Elemental Improvisation - Dance your Medicine

Saturday October 25, 10:00 - 1:00 Sunday October 26, 10:00 - 12:00 $120 buck for both days This is a two day workshop keen on finding the venn diagram between dance and healing. This is an invitation to come explore the healing processes embedded in the wonderous yet simple practise of improvisation. Come shape-shift over two days of improvisation. Bring your whole self. Be a whippet, a bull-dog, a maniac fiend, a firefly, a siren, a sad slob. As a TCM massage therapist and contact dancer of forty years I have danced all the elemental parts of myself. That silky EDAM floor has supported the five elements: * a playful brat (Heart element, joy) * a studious student (Kidney element, fear) * a jealous diva (Liver element, anger) * a lumbering pregnant momma (Spleen element, worry) * a fluid melted-down griever (Lung element, grief). All of these elements have their specific emotions. On Saturday we will be focusing on Lungs and Grief, Loss and Letting go, because this is the emotion connected to autumn when all the trees let go of their leaves and things begin to rot and return to earth . On Sunday we will be focusing on Heart and Joy. With somatic exploration let's conjure all the oppressed or cancelled bits, let them come out to dance! Saturday (Lung) * tune and soften * noticing the quality and emotion of the flow through the Lung meridian * working with two powerful Lung acupoints * breathing exercises * a good hour with concise composition games: improvising into a dance with our Metal element: Lung. Sunday (Heart) * tune and soften * noticing the quality and emotion of the flow through the Heart meridian * working with four Heart acupoints * breathing exercises * a good hour with concise composition games: improvising into a dance with our Fire element: Heart. Let’s use Contact Improv not just as a physical thrill but as the full-spectrum healing art that is truly IS. Let's get granular about what parts of ourself we've frozen and THAW. https://www.eventbrite.ca/o/wcci-west-coast-contact-improvisation-foundation-29317146471