Since 2011, the Fysalida Dance is offering ‘stretching' on the streets of Heraklion city; a contribution and ideological 'antidote' to fear, isolation and the view that nothing moves without money to make it move!

One Sunday a month we use simple stretching and gymnastics exercises to bring people together, to communicate and develop new activities, or support existing ones, offering whatever we can wherever we can, bringing beauty to spaces that belong to us all, using those spaces and injecting them with our positivity!

Since the end of 2011 we’ve been in good company, working with the voluntary group GIVE. We gather milk and food that the participants and passengers of our event offer. Then we pass the milk and food to GIVE in order to help our fellow citizens in need. Since the start of 2012 we’ve also started another 'good habit’ of exchanging views and ideas!

Fysalida’s motto is the phrase ‘movement inside and out’ and so working with the idea of 'healthy in body, healthy in mind' we plan to continue to meet in the streets and to get active!

We initially started off with a stretching session offered by Georgia Petrali or another member of the Fysalida Dance and then began collecting food together with Teresa Peraki and Nasia Pastou from GIVE. At our sessions, having first expelled bodily toxins and opened our hearts to those around us, we sit down in a circle and open our minds, discussing issues of concern to our society.

Let’s not forget that the need to organise and prepare for the difficult days ahead is a vital necessity now, since it's not just the quality of our life based on our day-to-day needs that's being threatened, but our very creativity, spontaneity, inspiration, and psychology in general, our hope and our appetite for life.

We invite you to attend one of our Free Stretching sessions in Crete or else where. Come with us and move ‘outwardly’ using stretching and trust-building exercises, and then ‘inwardly’ starting with relaxed discussion and a brainstorming session about issues of concern to us, with the aim of:

- informing each other about remarkable activities taking place in the city and ways we can think about supporting those activities individually or collectively
- developing new activities that can generate practical, positive results in our lives
- providing proper, real information in an age of too much or too little information and scaremongering in the mass media
- changing our lifestyle to support local products and activities that respect man and the environment
- identifying alternative ways to meet our basic needs, by relying on social solidarity.

That's because in the difficult times we are going through we need to start thinking that our ordinary everyday actions can generate solidarity and that simple, open-hearted attitudes and heart-warming, noble actions can bring us closer to those around us, closer to our fellow citizens!

For those of you have still haven’t understood what we are about: We simply want to get closer to each other, get to know each other better, and lend a helping hand to our fellow citizens.

To be well on the inside and outside!

See you there!

Sun in our Hearts,
Fysalida Dance

For more information please contact us:

Fysalida Dance
site: www.fysalidance.com
site: www.contactimprocrete.com
mail: contact@fysalidance.com
facebook: Fysalida Dance
Give voluntary group
www.facebook.com/groups/191965727492595/






Saturday 25 June,
Fysalida's Free Stretching
@ En Oiko 2016






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offered by
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Aivalioti Square
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22 Decenber 2013
at 10:00 a.m.







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offered by
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at 10:30 a.m.







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offered by
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at 7:00 p.m.







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offered by
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at 7:30 p.m.










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offered by
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open-air theatre by the lake,
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