Contact improv sarasota jam - move out of fear blindfolded journey

This week we explore moving out of fear and a blindfolded journey … Blindfolded Contact Improv Journey: Into the Unknown What happens when you remove sight… and let the body lead? This unique contact improv experience invites you into a world beyond the visual — where touch, intuition, and deep listening become your primary guides. Through the use of blindfolds, we gently dissolve habitual patterns of control and perception, opening the door to a more honest, instinctual way of relating. We begin by grounding in the body — awakening sensitivity through breath, slow movement, and tactile awareness. As the blindfold is introduced, your attention naturally shifts inward and outward at the same time… heightening your ability to feel subtle cues, weight, direction, and energetic presence. Guided explorations will support you to: * Trust your body’s intelligence without relying on sight * Listen through touch and respond in real time * Explore giving and receiving weight with heightened sensitivity * Move through the edges of uncertainty, vulnerability, and trust As partners and group constellations emerge and dissolve, the dance becomes a living conversation — one rooted in sensation rather than strategy. Without visual identity, roles soften… and something more authentic can arise. This is not about performance — it’s about presence. You may encounter moments of disorientation, deep connection, playfulness, or stillness. All are welcome. The practice becomes a meditation in trust — with yourself, with others, and with the unknown. We close by slowly reintroducing sight and integrating the experience, often revealing just how much was perceived without seeing. An invitation to feel more, control less, and discover the intelligence of the body in the dark. A great time to get present, creative, and have fun building the community! Join us every Saturday evening…We’ll explore some tools and concepts that make this amazing practice so healthy, fun, and growing. This is open for everyone. Join us for a workshop exploring Contact Improv practices and tools. CI communities worldwide have guidelines and specific tools that build and over time and with practice open up ways to move with many different bodies, different situations and to move with keeping each other safe and approach risk skillfully. We will warm up with a guided embodiment exploration and connect to the present moment through our bodies. Next well explore 3-4 exercises and concepts to practice in a short jam session. There’s time to ask questions, give and receive feedback and be a beginner or be experienced in the method. 10 reasons exploring Contact Improv workshop and jam is super good🐒 1. We do a long warm up. Connecting to the body via sensation, guided into different ways of moving, and then we “check in”. 👉🏼this is GREAT for new folks to awaken body awareness, spacial awareness, and to develop safety in a group setting. 2. We explore into the moment with questions…. This opens the mind to new ways of thinking, a more childlike and fresh feeling and opens more to the moment informing us… to create. It’s dependent on who arrives and what’s needed…. 3. Contact tools are explored that have less to do with touch as a sensuous thing… it’s physics. Momentum. Point of contact. Weight sharing. Leaning in. Taking in weight, giving weight. This offers safety in that there is no hidden agenda around touch being an intimate sensuous act between lovers. This is more like kids coming together to play:) or adults just getting out of their heads, off their phones, and into their bodies together. 4. It feels like a meditation and is similar in its health benefits tho added obvious physical ones. 5. EVERY body type, age, ability is welcome, supported, encouraged… and in fact makes the experience more potent. We learn from each other…. There is no “Tier” of better than… some have practiced more with more different bodies… and that adds to equally important, rich and honest experience of someone brand new, in a wheel chair, or with body stuff going on ( injuries etc). 6. It’s so healing. 7. Touch is natural, necessary, and has many facets beyond sexual/sensual. 8. It’s creative. Going to the improvisational end…. Getting to the point of “I don’t know what to do here”, is a doorway into the body waking up it’s dormant reflexes, body intelligence and the mind to possibilities. 9. It gives energy naturally. 10. The communities around the world celebrating contact improv 50 year anniversary this year, are the most loving, spacious, heart centered embodied human heart communities I’ve ever felt….. We meet weeekly in sarasota on sat 5-6:30pm …. It’s by donation. Ecstatic dance follows. Soul studios 2924 Hyde park st. Facilitated by Kelly Atkins. Kelly’s been teaching movement, dance, health and wellness for 30 years…. She’s been practicing CI for 8 yrs and facilitating Ecstatic Dances in Sarasota Fla. Please sign up by responding or questions 941-928-8866, [email protected] or here. Drop in $15 …. No one is turned away…. 💜