S1 Ep9 Dance workshop (Effort and Ease)

S1 Ep9 Dance workshop (Effort and Ease)

This episode focuses on the tone and energy of movement, exploring the dynamic spectrum between effort and ease. You’ll start by sensing where tension, holding, or gripping exists in your body, gradually exaggerating and then releasing it, noticing how attention itself carries effort.

Through free movement, you’ll explore high-effort gestures—pushing, resisting, reaching—contrasted with low-effort, yielding, and softening actions. Imaginative prompts, such as moving through air, water, syrup, or stone, help you feel how effort adapts to different qualities of resistance.

Next, you’ll engage in “repetitive waves”: small repetitive movements that swell to intensity and fade to near nothing, discovering how to sustain, release, and let ease lead. The session culminates in whole-body movement in ease, inviting flow, suspension, and softness with and without music.

Finally, reflection exercises encourage you to map where effort and ease live in your body, sketch or write about your sensations, and consider how this awareness can inform your next movements, daily activities, and ongoing practice. By the end, you’ll have a deeper sensitivity to the tonal qualities of your dancing and a richer sense of how effort and ease interact in motion.

Dance workshop
Explore, imagine, move.

A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.

To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/

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