The Festival

A week-long dance festival with various movement classes daily, communal food, camping if desired and lake swims!

I will be teaching the morning sessions which are a yoga fusion and called BODY AWAKENING

From the  12 of August afternoon to the  17 of August morning  2024

• dance studios for in-depth work

• an outdoor dance space

• teachers from around Europe

• live music

• organic and local food made on site

• facilities that are unique and open to as many people as possible from single rooms to camping places

This festival welcomes you to dance of course, and also to enjoy exceptional nature in the heart of the wild Ardèche, with forest, a lake for swimming, and all amenities to make these days as nourishing and enjoyable as possible. 

The program: Body awakening before breakfast, dancing in the morning in the studio or outdoors depending on the weather, a wave at the end of the day and surprises throughout the week.

FACILITATORS

Adam Barley is the creator of the ZeroOne movement practice. He has been facilitating movement since 1993.

Marc Silvestre is an accredited 5 Rhythms Dance teacher Wave and Heartbeat level and a certified coach. It offers courses and internships in France and Europe.

Irene H. Sanchez, originally from Spain, offers 5 Rhythms Dance classes and workshops in Europe. Also a therapist and co-director of the Redes Center, she has a joyful and profound approach to this practice.

Maria-Carin Gala a movement teacher and DJ offering Body Awakening sessions. She is also Chef and Director of Galas Organic Kitchen.

Nessim Bismuth is an exceptional musician who has accompanied and created music for many dance companies and plays. He has accompanied Marc in his internships for several years.

Fierce Loving

The art of creative conflict

Loving is fierce! At least sometimes. To truly love, we have to be up for being passionate, disturbing the peace and giving our wild-hearted nature some breathing space.

We need harmonious connection with others, but we also have the need for authenticity, and because we are all different, we have to deal with conflict.

It takes a certain fierceness of the heart to stand your ground, disagree with others, defend innocence, and make a difference in the world. To be fiercely loving is to wield the emotional energy often called ‘anger’ in a skillful way in service to life and love. To do that requires us to clear the baggage of the past so we’re not carrying around childhood rage, just waiting to fire it at anyone who touches our trigger points.

This is steady, long-term work. It takes practice, compassion, patience, courage and persistence. Fierce Loving is a movement-based ZeroOne journey that empowers the process.

You will learn how to:

embody, express and release emotional energytake wholehearted responsibility for your angerlet go of baggage from the pastaccess the three essential gifts of fierce lovingengage in conflict as a creative, life-affirming practice that benefits everybody

To attend, you must be willing to dance deep, see the truth, and go beyond what you know. You’ll need some previous experience with movement as a practice. We also recommend you have some resources in your life to integrate deep feelings, such as a regular movement practice or embodied therapeutic work. Please ask if you’re unsure.

“It was definitely fierce and most certainly loving . . . potent fire . . . love it!”

“totally changed my dance” 

“I have more clarity and energy”

“It was fun, it was sexy, safe and exciting”

Truth

Not abstract truth such as ‘Love is All’, nor the truth of stories about what we have lived through, but specific, personal, in-the-present truth such as ‘My heart is breaking’, or ‘I love you’, or ‘I am shy with you right now’.

This the kind of honesty we find when we dance. We get to see what’s really going on, within ourselves and each other, when we bear witness to the unfolding moment of the moving body.

The body doesn’t lie. It cannot. The body is always bringing forth the precise truth, now, and we can see it, learn from it and grow through it, becoming more truly ourselves, with each other, now.

With practice, we can learn to speak from this place too. To name what’s really going on in just a few simple words, and even when it’s difficult say or difficult to hear, the truth always makes us feel lighter. It’s always a relief.

This will be our pathway for the weekend. To dance, to speak, to listen and to see the truth within each other. And that is a blessing.

So be it.

“Thank you for the work you are doing. What I have learnt from you helped me through some very difficult times.” Alexandra, Therapist.

Adam Barley

Adam is the founder of ZeroOne - a world-renowned creative movement practice. He began studying healing and meditation in the early 80's, was a student of Gabrielle Roth and became a 5Rhythms teacher. His ZeroOne method is a movement meditation used to achieve individual evolution as a human dancer.

Take a dancing journey with Adam Barley in search of the truth!
When we witness the movements of the body, we can see exactly what is really going on within ourselves and others.

Interpretation of the seminar from English into Czech language provided.