Body Awareness Day 01.11.2025 – to create a deeper connection with your body
The Body Awareness Day is dedicated to exploring and experiencing the importance of the human body and our perception of it. Its purpose is to raise awareness, spark curiosity, and encourage people to explore and develop their body awareness in order to achieve better physical, mental, and emotional balance in everyday life. The Body Awareness Day is an in-depth journey – a day devoted to sensing, understanding, and experiencing our very first home: the body. It is an invitation to slow down, listen, and notice what our body is telling us.
In today’s world, our attention is constantly drawn outward, while true balance and well-being begin from within. The Body Awareness Day brings together practitioners and thinkers from various fields who share their knowledge, experiences, and tools to foster a deeper connection with the body. The aim of the day is to increase awareness of the body’s role in our mental, emotional, and physical well-being. You will have the opportunity to try, sense, and experience how body awareness can become a gateway to inner clarity, healing, and confidence.
What to expect?
This day does not promote one single method or technique. Instead, it’s an open invitation to pause, breathe, and ask:
- What does it mean to be in your body?
- Why is it important to be aware of your body?
- What stories are held within the body?
- How does the body affect our mental health—and vice versa?
- How can we support our bodies—physically, energetically, emotionally?
It’s important to remember that the body is not limited to its physical form—it also includes the subtle layers we cannot always see or immediately sense.
Body Awareness – to support your mental health
The aim of the Body Awareness Day is to create a space where it is possible to discover and experience body-related wisdom and somatic, or body-based, approaches – practices that support healing, deeper self-understanding, and greater presence in life.
Somatic approaches are receiving increasing attention as people recognize how tensions stored in the body can affect both physical and mental well-being. There is also a growing awareness of the need to consciously release these tensions and connect more deeply with one’s body. Body awareness is a multi-layered skill that includes physical, emotional, and sensory experiences. Knowing and sensing your body is important because it supports your physical, mental, and emotional health and helps you navigate life more effectively.
Developing Body Awareness – conscious attention to and understanding of what is happening in your body. This includes the ability to notice and interpret physical sensations, breathing, posture, and movement.
It can help you to:
- understand and better manage your emotions,
- cope with stress and anxiety,
- create a more positive relationship with your body,
- boost self-esteem and improve your ability to navigate life,
- support a healthier lifestyle.
Talks
Inspiring talks and sharings in the fields of bodywork, neuroscience, birth, breathing, and somatic wisdom.
Tools
Practical tools you can take home and integrate into your daily life.
People
Meetings with inspiring, like-minded people who share the goal of feeling good in their own bodies.
Presence
Time and space to be open and curious, and to enjoy time for yourself.
Speakers
Who is Body Awareness Day for?
The Body Awareness Day is for everyone who wishes to live in deeper connection with themselves – their body, emotions, and needs. This day offers value both to those seeking a more conscious and holistic lifestyle, and to those who feel called to deepen their body awareness, find balance in daily life, or simply experience something new and supportive. You are welcome if you wish to enhance your quality of life, restore your connection with your body, or draw inspiration for inner growth.
- For people seeking balance, better health, and an improved quality of life – for example, through deepening body awareness, reducing stress, or fostering inner growth.
- For specialists and practitioners working on the body–mind level (e.g., therapists, teachers, facilitators) who wish to expand their skills and gain new experiences.
- For leaders and professionals supporting teamwork who want to better understand bodily reactions to stress and emotions in order to create a more caring and supportive work environment.
- For health and education professionals – those who wish to expand their knowledge of body awareness and educators who want to integrate it into learning environments to support students’ focus and relaxation.
Schedule
The conference presentations will be in Estonian and English, with translation available in both languages. When purchasing your ticket, please indicate if you require translation services.
9.30 - 10.00
Arrival & gathering
Doors open from 9:30 AM. The café on the 1st floor of Fotografiska will be open, offering healthy food, delicious pastries, and invigorating coffee to give your conference day a delightful start.
10.00 - 10.15
Opening of the Conference
Opening words from the organisers and settling into the shared space.
10.15 - 11.15
11.15 - 12.15
12.15 - 13.15
Lunch
You can enjoy lunch at the café on the 1st floor of Fotografiska or at the restaurant on the 6th floor. In addition, there are plenty of dining options around Fotografiska – from cosy cafés to diverse restaurants – so everyone can find a place to their liking.
13.15 - 14.15
14.15 - 15.15
15.15 - 15.45
Coffee break
15.45 - 16.45
16.45 - 17.45
17.45 - 18.00
Closing words
Let’s take a moment together to integrate new knowledge and experiences, moving towards a more fulfilling life.
About the organisers
Behind the Body Awareness Day are three women united by a deep interest in the body, mind, and perception. We – Kristiina Kajandu, Merliis Sulg, and Helen Haava – believe that finding connection with the body is one of the most important steps toward balance and inner clarity.
- Kristiina Kajandu – founder of Üks Maja and facilitator and practitioner of the Circling method.
- Merliis Sulg – craniosacral therapy practitioner, organiser of trainings, concerts, and the Ühenduses festival.
- Helen Haava – Biodynamic Breath and Trauma Release (BBTRS) practitioner and entrepreneur.
Each of us has our own personal reason and calling to create such an event: for some, it is the wish to share experience; for others, the inner call to create a safe space; and for others still, a deep personal interest in the wisdom of the body and the practice of presence. Just as every participant who joins this day will bring their own unique reason and need.
Venue
Fotografiska Tallinn, Telliskivi tn 60a-8, Tallinn
The conference takes place at the inspiring Fotografiska – a unique venue where art, culture, and culinary experiences come together. Its modern, light-filled environment creates the perfect atmosphere to delve into important topics, open the mind, and make meaningful connections.