The Invitation

‘..come away oh human child
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand..’

— W.B. Yeats, The Stolen Child

To the Waters and the Wild is a full-bodied invitation to follow the call of our wild yearning and curiosity into a direct experience of presence, connection and communion with each other and the natural world.

We have envisioned a space and sanctuary for bodies and beings to explore, unravel, reshape and merge into the wild magic and enchantment of the land.

We will gather into the warm hearty embrace of midsummer,
amidst the wild rugged beauty of west Cork, Ireland
when the light stretches long into the evening and the land is awake and bathed in a myriad of greens,....
….to explore
where body meets landscape
The body as animal
As plant
where movement becomes a form of listening,
a call and response,
a dance with
the natural world.
We will dance into the quiet magic,
the slowing down,
We will move with the warm breeze as it wraps around the trunks of trees and rustles through its branches
We will entwine with the shifting patterns of light and shadow as the sun spills through its leaves.
We will open to the rain that perfumes the soil and sinks deeply into our bodies
We will soften into the bogland, the sheltered river valleys and feel the richness and diversity of their ecology.
We will embody the mythology of the land.
An elemental and
magical ecology that
whispers into us
shaping the contours of our consciousness and ways of being,
inviting us into intimacy with the beauty, silence, sound, grief, abundance, lightness and darkness of its shifting embrace.

Through sensing, movement, connection, sound and stillness, we invite you to re-imagine and remember your sense of place and belonging within the Web of the living earth.

‘What if the cracks in our world are not flaws but thresholds that invite us to linger in mystery rather than rush to solutions’

– Bayo Akamolafe

In this spirit we will move into the terrain of unfolding possibility, raw imaginings and wild unknowings.

We will pause to listen and to encounter the mystery shimmering inside the fractures of our world.

Reserve your place⤀

About

To the Waters and the Wild is a somatic-movement gathering unfolding on a protected coastal nature reserve in Ballydehob, West Cork, Ireland. It is an invitation into a deep embodied dialogue with land, water, wind and wildness.

Through facilitated sessions and spaces for open improvisation, we envision that this gathering will foster and nurture a direct unmediated experience through the body and senses; and a reciprocity and kinship with each other and the natural world.

What is Somatics?

Somatics is the study and practice of the body from an internal and subjective perspective, rather than as an object observed from the outside. Somatic practice offers not only awareness but embodied possibility: a remembering that we are not separate from the landscapes we inhabit, but expressions of them.

The gathering will begin with an opening ceremony on Friday the 26th June at 6pm and run until lunch time on Monday the 29th of June.

There will be a selection of exceptional teachers, facilitators and performers spanning a range of disciplines and modalities (some local and some international) chosen on the basis that we feel they embody the core principles of our event.

Participants will explore guided movement journeys, outdoor contact improvisation, land-based ritual, voice and sound work, therapeutic touch and sensory meditation.

We invite you not only to move on the land but to move and sing
with it, to feel the uneven ground underfoot, the texture of bark against skin, the subtle shifts of weather across the body; allowing the elements themselves to become collaborators in the creative process.

More than a celebration of movement, this gathering is an invitation to reimagine relationship…

with self,
with community,
and with the ecosystems that sustain us.

Locally sourced plant based meals will be shared. Camping facilities are available onsite and private accommodation can be arranged at a reasonable rate.

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