Workshops
Immersive, standalone sessions that push the boundaries of our regular practice. From moving museum experiences to urban exploring, these events invite you to look at the body, the city, and the world with fresh eyes and awe.
Upcoming
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For now, the ocean is calm.... preparing for the next big Wave.
Check out the past experiences below. And if you have something to suggest, feel welcome to reach out at info@thesensingself.nl
Past experiences
An evening of Movement, Connection and Exploration
Movement workshop on the power of stories
A moving experience on perception and relation to art & art spaces
A meetup for women to move, connect, and explore
A workshop on the dialogue of drawing and movement
A series of immersive city adventures examining Boredom, Fear, Beauty...
A movement intensive exploring how physical forces move through us
Movement evening as part of the "Deeply Human: The Practice of Being" series
Authentica, Rotterdam | In collaboration with Anika Lau
What if you saw your hand for the very first time, with no idea what it could do? Would you be in awe of this high-tech tool?
This evening invited participants to look at their bodies through "fresh eyes" and bring wonder, play and genuine human connection back into your physical experience.
This evening invited participants to look at their bodies through "fresh eyes" and bring wonder, play and genuine human connection back into your physical experience.
WORLD BODY: Movement Workshop on the Power of Stories
Rotterdam | Co-hosted with Valentina Fittipaldi
An exploration of cultural exchange, collective sound, and urban landscape. This session invited participants to connect with the city as explorers and their bodies as researchers, unfolding a four-part journey through landscape, soundscape, and movement to discover a shared sense of aliveness.
In the Museum of Crawling Pedestals and Observing Bones
TENT Rotterdam | Co-hosted with Fenna van Breda
An immersive museum experience that invited to examine familiar ways of relating to art and perceiving it. By turning discomfort into a mirror and asking "What if the pedestal is the artwork?", we used movement, play, and contemplation to critically question who artistic spaces are really for.
No Pressure Event
Studio Boing, Rotterdam | Co-hosted with Alexandra Verschuuren
A meetup for women to move, connect, and explore without the pressure to perform or be anything other than who we are. This session focused entirely on removing the modern pressure to perform, create, or look a certain way by focusing on strategies to embody agency, build relational comfort through the body, and meet our own capacity through movement and storytelling. After the formal workshop, we continued experimenting in an Open Playground space.
Drawn from the Body
WOLK, Rotterdam | Co-hosted with Fenna van Breda
We often think of expression as artistic skill or creative output, but in truth, everything we do is a form of expression. Our body is the first instrument through which we sense, experience, and create in the world. In this workshop we will explored how movement and drawing can interact as a continuous dialogue of sensation, awareness, and creative energy.
Movement Reflections series
Around Rotterdam | Co-created with Alexandra Verschuuren
A series of immersive city adventures. 2026 themes were:
- Exploring Boundaries: A physical, partner-based inquiry into personal space and taking up room in the city.
- Confronting Fear: A late-evening experience into the woods of Kralingse Bos exploring the fear of letting go, losing control, and being seen.
- Attending Boredom: Moving through the city, moving through repeated motions, turning away from digital distraction to discover breath, attention, and and what lies beyond the threshold of boredom.
- Appreciating Beauty: A three-chapter sensory journey in Het Park exploring how we perceive, embody, and express internal worlds.
Deep Dive: Groundwork and Movement Qualities
Authentica Roterdam
A movement lab which was dedicated to examining how physical forces move through us based on the principles from the Phasic Body framework of Marcello Palozzo. Through floor work and partner tasks we explored tensile, elastic, colloidal and stiff qualities of the body to ask: "What kind of body would you want if no one told you what it should be?"