the Anastasia Method
Is a multidisciplinary project centered around participatory performance classes.
The method utilises an allegorical anatomical lexicon to address human physiology.
Renaming the myoskeletal system and vital organs as human virtues, assets, apirations and success values of contemporary society.
The project started in 2018 and its ongoing. Early iterations focused on the body parts cued in a Pilates regime.
Eg; the navel: The Talent Point, the perineum: The Inspiration Point, the chest: The Best, the arms: Charms, etc.
Nowadays, the method evolves along with my research into more intricate dictionaries of anatomical and energetical systems.
Manifests as pragmatic spaces for energetic recharge and somatic awareness with snippets of shared universal consciousness.
Materialises as; performances, texts, diagrams, video tutorials, sound works, workshops, and everything in between.
“The Anastasia Method is a Method to be Earned not Learned. ”
THE LINE Between LIME AND TIME
Residency and Opens studios
ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin, September 2023
Installation shots by Elisa Georgi
Lime Time sessions
A 30 min Time Message for Juicy Afterthoughts
IF LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS. HOPE THEY ARE JUICY
A THREE DAY WORKSHOP OF THE ANASTASIA SPRING SERIES.
A COMBINATION OF EXPANSION AND DECOMPRESSION VIA CITRUS MASSAGE, KUNDALINI YOGA AND CUSTOM MADE POP MANTRAS.
MEDIAMATIC FOUNDATION, AMSTERDAM, APRIL 2022
PHOTOS BY ANDREA VALDIVIA
The workshop is a thorough reset of the value system. Working with the activation of one's own Aspiration*
The diagrams below show body parts used in the exercise series as translated in the Method:
Thoughts-cranium, Beliefs-brain, Nose-needs, Ears-fears, Hopes-ribcage,Glutes-assertiveness and more.
The Krya is specially designed to raise Aspiration (kundalini in english) upwards in the seven energetical points of the Method (chakras in english).
The Inspiration point, Talent point, Emancipation point, Liberation point, Creation point, Superior Imagination point, Annunciation; aka I Am Coming Up point.
In the workshop -and for all Aspiration to become inspired -we also work with pop mantras.
Popular songs edited in the form of Mantras with repetitive choruses. Mantras we listen, hum, act upon the words or simply sing out very loud.
“TAKE MY BREATH AWAY” is an ‘act upon the words’ Mantra. A listening and breathing meditation with a clementine peel. Where breathing becomes very personal.
“TIME IS ON MY SIDE” Is a singing meditation for the activation of the Creation Point (throat chakra). The Mantra is designed to instantly kill ageist parasites and give time some loud love.
The Anastasia Method signature Pilates Class
The Anastasia Method, Flam Amsterdam, 2019
The class is a sign in only, no viewers ever allowed.
Duration of class 1’15”
Photo Credits /FLAM Amsterdam, by T. Lenden/Dokzaal Amsterdam, by Alina Ozerova/Haus N Athen, by Maria Damkalidi /Radical Cut up workshop by H. Faustino.
Draw in your Talent ~ Squeeze your Inspiration ~ Squirt your Superior Imagination
Draw in your Talent ~ Squeeze your Inspiration ~ Squirt your Superior Imagination
“Take it one possibility at the time”
Green Stream
Introducing The Success System*
~The hard drive of your body of work. A multitasking, multi-versed, multiculti, complexed organism.
~Where you process and digest information and where you store second hand thoughts.
~Where cooperation and coexistence do all the dirty work for you, without you knowing.
~When the system in in sync it aids to uncode messages from cosmic resources.
~Teaches you how to assimilate this information to eliminate your toxic ambitions and constipated beliefs.
Performance and installation,
Ornamenta_2024, Pforzheim, July 2023
Step Into the Limelight
A breathing, tapping and face massage performance/workshop, for young talent that is tired.
Invited by Stavros Niarchos Foundation_ Art fellows, Athens, 2022
Photos by Penelope Gerasimou
THE QUARANTINE Sanctions
Is a participatory performance in times of social isolation.
Ten online classes, thirty minutes each, live-streamed weekly.
Each week the project introduced survival kits relative to the lockdown reality.
Holistic strategies composed by: Pilates, Kundalini, Yin Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Gyrokinesis, TCM Meridians, Vedic Acupressure, Chakra cleansing, Humming and Pranayama breathing techniques.
Oftentimes a household item is used as an exercise prop.
Broadcasted by Public Sandberg April to May 2020.
The Anastasia Method Connected living Meditation
DICTIONARY for the MEDITATION
*Inspiration Point - root chakra
*Talent Point - the navel centre
*Emancipation Point - diaphragm or the solar plexus
*Liberation Point - the heart chakra
*Creation Point - the throat chakra
*Superior Imagination point - the third eye point (sixth chakra)
*Radical Explanation - top of the head (the crown chakra )
*Needs - the nose
*Wants - the mouth
*Desire - the tongue
*Lies - the eyes
*Fears - the ears
*Luck - palms of the hands
*Parasympathetic Resistance Sector - Parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system
Guides:
In The Anastasia Method Breathing Meditation the act of inspiration and expiration is mirroring the cycle of life. A circular breathing technique should start from the bottom of the energy centres aka the Inspiration Point* and travel upwards like a wave. In this breathing circle we aim to fill up our Talent Point, enhance our Emancipation Point and then fully open our Liberation Point* before the air is released as we Want* with effortless effort.
The act of effortless effort is a natural law of nature. It is based on the fact that nature's intelligence functions with effortless ease and abandoned carefreeness.
The Moment is a space where the physical body is functioning under the Parasympathetic Resistance Sector*. A rest and digest, relax and restore mode where the most of the vital organs are regenerating and glands of the Endo-Economic System are favourably producing neurotransmitters and hormones such as serotonin, dopamine and oxytocin.
The Moment is made possible when the body squeezes in all Inspiration* directs it upwards and holds it tight on the top of the Radical Explanation* to make questions sparkle.