Mystery of the Mask
1-3 August 2025
is an immersive two day experience that will give you a glimpse of your true Human Nature and help you to remember who you are when you are not wearing your Mask
We have emotions which we show and some that we hide. Those emotions leave marks on our faces and our bodies. At the beginning, when we are kids, our faces are more or less neutral, but the longer we live, the more they become a mask. We wear this mask always, more during the day than when we sleep, of course… The mask gets heavy, but we cannot take it out. It creates a lot of tension in us, a conflict between something we feel as the creative essence of the beginning and the one we have become. The Mask dictates us how to behave, what exactly to do in this or that situation. And at some point the essence of us becomes less visible, and The Mask – the only thing we show to the world.
Neutral Mask gives us a chance to go to the state of the beginning of the Journey, in the moment when the only thing we know is the fact of existence itself with the infinite openness towards the world around us.
Neutral Mask gives us energy and connection to the Archetypal Humanness. We all have it in common in us, in those places of our Psyche before we started to be so different. Neutral mask explores the world around without Past, Memories, Preferences or Fears. It creates relaxation and freedom for an Artist of Life to come out.
In Physical Theater tradition Neutral Mask is used for the initiation of the Actor, for clearing the Psyche of the Actor from any form of resistance to the movement forward. Without that “cleansing” an actor has “noise” of his/her own psychology creating a “blurry” image on the stage.
In psychological experimentations Neutral Mask is said to help alleviate the state of fear, indecisiveness and blockage of creative energy.
- Would you like to try to become an Actor and not a Viewer of the Play of your life?
- Would you like to find a new way of sensing your True Essence of being Human?
- Maybe finding the connection to Nature through Neutral Mask will bring you the key to unlock your creative potential?
meet our Guides for this retreat!
3+ years common experience
Mariia Korenieva
Theatre pedagogue in lecoq physical theatre system, postdoc theatre director, Gestalt therapist.
She designs short retreats and long time programs for professional and non-professional artists to help them to discover their embodied way of being a human being.
The story we want to tell does not exist separated from the teller's body. Even the stories we try to hide live precisely in our bodies and wait for their time to be told. Our senses create the world we call “reality”. As artists in life, we look for ways to consciously connect to “the reality” with possibilities of affecting it through our bodily faculties. We move in order to be moved by what we see, hear, and perceive. That is the experience of Life. We recognize movement as a sign of life. Some movement is so slow that we can mistake it for stillness, and some so fast that we fail to register it. But things move if they are alive. This is the first embodied discovery we all made by birth. Then come others. And there are some we need to make an effort to remember…
Raima Drąsutytė
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Raima Drąsutytė is an artist and Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy practitioner. Raima holds Somatic movement therapy sessions by integrating Movement Development Patterns, Autentic Movement discipline, Experiential Anathomy and Expressive Arts. Her teachers are pioners in the field:
Linda Hartley, Joan Davis, Daniel Lepkoff, Andrea Olsen, Caryn McHose, Cornelia Shmitz, Jane Okondo, Susan Aposhyan and others.
Raima’s creative work includes performances, land-art sculptures and drawings from the practices of body movement and touch. Her deep interest is in exploring how art can be a practice/ritual of better connection with the Living Earth and how it emerges and appears from embodied Presence and the felt sense of Interbeing.
Raima lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania
What is included
Sauna
The traditional Lithuanian “smoky” sauna - pirtis on the first evening of the workshop. Here fragrances of summer herbs are mixed with salty aromas of oak and birch trees. We cleanse our body and spirit under guidance of an experienced pirtininkai. Pirtis marks the beginning of our practice, it summons all four elements - Fire, Water, Earth and Air - to get us truly moving.
accommodation
“Vabaline” is the nature oriented place, where the borders between living place and nature itself are blurred. There are rooms for accommodations from 2 people to houses where up to 6 people can live. We will hold our meetings inside or outside of the main hall according to the weather.
Food
Hearty, home cooked, for vegetarians and not - three meals a day) When we arrive we’ll have a welcoming dinner. Herbal tea and medicinal gira will support us on the way!
Materials
In our retreat we will be using materials from all elemental forces - Fire, Earth, Water and Air - most of them already being present in natural setting of Vabaline. The additional materials will be provided and are included in the price.
Waves
Price €
number of possible participants at this price
First wave till 1st of July
250 €
5
Second wave till 15th of July
300 €
10
Second wave till 30th of July
350 €
10
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