As Queer and Non-Binary artists, facilitators and environmental arts therapists Ly and Becca are interested in exploring how embodied encounters with the more-than-human earth can reflect and enliven vast and diverse qualities of being, challenging ideas of fixed identity with its fluidity and continual transformation.
This workshop invites participants to open their senses to imagine, feel, think, and create in conversation with the more than human earth. Through a mix of experiential movement, ritual, rest, and art-making with natural materials, we’ll discover more of our felt relationship with ourselves and the natural world. Earth, elements, trees, sky, wingbeats, natural cycles, and weather will support the emergence of our time together.
Opening our senses to the environment we explore a belonging and self that is inherently animalistic, that naturally participates in the sensuous pleasures of speaking with and as part of the more than human world.
‘what might gender look like written beyond the blurring of a male-female binary? The body expanded beyond its periphery- animal, vegetable, mineral. Textural, gestural’ (Horn 2021, p.7)
All sexualities and genders are welcome.
As queer, non-binary Environmental Arts Therapists, Ly and Becca hold inclusivity as central to their work. They are passionate about supporting nature kinship to inspire, heal and support inclusive and diverse perspectives and expansive ways of being in the world. Becca Parkinson is a Dance Movement Psychotherapist working in the NHS, private practice and runs workshops in eco somatic movement (www.movinglandscapes.org). Ly Orrock is an Art Psychotherapist. They work in the NHS, private practice and run workshops on inclusion & diversity through a creative lens. (www.creativetherapiesinnature.org)
London: July 8th
Dartmoor Devon: August 19th
Booking: becca@movinglandscapes.org