“This practice has the potential to shift internal narratives from human exceptionalism toward a felt understanding of interconnectedness with the more-than-human world.”

This eco-somatic movement workshop takes place outdoors, where we will work with breathing, movement, touch, stillness, witnessing, and reflecting through words and images. Through this embodied play, we will discover how slowing down and bringing awareness to sensory experiences can help us find new ways of connecting to ourselves, others, and the world.

During our time together, we will experiment with “Rewilding Play.” This practice offers a range of improvisation scores (sets of guidance) that allow us to co-create immersive outdoor movement experiences in dialogue with the surrounding environment. Permission to cultivate lively curiosity and play freely allows the mover to follow their instincts during improvisation, creating an experience that brings attention to sensory feedback and opens up embodied awareness of an extended web of interrelationship with the “more-than-human.”

Collectively, we will establish a “field of play,” within which we look for the invitations offered by the other players -including flora, fauna, elements, terrain, and weather -and choose particular actions that respond to the felt invitation. We will explore: removing or amplifying different senses // framing and guiding the gaze // bending time through shortening and lengthening duration // creating micro or macro spatial constellations // orienting to the elements // integrating with the environment // mirroring environmental rhythms // connecting to life cycles // changing or disorienting perspective // inventing rituals // and more.

This collaborative practice asks: what might our role be in witnessing, celebrating, and protecting the interwoven ecological tapestry in which we play a key part? By noticing our sensory experiences, we allow ourselves to enter a receptive state of deep listening and connecting, through which we can imagine, rediscover, and begin to work toward new ways of being in the world.

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Kate Sagovsky is an international artist specialising in movement, somatics, dance, & live performance. Her work facilitates embodied experiences to help people connect better to themselves, others, & the world. She works across dance, theatre, & live art as a choreographer, movement director, & director; as well as doing extensive work as a researcher, writer, teacher, & workshop facilitator. 

Kate’s facilitation is grounded in over two decades of experience teaching movement across diverse contexts and communities. Drawing from practices such as contemporary dance, actor movement, contact improvisation, Body-Mind Centering, meditation, and the Feldenkrais Method, she weaves together clear frameworks and open-ended guidance that support exploratory improvisation and embodied discovery. Her approach prioritizes accessibility, care, and structural equality, creating playful yet carefully held environments in which participants are invited to trust their own experience, contribute their unique perspectives, and engage in collective inquiry through movement.