Join artist, movement practitioner and sauna host Simone Lore for a guided sauna experience designed to support, reflect, and rest as artists together. As the seasons begin to change and the metaphorical harvest is brought in, lets make space to reflect and frame any intentions for this coming autumn. Bringing the steam of the sauna, natural body treatments, guided reflection and somatic work, this session offers a space for rest and gently focus self and community.

Simone is exploring ideas of the sauna as a context and space for intimate performance and creative gathering. These sessions with Take Me Somewhere are supporting Simone’s development of sauna centred performance making currently under development.

Please note: While saunas are generally safe for most healthy adults, primary risks include dehydration, drops in blood pressure and heat exhaustion. If you are unsure please seek medical advice. Please review and accept Glasgow Community Sauna’s Health and Safety Waiver as part of the booking process. 

HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE SESSION AND WHAT TO EXPECT:

• 10 mins introduction and gathering. Simone will lead a small introduction and gentle embodiment invitation to arrive together. 

• 60 mins Sauna experience (this includes breaks and times for cooling. Please note leaving the sauna at anytime to cool down is also very welcome and encouraged- please listen to your own bodies needs!) 

• 20 mins time to close, get dressed and enjoy refreshments

• Please bring a towel to sit on and a towel to dry yourself afterwards, flipflops/sliders for feet when walking around the site.

• A bottle for drinking water

• Swimwear or cotton based shorts/vest for wearing in the sauna (this is not a naked session) Please read the Glasgow Community Sauna’s further information on what to wear and bring and general sauna etiquette.

• Please let us know  if you have any allergens we should be aware of, this should include essential oils used in the sauna, birch and oak whisks as well as food and drink. 

About the facilitator

Simone Lore (also known as Simone Kenyon) is a UK-based artist, movement practitioner and sauna host. They creates works that encompass dance and somatic practices, environment, ecology, walking arts, participatory events and workshops within a multitude of creative and community contexts.

Their practice explores embodiment and place-relational performance making, paying attention to somatic and sensory perceptions of environments. Simone has many years of experience in dance and movement practice and is a qualified Feldenkrais practitioner and meditation teacher.Over the past 6 years they have undertaken Sauna Master training (levels 1+2 and advanced whisking/plants) with the International Bath Academy based in Lithuania and work at their local sauna in Edinburgh.

About Take A Breath

Take A Breath are a series of wellbeing sessions delivered by Take Me Somewhere as part of our Studio Somewhere programme.  Take a Breath is an opportunity for pause, generosity and community cohesion, where artists can come together in experiences that centre their wellbeing and sit outside of the creation process.

Access Notes

You can find Glasgow Community Sauna’s Accessibility information here.

If you have access requirements, or require BSL, or questions about the session, please contact studio@takemesomewhere.co.uk