these people or your life in general owe you something? When such and similar questions arise in you, you are in the grip of the victim archetype, which teaches you how to set and protect personal boundaries. The victim archetype is at work even when you are always feeling tired, unsupported, “down”, and you think your complaining is justified. Through movement games and dance, in this workshop we will first feel the archetype of the victim, and then we will journey inward to establish an inner warrior who gives the victim a positive charge, courage and strength.

Through the embodiment of the negotiator, we will try to truly feel the power of negotiation, seduction, which many times leads us away from our path, our dreams, and tests our integrity. “What do I feel?” ... will be a leading question for establishing an inner lover who teaches us how to surrender and maintain eternal faith.

There are periods in life when we dream, fantasize and "enchant" our reality. We feel the power of our words as spells. We speechlessly observe the reality around us as delivered and are surprised and shocked by the chaos, unpredictability, and wonder of life. We are amazed. We feel deceived, even though we ourselves also innocently and sometimes consciously deceive others. We are full of tricks. In this workshop we will be introduced to archetypes, which at first glance may be a little bit frightening because they seem saturated with negative charge, so we will take a look on how their positive characteristics can manifest and through embodiment become our allies.

What do beggar, addict and thief have in common? Extremism, lack of self-control and a kind of imbalance in reciprocal process of giving and receiving. There are periods in life when everything is too much. We eat too much, we spend too much, we work too much, we enjoy too much, we rely too much on luck on behalf of effort ...

...and at the same time these archetypal energies can also be present in a woman. The transition from adolescence to adulthood requires from boys to encounter the complex propositions of these male archetypes that affect their psychological attitude and behavior, but only one archetypal pattern is dominant and the rest significantly influence the uniqueness of the archetypal manifestation and serve as important companions and supporters at life's turning points.Together, we will bring to light, through embodiment, what are the fundamental differences in the mode of action and behavior of these male archetypes.

We’ll take a leap to discover and use myths as insight tools to dig deeper into knowing our true nature. According to well established author Jean Shinoda Bolen: “The more complicated the woman, the more likely that many Godsesses are active within her. And what is fulfilling to one part of her may be meaningless to another. Every woman has “goddess-given” gifts to learnm about and accept gratefuly. Every woman also has goddess - given liabilities, which she must recognize and surmont in order to change. She cannot resist living out of a pattern determined by an underlying goddess archetype until she is conscious that such pattern exists and seeks to fulfill itself through her. When a woman senses that there is a mythic dimension to something she is undertaking, that knowledge touches her and inspires deep creative centers in her. “

Studies have shown that dance interventions by trained professionals can decrease depression, improve mood, and strengthen positive feelings about one’s self. Embodiment of healing archetypes of healer, rescuer, servant, caregiver and companion will flow in a direction that is very much about the mobilization and exchange of energy, and the creative, expressive process in which you will learn to move in ways that are authentic to how you are feeling and experiencing a given moment.

We’ll use dance forms and structures to modify them for release of tension and for helping you become comfortable in moving. We will also use healing sounds, music, rhythm instruments, foot stomping, hand-clapping, or laughter and all kinds of vocalizing to express our innermost emotional blockades.

Dance is movement, and movement is essentially a process of ongoing change. Moving with one’s whole body, with and against gravity, one learns to both yield and resist, to feel one’s strength and to feel one’s vulnerability, to try on new qualities of action and behavior. This is what it means to be fully human.

Dance-based methods for getting grounded, for sensing the body’s energy and position, and for developing breath support can help with learning to pay attention to one’s own needs, and for feeling more in control, and for regulating fearful or angry reactions.

As dancers know, dancing and moving rhythmically with other people creates a powerful sense of “togetherness” and unity that helps transforming negative experiences into healing.