A gateway into the Soma Tierra School.
The Listener Body offers modules open year-round to people who are not part of the Soma Tierra School. It is an opportunity to meet the body's systems through listening, movement and danced forms (kata), learning to inhabit our body and to recognise the systems we live within.
The Listener Body was born from a simple observation.
Many of us know how to move,
but few truly know how to listen.
Listening to what happens in the body before acting.
Listening to weight, tone, breath, impulses.
Listening to the relationship rather than trying to control the movement.
Listening to space, timing, silence, the micro-changes that appear in the moment.
For several years, our respective paths have crossed around this same inquiry : how do we put listening back at the centre of movement?
Through contemporary dance, contact improvisation, partnering, Body-Mind Centering (BMC), Feldenkrais, martial arts, instant composition and somatic practices, we have gradually developed a shared way of working at the rhythm of nature and its living pulse : an approach where the body becomes, once again, our space of perception, relationship and living intelligence.
The Listener Body does not seek to impose a form or an aesthetic.
What interests us is something else : how to give the body back its availability, its sensitivity, its precision, its presence, its wisdom, its aliveness!
How to dance without overproducing, how to be in relationship without tensing up, how to compose without anticipating, how to let an authentic movement emerge from truly listening to what is there.
Little by little, this inquiry became a practice, then a pedagogy, then an evidence : creating spaces where this quality of presence can be explored collectively.
The Listener Body now offers a range of research and teaching formats : workshops, labs, residencies and immersions centred on movement, relationship and listening.
Six weekends of research,
throughout the year.
Each module runs over a weekend, to keep it accessible in both time and cost. Each gathering explores one of the six bodies from the SOMATIERRA Guide, from first contact to the finest listening.
The intelligence of relationship. First contact as a group, listening to the threshold, learning to sense where you stop and where you open.
The intelligence of action. Partnering, carrying and being carried — learning to act from living movement rather than overperformance.
The intelligence of support. Grounding, structure, inner stability — a support that no longer depends on the outside.
The intelligence of circulation. Danced forms (kata), fluidity, wave-like movement — dancing from what flows.
The intelligence of desire. Inner rhythm, vital impulse, contact with one's fire — composing from impulse rather than control.
The intelligence of perception. Fine listening, intuition in movement — the season closes in silence and listening.
Proposed thematic outline, to be confirmed together — let me know if you'd prefer to pair the bodies with the dates differently.
Her practice of Body-Mind Centering (BMC) meets ritual and therapy here. She also facilitates retreats and individual sessions, "Se Panser", developed under the teaching of Sri Aurobindo : a method in which our multidimensional being — mental, physical, emotional and energetic body — meets and reveals itself through listening, speech and touch.
After training at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Lyon, he learned Trisha Brown's body technique : "Release Technique". He has performed and taught in China, Europe and Africa. Within SOMATIERRA, he draws on his background in martial arts and his bodily refinement to bring precise forms that support and ground the different systems.
A €50 deposit per module must be paid in advance to confirm your registration.