Baseworks Fundamentals: Montreal

Workshop

Baseworks Foundation Module | Baseworks Method | Baseworks Practice

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Perceptual Skills & Adaptation

Interoceptive | Proprioceptive | Spatial

This introductory workshop material will target:

Spatial attention
Control over mobility/athletic performance/posture
Addressing tension and anxiety
Communication, public speaking & stage performance

During the session we will work with the Baseworks Movement Principles and attention patterns that can be immediately applied in any practice and daily life. The workshop will also introduce the 3 types of body awareness framework and some basic neuroscience of decision-making and action.

Who is it for

This workshop is open to anyone who is open-minded and interested in adopting a new perspective and set of tools to improve physical shape, well-being, productivity, creativity, and health span. The material will not introduce any challenging physical movements.

Visit the pages below for more geekier information about the method and body awareness:

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Schedule
Saturday, May 25, 2024
9 am – 11 am

EVENT LOCATION:
MAI | Montréal, arts interculturels
3680, rue Jeanne-Mance, Montreal, Quebec H2X 2K5

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FACILITATORS

Ksenia Asia Shcherbakova

Ksenia Asia Shcherbakova holds a Master of Science in Human Genetics and a Ph.D. in Biotechnology.
She joined Baseworks as a science consultant to investigate the neurobiological basis of the method's effects, and has since developed the conceptual frameworks used to describe and teach it. Her research for Baseworks has been presented at international neuroscience conferences, and a parallel line of her work examines how movement, conceptual thought, and linguistic expression function as integrated cognitive processes. She also participates in an ongoing study of the neuroprotective mechanisms of medium-chain triglycerides; her scientific publications appear under her birth name, Ksenia Shcherbakova.

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Patrick Oancia

Patrick Oancia is the founder of Baseworks. His background spans competitive athletics, music, and more than three decades of movement and contemplative practice. He directed multidisciplinary movement studios in Tokyo for two decades, where the teaching standards and curriculum that became the Baseworks Method took shape over tens of thousands of hours of instruction. He leads programs, hosts the Baseworks Transmission podcast, and collaborates with artists, scientists, and educators worldwide to connect movement education with current research on perception, learning, and cognition.

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OTHER EVENTS:

October 1–3, 2026

Baseworks at SCAPPS 2026: Perceptual Skills in Movement Education

October 3-November 21, 2026

Montreal Practice Sessions — Fall 2026

October 24/25 | 2026

Study Lab | Berlin

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CONNECT WITH BASEWORKS:

PODCASTS:

Baseworks Transmission episode artwork: a portrait of choreographer Catherine Gaudet, seated with her chin resting on her hand and smiling, beside the title On Ambiguity, Ritual, and What a Performance Does to an Audience, with the names Catherine Gaudet, Ksenia Asia Shcherbakova and Patrick Oancia and a blue soundwave along the bottom.

Catherine Gaudet: On Ambiguity, Ritual, and What a Performance Does to an Audience

2026/09/16

How a performance gets built to do something to a spectator: choreographer Catherine Gaudet talks

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Baseworks Transmission episode artwork: a portrait of Edward Clark with long grey hair, looking at the camera against a white background, beside the title On Tripsichore, Physical Theater, and the Emergence of Critical Practice, with the names Edward Clark and Patrick Oancia and a blue soundwave along the bottom.

Edward Clark: On Tripsichore, Physical Theater, and the Emergence of Critical Practice

2026/01/01

This episode explores the intersection of rigorous physical practice, critical thinking, and artistic expression—themes central

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ARTICLES:

$Title card for the article, reading "If We Wrote About Vision the Way We Write About Proprioception" with the subtitle "A thought experiment about body awareness" and the byline "Ksenia Asia Shcherbakova", set over a dark olive-green illustration of two silhouetted figures facing each other across a plain, one dissolving into a cloud of dots and connecting lines streaming from its head, the other standing against a muted gold sun with pale fractured shapes across its body.$

If We Wrote About Vision the Way We Write About Proprioception

2026/09/22

We don’t talk about vision the way we talk about proprioception, as something you only

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Angine de Poitrine performing on stage in pyramid-shaped papier-mâché head costumes under gold stage lighting.

What’s Between the Notes

2026/07/07

An essay tracing one shift through cycling, skateboarding, music, and Baseworks practice: when effort or

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Baseworks at SCAPPS 2026: Perceptual Skills in Movement Education

2026/10/01

Montreal Practice Sessions — Fall 2026

2026/10/03

Eight sessions of guided Baseworks practice. Saturdays, October 3 through November 21, at Proto Studio in Mile End. For Baseworks alumni and people who already work seriously with their body......