Aline Cleto & Rafel - Amsterdam bootcamp - “Deepening Sensations in Zouk: 5 Types of Touch”

💦 How does it feel to be touched in the dance? We work a lot with body movement in dance, something very important, but the touch of hands and body is a world apart that we still have a lot to explore. What sensations awaken me when receiving a light touch?? What sensations awaken me when receiving a stronger touch?? What sensation do I cause with my touch?? Do you want to explore this universe within dance?? Then you are invited to the Workshop “Deepening Sensations in Zouk: 5 Types of Touches” which will take place on April 2nd. We will bring into practice new ways of touching and being touched, of recognizing the power that a simple touch causes us and the different sensations of these touches transforming dance in the body. Saying that we want to invite you to know this new methodology that Sadhana Dance created by Aline Cleto and Rafael Soares from Brazil has been promoting the mix of therapies, yoga and social dances. Sadhana means "path", we believe that dances for two are a good way to develop self-knowledge, connection and bond in relationships, empathy and kindness and we’ll work these things all through dance. We are going to have the Zouk as a way to dive into a deeper dance with a safe and respectful environment, one that we feel as if we were meditating, have you ever experienced this level of dance before? So come dive with us! FOR WHO IS THIS WORKSHOP? In the Sadhana methodology we do not prioritize the previous technical level, so if you don't know how to dance or if you have already taken several classes, you will have the same potential for development through creativity and body expression that each one brings in the history of their own body. It’s for all levels, everybody that likes arts, dance expressions, therapies and get to know each other better! WHAT WILL BE COVERED? ✔️ Sadhana Dance (SD) technique of how to listen and express our limites in dance and recognize the others limites ✔️ SD lead techniques of absence and presence ✔️ SD Internal and Micro lead ✔️ Close embrace and touch ways ✔️ Characteristics of zouk body connected to creative movements ✔️ Connection to two ✔️ Concept of the 5 elements applied to zouk ✔️ Yin Yang polarity applied to zouk ✔️ Group dynamics ✔️ Active meditations 📆 PROGRAM: Saturday April 1 there is a introduction class before Zouk Tribe. Sunday April 2, 2023: 12:30 doors open 13:00 start workshops 17:30 free dancing 18:30 end of bootcamp ⭐️ NIGHT PARTIES If you like to dance on Saturday and/or Sunday night: Saturday April 1 is Zouk Tribe in Den Haag Sunday April 2 is BZA Zouk social in Amsterdam 👉 REGISTRATION: Please fill-in the following registration form: https://forms.gle/YLXJCJobfxekHJhJ6 📌 PRACTICAL: Please note: NO HIGH HEELS ALLOWED on the dance floor. Location: Beatzone Address: Poeldijkstraat 391 City: Amsterdam Parking SUNDAY: Free parking at the location. Public transport is available close by. Take tram 2 to "Westlandgracht". 📌 STAYOVER: Amsterdam offers plenty of options to stay for the night, however feel free to make a post in this event to ask whether some other participant has a spot to offer. ✨ ABOUT ALINE & RAFAEL + SADHANA DANCE Know better Aline and Rafael and how they started Sadhana Dance project Aline... After going through many phases in my career, with changes in partners and dance styles, I realized that I had done everything I ever wanted. I was traveling a lot to different cities inside and outside Brazil, taking the dance that has always been my passion and that I have dedicated my whole life…, but still I was not happy. Traveling so much, I couldn't see results in my classes because I couldn't see the students' evolution in the long term. It was an empty teaching. I felt sad for not being able to bond with people either, I wanted to drop everything and start from scratch. I started looking for ways to practice and teach dance in a more inclusive way, with less demands for perfect technique, teaching that focused more on sensations. So I started looking for other techniques that would turn my gaze towards self-knowledge and that's when I fell in love with yoga, which I specialized in and found an incredible world about spirituality, meditation, breathing and mantras that I've been joining with the practices of social dances. That's when I met Rafael again. Rafael... I always felt very good teaching social dancing classes, but I felt a certain discomfort at dances, especially when there was a lot of competition between couples, the dance that should be a place of connection and fun, was becoming an uncomfortable place for me. These competitions that existed at the balls frustrated me deeply, which began to push me further and further away from balls and social dancing parties. After many years and back and forth with social dancing, I ended up taking a class with Xandy Liberato, a social dance professional who brought a different method, a method that approached a deeper and more connected dance. As I took that class, I realized a place where I felt good again. That's where my search for integrative therapies began, a way to achieve that kind of dance. I studied several therapy techniques and started to create my own methodology that mixed body therapies with teaching dances for two. The Sadhana Dance Well, we met when we were both changing the direction of our careers. We saw that we had a lot to add to each other. We saw a lot of sense in the proposal to mix social dances with integrative therapies. A new stage in our lives began, we wanted to do something bigger in dance and for dance. Over the course of a few months of the project, we saw that the self-knowledge worked through dance was very deep and transformative for the students, but also for us. We started to learn more and more when teaching our classes and we were improving the Sadhana method of teaching. And is not it worked?! We are always hearing reports about our space emanating an energy of peace where students feel much lighter and nourished after the dances, not physical nourishment, but soul nourishment. An environment capable of being safe, respectful and welcoming, even without anyone knowing each other well. We are finally able to provide our students with the place we were looking for throughout our lives. Finally, what is the Sadhana Method? It is the union of Yoga, Chinese medicine, Ayurveda medicine and TAME, with social dances. That is, an integration capable of providing you with a dip in self-knowledge, in spirituality, relating to each other in all possible ways, physically, emotionally, energetically, mentally and spiritually. We can’t wait to have this amazing experience with you and to bring to Europe our methodology 🥰🙏✨ To be part of this click on this link and do your inscription 👇 We’ll be waiting for you!