Workshops & Events
Join us in a meditation, event or workshop. Explore your creative energy and be surprised!
Listening Hours
The Listening Hour is an hour in which we meet to share our personal stories and to listen to others’. The whole process is facilitated by a Guide, who at the end weaves together all the stories in a common narration. By highlighting the common meaning of the stories, the Guide links our experiences suggesting that my story is your story too. As a result, we often feel belonging, connected, filled with meaning and whole.
Surrender to your colors - Painting and dancing in Eftalou
A meditative art and movement exploration with Nirvana. A day in Eftalou to explore creativity in meditation. There will be music and painting, colors and movement . . . and the chance to let go of any ideas or expectations and explore your truth freely.
Dissolve into Painting
A 5 days exploration of your vital energy through painting, movement and meditation, letting yourself wander and be wondered by the creative process.
Playback Theatre Core Skills Training
During this training we will learn the basic skills of Playback Theatre, to be ready to perform as an actor on stage. Our main tools will be our body, voice and creativity. Playback Theatre can be practiced by everyone, as it’s based on spontaneous movement and sound, not on previous acting experience.
The Sound of Words Without a Voice: Unlocking Artistic and Poetic Expression in Playback Theatre
In this weekend workshop, we will explore the art of acting on the Playback stage. Often, Playback actors simply show, illustrate or amplify the actions, facts, thoughts and feelings described by the teller. Those techniques alone rarely deliver a transformative experience.
Ora di Ascolto - Practitioner Training
L’Ora di Ascolto è una sessione di narrazione spontanea, condivisione di sé e testimonianza degli altri.
In altre parole è un incontro in cui un piccolo gruppo di persone (10 al massimo) si riunisce per condividere storie personali e per ascoltarsi a vicenda.
Playback For All - The ACT APPROACH
Inclusion is really not about inclusion, it’s a conscious practice of non-exclusion. If you have ever felt unwelcome or the odd one out in any social situation, you probably understand what this really means. Your choice to attend something, a lot of times, can depend more on what’s not there rather than what’s there. And the tiny detail that’s not there, in some cases, reads louder than all the perks that have been listed. That detail call out as an “un-invite” rather than an “invite”.
Boundaries - in the Playback Theatre performance
In this 2-day workshop we will learn how to listen more deeply, with our whole body, in order to find in it the right input to give an appropriate response to a story. When we truly listen, when we are open to receive the resonance from our senses, our playback performance can only be true, spontaneous and genuine.
Once we learn how to truly listen, the confusion around the boundaries of stories disappears.
Our bodies know.
5Rhythms® Sweat Eressos - Greece
5Rhythms Sweat w/Nirvana in Eressos: Saturdays 12 PM: March 23, April 6 and 20, May 4
5RITMI Sweat TORINO
Martedì 5 Marzo ore 20:00 - 5Ritmi Sweat a Torino con Nirvana. -Nuova sala: “Il Fortino”-
Rituali - nel Playback Theatre e oltre
In questo workshop esploreremo la struttura del rituale, ripulendola e chiarendo cosa ne faccia parte e cosa no. Poi, ci dedicheremo a rompere i nostri rituali personali, trovando nuove forme espressive e ad individuare le tradizioni da mantenere, rinfrescando il nostro rapporto con il Playback.
Dedicheremo una parte del weekend alla supervisione e vedremo come il rituale possa esserci d’aiuto nel trovare risposta alle nostre domande. Porta la tua!
5RITMI Sweat Scarnafigi - CUNEO
Il Mercoledì 21 febbraio e il Venerdì 1 Marzo 2024 - 5Ritmi ad Harmonia! due Sessioni di 5Ritmi Sweat - danza e movimento consapevole con Nirvana, Insegnante di 5Ritmi in formazione.
The Stories of Some of Us: working with social justice and the social dimensions of stories on the Playback Theatre stage, w/ Gerry Orkin
This two day workshop will give participants insights and skills that can be applied while responding to the social dimensions of stories.
We will also explore our own layers of bias and identity and the relevance of this work in company life and in building partnerships with organisations who seek a more socially just world.
Dissolve into painting
A 3 day journey into the joy of creativity. An opportunity to awaken your energy and relax in the creative flow. Embody your totality and spontaneous being through painting, music and dancing. Exploring the creative process like we do, is an active -and yet relaxed- way of experiencing meditation, with the right support and no goals.
Listening Hour - A space for men
The Listening Hour is an hour in which we meet to share our personal stories and to listen to others’. In the end, we may often find out that our stories are more linked with each other than we thought.
Experimenting with Playback Theatre
This course is a good chance for beginners who want to learn more about Playback Theatre as well as for intermediate or advanced practitioners who want to experiment more, go deeper and challenge their creativity.
Listening Hour - Monthly sessions
The Listening Hour is an hour in which we meet to share our personal stories and to listen to others’. In the end, we may often find out that our stories are more linked with each other than we thought.
