Marianne Costa and Michelle Madsen offer a three-day exploration of the Tarot and the Bouffon in Berlin this spring.
The All Fool’s Tarot Journey will be an exploration of the liberating energy of The Fool as the archetype of playful truth through Tarot constellations and embodied movement.
The Fool is the first card in the Tarot. Unschooled and innocent, he is unaware of his knowledge or unable to use it, meaning he has to rely on his powerful instincts to deal with what is immediate and present in front of him. With this freedom from knowledge, he is free to make mistakes, his energy flowing from moment to moment.
Bouffon is a French term for jester re coined by theatre innovator Jacques Lecoq in the’60s. Misshapen and misunderstood, the mocking Bouffons are musical, mystical under dogs, emerging in groups from the edges of society to speak the truths that need to be told. We will explore the Bouffon’s power to hold a mirror up to our collective and personal psyches.
The first evening of this workshop will be an introductory lecture on the Tarot given by Marianne and an introduction to the Bouffon by Michelle. The next two days will be a physical laboratory where we will explore the movement from ego to essence through embodied movement and constellation work
Dates m March 30, April 1 and 2.
Price of the workshop: Full €250 Unwaged €180
Please email Michelle to book and with any questions: madsen.michelle@gmail.comg

Nouvelle proposition/ Nuova proposta :

Tarocco a ruota libera / Tarot à bâtons rompus.

Français :

Plutôt que de construire a priori un espace d’enseignement intentionnel et programmé, comme je l’ai fait pendant des années, je propose désormais formule proche de celle des enseignements spirituels, basée sur la forme questions-réponses. 
Cette forme nous permet de nous situer dans le flot de la réalité, disponible à la nécessité du moment, pour laisser se présenter ce qui demande à être appris et partagé ici et maintenant. 
L’idée n’est pas de proposer des lectures individuelles approfondies mais bien de répondre aux demandes des participants. Si celles-ci concernent la théorie ou la pratique du Tarot, la réponse sera utile pour tous, et s’il y a des demandes personnelles, la méthode consistera à tirer une seule carte et à explorer des pistes de réponse, avec pour but un approfondissement de la compréhension du tarot lui-même et du processus de lecture à une personne.
Mon rôle sera, au fil des besoins du groupe, d’approfondir des thématiques centrales pour la théorie et de la pratique du tarot, en réponse aux questions que vous apportez.

Première séance le 3 décembre de 11 à 13h, en ligne

infos et inscription : costarot@yahoo.com

Italiano :

This workshop will be a held in collaboration between Marianne Costa (teaching the Major arcana of the Tarot), and Giulia Troni who will offer her Feldenkrais method perspective with the subject : « roots to the sky »
Our intention, knowing each other’s work from many years of collaboration, is to offer a unique opportunity to deepen both the symbolic and the embodied approach, nourishing our living existence with the Tarot’s structure, and grounding our imagination and intuition in an authentic sensory base. We might well end up with an intuitive body dancing the Tarot!

The workshop will be held primarily in English but we both also speak Italian.

About Tarot : The first Tarot decks appeared at the end of the 15th century in Italy, and were initially intended as a mere playing cards device. But their intricate symbolism stems from the late Middle-Age, a time where the spiritual path was seen as the core of human experience. Tarot evolved through the wisdom of French craftsmen into the standard known as ‘Tarot of Marseille’, the same deck that was re-discovered by the Occult movement in the 19th century as a « Book of wisdom and Magic », and constitutes the matrix of all contemporary Tarot decks. As we study its symbology and numerology, we discover a mirror of the soul and a mandala of the visible and invisible world. Reading the Tarot is not about predicting the future. It is a fantastic storytelling device that helps us answer any « What? Why? What for? How? » questions, the only questions that really matter : the ones we need to orient our heart into action.

About the Feldenkrais Method : The course is structured as a journey into the body through the study of the subtle connections existing between the different parts: from the support base of the feet to the head, passing through the centre of gravity of the pelvis, the axis of the spine and the volume of the chest.  Our skeletal structure, in continuous dialogue with gravity, is given the task of supporting our intentions to move in the simplest way possible. This is how we walk, reach out to grab an object, dance or hug a loved one using our ability to support ourselves upright through skeletal alignment, and to conduct every movement according to our will. The goal of the work is to develop a sensitivity that allows the body to become more efficient, flexible and stable, aligning and integrating the emotional and mental spheres in it.

Info and inscription : https://thetransmissionschool.org