Min Yoon | dancetotheedge 




PSYCHOPhysikal

intense impulses >>> dances for our lives and the world

six Sundays
post-/butoh dance + somatics
a practice for depth, attention, integration



Dancing into >>>
EXPASION >>> GRAVITY >>> FIELDS OF RELATION >>> FANTASY VARIATION >>> INTENSE IMPULSE >>> IN DEFENSE IN RESILIENCE



PSYCHOPhysikal is an invitation

to not to leave the body, mind, or heart. To stay. 
to stay with, to move with the World as it is.
into reflections and illuminations.
into unfolding the subconscious, imaginary, and creating space for the new.
to find breath and movement at the edges.
to dance for ourselves, each other, and the world. 

to go deep, long, and slow and cultivate dedication, practice, and integration in the middle of the city.

There will be butoh dance scores, somatic sensing and integration with personal and socio-political themes, many layers of realities and awareness, creative research and release, and practical practices for beyond the studio.

Min’s styles can be hyper-real, unreal, emotionally intense and sensitive, philosophical, aescetic, ecstatic, structured, improvisational, with big love and care and experiences in teaching, holding, and going deep. 

We will meet on six Sundays, forming a temporary community to go slower and cultivate a sense of practice; with dancing for our lives, witnessing depth and humanity, researching with the arts what we can bring into our personal lives and collective consciousness, in and out of the studio ~~~


Practical information

  • 25 October + 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 November 2026 /// Sundays, 12:00–17:00 /// 6 sessions • 33 hours total
    +++ with an extended integration evening on the final Sunday 
  • €300-400 sliding-scale /// Supporter rate: €450 /// One reduced-rate spot. Write us if you are having difficulties. 
  • where: Movement Atelier in Kreuzberg, address shared with registration
  • in small, intimate group / shared temporal field / held processes
  • This is a continuous six-session process. Occasional absence is understandable, but full presence is strongly encouraged for the depth of the work. Each session stands on its own, while also building a shared arc over six Sundays.
  • in English + psychophysikal

~~~ reach out to: dancetotheedge@gmail.com


What you may find
a deeper relationship and tools for listening with the body
exploration of deep themes and emotions, carried by the expressive arts
butoh and somatic movement exercises for opening, release, and coping
exercises to notice emotional, physical, and relational signals
moments of reflection, sharing, and creative exploration
working with polarities—different inner parts and impulses
permission to be uncertain, vulnerable, or strange, with the unknowing alone, and with one another
 integration of life experiences that haven't found expression
structured and held space for both intensity and rest


This is not about performing or “doing it right.”
A gradual progression from foundational practices toward more open creative research.


The approach

Min combines approaches from butoh dance imagery and scores, meditative and somatic exercises, Process Work (process-oriented psychology and Dreambody) and somatic-expressive arts from Anna and Daria Halprin. We enter other ways of thinking, dreaming, being, with the language of the arts.


This workshop is for everyone interested in studying themselves, creativity, and dancing with life and meaning.


No prior experience in butoh, somatic or movement work or music is needed—just curiosity and life experience.


About the teaching artist


MIN YOON is a post/butoh dancer, somatic movement therapist / educator and conflict facilitator, based in Berlin, performing and sharing internationally. They explore how we can find new ways of moving, both individually and together - with a focus on how one and many bodies move through polarity, tension, and transformation. Min leads philosophical, embodied, imaginative, and emotional scores with the individual and group body, focusing on processing what is dark or difficult with the arts and the body, with butoh, post/butoh, process-oriented psychology ("Process Work"), nature imagery, and somatic therapy methods.
As a teacher, Min has lectured and taught internationally, including at universities, non-profit and for-profit organizations, arts theaters and institutions, and communities—among them the Process Work Center of Hawai'i, the Felt Sense Conference, Zazen, the HeadwatersTheater, and a center for mental rehabilitation in Finland.

As an artist, Min's performances and social artworks have been supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK (npn) in
Germany, the German Dance Association (Dachverband Tanz Deutschland), Musikfonds, Kultuuri Kaupilla in Finland, the City of Oakland, the Battery Club of San Francisco, and the Awesome Foundation, as well as through artist residencies and grants. Min was also a fellow at the Center for Art and Urbanistics (ZK/U Berlin) and an Artcorps fellow at the Tamalpa Institute, founded by Daria and Anna Halprin. With a grant, Min was invited to the Process Work Institute to connect Butoh dance with global conflicts.

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Min photo by Orange Ear


Words about Min’s Teaching / Holding Space:



“It was one of the most personal and equal challenging butoh trainings that ive experienced, while being in a caring, open environment. I think one goes in hand with another which was a very imaginative creation (by Min) that had lead our diverse movements. We were travelling through movies, natural spaces, internal pressures, unusual characters and more, being connected bodies of intensities and its opposites. It was so much, leaving ideas for further practice.”
- MARTINA, dancer 


“A profound journey with and through the (individual & collective) body, psyche and nervous system. My body continues to buzz from the opportunity to embrace exhaustion, rage and uncertainty.

Min is a super skilled facilitator, both in their composition of the workshop, where each exercise as well as the entire weekend moved through really effective arches, and in their adaptability to the needs of the group. They also adapted all the exercises to accommodate my injured foot, and I never felt left out just because I couldn't really stand/walk-- I wish more dancers would embrace creating accessible movement spaces that celebrate the ways that vastly different bodies, abilities and skillsets can move and create magic together<3”
- ZOYA, dancer


“Mins way of facilitating ring and stirr something in the deeper layers of the soul, the layers where consciousness meets subconcious meets body. Something primal yet complex. Something not moral, not binary. Maybe previous lifes, maybe a collective archetypal subconcious. Maybe just something you've seen in a movie. Your body knows. Their work led us into fleshy, bizarre, violent, playful, angelistic, posthuman embodiment - choreographing a requiem, a musical for a dying world that still is tenderly lovable.
Out of the comfort zone into an individual and collective journey. Lunching into muddy waters. A purge that leaves you alive and transparent. Artfully crafted and served with care.
Mixing philosophy with pop culture with social media with earthy intuition, razorsharp precision, a strong political stance and deep, fierce passion.
That was so good. Go for it, if you have the chance.”
- JUL, dancer


“I was surprised, touched, and carried through this experience, within the gentle, fluid container that Min created for us. I found new parts of myself and reconnected with old ones, stripping away the facade of who I wanted others to see and revealing the parts of me that have always tried to hide. I will forever remember this experience, which has opened doors for me as to what movement can look like and be.”
- JEN, mover, writer


“Min facilitated sessions which included written reflections, storytelling, expressive movement, movement based in imagery and imagination, interview-type conversations, and drawing. The range of activities meant that an idea seeded in one area could move to another, and another, and eventually become something very different in form, yet connected in concept, to the initial inspiration. This experience, guided and supported by Min, invited (but never forced) me into the depths of memory and psyche, alternative movement pathways, and new perspectives. I experienced emotional opening and relief as a result of working with Min and a shift in how I related to old stories about my life and my body. The research felt important to my healing process and also empowered me to show up differently– more aware, present, and understanding– in my relationships. While no two sessions were alike, I always felt held in the patient and loving container that Min created.”
- NICOLA, dancer



With big love to Min's inspirations and lineages~

JINEN Butoh by Atsushi Takenouchi
http://www.jinen-butoh.com/

Process-oriented psychology & conflict studies:
https://www.processwork.edu/what-is-processwork/

Life/Art Process by Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin:
https://www.tamalpa.org/about-us/our-process

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images with deep movers from past workshop experiences


photography by Alena Egorkina


photography by Palo y Piedra