Sat 14.2. & Sun 15.2.2026 // Sat 14.30–19.30 & Sun 10.00–15.00
Photo: Claudia Heu
Sat 14.2. & Sun 15.2.2026 // Sat 14.30–19.30 & Sun 10.00–15.00
Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna // limited number of participants // beginners are welcome
Costs: At your own discretion between 120–140€ for two days / 70–90€ for one day
Payment: Please pay in cash on site.
Register until 1.2.2026 the latest via heujoy1@gmail.com.
(If participation is canceled after 10.2.2026, the entire course fee must be paid, unless the place can be filled by someone from the waiting list.)
This workshop is a beginning of the Aikido & Bodywork Spring Training.
On these two days Claudia Heu (5. Dan) and Dana Bauersachs (4. Dan) will navigate with the participants between Aikido and bodywork from the Talmi Method®. The practice will focus on developing our own presence, the process of becoming healthy, and the joy of movement. Aikido starts with oneself, with one’s own posture. “Standing properly and straightening up, reaching up and opening the chest, only then can you breathe properly.”, says Noboyuki Watanabe Sensei (8th Dan). The energy begins to flow. One’s own size and presence develops. The always newly created open space, allows new possibilities in dealing with oneself and thereby the other.
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
Dana Bauersachs (DE) grew up in eastern Germany and has been practising Aikido for over 20 years. In 2002, she first met Watanabe Sensei in Berlin, whose Aikido had a lasting influence on her. Since 2003, she has been training with Prof. Martin Gruber (7th dan) and also learned the Talmi method from him. She holds a 4th dan in Aikido and also has experience in Kung Fu and Escrima. Professionally, Dana works as a fully qualified lawyer in social administration in Bavaria. She is also a trained insurance specialist, alternative practitioner for psychotherapy and communication trainer.