Sun 28.6.2026 // 10.00–13.15
Photo: Claudia Heu
Sun 28.6.2026 // 10.00–13.15
Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna // limited number of participants // beginners are welcome
Costs: At your own discretion between 40–60€
Payment: Please pay in cash on site.
Register via heujoy1@gmail.com.
We attune to our inner and outer space through mindful attention and gentle movement, bringing together awareness, body, and presence. Starting from ourselves – from our posture and inner state – we explore how we relate to ourselves, to the environment and to others. Through the conscious direction of attention and simple, guided movements, a space emerges in which we can release unnecessary tension and enter into direct physical experience.
The dialogical dynamic of perceiving – accepting – extending, inspired by Aikido, forms a living foundation: not as opposition, but as cooperation. Inner state and outer movement begin to influence one another – energy starts to flow, presence becomes tangible, and a sense of grounded expansion can unfold.
Within this continually renewed open space, new possibilities arise in how we relate to ourselves – and, through that, to others.
Claudia Heu (AT) is an artist, performer and lecturer living in Vienna. She works in Europe, Mongolia and the USA. Her work includes site-specific performances, installations and interventions. Her collaboration with filmmakers, activists, hairdressers, actors, bus drivers, visual artists, night watchmen, etc. changes depending on the project and location. Since 2013, she has been working with Mongolian and Austrian artists and scientists on the research project Alga Bolokh – On Disappearance in Ulan Bator, the Gobi Desert and Berlin. Alga Bolokh deals with threatened places and spaces, with the untold and the invisible. www.claudiaheu.com
Malcolm Manning (UK/AT) is a somatic movement researcher, educator, mentor and artist. His current work “Shapeshifting” seeks to revitalise older modalities of somatic practices through the application of new models of anatomy and consciousness. He is certified as both a Feldenkrais Method® and Body And Earth® practitioner. Manning has taught in dance educations throughout Europe including the Finnish and Danish national schools of contemporary dance and the Vaganova Academy; dance festivals such as Impulstanz, TanzBozen and Tanzwerkstatt Europa; dance centres such as TanzQuartier, Independent Dance UK, K3 Hamburg; and was part of developing the Dance And Somatics course at ISLO/FI. www.movetolearn.com