MOVEMENT INTENSIVE '24
Olay Ünlü, Aksel Kesenci, Bensu Coşkun
This intensive program is perfect for anyone looking to deepen their connection with their body, explore new movement patterns, or add a fun and informative layer to their fitness routine. It offers a holistic approach to physical well-being, focusing on functional strength, mobility, and body awareness to support daily activities and overall health.
As part of the program, all participants will receive a personalized 6-week follow-up program to fully understand and integrate the material covered. Our classes will be delivered in both English and Turkish, covering a wide range of topics:
-Fundamental Anatomy and Movement Terminology for Better Understanding and Communication
-Strength Development through Calisthenics and Organic Strength
-Mobility and Joint-Specific Mobility
-Locomotion and Floor Communication
-Arm Balances and Inversions
-Partner Work and Improvisation
-Nature Walks and Explorations, including Movement in the Ancient City of Ephesus
-Lectures on Programming, Mindset, and Lifestyle
-Psychological Orientation and Assessment
This program is suitable for all levels, from beginners to experienced movers who want to explore how movement can transform physical health while enhancing mental and emotional well-being. We will provide all the foundations you need to begin your movement journey and challenge your physical perception.
Workshops will combine structured exercises, lectures, and partner games designed to encourage deep learning through creativity and adaptation. Throughout the week, Clinical Psychologist Bensu Coşkun will guide us with assessment sessions to support personal growth and reflection.
For detailed information and registration:
https://soultreatstravel.com/event/olay-unlu-yigit-guldogan-ve-arda-yaman-ile-art-of-falling/
ART of FALLING
Olay Ünlü, Yigit Güldoğan, Arda Yaman
Art of Falling is a four-day retreat program that approaches falling as both a physical and mental skill.
The program is conducted with the guidance of three facilitators.
Physical practices approach the moment of falling not as a threat, but as a form of communication; they focus on re-establishing the participant’s relationship with the ground, gravity, their own center of mass, and personal boundaries.
Mental sessions, on the other hand, remind us that falling is not only a physical experience, but also an emotional and cognitive process. These sessions create space for reflection on surrender, resistance, defense mechanisms, ways of relating, and unconscious responses.
Topics we focus on include:
• Contact with the ground: recognizing the ground not as an opposing force, but as a supportive surface.
• Balance and coordination: strengthening bodily awareness, moving between control and release.
• Strength and flexibility: supporting the body with safe movement patterns, enhancing centering.
• Play: seeing falling not as a failure, but as a space of exploration; trying, failing, rebuilding, and enjoying.
• Group insight: engaging with the presence of others, observing individual processes within a collective space.
• Contact with the unconscious: making space for emotions evoked by movement, and inner narratives that arise through imagery.
• The Other: questioning the nature of relationships formed with others.
• Space: realizing that emotions can be expressed not only intellectually, but also spatially and physically.
Each day includes two movement classes—one in the morning and one in the afternoon—combining practices that strengthen and stretch the body, along with group insight work. Materials and tools related to the topics explored will be shared with participants throughout the process.
This program goes beyond physical contact with the body and opens space for rethinking one’s relationship with oneself. No prior knowledge or experience is required. It is open to all levels.
Who is this program for?
– Anyone, regardless of whether they have a movement practice
– Those who want to deepen their relationship with their body
– Artists, therapists, and educators working with concepts like falling, resistance, and letting go
– Those open to working in a group and who prefer experiential learning
– Those seeking to understand mental processes not only through conversation, but also through bodily and spatial experience