Conscious Dance Parties and Embodied AbunDANCE offer a non-verbal space to connect with your body. It is a place, to listen and respond spontaneously to the sensations, signals, images, emotions, thoughts that reside in our nervous system and attune to ourselves in an authentic way. Offering a variety of musical genres and styles, we have a chance to surprise and challenge our bodies to move in new, unexpected ways.
Our bodies and body states let our brains know what we are feeling, and giving the body a chance to lead, and determine what we do, provides a wellness that is often not afforded in the normal routine of busy life or structured classes. To "unpack" what is being held and release or explore what is there, even if it is simply giving ourselves a chance to exercise or stretch into places we were not aware of for the sheer pleasure of it.
Next date: February 11, 2023
7-7:15pm is a warm up space/time to arrive and get comfortable in the space, in your bodies
7:15pm begins the opening circle
8:45pm closing circle
Beginning and ending with a circle, we gather to hold space with and for one another and ourselves. We ask only that you come sober and remain non verbal between the opening and closing circles.
Donations requested of $15
Dance Facilitators:
Diane Brussell holds an MA in Somatic, Body-centered Psychology from Antioch University. She has supported individuals and groups with Authentic Movement Technique and Expressive Arts for 30 years. She is a certified Sivananda Yoga instructor as a being certified as a Kripalu Yoga teacher as well. She taught most forms of dance, choreographed for musicals and dance concerts, and finds Embodied AbunDANCE to be a form that combines the benefits of all of the above!
Andrew Baskin has been on the devotional and practical path of yoga for the last 20 years. For the past 6 years he has opened to the magic of primal energy through Taoist alchemical qigong and tantra. With his knowledge of the body as a representation of the unconscious mind, the practices of movement, qigong, dance, and martial arts are seen as powerful means of penetrating to the very core of our true selves, while strengthening and balancing this divine vessel. He is dedicated to supporting his own and others’ process of self awareness, growth and well-being through his offerings.