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2023 into 2024

In a world in which inhumanity is increasing day by day and the media in Germany are using more and more anti-social, un-ecological language with little regard for the future, it is difficult to maintain hope. Rather, it requires a daily practice of not turning away, not retreating into the private sphere, not pulling the covers over our heads so that we no longer have to witness this misery. At the same time, it may also be important to withdraw, to pull the blanket over your head in order to catch your breath and draw strength to be able to face it all again.
I do this and it feels exhausting, laborious. Many feelings and many questions come to me, how often do I think I should just sit down on the street like Greta or why isn't there a mass movement like there was in 2018? Why is everyone kind of in a freeze state – According to some scientists the society is in a post-traumatic stress syndrome state. It's totally exhausting and also confusing to find your way through all the discussions and discourses and then everything happens so quickly that it's almost impossible to really follow developments.
Sometimes I feel hopeless and depressed and then I tell myself that I don't want to die without having done anything. I am aware that what I am doing is not enough and I would love to do more, but I also have to take care of my health, which is still fragile from the pandemic. I am addressing these words to you because I know that you think similarly, perhaps with differences, but also wanting something different in your heart. So I am trying to get in touch through words and offers to strengthen the connections that have been made and to cheer us all up and encourage us to do what is possible for you to counteract this pessimistic development.
My offers are also intended to strengthen you in your commitment to a social and ecological world in which redistribution is possible. I would have liked to write fight, but there are so many shouting in a kind of war speech if you understand what i mean that is why I would rather do the opposite. In Harald Welzer's book 'End of Times', he names the absurd figures for spendings on war material without looking on the effects that war and the war machine have on climate change due to distruction and the gigantic CO2 emissions.

We need ways to calm our nervous system, to regulate it, to draw strength, to find balance, and to access our creativity so that we can open up new paths that did not exist before and that can show us ways out.

I find my somatics and dance practices very helpful for this and I also use them for myself on a daily basis.

I am writing to tell you about myself and the workshops and projects that I am planning for the next year where of course I would love to see you at. Advertising is something I find difficult, something I don't like as I hate the capitalist market logic. I would much rather write to you about the projects that I am doing and simply invite you. Just, then the work I do would be really having a regenerative and strengthening effect. Within the market logic, there is of course something that gives my work a bitter aftertaste, and not everyone who wants it, will be able to join. By saying this, I want to write to you that participation in my offers should not fail due to any financial means and in that case I ask you to write to me. (if you or someone else you know would like to do something with me, but does not have the financial means to contact me). This should not prevent participation.

I've been thinking for a long time about how this kind of work could be distributed differently. Could there be something like solidarity movement work that is organized like organic farming? If you or other people have ideas about this, please get in touch with me. It seems more important than ever that we look for opportunities for social interaction and create places where this can take place. To this end, I have also thought of the Body-Mind Centering® event, which will take place once a month and enable people to come together.

A little bit different and yet so important, unfortunately, the first round will be in German...sorry... the AKS ( Arbeitskreis Kritische Somatik) is organizing a series of events on the topic of critical somatics, which take place once a month and highlight different fields. I would particularly like to recommend this to you. It is about why somatics and movement are important and can support political change processes. Franziska Benkel, Barbara Gamper and I look forward to seeing you and to lively and in-depth discussions.
Our BMC week will also take place in March, where we will also be organizing a history talk with Jens Johansen.
Not to forget the Pfingstjam, which will take place again in the Feriendorf Dorado from the 17.5.-20.5.2024.

This time I am sending two pdf's attached, one in German and one in English. Of course you can also find the courses and workshops on my website. I will soon be adding the BMC week, Whitsun jam and the series of events.

Last year I also gave a lot more individual sessions for adults and children. These gives me an incredible amount of satisfaction. Supporting children and carers in particular is very important to me. If you don't already know about what I do giving individual sessions, the one-to-one sessions are 60 minute sessions based on IBMT and BMC work and can have different focuses. There is a little bit written about on my website. We enter a kind of process together and is a work on the psychophysicallevel. If you or someone else would like a one-to-one session, please get in touch with me; something like this can of course also be a super sustainable and regenerative gift,because many people don't allow themselves this, even though it is so important for their health.

Now after so many words, i want to wish you all the best for this transition into 2024 and to nurture the hope that we will manage to create change.

My wishes for 2024:

Power, health and endurance! That's what we need to stand up together against fascism, sexism and racism,

for safe escape routes and social coexistence,

for redistribution and climate protection.

If you share these wishes, let's tackle this together in 2024. Even if we don't yet know how?

from the heart

Heike

Von 2023 nach 2024