Mandala Drawing Day Workshop - 11th May, Surrey
Discover the Magic of Mandala Drawing
Would you love to create your own beautiful, unique mandala but aren’t sure where to start? In this relaxed, supportive workshop, I’ll guide you through the basics and help you discover your individual style —no experience needed, just a willingness to explore and enjoy the process!
🖌 All materials provided
🍰 Healthy lunch, teas & cake included
📍 Bricks Café, Smithbrook Kilns, Cranleigh (Car access only)
⏰ 10 AM – 4 PM
Mandala drawing transformed my life, helping me find movement and creativity when I needed it most. I would love to share this practice with you. More info on my mandala work here: Instagram @rosparkermandalaart
Lemniscate Dance Journey
Created by Rosalind Parker, this ritualistic moving meditation invites participants to dance or walk the shape of the lemniscate (infinity symbol), guided by a shared group intention. Half the group moves while the other half witnesses, then they switch. There is a gradual lead-up to bring all participants into presence and awareness of themselves, their bodies, the space, each other and the lemniscate. Space for reflection and sharing is held at the end.
Open to actors, dancers, and anyone seeking body-soul alignment, the Lemniscate Dance Journey is available for performing arts schools, festivals, and private groups.
Photos by Ellie Kurttz Photography, courtesy of Shapes in Motion
Soundtrack – Epic Journey – by Amaksi
Recent Workshops
SHAPES for SHAPES IN MOTION
SADLER’S WELLS, LONDON- 9th MARCH 2025
This collaborative workshop brought together four facilitators combining different movement disciplines to weave a 3-hour workshop on the subject of “Shapes”. Participants were all professional movement artists and actors. Ros Parker guided the group on a journey using the fundamental principles of Contact Improvisation, partner work and efforts (Laban-inspired), followed by Maria Da Luz Ghoumrassi’s playful exploration of individual bodies’ natural shape-making, accentuated to create narratives and character. Daniel Chrisostomou brought in the aspect of voice, combined with deep spinal work and, finally, small ensembles formed hybrid, fantastical creatures under Stephen Moynihan’s direction with some fascinating results!
Photo© Ellie Kurttz Photography
Moving Mandalas
Would you like to explore movement and mandala-making in a unique, intuitive way? These workshops blend the freedom of movement with free-flowing art, creating space for surprising and beautiful discoveries—no dance or art experience needed, just curiosity and a willingness to explore!
I LOVE teaching these workshops. Each session brings a spectrum of unexpected creations, revealing subconscious expressions through body and paper. It’s always fascinating and uplifting for everyone involved.
Workshops are available for festivals and private events (pricing varies by location and group size), or you can join my mailing list for upcoming public dates.
Recent Workshops
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 8th 2024 – SADLER’S WELLS, LONDON – 2pm – 5pm
DOUBLE SKIN/DOUBLE MIND and CONTACT IMPROVISATION
with Kayla McClellen and Rosalind Parker
This 3-hour workshop for Shapes in Motion will start with Kayla leading Double Skin/Double Mind – a dance method developed by Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten to discover the sensitivity of the body and to make it available for the creative process through four basic principles: Breathing, Jumping, Expanding and Reducing.
Moving seamlessly into Contact Improvisation, Ros will then lead the group from awareness of skinesphere to kinesphere to group connectedness, creating space for the intuitive movements of weight-sharing, travel, and dance in duos, trios and more.
This workshop is suitable for actors, dancers and performers of all levels of experience.
Imaginal Playground Workshops
Ros runs Imaginal Playground movement workshops for actors and non-actors, mainly in the UK.
The Imaginal Playground: A physical theatre improvisation workshop. A journey into improvised play and performance through both verbal and non-verbal expression, weaving together aspects of clowning, movement and shamanic dance, visualisations and chorus work to create a playground of entertainment and discovery.
Participants learn to work in presence as individuals, graduating into pairs, small groups and eventually as a whole group collective.
These workshops are available to hire for festivals and events as well as being open to public on certain dates in the UK. Contact Rosalind for more information or join the mailing list for updates.
Spinal Warm-up Exercise
Try this gentle spinal warm-up exercise.
Warming up the spine is crucial when we begin a movement workshop. This loosens up the body as a whole, preparing you for the enjoyment of fluid movement, releasing tension and bringing you into the present moment – ready to play!
Solo Contact Improvisation Exercise
Try this as a solo Contact Improvisation exercise:
The hands or wrists move continuously and must always be in contact with the body or the ground. See where this takes you.
Before coming into contact with dance and movement partners in a workshop, it really helps to connect with your own body, with the ground and with the space around you. This exercise can be a great meditative practice to bring you into presence and awareness.