Slap me soft - 25.01.2026 - 11am-3pm
Hitting and being hit or Impact play, isn't a conventional context to look for softness and gentleness. Yet, this is precisely what we shall do. We will try to approach this Kuan and insist on staying in this Paradox: How could hitting someone, submitting myself to the blows of another - could become a gentle act of care?
We will be building towards a classic (face-slapping), through many approximations, intermediate steps and pauses. The approach proposed is slow, somatic and very much inspired by the Feldenkrais method.
Another arc of the workshop, meant to support the quality of care and softness, is engaging with others through physically holding/being held by them. Asking for someone to be big, so that I could be small, and inviting this big one to slap me, to take care of me, through hitting
Noam Raz
Noam Raz (He/Him) is a workshop facilitator, Emotional-Somatic practioner (Feldenkrais) and Family Constellation guide. His work is driven by sensitivity and is an attempt to create experiential spaces for people to develop autonomy and trust in their own body and internal processes. Throughout the years, he trained in a variety of physical and embodiment practices which inform and enrich his work: Dance, Taiji, Somatics, Kink, Voicework and Meditation. Coming originally from the realm of Philosophy (Wittgenstein!) and Linguistics, attention to language and its workings is somehow always in the background.
https://www.noamra.com/ / https://www.instagram.com/noam.raz.98/ / noamraz05@gmail.com
