This four-part series explores the energetic landscape of the body and its ecological intertwining with the Arctic environment. Hosted by artist in residence, Ashley Middleton.
Across four lunar phases, the workshops trace a progression from stored earth material, to its conversion into infrastructure, to the environmental responses that follow, and finally to the shared terrain where natural processes and human systems intersect. Each session combines guided meditation, intuitive sound bath, and communal reflection. Drawing from scientific research in Svalbard alongside embodied sensing, the series invites participants to awaken bodily awareness within the systems they inhabit, allowing innate knowledge to surface and movement to begin.
Workshop 3. NEW MOON - ENERGY AS ACTIVATION
Glacial Melt / Permafrost Thaw / Slippage
When: Monday 20 April at Artica Svalbard from 17:30 - 19:00
What to bring: yoga/sleeping mat, blanket and notebook (pens and paper will also be provided)
To book email: workshops@articasvalbard.no (8 places available)
Description:
This session examines environmental response following industrial conversion. Coal, formed from ancient sunlight, becomes active when extracted and burned. The atmosphere changes. In the Arctic, glaciers and permafrost respond.
Ice melts. Frozen ground thaws. What has remained suspended for thousands of years begins to soften and move. Meltwater flows. Previously contained carbon and gases are released. Landscapes reorganize as frozen ground softens and shifts.
The meditation moves through containment and activation, sensing how frozen systems respond when stored material re-enters circulation.
Focus:
Industrial conversion and atmospheric change
Glacial melt and permafrost thaw as environmental response
Release of previously contained carbon and material
Embodied Inquiry:
What in the body feels held beneath the surface?
What initiates activation or release?
How does change register physically?