Luonnon Liikuttamat –creativity & silence in nature

You are warmly welcome to spend a weekend in a beautiful and atmospheric 200 year old water mill milieu, called Kaksi Kalaa, located in Tuupovaara, North Karelia, from August 1:st to 3.rd 2025. Over the weekend you have the opportunity to slow down, deepen your connection with nature and explore the forest in a variety of creative ways together with the group. We begin on Friday 1.8 at 14 o’clock and finish on Sunday 3.8 by 14 o’clock.

Registration is open now!

During the weekend, you will be guided through tree- and forest-themed writing and movement exercises. Additionally to our rather experimental approaches towards nature, we will have a forest specialist sharing her expertise on the vital ecosystem with us.

You also have the opportunity to experience the smoke sauna by the river and participate in instructed practices like meditation, asahi and qi gong.

Through exercises we tune ourselves to nature by observing, sensing, embodying, dancing and writing. We will play with different perspectives, those of humans, trees and tree companion species, like animals and plants, as we explore our personal connection with forest. We take time to listen, open our senses and encounter the forest. We wonder: what would it feel like to be a tree? What would a mushroom tell us if it could speak? Sharing our own experience with the group is an essential part of the exercises.

Together, we will open a discussion on the multiple meanings of forest and reflect on the impact nature has on our own well-being.

The exercises will take place over the weekend, both outdoors and indoors.

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