Do you feel the need to enjoy life and/or let your emotions express themselves through natural movement but you don't know how?

This somatic workshop mindful movement and dance is designed for you.

It is aimed at exploring your body while enjoying the pleasure of dancing with simple and natural movements.

Dance Movement is inborn in all of us, but it has been poorly conditioned by modern society.

This creates a need to rediscover our ability to listen to our body, to dare to express our emotions and our feelings through movement. Through movement, we awaken our senses; improve our internal balance and our overall sense of well-being.

This workshop may surprise you for how fun, simple and easy dancing can be !

Come join us and experience this insight journey!

« Le plus grand voyageur n'est pas celui qui fait le tour du monde, mais celui qui a fait le tour de lui-même. » Gandhi

Vitamove is a body awareness approach not a dance movement therapy

Although Vita-move and dance movement therapy may have some similarities, the objective of this approach is prevention bot therapy. The idea is to take care of you mind body so you stay healthy and do not reach that point you need to see a therapist.

Approach and Objectives:

We will enrich both the internal and external self with movements by completing a series of exercises and natural movements that call on to our physical and emotional skills and stimulate our imagination as well. This somatic workshop aims at :

· Developing awareness of somatic experience - kinesthetic, sensory, feeling, imaginative explorations

· Getting out of your headspace and connect instead with what you feel and with you "inborn" physical knowledge to find intuitive solutions for life issues

· Learning how to address emotional challenges and promote self-awareness.

· Developing an expressive language through movement

· Discovering embodied and imaginative ways of being in relationship

This is a technique free workshop. It will help you rediscover your body and express your feeling and emotions in simple and natural ways (no dance technique will be taught).

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Schedule & suscriptions :

· Target audience: Anyone who wants to enjoy life and movement (no dance experience/background is required).

· Specific audience : This workshop can be suited for theatre school in order to help comedians to work their body tool, as well as for psychotherapists who want to use movement as a complementary therapeutic medium

· Sessions:

o Regular classes : 2h30 min. Bi-mothly sessions (1 st & 3 rd Saturdays , see Calendar

o One day (Weekends): 5 Hours class (1 hour break)

o Retreat/ camp : 5 days, 90 minutes to 3 hours a daily (depending on your availability). Specific dates can be agreed upon/booked on request by groups of 5 persons or more( ex. Team building, Corporate seminar )..etc. On demand/ following objective

· Locations:

o In Morocco: Marrakech, Essaouira or Rabat (upon request or see Calendar)

o In Europe: Paris? Rome or other cities (upon invitation from a dance/theatre school or a community/association/institution).

o Cost : 400.00 MAD ~ €40.00 /Session (2h30)

o Subscription Form (for individuals).

o For Private group session get in touch via the contact form.

The author /Creator :

Driss Bouissa is a choreographer, movement researcher and a holistic coach.

As a dancer and choreographer, Driss has a huge life choc when he had a chronic and severe asthma in 2006. He then started teaching dance and theatre in both public and private dance schools and collaborated with the French institute in Meknes.

In this new conditions and context he started his own personal develpment journey, taking psychology courses and exploring body mind / holistic approaches such as yoga, mindfulness and vipasanna mediation.

Driss has developed his own approach “Vita-move”, a kind of pre-dance movement therapy that rather maintains mind body psychic balance and well-being. A powerful medium for holistic development, wholeness and liberating the self.

Driss is a CID (International Dance council) non-active member. He was invited to as a lecturer at Avignon international dance congress in 2016.

Academic training

Driss has started learning dance, singing and guitar at the communal Conservatory in Casablanca (Morocco), then at the National Conservatory of music and dance. In 2003 Driss moved to Paris (France) for professional studies at the High school for performing arts (Ecole supérieure du spectacle). In 2004 he receives scholarships to continue his studies at the Dance loft (Switzerland). There he had the opportunity to focus on contemporary dance and work with famous choreographers such as Isabelle Gotzkovsky (Germany/USA), John Brooks / the Jennifer Muller dance company (the Works/USA), Philip Egli (Former director of the St-Gallen Theater), and Marcello Pereira (Brasil).

Driss took dance workshop with dance teachers and choreographers like Santiago Sempere, Pascal Mont rouge and Lenny Kravitz (the dancer, not the singer J ). He also participated at the MAM dance theatre Project with Morocco-German performing artists in 2012.

Stage experience and works

As a signer, Driss took part at the intercultural musical project« Leh ya jarré » in 2001. Directed by Fortunat frülich (Choir director, music composer and arranger) he participated at the RABAT Music Festival, then toured Switzerland with the choir of the Conservatory of Rabat. He is a world music composer and vocalist.

Driss danced with Isabelle Gotzkovsky in “Fly but don’t”,with Marrcello omine (Brasil/Germany) in« el candor passa » in 2005.

Since 2007 Driss has been giving dance workshops occasionally, while working on his own compositions . Among his works :Crash 2005, Flash back 2006, Animé 2009