Embodiment - Embodied intelligence in healthy self-regulation and authentic self-expression

Mark Walsh, known as Mr. Embodiment, uncovers the concept of embodiment, focusing on its key significance in psychology, philosophy, and the research of the human body. Walsh suggests how our bodily expressions shape not only our thoughts but also our emotions and perceptions of the world around us. He pays special attention to the connection between body and mind, which plays a crucial role in emotional regulation and expression. He highlights how we are often disconnected from our bodily sensations, which can lead to difficulties in expressing and processing emotions. Walsh also addresses practical approaches that help restore this connection. These techniques not only enhance our bodily awareness but also support healthy emotional regulation, helping us find calm in a chaotic world. Walsh emphasizes how mindful experiencing of the body can contribute to better mental health and emotional stability. Overall, Walsh provides an inspiring and thought-provoking view on how the awareness of embodiment can significantly improve our quality of life. He urges listeners to reflect on how their bodily experiences are reflected in their lives and how they can actively work toward better understanding and experiencing their bodies.

One could say with exaggeration that the human community is a community of nervous systems. And our nervous systems are not just a matter of the physiology of the body and the thought process, but they enable us to be sentient and sensitive human beings.

And it is this phenomenon that we are going to talk about - the polyvagal theory, which can also be called the science of human sentience. In order to feel safe, we must first be able to feel. Why can't we always do that, and how can we make ourselves feel again? We'll talk about that.

My presentation at the congress will be a combination of a talk and presentation with practical exercises (controlled breathing).

The presentation will focus on the art and science of breathwork for personal and planetary awakening and upliftment...
We will explore a Formula for Transformation... to awaken body intelligence, heart intelligence, and higher intelligence...
To deepen our connection to ourselves and each other, to life, nature, and to our source.

The workshop will be a combination of conversation, presentations, and practical exercises, including a guided breathing session. The presentation will focus on the connection between the art and science of breath work, which supports personal and societal awakening and the rise of consciousness. Together, we will explore the "Formula for Transformation," which helps awaken bodily intelligence, heart intelligence, and higher intelligence. The goal is to deepen our connection with ourselves, others, life, nature, and our source. Come to be inspired and learn techniques that unlock new potential in the realms of physical, mental, and spiritual.

Neither powerless love nor loveless power will lead to healing, justice and peace. Resolving conflicts in productive and life-affirming ways demands a balance and integration of power and love. When we face challenges, threats, attacks or difficulties of any kind, our normal reflexes tend towards fear, anger, numbness and aggression—the opposites of love and power. 

All these responses share one characteristic: they involve a contraction or collapse of various mindbody processes such as breathing, vision, movement, attention, and empathy. By studying love and power as actions you do in your body, a tangible, effective path of practice opens.
It starts by experiencing how intentions leak into the muscles as micromovements and how micromovements give birth to large attitudes and actions. 

You will learn how to work with breath, posture, movement and intentionality to cultivate a mindbody state of calm awareness, relaxed strength, compassionate power, and spacious dignity. You will also learn to use concrete, precise language in thinking through your experiences in the workshop, which will enable you to remember and use this process more effectively. 

Maintaining the state of mindbody balance transforms conflicts into opportunities to achieve understanding and growth. Throughout the workshop, you will be encouraged to raise issues, ask questions, and explore how to apply what you are learning to specific challenges of any sort that you are facing in your daily life. 

Music, in its many forms, has always helped people overcome various difficulties, heal, connect and express their experiences or develop their potential.

"Music is the language of the angels, it stirs our hearts and in a profound way makes us experience what words cannot even know."

Harp tones alleviate fear and stimulate the ontogenetically and phylogenetically oldest structures of the brain, and can awaken and release primal impulses and creative instincts that lead to new and more optimal ways of behaving.

Harpist Katarína Ševčíková places great energetic emphasis and transmission in her playing to relax, calm the mind and harmonize the soul through the captivating tones of the harp.
With its sound, the harp ranks among the musical instruments that have the highest beneficial effects, vibrations of peace, purity and even in terms of artistic and healing music therapy for humans.

Smart Body is a movement/dance language cultivating our movement intelligence. It draws from contemporary dance techniques while also incorporating effective tools from other fields such as sports, martial arts, physiotherapy, Fighting Monkey, and more. Dance is viewed as a fundamental human need (How does your body react when it hears music?), and does not insist on specific forms or aesthetics. It seeks functional principles. It creates a system of automated patterns in our body (or rather in our brain) that facilitate transitions and changes in movement paths. It is inseparable from the mind. It supports neuromuscular connections and utilizes imagination, intuition, or creativity to fulfill movement tasks. It allows us to continuously explore the shifting of our centers of gravity, rhythm, dynamics, fluid movement flow, or economical energy use. Coordination always plays a key role in this process, both in all our bodily parts and the coordination between body and mind. Smart Body improves agility, speed, conditioning, coordination, joint mobility, and muscle strength. It teaches us sensitivity to our own body and the environment. It cultivates a “smart body.” Its goal is to find joy and freedom in movement expression.

