This workshop offers an exploration of Regenerative principles of nature applied to how we inhabit, perceive, and use our bodies. Somatic education practices, perception games, movement exploration, drawing, and other creative approaches will be used as tools for investigation and learning.
What you’ll learn / do
This workshop invites participants to explore the body as a living, intelligent, and adaptive system, inspired by the principles of permaculture: observing, cooperating with natural processes, using energy consciously, and creating balanced relationships.
Through practices of awareness, movement, creativity, and experimentation, participants learn to recognize their bodily patterns, discover more efficient ways of carrying out everyday actions, and develop a more sustainable relationship with themselves and with others.
The experience integrates principles of somatic education and permaculture, building bridges between natural systems and the human body as an organism in constant adaptation.
– Concrete Skills:
Participants learn to observe and reorganize their movement patterns, using their bodies with greater efficiency, balance, and awareness in everyday activities.
– Problems Addressed:
The workshop helps participants manage tension, overload, and fatigue by replacing physically draining patterns with more conscious and efficient ways of using the body.
– Visible Outcomes:
By the end of the experience, participants experience greater ease, presence, and clarity around how they move, work, and rest.
Who this workshop is for
People interested in developing a more conscious, healthy, and sustainable relationship with their bodies and with the way they inhabit the world.
A workshop for anyone who wants to improve the quality of their movement, deepen body awareness, find more intelligent ways to use their energy, and cultivate presence in everyday life.
Suitable both for people engaged in physically demanding work and for those who spend many hours sitting, or simply seek a more balanced and connected way of living.
No previous experience is required.
Practical information
Date: Saturday October 3, 2026 and Saturday November 7th, 2026
Time: 10 AM – 5 PM
Duration: 7 hours (1h vegetarian lunch included)
Location: Forniçô
Language: Portuguese/English
Price: 80 EUR, when an individual signs up for both session the price is 140 EUR
Workshop Series – October & November
Two workshops are proposed, one in October and one in November.
Each session will explore different approaches and materials, allowing participants to attend a single workshop or take part in the full series.
What’s included
- All necessary materials and tools
- Guidance and supervision throughout the workshop
What to bring
- Comfortable clothes
- Notebook and pen
- Waterbottle
About the facilitators
Mizinha (Maria Inês Pires Gil) is an artist, educator, and movement researcher with over 20 years of international experience in performance, pedagogy, and somatic practices. She holds degrees in Communication of the Body Arts and Education, as well as postgraduate qualifications in Art Therapy and Play Therapy. Her work focuses on developing learning methodologies through the body, play, and artistic expression.
She has been a practitioner and teacher of Contact Improvisation since 2005, participating in and teaching at events across Europe, Latin America, and Asia. She is also co-founder of the company Las Titis, dedicated to creating artistic and educational projects under the motto “art, health, love, and humor.”
Gregory Crawford has nearly two decades of experience in Permaculture Design, teaching and consulting on a wide range of projects across four continents. In addition to co-managing The Panya Project — a permaculture education center in Chiang Mai, Thailand — he has developed projects with Surplus Permaculture and Locus, and is co-founder of Win/Win Reactor, an urban permaculture project based in Detroit, USA.
Both are married and currently live between Quinta de Forniçô, home of Escola Regenerativa, and periods spent working on international projects.
Registration
Advance registration and payment is required by simply sending an email to: cursos@escolaregenerativa.pt
You will receive instructions for payment and confirmation afterwards!
