ABOUT KOKORO
Kokoro is our unique and holistic offering that allows for stress management. The intervention is based on using movement to energize, revitalize and focus the senses. This is an interactive workshop designed to stimulate participant’s ECQ drivers (emotional & creative intelligence) via an exploration into four key mediums: Tai Chi Chuan or Tai Ji Quan; Chi Kung or Qi Gong; Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) & Shamanic Dancing.
(PLEASE NOTE: The workshop requires a minimum of three hours and can also be offered as a full-day session)
ABOUT THE MEDIUMS
- Tai Chi Chuan literally means ‘The Grand Ultimate Fist’ or ‘The Grand Nothing’.
- One starts in the space of nothingness and through the practice of Tai Chi Chuan moves into the structure or form that is ‘Chuan’
- The movements are practiced slowly, softly and at a pace comfortable to the individual and are tranquil and dance-like in nature.
- The primary focus in the practice is the breath. By breathing deeping and gently in combination with outer activity, the ‘breath- mind-body’ connection is forged, bringing about an inner calmness and an awakening of consciousness.
- The term Qi Gong literally translates as ‘training with breath or energy’.
- Qi Gong uses both static and dynamic postures to stimulate, energise and strengthen the overall system,
- Qi Gong aims to simulate, harness and focus the growth and flow of ‘Chi’ which is the basic energy, or vital essence inherent in all living organisms.
- PMR is similar to a form of meditation and involves progressively getting in touch mentally and emotionally with each muscular part of the body – visualising it, tensing it and relaxing it.
- The tensing and relaxation bring about a tremendous release of stress and a feeling of wellbeing with the desired result of enhanced blood circulation and organ functioning, as well as rejuvenation and re-energising of the muscular system.
- Shamanic Dancing uses movement as a medium to discover oneself, to shed skin and to overcome blocks.
- Here movement does not mean movement belonging to any particular style or discipline, but organic movement that originates from deep within.
- The key to wisdom lies within the body and not outside, so discovering the rhythms and the senses inherent in one’s own unique movement is indeed ‘Dancing your Senses’.
- This module provides an exciting and sometimes provocative insight into our individual personalities through unfettered motion.
KNOW YOUR FACILITATORS
Rashid Ansari (b.1958) is a practitioner and teacher in the performing arts, martial arts and various mind-body Wellness integrated disciplines. He holds numerous Black Belts and Master Instructor Accreditation in multiple Martial Arts ( 6th Dan Black Belt in Judo, 5th Dan in Tae Kwon Do, 4th Dan in Ken jitsu, 2nd Dan in Hakkyu Ryu Jiu Jitsu and Daiti Ryu Aikijutsu, Master Instructor in Tai Ji Quan, Hsing I, Ba Gua. He is an international master instructor in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean martial arts as well as a contemporary and modern dance instructor and choreographer and has delved deeply into Physical Theatre and Theatre Movement, both as a practitioner and a teacher/facilitator. Has taught UAC Unarmed Combat) to the Armed Forces, Police Departments both India and around the globe. Rashid was a Movement/Tai Chi Chuan Teacher for a number of years at the National School Of Drama.
He founded and is the artistic director of Mobius Strip – a dance theatre performing company and Earth Rhythms – a world music ensemble playing acoustic and ethnic musical instruments. He is also a fire dancer and a didgeridoo player and maker and performs as an actor and dancer.
As a teacher of the performng arts, Rashid has endeavoured to integrate the diverse the range of disciplines he practices, to create a methodology integrating them all and has developed a vocabulary using movement and dance as a medium, the human body as a motif and a pathway to find,express and create.
He has been a senior facilitator specialising in Public Speaking and Self Empowerment and has conducted the Personality Development, Public Speaking and Self Empowerment Program for the Elite School of Modelling in Delhi for a number of years. His varied skills also keep him much in demand as a workshop coordinator who specialises in physicality and voice/ communication with variouscorporate and media institutions. As a practitioner, Rashid has performed, directed and choreographed dance theatre and dance pieces both abroad and nationally for various well-known dance companies and individual directors, adding numerous and varied performances to his credit.
Since 2020, Rashid has also been heading Mazdoor Kitchen, an initiative that provided food and other sustenance to the working classes in Northern Delhi
Vikram started martial arts at 16 years of age, 28 years back, and has studied multiple martial arts systems including Taekwondo, Capoeira, Kickboxing, stick fighting and Ju-jitsu. For the last 21 years, he has been practicing a form of Qi Gong called Falun Gong and teaches the system to people across the world, free of cost.He has studied body emotive therapies for the last 18 years including the Alexander Technique and Shiatsu. Vikram has also practiced theatre (improv and physical) for over 2 decades. He is a renowned voice-over artist. He runs Syngrity – a learning and development organization as well as a security organization, 3P Securitas. He is also the National Joint Secretary and Vice Chairman, Ethics and Compliance, at the Central Association of Private Security Industry; the apex body at state and national level for private security in India.
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