31 August 2024, Mafra, Portugal

Intensive in Connection for Unpredictable times, through Shamanism and Clowning

Where do we start?

It’s definitely too much on my plate now.

I’m struggling to make sense of the present. I don’t really know what I am doing. If I do, I don’t know why am I doing it for.

I can’t compute the idea of a future.

In all honesty, what I’m presenting to the outside world is way different from what I perceive inside.

You know all the right words how to handle this, don’t you?

What if you can’t handle it, yet you don’t need to suffer?

How do you let go? Forget productivity, balance, recovery - how do you open up to what’s beyond your control, the completely unknown?

Also, how do you deal with what you don’t know yet about yourself? How do you play with the uncertainty in the relationship with others or with your life’s mission?

There’s a wisdom in the body that translates mental and emotional formations like love, drive, sorrow, doubt, fear, into physical/organic experiences and actions that can generate immediate movement and clear paths.

That’s the field of ritual and play. That’s the field of a shaman and a clown. These two entities are connected in many ancient traditions, as both invite the interruption of the normal circle of events and transport the “tribe” to a space where it’s possible to experiment, risk, release, rebuild, get lost, be found somewhere else. And afterwards, with renewed fire in the system, go back to the consequential reality. Bringing a strong change of perspective to allow for new choices or for bigger trust in the current ones.

Weaving silence and radical expression, free play and breath work, inner movement and group dynamics, ritualistic steam sessions with nature immersion, we call all with an exploring spirit to take part in this rare opportunity to become more adventurous and take big pleasure in it.