Moving Awareness
July 24, 2025
Asilomar
RD Laing Symposium

RD Laing psychoanalytic symposium, for the New School in Existential Psychoanalysis. Moving Awareness is a 3 hour special session.

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Description

Moving Awareness is a movement based, music supported, gently facilitated practice to invite participants into their moving body awareness. To engage with the present moment, moving in space with themselves first, practicing noticing, then expanding awareness towards being with others moving, and then to the moving group. Practicing to receive impressions of other movers and to offer those back through one’s own resonant body. To practice being seen and seeing others in the spirit of witnessing, and together building a moving field for expansive embodied awareness and expression of personal and Archetypal images and stories. Art making will assist with meaning making and structured sharing will help to fill out the picture of both the individual and group experience.

After the direct experience and meaning making, discussion of key psychological and somatic concepts will be anchored. These concepts will have been experienced through the moving experience first, then discussed and anchored as relevant to therapeutic practice. A sourced handout is available for participants at the end of the session.