Dancing with Eros Montreal Edition: Guiding and Surrendering

❣️Guiding and Surrendering❣️ An invitation to explore the energies of guiding a dance and surrendering inside of a dance. To notice when our resistance is about healthy boundaries and when it is about fear. How to guide with clarity and spaciousness. ❣️Dancing with Eros ❣️ Inspired by Touch&Play, we present, Dancing with Eros, with the explicit intention of exploring our erotic energy in the dance. Let’s explore for ourselves and together in community what it means to dance with Eros. As a society, we have been acculturated to have shame about our sexual desires. In many dance communities in the country, we have struggled with issues of consent and sexuality in the dance spaces, so much so that many local dances seek to explicitly keep erotic energy separate from the dance. This is an invitation to allow and follow our intimate and erotic energy, with consciousness and care, consent and healthy boundaries. Erotic energy is creative energy. Let your creativity flow. The focus of this event is to explore erotic energy through dance and movement. There will be a designated cuddle space. If your dance becomes slow and floor bound, consider moving to the cuddle zone. If you wish to bring your dance connection into a more explicitly sexual connection, consider making a date outside of the event! Saturday, October 5th, 2019 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm DOORS CLOSE AT 8:30 FOR OPENING CIRCLE. PLEASE ARRIVE ON TIME! Studio 303, 372 Ste Catherine St. Ouest ❣️FLOW❣️ 8:00 pm Doors open 8:30 pm Doors Close: Opening circle and Warm up 9:15 pm Dance with Eros: DJ Eoka 10:45 Closing and Integration ❣️Honoring the Container❣️ 👉🏽Arrive by 8:30 pm to be present for the setting of the sacred space. 👉🏽Please keep casual conversation outside of the dance space, but please do use your voice anytime, in order to set or clarify your boundaries or ask for what you want. 👉🏽This is a shame free zone. We are practicing shame resilience through artfully learning to honor our own boundaries and honor the desires of others, whether or not we choose to meet them. 👉🏽Explore consent, verbally and non-verbally. Be forgiving and truthful with yourself and others in the event of a consent accident. This is how we learn and grow. 👉🏽Allow yourself space from the digital world and simply Dance with Eros within and around. 👉🏽No exchange of bodily fluids on the dance floor. 👉🏽There will be a designated cuddle space. 👉🏽This is a body positive space. Reveal yourself to the extent that feels empowering and exciting AND keep your genitals covered. ❣️Pricing Structure❣️ $20 at the door $15 for students or low income folks Inquire with Chaya Leia Aronson about work exchange opportunities Chaya Leia Aronson is committed to supporting women and men on the path of pelvic health and healing and sexual liberation through her private practice. Her primary modalities of bodywork are the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® and Holistic Pelvic Care™. Chaya has been dancing for most of her life. Chaya has been performing and teaching tribal and improvisational bellydance for eight years. Within her teaching practice, her passion is empowering women to feel and express their femininity and sensuality. Although Chaya was introduced to contact improvisation at age 19, it has only been in the last 5 years that it has become a primary focus of her dance practice. Chaya is enjoying weaving her two loves in dance together, all in the spirit of improvisation and surrender to the divine. www.yoursacredpelvis.com DJ EOKA My name is Louis-Philippe and I’m an Ecstatic Dance DJ called EOKA. I have hosted monthly and weekly dances for the past 10 years in the Laurentians and am a devoted DJ for ecstatic events wherever I’m asked to play…and a crazy happy dancer too. As a really sensitive being I deeply understand the emotion hidden in each track I play and combine tracks in a way to guide the dancer in a creative journey. With care and love, I bring you to places you may have forgotten about. May the rhythm be sensitive, chaotic, sexy, strong, passionate, still and expressive. The contrasts found in my mixes serve the purpose of having the dancers connected toward him or herself and others. https://www.mixcloud.com/louisphilippeday1/2019-08-17-awakeningfull-moon-ritual/