Come alive to Now. Open to creative possibility.
Synchronise your mind and body. Connect in awareness through movement, voice and touch.
Play with Presence.
Freeforming is a multi-sensory interactive practice developed by Peri Mackintosh drawing on Zen, Aikido, Gestalt and the improvisatory arts.
Beginners always welcome.
Come and try!
6:30-8:00pm Tuesdays
Edmund Waller Primary School
Waller Road
London SE14 5LY
Cost £10
Practice today was wonderful. Yes, exactly, ”wonder” ”full”.
With a focus on listening. Being active in hearing ”feelingly”, we were able to absorb eachother, and tune in. And for me, a whole world would open in each new moment. Finding form and space TOGETHER is so interesting for me. I like the letting go, the surrender to what’s happening ”now” rather than me trying to make something up or rush on to a new moment before the one we’re in has reached it’s full bloom. It can be frightening to be still, to slow down, breath and be honestly present. But when we do, it is magic, it is peaceful to be so open. Ah yes – as you said Peri – ”It is grace”
I love what I have seen here! Beautiful, beautiful, and so much of what I love about aikido. Budo is love! We work the same way but sometimes with hard static grabs, for instance…: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey9x-mh8-jg&feature=related
Thanks for publishing your exciting evolution!
So often our human poetics are overlooked. And , even sometimes, they are criticized or ridiculed as ineffective. But it takes an amazing sense of structure to compose the most fluid of poems. Poetics are what connects our spirits and reminds us of our true nature; living vessels of god’s grace.
Freeform aikido looks to be an amazing amalgam of structure and fluidity. And if the 100th monkey theory has any weight, Kimusubi is the direction my dojo’s have been moving in too!
Someday we’ll dance together in the same room. For now, let’s dance together in spirit.
Guys this is amazing !!! is pure art !!! unfortunatly im in Mexico, not in UK……. Regards
Hi Sebastian
I ll be presenting a day of Freeforming in Mexico in May 2012
http://freeforming.net/tuesday-evenings-weekly-practice/one-day-introduction-saturday-14-may-2011/esalen-institute%C2%AE-embodied-relational-gestalt-advances-in-somatic-practice-and-theory/aagt-2012-puebla-mexico-may-17-20/
all the best
Peri