Rhythms of Care
A Journey through the Spiral that Reconnects
“To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe — to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it — is a wonder beyond words.”― Joanna Macy
Rhythms of Care is an invitation to pause, slow down & listen, a reminder to witness our connection with ourselves, each other & the more-than human world. Here is an online space where the body & her movement lead, a tapestry of minor gestures & micro poems. It is a space to honour life and her sacred cycles.
Rhythms of Care is an act of radical care & a space for collective well-being.
Starting on 19th March (an auspicious day in South Asia celebrating the New Year) all the way until the 15th October, 2026 we will meet on Thursday every alternate week for hour on Zoom.
Join us this year on this unique online journey rooted in collective care, curated by Ilaria & Arundhati
More about Rhythms of Care
Rhythms of Care is the continued evolution of Let’s Move, a series of workshops that we hosted in 2025. From May through October, across three seasons around the sun, the ecosystem of Let’s Move grew its web across the human & the more-than human community across 5 continents.
Rhythms of Care too is an immersive global experience, an opportunity to embody the inter-connectedness amongst all of us and weave strands of embodied poetry. Together, we reclaim our sensory registers as pathways to know and reconnect.
What we will do during each session of Rhythms is a grounded check-in with breathwork, a process anchored in intuitive movement followed by expressions of micro poetry & a reflective closing circle. Being a part of Rhythms of Care also gives you the unique opportunity to publish your micro poem on the Kalaa Dhari website.
Rhythms of Care is a space to simply be, to witness, listen & discover images, movements, sounds and words of your body, psyche and your ecosystem in a collective. It’s a space filled with surprises and with the sheer magic of life.
Here are some of the micro poems generated by our participants from Let’s Move in 2025:
“What is the distance between you and me? What is the distance between opening and closing? Could it be one step away from connection? Could it be one hand reaching out to another? could it be one heart beat away? What is the distance between you and me? Could it be one breath? Our breath.”
“Excitement pairing with courage to go into the not-known. A natural and organic movement of my arms making space for the upper part of my body, my chest expanding, my feet grounding on the earth. A future where I am not alone, I am walking in a gentle Universe, on a Mother Earth, honoring the Wholeness.”
“I felt my womb bursting with life. I discovered light and consciousness, ready to be birthed. What surprised me was the hope amidst the fear, and the light she lent me, the courage..to walk my path.“
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Thematic Influences
Rhythms of Care lies at the intersection of arts, embodiment and Work that Reconnects practices. It offers a possibility to join the repair of the Web of Life; to apply social arts and embodiment as transformative practices; to strengthen our capacity of staying-with; to regain a sense of hope and courage and opening a space of grounded political imagination.
The frame and the premises of this workshop are inspired by Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects and by Mutima Imani’s Expanded Spiral of the Work That Reconnects which insists on a decolonial perspective.
The tools and the language of this workshop are inspired by Theatre of the Oppressed and Aesthetic of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal and Social Presencing Theater by Arawana Hayashi. The approach is sustained by the method of Focusing, Comprehensive Resource Model, the moon cycle and Womb Medicine.
Rhythms of Care will unfold inspired by the Spiral of the Work that Reconnects by Joanna Macy. There will be 16 sessions, starting in March 2026 all the way through to October 2026. These 16 sessions will be split into 4 segments reflecting the following phases of the Spiral:
Segment 1 – Coming from Gratitude: Remembering What Sustains Us
Every alternate Thursday from 19th March – 30th April
We begin by rooting & nourishing ourselves in gratitude as a stance of resilience. Together, we attune to the rhythms of the Earth and the web of relationships that nourish us & begin to rekindle awe and reverence for all earth beings
Segment 2 – Honouring Our Pain for the World: Opening the Heart of Compassion
Every alternate Thursday from 14th May to 25th June
Here we create a courageous container to listen to ourselves, each other and the Earth; to stay with and sense into the grief, fear or rage we might carry. Our shared pain becomes a gateway to deeper embodied empathy, an opportunity to alchemize our sorrow to love
Segment 3 – Seeing with New Eyes: Shifting into Inter-being
Every alternate Thursday from 9th July – 20th August
With a renewed freshness, we invite a new way of seeing – arising from relational & compassionate intelligence. We explore how collective imagination illuminates social & ecological transformation.
Segment 4 – Going Forth: Cultivating the Courage to Act
Every alternate Thursday from 3rd September – 15th October
With embodied clarity, we engage with grounded commitments and shared visions. Here, we bless the seeds of our future actions.
Dates & Fees
Starting on 19th March, 2026 (an auspicious day in South Asia celebrating the New Year) all the way until the 15th October, we will meet on ZOOM, every alternate week on Thursday:
2:30 PM -3:30 CET
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM IST
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM ET
These are specific dates for the segments:
Segment 1: Coming from Gratitude: Remembering What Sustains Us
9th March, 2nd 16th & 30th April.
Segment 2: Honouring Our Pain for the World: Opening the Heart of Compassion
14th & 28th May, 11th & 25th June.
Segment 3: Seeing with New Eyes: Shifting into Inter-being
9th & 23rd July, 6th & 20th August
Segment 4: Going Forth: Cultivating the Courage to Act
3rd & 17th September, 1st & 15th October
You can (and it is recommended that you) register for all 16 sessions. However, to participate in Rhythms of Care, you need to register for at least one of the four segments.
Fees: 40 euros/segment or 150 euros for all 16 segments. Don’t let financial constraint be a reason for your non participation. Please write to us at reach.kalaadhari@gmail.com and we can discover a creative solution for your participation!
Meet your Facilitators
Arundhati Samudra
I work with stories, bodies, and silence — creating spaces that integrate reflection & restoration.My practice draws from theatre, therapeutic interventions, and feminist pedagogy to nurture collective resilience and imagination. I believe that transformation often begins with presence, curiosity, and play.
A practitioner working at the intersections of political art, therapy, and community well-being for over fifteen years; my work centres collective expression, restorative and decolonial approaches to wellness through theatre and therapeutic practices. As Founder of Kalaa Dhari, I design and facilitate spaces of learning & transformation for individuals and groups navigating conflict, trauma, and change.
Ilaria Olimpico
I am a Peace Studies PhD researcher focusing on memory, third narrative, and collective liberation. I am a Facilitator of Social Arts & the ‘Work That Reconnects’, and a Focusing Trainer.
More than fifteen years of experience facilitating groups at the intersection of peace education, conflict transformation, deep ecology, and community building across borders, have led me to the methodological map ‘Stories that Reconnect’. It is an invitation to honor the pain of the world and cultivate active hope, remember our inter-connection, expand our capacity for compassion, and awaken the courage to act from a space of embodied dreaming, political imagination, and emerging futures.
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