As the true method of knowledge is experiment, the true faculty of knowing must be the faculty which experiences. This faculty I treat of.
William Blake
PERSONAL STRUCTURES is a research project dedicated to self-inquiry through the body, its movement, and our relationship to the environment. The format includes both group and individual sessions: ongoing classes and immersive week-long retreats.
The materials explore the space between the symbolic self — the constructed identity shaped by culture, conditioning, and ideology — and the biological self — the body as it is. By attending to that distance, we begin to uncover layers accumulated over time, clarifying what supports our daily experience and movement, and what obscures perception.
Physical transformation often initiates change across the whole being. A more open body can soften mental patterns and habitual postures, creating space for playfulness and learning. These sessions invite physical processes that reorganize the internal landscape.
While centered on the body in motion, the work also expands our general ways of seeing. We draw connections to art, music and culture — pathways to relate more deeply to life as a whole. Ultimately, the practice is not only about physical development, but about learning itself.
Through guided movement explorations, sensory exercises, and reflective dialogue, participants engage directly with their own physical intelligence.
The project welcomes anyone curious about movement, including those without a sports background. It may especially work for artists and creative practitioners wishing to deepen their quality of being in their field of craft.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
One should observe not how you want things to be, but how things are in reality.
Helena Roerich