Guiding and Surrendering: D s exploration through Contact Improv

Guiding and Surrendering: An Exploration of Dominance and submission through Contact Improv Dance In this class, we will build trust and connection to journey deeply together through mutual care and support. In both guiding and surrendering, we open ourselves to a state of receptivity. This allows us to soften into our intuition and trust of self and other, providing the opportunity to surrender safely, consciously and by choice, and to guide with confidence and clarityl. In guiding we will focus on the other, noticing our connection to our partners and discovering a fascination with our influence. We will manipulate our partners limbs and joints to find their core and center of gravity. By tracking their weight and momentum we can anticipate their natural reaction and direct their movement patterns as we desire. In surrendering we will focus on our own internal experience and practice how to let ourselves be influenced and directed by our partners by discovering states of relaxation and flow that keep us connected and in a ready state. We will explore how changes in muscle tone can make us more or less available to receive our partner’s direction. We will become intentionally "ungrounded" to allow ourselves to be lifted and spun. This class will include instruction in both physical techniques and states of awareness to help us dive deeply into the experience on both sides of leading and following, guiding and surrendering and dominance and submission. Everyone will get to experience both roles. Cost $30 CAD in advance online UNTIL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2nd! $40 at the door Online registration link: https://www.yoursacredpelvis.com/guide-surrender/