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Moving with Ana

Hi! I’m Ana, and I’d like to start a journey with you, accessing the body wisdom through movement!

26/12/2025

When I visit my mother in Figueira da Foz, she usually jokes that this location (a coffee house by the beach) is my office. That's where I go to work or write, or to be by the sea when the weather is not inviting.

On the day of the photo, it had been raining and suddenly the sun was shining. Short cycles with sudden change.

I like to think of the cycles of life. The moments of closing, the anticipation of change. And yet, the end of the year gives me a strange pressure:
- To define.
- To decide.
- To plan what’s next.

Maybe because it feels somehow forced by a date and not entirely natural, something in me keeps asking for something else.

Instead of jumping into goals and resolutions, I’ve been practicing a different question: What if I sensed into the new year before trying to shape it?

In one of my first encounters with Social Presencing Theater (SPT) in 2018, I took part in what I later learned was called a Seed Dance.
In this process, we begin not from analysis or planning but from a felt gesture of the future. The invitation is to allow a posture to emerge that carries the quality of a future wanting to come into being.

What struck me deeply was that this gesture did not come from a vision board, or a careful reflection on goals. It emerged directly through the body. A movement appeared, found shape, and only later revealed its meaning. That gesture carried information about direction, values, and possibilities that thinking alone had not accessed.

Since then, this has become my preferred method for finding guidance, and you can try it as well! I'll host a session on the 6th January 17:00-20:00 in Vienna to invite a small group into a similar journey. Join SEEDS! https://lnkd.in/d4EhZvHa

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I wrote about this embodied way of meeting the new year — not as a method, but as an invitation.

If you’re feeling resistant to resolutions, tired of forcing clarity, or simply curious about listening more deeply… maybe this resonates with you too
👉 Read the full reflection here:
https://lnkd.in/dE2bep7e

19/12/2025

This photo is from Portugal, where I come for Christmas with my family.

Before I fully dive into a holiday break, I’d like to share a few words of gratitude.

Maybe we did something together this year.
Maybe we never met in our lives.
And maybe we crossed paths in quiet, almost invisible ways.

All options in between are welcome.

I deeply appreciate that you decided to accompany my work, in whatever way that has been true for you.

2025 was not an easy year.
Many things found an end.
Several layers were stripped away—sometimes by choice, sometimes not.

According to the Chinese calendar, we’re still in the year of the Wooden Snake, associated with intuition, shedding, and renewal. A year that asked for honesty beneath the surface. A year that invited us to listen more carefully to what moves through the body before it becomes words or plans.

For me, this year was less about building and more about sensing. Less about answers and more about learning to stay with questions.

Much of what mattered did not arrive fully formed—it arrived as seeds.

Seeds of encounters.
Seeds of conversations.
Seeds of events where something subtle but alive was planted: a shift in perception, a moment of presence, a remembering of what it feels like to be in the body together.

Some of these seeds were named. Others remained unnamed.All of them are still working underground.

As the year closes, I’m not rushing to define what comes next. I’m letting these seeds rest, trusting that their timing is wiser than my urgency. What wants to grow will reveal itself—slowly, organically, in its own season.

If this year brought endings for you, I hope they also created space.

If it brought exhaustion, I hope rest finds you.
If it brought quiet, I hope you can hear what the quiet is teaching.

Thank you for being part of this field of attention, inquiry, and practice.

I wish you a gentle closing of the year—and a new cycle that unfolds from the inside out.

15/12/2025

As the year comes to an end, I’m curious about how people experience the close of a cycle.

Have you reflected on the colours of 2025?
What worked. What didn’t. What should have been different.
What patterns repeated themselves.
Which moments felt alive, and which drained your energy.
What emerged without effort, and what required constant pushing.

And what about planning for 2026?
Are you approaching the new year with curiosity or trying to force a clear plan?

What wants to continue growing?
What is asking to be simplified, softened, or released?
What pace would actually support sustainability?

Curiosity doesn’t rush answers.
It creates space for honesty.
And often, that’s where the most meaningful direction begins.

How are you approaching reflection and projection this year: evaluation, intention… or curiosity?

If you'd like to try an embodied approach to sensing into the new year, join me on the 6th January in Vienna at "SEEDS"!

https://movingwithana.com/

13/12/2025

Dear demons,

While we know you are probably busy preparing to show up in some family reunions or New Year's celebrations, we invite you to think ahead and imagine already your return after the hibernation!

The German language calls it the winter sleep, and we're sure you'll wake up hungry for loving encounters!

So put it in your calendar: 8th of March! The date of the next "demons in love".

We promise Spring will come with many surprises!

For now... Enjoy your holidays, and no matter you're being naughty or nice, remember to gift love to the "demons" (yours and the ones from others...) 🎁❤️

With love,
Ana and Christoph

05/12/2025

An evening for those who want to move beneath the surface — where dance becomes listening, sensing, remembering, and revealing.

In this session, we enter the field of Authentic Movement through the lens of winter archetypes: the descent into the body’s depths, the pause that reveals subtle truths, the kind of listening that only emerges in the darker months.

A space for slowing down, deep listening, and letting the body guide you into the season’s quiet wisdom.

What archetypal movements come with Winter? Here are some:

The Cave — an inner retreat where movement becomes gentle, instinctual, protective.
The Void — the fertile emptiness where impulses arise from stillness.
The Glowing Coal — small but steady sparks of vitality, creativity, and inner warmth.
The Evergreen — the part of us that stays alive, rooted, and quietly resilient through change.

Which ones resonate with you the most?

Come move with them!

Date: 9 December
Time: 18:30–20:30
Location: Weißgasse 33/Stiege 1/1, 1170 Vienna
Facilitator: Ana Bernardes

27/11/2025

Let me introduce Georg, in case you haven’t met him before!

I made this photo of him in bliss festival last month. After seeing the quality of presence and connection he brings to his singing circles, I felt inspired to invite him to join me hosting one more Weaving Connections! Apart from his musical expertise, Georg masters opening the space for deep human experiences through music.

He was excited to join me, and on the 7th Dec you can co-create this portal into the web of life with us!

We sit in a circle, held by the Yurt and the land, and weave our connection to the threads of the universe. Through Authentic Movement, Music and Human Connection, we invite the unconscious to become visible and express its own alchemy!

Registrations: https://movingwithana.com/

23/11/2025

Winter Invitations to Slow Down and Feel. As the final month of 2025 approaches, many of us feel a natural pull to reflect, reconnect with our bodies, and realign with what truly matters. I’m delighted to share a few opportunities to move from within, and reconnect—both in Vienna and online. - https://mailchi.mp/4661d0f26f0d/092024-18103517

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