The Experience
Fascia-focused anatomy labs
Immersive, small-group encounters with human anatomy, held at the Plastinarium in Guben, home of the world-renowned BODYWORLDS exhibitions. Participants move between the dissection lab, the classroom, and guided embodied enquiry, developing anatomical understanding through direct observation, hands-on exploration, and close discussion.
Each lab is carefully shaped around the group attending, the tissues under study, and the particular questions that emerge through the work. What remains constant is the quality of guidance, the unique setting, and the rare opportunity to study anatomy in a way few practitioners ever will.
Each lab is carefully held and application-based, allowing the group to be shaped thoughtfully around the course theme and participants attending.
How the experience unfolds
Your experience begins in Berlin, where the group gathers before travelling together to Guben. From there, the course continues at the Plastinarium, where participants spend five days immersed in dissection, anatomical teaching, discussion, and embodied practical enquiry.
Across the course, the structure remains carefully held while responsive to the group, the course theme, and what emerges through the work itself. Throughout, you are guided closely, with space to observe carefully, deepen your understanding, and integrate what you encounter into your own professional practice.
At the Plastinarium
The Plastinarium offers an extraordinary setting for anatomical education: part exhibition, part research facility, part working plastination laboratory. It is a place where the study of human structure is approached with depth, seriousness, and unusual proximity.
Participants work in small groups with generous access to specimens, supported throughout by experienced dissectors and the Plastinarium team. With no more than six people per table, there is time to slow down, observe closely, and build confidence through direct experience. The environment is both highly professional and deeply immersive, creating the conditions for real anatomical enquiry rather than passive observation.
At the Plastinarium
The Plastinarium offers an extraordinary setting for anatomical education: part exhibition, part research facility, part working plastination laboratory. It is a place where the study of human structure is approached with depth, seriousness, and unusual proximity.
Participants work in small groups with generous access to specimens, supported throughout by experienced dissectors and the Plastinarium team. With no more than six people per table, there is time to slow down, observe closely, and build confidence through direct experience. The environment is both highly professional and deeply immersive, creating the conditions for real anatomical enquiry rather than passive observation.
Small group immersion
These labs are intentionally small. This allows for close guidance, meaningful time in the dissection space, and the kind of discussion that can respond to the people in the room rather than following a fixed script.
Observation, dissection, teaching, and movement-based enquiry are held in close relationship throughout the week. The emphasis is not only on what is seen, but on how anatomical understanding can be integrated into practice with greater clarity, sensitivity, and depth.
Small group immersion
These labs are intentionally small. This allows for close guidance, meaningful time in the dissection space, and the kind of discussion that can respond to the people in the room rather than following a fixed script.
Observation, dissection, teaching, and movement-based enquiry are held in close relationship throughout the week. The emphasis is not only on what is seen, but on how anatomical understanding can be integrated into practice with greater clarity, sensitivity, and depth.
Practical considerations
Full travel, accommodation, and course information is shared following a successful application. Participants gather first in Berlin before continuing together to Guben, where the course takes place across five days at the Plastinarium.
Accommodation options are available both onsite and offsite, though onsite accommodation is recommended for ease, continuity, and immersion across the week. Further details, including travel guidance and arrival information, are provided once your place is confirmed.
The week begins with a shared gathering in Berlin before travelling on together to Guben, allowing the group to arrive already connected and ready to enter the work.
"The size of our group made the experience very intimate."
“Stand out moments? Being able to choose our projects and having the opportunity to receive tuition from Jihan and Gary almost ‘on request’. The size of our group made the experience very intimate and I learnt so much in this environment. Also, having FR:EIA introduced by two of the people who created her was a truly amazing experience.”
~ Caz Hitchcock
Movement Educator | Creator of The Gravity Technique
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