Energetic Erotic Consent - Dancing Your Eros with Presence and Attunement

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/energetic-erotic-consent-tickets-746994680197?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwAR0OMcbtbDCnk1uZiRwiqPGlEdKeAanmCl9zArjMtU-KQqWCeDcogm9NDtc_aem_AbiBg5FA8h3S6j8O9ZLVpZ8o7A5ivl2PjvP_EpqULI617fvOPKVxAKSOPdqwPoggQcc Do I want to share sensual erotic energy with this person? How does my body let me know? Learn to listen internally and not override the wisdom of your body. You will learn 3 specific energy practices to better track and communicate your desires. These 3 practices center and ground you. These practices bring you into presence. Consent only becomes possible when everyone involved is present. These practices increase your awareness of when you may be at capacity to stay present. They support you to come back to presence if you start leaving. They support you to give and receive energy from a clear place. We will practice them as a group and one-on-one. We will partner up and explore the option to connect heart to heart or to connect with heart and eros. Eros is the natural human tendency to share joy, play, sensuality and aliveness in ways that transform us. That includes but is not limited to s3xual energy. This workshop explores intimacy through dance, energy, and touch. We will be fully clothed. Come practice presence, sensing your desire, sharing your truth, listening to others, and not taking it personally. This will support your presence, consent, and connection on and off the dance floor. In the spirit of community health: Please take a covid test before arriving and bring it with you. Facilitation Team: Lead Teacher: Z (aka Zahava Griss, they/them) is the founder of Embody More Love, a spiritual kinky dance community for personal and cultural liberation. Z facilitates Play with Power & Gender through Dance, 3 month immersion in Sebastopol, CA. Z is also a Love Coach for individuals and couples interested in secure attachment, polyamory, gender beyond the binary, conscious dominance and submission. Z has been dancing since 1982, training in ballet, modern, West African, Middle Eastern, Sufi dancemeditation, burlesque and contact improv. Z has had the honor of dancing with the Joffrey Ballet, Katherine Dunham, Urban Bush Women, Tania Isaac, Wanjiru Kamuyu, and Mana Hashimoto. Z trained at the Juilliard School, Tisch (NYU), NCSA, Alvin Ailey School, Princeton Ballet, Sarah Lawrence College, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Oh!ni Sowa (Ghana), and Marie Basse Wiles (Senegal.) Z is certified in Yoga for Birth, Esalen Massage, Deep Bodywork, Urban Tantra, Pilates, Health Coaching, and Femme. Z is a coach and trainer with the Academy for Coaching Excellence. Z was a founding organizer and core teacher for the international festival Touch&Play as well as a touring performance artist and author. Z directed Spiritual Nourishment for Conscious Activism in collaboration with Deepak Chopra and has been listening to, speaking in, and facilitating spaces to acknowledge and transform white privilege since 1999, including work with the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, the Re-Evaluating Counseling community, the national White Privilege Conference, and co-organizing the White Privilege Symposium. Z co-founded White Folks Soul, By Any Dance Necessary, a dance company exploring the incompatibility of wholeness and the race construct for white people. Assistant: Julia Taylor (she/her) is an artist, dancer, mother, and community leader, dedicated to cultivating a vibrant culture of liberation. As a Somatic Experiencing® practitioner, mediator, and group facilitator, Julia loves accompanying folx on journeys of transformation and lasting change towards the wholeness, resilience, authenticity, and connection they long for. The space she holds is relational, embodied, and trauma-informed, bringing curious attention to what the body and nervous system has to say about what’s going on, and what is needed to support presence and integration in any given moment. She is a passionate advocate for cultivating radical-self-love, pleasure, and the felt-sense of secure-attachment as powerful medicine and antidotes to the oppressive culture and experiences that inevitably, and differently, impact us all. Over the last many years, Julia has delved deeply into studying, practicing, and facilitating within the rich territory of relational repair, consent, and communal response-ability. Drawing guidance and training from the teachings and practices of restorative and transformative justice movements, compassionate communication, polyvagal and attachment theories, Julia continues to ask how we can better show up with integrity, attunement, and capacity to respond to ourselves, our intimates, and our community. Julia has 20+ years of exploring, teaching and collaborating in the field of dance, deep play, and improvisational movement, especially that which emphasizes presence and attunement, including the modalities of Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement, & Butoh dance. She was the founding organizer and a facilitator of the Asheville Touch & Play festival, as well as several other related gatherings focused on bringing together the fields of art-making, embodiment, eros, social justice, kink, spirituality, relational skills, and community building. She has been loving to engage and support the depthful exploration of that fertile terrain again through assisting Z with the last two Play with Power & Gender through Dance. photo of Z by @altered.perspective Event image artwork: "Creation" by Autumn Skye