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Imagine a weekend where the invitation is to go from me to we.

As the Summer ends and you'll be stepping into “working season", this weekend sits exactly in that turn. Not to rush you into it, but to meet it prepared:
back in your body,
back in contact with yourself,
held by people who are turning the same corner,
ready to offer your presence to others.

You leave not with answers, but with a place to stand as the new season starts.

move from within – weekend retreat Move from Within WEEKEND RETREAT from me to we 12-13 Sep 2026 Blipbase – Ladendorf (AT)

Yesterday marked three years since Janet Adler died. If you've never heard of her, let me introduce her as the founder of the Discipline of Authentic Movement. This is a specific direction of AM, an embodied awareness practice with roots in dance, healing, and mystical tradition.

I never met Janet Adler in person. I never had the chance to learn with her directly, and that's a real loss for me. However, when I first read her books, they spoke directly to my heart and my experience. They made me feel like the way I was experiencing AM was common to more people, and they had reflected on it and given it a framework, and opened new questions to explore.

I'm happy that I have the privilege of working regularly with Betina Waissman since 2023, who learned with her and is one of the people who carry that first-hand thread. Through her, some of what Janet built keeps reaching me too.

Yesterday, her students organised the Honouring Janet Adler Day. An online event inviting people gathering across time zones and decades of practice to be together because of a common passion. A big circle of the International Authentic Movement Community.

Students from one of her first groups - The Stumps Sprouts Collective - spoke about their experience, and one question stayed with me:

"Why do you go in the circle? To be seen, to belong, or to participate?"

This sentence is still with me today. Not only about moving, not only about Authentic Movement. A question that speaks more deeply. Why do we take any action? Why do we move? Why do you?

Photo from https://disciplineofauthenticmovement.com/

move from within

A journey towards inner leadership 8 Sep – 20 Oct 2026 Tuesdays 18:30 – 20:30 Weißgasse 33, 1170 Vienna...

move from within A journey towards inner leadership 8 Sep – 20 Oct 2026 Tuesdays 18:30 – 20:30 Weißgasse 33, 1170 Vienna

Have you noticed that most of the work done in personal development is about listening and remembering?

Not adding more. Subtracting. Getting quiet enough to hear what was always there.

We forget this. We forget that some conversations are stained with previous experiences. We forget that our expertise sometimes prevents us from learning something new. We stop going into situations with child-like curiosity.

Listening can mean so much more than hearing.

It can mean attending to what the body registers before the mind catches up. What arises between people in a shared space. What moves through us, not only in us.

Common Ground #2 — Before the Word works with exactly this.
A guided movement session using a practice from Social Presencing Theater, exploring the knowing that lives underneath language.

🗓 30.6.2026 | 18:30–20:30
📍 Weißgasse 33, 1170 Vienna

🔗 registrations in movingwithana.com

Each session in the series stands on its own.

Authentic Movement is back on Tuesday afternoons in Weißgasse!

Starting this June 16th until mid July, I'm opening regular Authentic Movement drop-in practice sessions every Tuesday from 14:30 to 16:30 at Weißgasse 33.

These practice sessions are open only to people who have already experienced the practice.

Contact me if you’re interested!

Unmoved is a guided movement session for exactly this. For meeting what won't move, on its own terms. It draws on a practice - the Stuck - from Social Presencing Theater.

You arrive with something real. You don't explain it. You let your body find it. And then you stay there, and you notice what's present.

This is my letter to my stuck and to all the stucks out there. And my invitation to anyone who recognises it: come and meet your stuck properly.

Common Ground #1 — Unmoved
16.6.2026 | 18:30–20:30
Weißgasse 33, 1170 Vienna

more info in: movingwithana.com

Common Ground #1: Unmoved

You know that something needs to move.
But it feels stuck.

It's believed Einstein said"You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it."

We all know that loop. We go back to the same thinking. The same conversation with ourselves. The same analysis, the same reframe, the same conclusion. And the thing that needs to move stays exactly where it is.
Not because we're not trying hard enough. Because we're using all the tools we have.

The bodymind has been holding it the whole time.
You will be invited to bring a real situation. Something that feels stuck. You won't be asked to explain it, solve it, or even share it. Just to let your body show you what it's carrying.nt.
It just needs to be listened to.

Common Ground #1 — Unmoved is a guided movement session for exactly that: the places in you that are not finding a way to move forward.

Drawing from a practice from Social Presencing Theater, we work with simple movement and embodied awareness to sense what thinking alone can't reach.

You will be invited to bring a real situation. Something that feels stuck. You won't be asked to explain it, solve it, orr even share it. Just to let your body show you what it's carrying.

This is the first session in Common Ground — a new series of movement practices I'm offering this summer in Vienna, each one drawing on a different practice from Social Presencing Theater.

You can join just this one. Each session stands on its own.

16.6.2026 | 16:00–18:00
Weißgasse 33, 1170 Vienna

Registration: movingwithana.com

Common Ground is a new series of guided movement sessions. A practice series to explore our shared territory through movement and presence.

Each session draws on a different practice from Social Presencing Theater, each one exploring what we sense before we can explain it.

Three sessions. Three Tuesday afternoons in Vienna this summer.
#1 Unmoved — 16.6.2026
Finding the cracks in what won't move in you, regardless of how much you think about it.

#2 Before the Word — 30.6.2026
Learning to listen to what you already know before the words arrive.

#3 Collective Tide — 14.7.2026
Making visible the dynamics of a group or system you belong to.

All sessions: 16:00–18:00 | Weißgasse 33, 1170 Vienna
You can join one or all three. Each session stands on its own.

No prior experience or knowledge needed.
Registration: https://movingwithana.com/2026/06/05/common-ground/