Amerta workshops 2026

  • Spring day workshops: March 7th, April 12th, May 16th.
  • Summer movement and creativity in the landscape 8 week course (dates TBC). More details here
  • Summer-Autumn Somatic movement and art-making programme (with Laura O'Brien). 3 weekends July 4th-5th / September 26th-27th / November 28th-29th (more details coming soon)

To find out more about Amerta Movement, scroll down to the bottom of the page, for links to other websites, videos and books.

Spring 2026 workshops

March 7th
April 12th
May 16th

10.30-5 each day
Venue: CECAS at Myross House, Leap, West Cork
Day 1: Square: movement as communication. Being human, connecting with each other.

Day 2: Circle: bowing and praying. Connecting with the sacred.

Day 3: Oval: circulation and purification.  Being with and part of nature.


What to expect
Indoor and outdoor work, working on your own and in pairs or small groups.
Dialogue, writing and art making to help digest and respond to the process.
Each day will begin with a period of guided movement to help you to arrive, attune to yourself, the space and the group. The day will include movement exploration, in part guided by Claire, as well as self-exploration of the day's themes. 
The three themes are drawn from the teachings of Suprapto Suryadarmo, creator of Amerta movement.

Fees:
€75 per day or €200 for all 3
€50 deposit secures your place for the series.

Aims:
  • Develop confidence in your own movement and evolve your own movement vocabulary
  • Explore inner and outer impulses and notice your responses to them
  • Become more connected and sensitive to your own body, sensations and senses
  • Connect with ease to other people, and experiencing how that connection can be a source of playful and compassionate learning about what it is to be human
  • Deepen your relationship with the natural world and experience yourself as being part of that world rather than a separate observer or consumer.
  • Experience your own sense of the sacred, find out how you explore, express and feel that and share it with others
  • Feel more open, alive, spacious, relaxed and inter-connected


Bookings and enquiries
Claire Osborne [email protected], or phone 0862134080
Places are limited. Maximum 10 people to enable personal attention.
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About Amerta Movement
Amerta movement was created by Suprapto Suryadarmo from Java.
(From Triarchy press) "In 1970, Prapto started “to practise movement with the approach of exploring like a child…” He practised “in many conditions of time and space, in nature, temples exploring the qualities of freedom and limitation”. He perceived the world through movement rather than from stasis, or, as he initially described it, “from the Buddha walking, rather than from the Buddha sitting”. Alongside Buddhist practice and observing the movement of children, his practice was influenced by studying the elements and movement in nature, the practice of Sumarah (a traditional Javanese meditation practice of ‘letting go’ or surrender) and, through his parents’ influence, Javanese mysticism."

I studied Amerta with Prapto from 1997-2019. He passed away at the end of 2019.

More information about Prapto:  https://www.triarchypress.net/prapto.html

Resources

Resources

Videos  by Claire: ​
Information about Amerta and the Amerta movement community worldwide
Books: