Our bodies speak, through connecting to our body, we can connect deeper to other bodies. Each body has its story, and the body is the first portal, the door to the mind and the soul. That means connecting to the body means also making a step towards connecting to the soul, and the body and the soul aligned make space for the spirit to be welcome and present. The spirit can be present in many ways – creating something together, through music & movement, sound, words or moves, authentically in the present moment is one of the ways how the spirit can be present.
< Naše telá hovoria, prepojením s naším telom môžeme hlbšie porozumieť prepojeniu s inými telami. Každé telo má svoj príbeh. Telo ako také je vstupnou bránou, dverami k mysli a k duši. Prepojenie s telom teda znamená aj krok k spojeniu s našou dušou. Telo a duša v súznení vytvárajú priestor, kde je duch – alebo inak povedané ´spiritualita´ – vítaný a môže byť prítomný. Duch môže byť prítomný mnohými spôsobmi – prostredníctvom zdieľaného priestoru kreativity, prostredníctvom hudby a pohybu, zvuku, slov zdieľanými a vytváranými autenticky v danom spoločnom okamihu je jedným zo spôsobov, ako môžeme vytvoriť priestor niečo, paradoxne, za hranicami ´fyzična´ – pre prítomnosť ducha – spirituálnosti. >
my home : my body is my practice that intertwines and combines all of my practices: music x movement x poetry performance and creative practice and my teaching practice. Being active as a physical performer, musician, maker and a teacher with time I have realised that it makes no sense to make separation, categories or boxes in all what I do. All of these different practices and different outputs of my energy are in the end embodied and connected in one – in my body, my soul, my spirit. All of them are different shades & sides of creativity. They not only reflect my knowledge & experience but also my personal life.
môj domov : moje telo je moja prax, v ktorej sa stretávajú a prepájajú všetky súčasti mojej tvorivej praxe – hudba x pohyb x poézia, so zreteľom na medziľudské prepojenie v kontexte edukačno-kreatívnej praxe. Ako aktívne pôsobiaca performerka, hudobníčka, tvorkyňa a učiteľka, som si postupom času uvedomila, že všetko, čo robím, je prepojené a že pre mňa nemá zmysel moju kreatívnu prax zaraďovať do oddelených kategórií. Všetky tieto rôzne postupy a výdaje mojej tvorivej energie sú vo svojej podstate stelesnené a spojené v jednom – v mojom tele, mojej duši, mojom duchu. Všetky predstavujú rôzne odtiene kreativity. Odrážajú nielen moje vedomosti a skúsenosti, ale aj môj osobný život, moju osobnú filozofiu a presvedčenie o ľudskom tele, duši, svete.
On this website you can find many of my projects, some completed, some ongoing and ever-transforming. In this post I share more about my home : my body as my teaching-performative practice that is ever-evolving.
Na tejto stránke môžete nájsť mnohé z mojich projektov, niektoré ukončené, niektoré stále trvajúce a navždy-transformujúce. V tomto poste hovorím o môj domov : moje telo ako o mojej edukačno-performatívnej praxi, ktorá sa neustále vyvíja.
my home : my body – Stories from the Bodies – is a collective creative practice exploring the physical, musical and poetic body in daily life movement, breath & creativity, encouraging the development within everyBODY’s own physical and creative abilities. This practice draws its core inspiration from the understanding that each body has its own unique story which can be expressed through finding & sharing its authentic voice regardless of shape, size, gender, age, physical (dis)ability, perceived limitation, (hyper)sensitivity, background or origin.
môj domov : moje telo – Príbehy z Tiel – je kolektívne kreatívne praktikum, ktoré sa zaoberá skúmaním fyzikality, muzikality a poetiky nášho tela v každodennom živote, v pohybe, dychu a kreativite, podporujúce rozvoj fyzických a kreatívnych schopností každého jedinečného TELA. Primárna inšpirácia čerpá z náhľadu a chápania, že každé telo má svoj vlastný jedinečný príbeh, ktorý možno pretaviť prostredníctvom nachádzania a vyjadrovania svojho autentického hlasu, bez ohľadu na telesný výzor, tvar, veľkosť, pohlavie, vek, orientáciu, fyzickú obmedzenosť alebo postihnutie, vnímané obmedzenia, (hyper)citlivosť, pôvod.
By experiencing physical-musical practice collectively as a group of diverse people, by moving in the same space, and through collective creativity, our awareness, our sensitivity, our connection to each other can grow. This is another way to connect, other than through rational mind (thinking). Through connection we can support each other, nurture each other, recognize what we need for a more aware, nurturing, sensitive, respectful, resistant, loving, caring society.
Respecting the experience of other bodies as well as respecting our own, is the step towards collective awareness and a step towards developing collective & mutual sensitivity and caring for each other by recognizing the ways & the languages our bodies speak.
Spoločným fyzicko-muzikálnym zážitkom tohto praktika ako skupina rôznorodých ľudí, pohybom v spoločnom priestore, a prostredníctvom zdieľanej kreativity, môže naše (seba)uvedomenie, citlivosť a vzájomné (medziľudské) prepojenie rásť. Takýto spôsob prepojenia je iným druhom prepojenia ako prostredníctvom racia, mysle, zdieľaných myšlienok; cez takto zažitú vzájomnosť môžeme lepšie rozpoznať, ako sa vzájomne – ako ľudské bytosti – podporiť, a tak možno aj vycítiť, čo potrebujeme pre uvedomelejšiu, citlivejšiu, rešpektujúce, milujúcu a starostlivú spoločnosť.
