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Stage Combat, Sword – All Levels
Dynamism, presence, and mindful interaction characterize this workshop, in which participants experience and practice the fundamentals of European swordsmanship as preserved for stage and film. As a path of practice for body and mind and as preparation for a body-oriented, systemic practice with the sword.
My SystemSchwert model combines systemic perspectives with the consciously structured physical practice of stage fencing. Here, the sword functions not as an instrument of combat, but as a symbolic and physical medium for presence, clarity, impulse, and boundary-setting. In the practical work, the sword becomes a somatic anchor that makes inner processes visible, objectifiable, and physically experiential. At the same time, the unique nature of staged combat makes possible many things that can be experienced through physical contact—something that would not be feasible in other forms of therapeutic sword work due to the risk of injury when handling a “real weapon.”
Historical stage sword training thus offers a collaborative practice in which individual attitudes and relational processes can be explored in unusual, exciting, and challenging ways:
working with the sword trains strength, momentum, concentration, and flow in an incomparable way—and is a lot of fun.
Dynamism, presence, and mindful interaction characterize this workshop, in which participants experience and practice the fundamentals of European swordsmanship as preserved for stage and film. As a path of practice for body and mind and as preparation for a body-oriented, systemic practice with the sword.
My SystemSchwert model combines systemic perspectives with the consciously structured physical practice of stage fencing. Here, the sword functions not as an instrument of combat, but as a symbolic and physical medium for presence, clarity, impulse, and boundary-setting. In the practical work, the sword becomes a somatic anchor that makes inner processes visible, objectifiable, and physically experiential. At the same time, the unique nature of staged combat makes possible many things that can be experienced through physical contact—something that would not be feasible in other forms of therapeutic sword work due to the risk of injury when handling a “real weapon.”
Historical stage sword training thus offers a collaborative practice in which individual attitudes and relational processes can be explored in unusual, exciting, and challenging ways:
working with the sword trains strength, momentum, concentration, and flow in an incomparable way—and is a lot of fun.
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