Experimenting with Playback Theatre
This course is a good chance for beginners who want to learn more about Playback Theatre as well as for intermediate or advanced practitioners who want to experiment more, go deeper and challenge their creativity.
Listening Hour - Monthly sessions
The Listening Hour is an hour in which we meet to share our personal stories and to listen to others’. In the end, we may often find out that our stories are more linked with each other than we thought.
Art as medicine
Have a taste of your own creative qualities. For 5 Wednesdays, an online course where we use movement, art and meditation to connect and integrate new resources into our lives. First session Free.
Experimenting with Playback Theatre
This course is a good chance for beginners who want to learn more about Playback Theatre as well as for intermediate or advanced practitioners who want to experiment more, go deeper and challenge their creativity.
Express your Heart - Playback Theatre Intensive
This event is a two-days intensive Playback Theatre workshop where we are going to play with our creativity, exploring physical and vocal expression and reconnecting with our spontaneity.
In such complex times, we may feel easily emotional: sometimes it is hard to hold on to something stable when everything around us is going fast and constantly changing. The practice of conscious theatrical improvisation allows us to discover our true self, the part of us that is authentic and not ever changing according to the circumstances. Our center, our heart.
Dissolve into painting
During this 5 afternoons we will let colours take over, allowing mind, body and soul to dissolve while being guided throughout the creative journey. There will be dancing, painting and relaxation.
Rediscovering Spontaneity - Playback Theatre Intensive
Rediscovering Spontaneity is a 3-days intensive group where we will reconnect with our natural way of expressing ourselves, through the use of Playback Theatre.
This is an amazing, yet very simple, improv technique that creates an atmosphere of safety, trust and intimacy where we can easily open up and express ourselves freely.
Art as medicine
Expect dancing, creating, connecting and sharing. At Art as Medicine we experience sharing our truth in a different way, through our art and creativity. We experiment with collage, free painting, conscious movement and sensorial art, among others.
[FREE TASTER] Art as medicine
We open the doors for new participants to join us in a Free session, to experiment with free painting and movement and have a taste of the gifts of creativity. Expect dancing, painting, collage, connection and sharing.
BE OUR GUEST: Experimenting with Playback Theatre
This course is a good chance for beginners who want to learn more about Playback Theatre as well as for intermediate or advanced practitioners who want to experiment more, go deeper and challenge their creativity.
[FREE TASTER] Experimenting with Playback Theatre
This course is a good chance for beginners who want to learn more about Playback Theatre as well as for intermediate or advanced practitioners who want to experiment more, go deeper and challenge their creativity.
Art as medicine, an art -sharing Lab.
Expect dancing, creating, connecting and sharing. In this workshop we experience sharing our truth in a different way, through our art and creativity.
[FREE TASTER] Art as medicine, an art -sharing Lab.
This is a workshop in which we will experience sharing our truth in a different way, through our art and creativity. During each session, participants will experiment with different artistic techniques and share with the group their unique creative process and what came up with it.
Experimenting with Playback Theatre - weekly 100% online course
This course is a good chance for beginners who want to learn more about Playback Theatre as well as for intermediate or advanced practitioners who want to experiment more, go deeper and challenge their creativity.
Sometimes the group will practice together and other times the group is going to be divided according to everyone’s personal experience with PT.
[FREE TASTER] Experimenting with Playback Theatre
This course is a good chance for beginners who want to learn more about Playback Theatre as well as for intermediate or advanced practitioners who want to experiment more, go deeper and challenge their creativity.
Sometimes the group will practice together and other times the group is going to be divided according to everyone’s personal experience with PT.
Listening Hour
The Listening Hour is an hour in which we meet to share our personal stories and to listen to others’. In the end, we may often find out that our stories are more linked with each other than we thought.
[FREE TASTER] Experimenting with Playback Theatre
This course is a good chance for beginners who want to learn more about Playback Theatre as well as for intermediate or advanced practitioners who want to experiment more, go deeper and challenge their creativity.
Sometimes the group will practice together and other times the group is going to be divided according to everyone’s personal experience with PT.
Listening Hour
The Listening Hour is an hour in which we meet to share our personal stories and to listen to others’. In the end, we may often find out that our stories are more linked with each other than we thought.
June LAB: What’s going on? - Let’s watch it with Playback Theatre
When we improvise we are true, we are our authentic self. And whatever we do on stage is, in some way, a reflection of what we do in our life, of who we are. Becoming aware of this is the only purpose of this laboratory. Together, we are going to use improvisational theatre as a tool to become more aware of ourselves, more present and more whole.
Listening Hour
In our ordinary day it’s not easy to find time and space where to share. It’s more and more difficult to listen and be heard truly. Everything moves fast, everyone is preoccupied and distracted. We rush through everything without taking the time to really meet.