Rešpektovanie prežívania iných tiel a zároveň rešpektovanie prežívania svojho vlastného tela je krok ku kolektívnemu (seba)uvedomeniu a tak aj krokom k rozvíjaniu spoločnej a vzájomnej vnímavosti voči potrebám a spôsobom, akými naše telá hovoria.
Coming from my authentic daily and life experience as a moving body dealing with an “invisible” chronic condition since an early age & the experience how finding the authentic movement language has been deeply healing for me, I want to offer these sessions for everyBody who seeks for connection with their body (and other bodies), physical awareness and tools of music and movement to express “the story from your body”. These sessions combine my personal experience & findings as a moving body with its unique story while being a moving body as a musician-performer-teacher with many years of professional experience, using a combination of own tools + tools of Musicality of Movement, studied with Virág Dezso + tools from various movement, dance and music practices gained over the years.
Guiding these sessions I’d like to offer & share these practice-based creative “tools” while giving space for exploring them to deepen our embodied way of everyday living, moving in this world, as well as supporting your creative or performance practice if you wish so.
The sessions are specifically designed and welcoming to queer and female bodies, and bodies with hypersensitivities & (in)visible disabilities or chronic illnesses that might not always feel safe or comfortable to move in and explore own body authentically in regular spaces.
Vychádzajúc z vlastnej skúsenosti pohybujúc sa v tele, ktoré má od skorého detstva „neviditeľné“ chronické ochorenie, a zo zážitku toho, ako bolo pre mňa objavenie vlastného autentického pohybového jazyka hlboko liečivé, mojou túžbou je ponúknuť praktikum môj domov : moje telo tým, ktorí tiež hľadajú hlbšie prepojenie so svojím telom (a inými telami) a autentické vyjadrenie „príbehu svojho tela“. Workshopy spájajú poznatky a vedenie z osobných skúsenosti ako tela s jeho jedinečným príbehom, s mojimi dlhoročnými profesionálnymi skúsenosťami ako pohybová performerka-hudobníčka-učiteľka; pričom vo workshopoch kombinujem vlastné – zažité – spôsoby, cvičenia z “Muzikalita pohybu”, v ktorej sa dlhodobo vzdelávam s Virág Dezső, a tiež cvičenia z rôznych pohybových, tanečných a hudobných praktík nadobudnutých v priebehu rokov.
Počas týchto stretnutí ponúkam a zdieľam tieto kreatívne prakticky založené „techniky“ a zároveň poskytujem bezpečný priestor na ich skúmanie s cieľom prehĺbiť náš “embodiment” v každodennom živote, v tomto svete, alebo vo vašej individuálnej performatívnej praxi.
<Toto praktikum je vytvorené so zreteľom špeciálne pre queer a ženské telá a telá s hypersenzitívnosťou, (ne)viditeľným postihnutím alebo chronickým ochorením, teda telá, ktoré sa často necítia bezpečne alebo pohodlne pri pohybe a autentickom skúmaní vlastného tela v “bežných” priestoroch.>
written & developed by Dorota Márföldi-Matejová © All rights reserved. 2026.
THROWBACK to MY HOME : MY BODY sessions
november 2025 @ Tugela85, Amsterdam
https://tugela85.nl/nieuws/1389/terugblik-my-body-my-home-part-1 | reflection of the first workshop guided by Dorota, organised by Silver J. Bosch, hosted by Tugela85 artistic space
JANUARY 2026 @ Tugela85, Amsterdam
On January 10th and 31st we had our two Saturdays of continuing the sessions my body : my home – Stories from the Bodies – a creative encounter movement-musical-poetic practice developed by and guided by Dorota Márföldi-Matejová, invited to Tugela85 Blauwe Zaal space by tugenoot Silver J. Bosch who took care of the space, the organisation and the much-appreciated hosting with lovely coffee, tea and snacks.
Our January 10th session carried the beginning of the calendar year in our bodies as well as the processing and releasing the emotions and experiences from previous year (or perhaps years). It was a freezing cold morning that day, and perhaps that also reflected on how we moved and how we made music through our bodies. The session carried some deep emotions, expressed through movements, sounds, connections to our own body and the other bodies in space. There was trust between us and space created through slow building-up into deeper movements allowed for everyBody´s honest explorations and authentic expressions. The winter dark but beautiful deep mood reflected on the bodies and at the end of this session we all felt we went through some release, and some smaller or bigger transformations, everyBody in their own unique way.
Our January 31st session carried a lighter and gentler mood. We were all feeling on the softer side, some of us very tired or recovering after busy or sick weeks. The theme of the session was “meeting our body where it is today”. We explored the meaning of softness & stillness in movement and we were composing music expressed with and through the movements of our bodies and ´making paintings´ with our bodies. The session was again built up from being with our own body, listening to it closely, going into the bigger space, meeting other bodies and creating together guided by Dorota as well as guided by our presence and collective listening. The words that came through at the end of the session were softness, energy, acceptance, togetherness, collaboration, present, being.
Reflecting back on all three sessions of my body : my home – Stories from the Bodies – at Tugela85, it clearly carries the notion that the energy and presence of the people who come into this exploration and creative expression, of course, naturally embodies into the session itself, in the flow, in its dynamics, in what we are expressing both individually and collectively. And exactly this is the beauty and uniqueness of these sessions, not only for me as a guide, but also for the people present. Every session is like an explorative, transformative journey on its own. Through the music, the movement and the poetics revealed in our being we express the stories from our bodies.
written by Dorota Matejová, february 2026
music x movement x poetry • by Dorota Márföldi-Matejová 