Contact Improvisation - A Dance of Life

Last Friday we shared an evening of contact improvisation dance.

Contact is a form of dance in which we use our bodies to communicate with one another. It revolves around the dialogue regarding the alignment of our centers, about offering to support another's and for the other to trust you enough to place him or herself onto your center.

Interactions that take place in this dance are metaphors for life. For instance, the need to listen. But in this form, as it is a dance, the need to listen is about listening with your body to the bodies around you. As I move through the space, and encounter others, a dialogue ensues about whether I wish to take your weight, about how I wish to do so, and for how long. Whether you move in towards me offering, or away, removing.

Just as in Tango, the couple communicates via their centers, by keeping them aligned and in a certain relationship, and thus can move together. In contact, it consists of an interaction of taking and giving, of supporting and being supported.

Resistance is the way to hurting yourself or someone else. Resistance causes pain. Use the energy coming at you to flow into the new configuration. Each movement being an amalgam of your desire and interaction with your environment. Both have necessary constraints which will affect the outcome.

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Soul Journeys and Sacred Dances - workshop

Dance expertise is not necessary as we enter our body spaces through movement. We will look at our poetic inner landscapes and protect our spaces. We will use our hearts intelligence as
we encounter The Serpent of our Inner Power :))

The ability to move from our 3D world into an altered state where original healing occurs,
is a valuable skill. Exploring our inner realms with confidence and support, a space appears
where dreams are born and choices made.

$80
- Please put in a deposit by 10th Aug. If you have a problem with payment, let us know and we can make a sliding scale arrangement with pleasure :)

Bring a packed lunch, your journal, something to lay down on and a covering. Wear comfy clothes.

email Susan at [email protected]
or Lyn at [email protected]
or call (203) 623-6026

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Experiential Session 01

After the eclipse, Julian and Julia - cranio sacral therapist and belly dance teacher, as well as being a great woman - and I had one of our discussion and dance sessions.

We do these every two weeks. The discussions center around the theme of quantum effect, sometime in great depth, ranging from stuff like how photons of light move and their characteristics. We talk about the different energies and frequencies that hold us together. We have covered the types of forces in these nano-spaces. The effects of curved space, light, and crystalline structures, etc. During these session, we often draw pictures of these topics and how we view them. In the final stage, we dance/move the sense of what has arisen for us. We seek to find the expressions in our waters so to speak.

This night we were working with the notion of what it is to measure in the quantum arena (what the physicists would call quantum entanglement). During this discussion, one of our favourite topics, the notachord, arose again. The notachord is an incredible event in the beginning of life in the womb when the cells begin to "spontaneously", as it were, assemble. Another favourite is investigating the equations of the 4th dimension - how that looks to our 3 dimensional minds. Finally we arrived at chaos in conjunction with cosmic measurement, and were ready to dance.

When it came time to move, we decided to work with a chosen space in our lives at that moment. We had determined that each one of us would move authentically, and then each have a turn to move through it in front of the others who in turn would enact and then comment on what they saw.

I decided to map out my mandevilla journey as I knew the path in my bones.

Thus I was able to watch my journey unfold interpreted in front of me, as they had and still have, no idea what they were enacting. They were good! They never missed a step. After, their comments were that there was something feline in the dance. They could feel it in the movements and the fingers which sensed around like whiskers. I saw them go down the vortex and come up. They dance their way through the mountain easily recognising it as such.

Such is our entertainment and lives:))

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