Touch is not just physical contact – it is a language that helps us perceive and experience the world through the body. This experiential workshop will take you through deeper work with touch as a tool for embodiment, emotional regulation, and self-care.

What can we expect?  
✨ We will explore different qualities of touch – gentle, firm, dynamic – and their effect on the body and mind.  
✨ We will learn how touch activates the nervous system, supports a sense of safety, and aids in stress relief.  
✨ Experience conscious touch in movement – how touch can lead movement and deepen the connection to breath.  
✨ Working with memories and personal history of touch will help us understand our relationship with touch and how we can cultivate it.  
✨ We will anchor new experiences in the body using somatic techniques and grounding exercises.  
Come discover the power of conscious touch and learn how to use it for deeper connection with yourself and the surrounding world. This workshop is suitable for anyone looking to better perceive their body, release tension, and discover new ways to feel at home in their own body.

Voice and Breath Self-Therapy is an innovative self-cultivation and therapeutic program that offers participants a natural and individual path to personal development. Through simple exercises, healing tones, and healthy thinking, it promotes the maintenance of life vitality, self-healing, and rehabilitation, and can assist during the treatment of more serious illnesses. The program aims to harmonize body and mind, providing comprehensive care for the individual’s inner world. Drawing from Eastern medical and movement cultures such as Tai Chi and Qigong, it also includes elements from kinesiology, chiropractic care, physiotherapy, and reflexive self-therapy. Participants of the courses and seminars can look forward to the application of Zen meditation and “food” methods. With a twenty-year tradition, the program helps participants improve their posture and control their breath both in movement and during vocal performance through breath, tonal, and meditative techniques. Participants can alleviate health issues such as back pain, insomnia, and metabolic disorders, and better cope with challenging life situations. The program also allows participants to enhance their articulation, phonetics, oratory, and singing skills, both in intimate settings and in public. The content of the workshop includes breathing exercises, healing tones, body and breath tuning practices, reflexive self-massage, herbal treatment, and psychosomatic analysis, providing participants with a holistic view of their health and well-being. Join us and discover the power of voice and breath self-therapy.

Music, in its many forms, has always helped people overcome various difficulties, heal, connect and express their experiences or develop their potential.

"Music is the language of the angels, it stirs our hearts and in a profound way makes us experience what words cannot even know."

Harp tones alleviate fear and stimulate the ontogenetically and phylogenetically oldest structures of the brain, and can awaken and release primal impulses and creative instincts that lead to new and more optimal ways of behaving.

Harpist Katarína Ševčíková places great energetic emphasis and transmission in her playing to relax, calm the mind and harmonize the soul through the captivating tones of the harp.
With its sound, the harp ranks among the musical instruments that have the highest beneficial effects, vibrations of peace, purity and even in terms of artistic and healing music therapy for humans.

The workshop on embodiment in everyday life offers participants a unique opportunity to explore the connection between body, mind, and emotions through practical techniques and exercises. This approach to personal development focuses on awareness of bodily expressions and their influence on thinking and behavior. Participants will learn how to better understand the signals of their body and use them to support emotional balance, self-love, and constructive communication with others. The workshop includes various methods, such as breath exercises, posture and movement, voice, music, touch, and play, aimed at achieving deeper connections and expanding awareness of one’s body. It is ideal for individuals seeking new ways to manage stress and improve their overall mental and physical health.

Movement intercourse takes many, many forms and each of us can perceive it in our own way. Our bodies have been in movement interaction since our conception and development in the womb. Birth itself is a powerful and profound movement interaction. Our arrival into this world is accompanied by touch and our first encounter with the forces of gravity. Our first months and years are a wondrous universe of movement and interaction that affects all of our future lives. Our other years on Earth have shaped us each a little differently. Much depends on how we have used our bodies. What movement habits are stored in it. Some are ones that serve us and some, not so much. 

In somatic practice, which uses many principles from dance and martial arts, we look at our basic movement choices and their quality. This quality is determined by how we have shaped ourselves to date. And that has been hugely influenced by the very environment in which we have developed, from the very beginning to today. But most importantly, our response to that environment. Our form is made up of, to simplify it to the very basics, muscles, tissues and bones. All of this makes up a form that is called tensegrity (tension integrity - intergated tension).

During the movement-meditation workshop, we will explore our bodies (tensegrity) in movement and in mutual, deeper-present interaction. One of the intentions of such a practice is to deepen our contact with our body, breath, gravity, space, and ultimately, each other. Humans with each other.

We'll explore what it's like to move with tensegrity engaged and what it's like when we're more disengaged. What it's like to be plugged in structurally, emotionally and mentally. And vice versa. We'll explore both worlds.

And then, the choice is up to us.