class descriptions
Liquid Dance with Sandra and Andrea
Water offers a space free of gravity, a universe to explore our being, our movement with greater freedom, allowing new insights and realities that can connect us, make us remember our true free essence, pure presence, being without limits.
This is an invitation to enter the liquid state, accompanying and sustaining us in this exploration with one another with respect, trust and curiosity. Movings free awakening the wisdom within our bodies, letting go of control, allowing ourselves just TO BE, without judgment nor expectations. This is an invitation to surrender to our AUTHENTIC movement, to the expression of the moment of our free selves, to the dance of our souls.
We will be sharing tools for water as medicine and as an expressive/connecting dance through conscious touch and breathe, flotation basics and somatic explorations
movement play with rod & jeni
Join Jeni and Rod to explore the edges of your movement practice through movement, play and connection. Suitable for all levels and every one will be challenged. Classes involve warm up and games, progressing to working individually on skills like arm balances, soft acrobatics, locomotion coupled with full body mobility.
pole Low Flow Exotic Tricks and Floorwork with Jenna
Explore the exotic side of Pole. Learn body isolations, slinky floorwork, fancy heel work, dynamic low-flow pole transitions, and sexy shapes we will link together in exotic combos and sequences. Bring knee pads. Heels highly recommended.
Connection games with mike
Connection.
Outside our basic survival, connection is one of the fundamental driving forces for everything we do.
But what is it? How do we create it?
If you are a highly sensitive introvert like me, the answers to those questions don’t come easily.
I’ve spent much of my life alone, and often very lonely. But put me in a room full of people and you’ll quickly see me head for the hills.
I’m often told to do an activity with likeminded people, and like magic, relationships will happen. It’s great advice, and there’s nothing wrong with it, but that has me thinking: What if we skip that step? What if connection was the activity we had in common?
Connection Games is for getting real with those around you FAST, in a fun, safe environment. It’s for anyone who wants to drop the small talk, so you can experience those juicy, fulfilling moments with other humans that have us feeling more alive.
We start with our mutual desire for connection first, with everything born from that desire. Over the course of the night, we will play a series of games. They are designed to be fun yet challenging. You will see parts of yourselves, and parts of others much more rapidly than you might in the default world. At the end, you will have the opportunity to walk away with new people in your life, either way, it’s my hope that you leave feeling moved and inspired.
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yoga & acroyoga with zach
Acroyoga is a fun and innovative blend of partner acrobatics, partner yoga and Thai massage.
It’s a playful practice that helps build trust and communication.
yoga with João
Delight your senses as João skillfully guides you in a yogic journey of embodiment through your breath, awareness, strength and alignment. His BASA Method will invite you to bridge the gap between you physical and energetic body taking you to the meditative states where vitality, creativity and empowerment meet.
thai massage with julia
Thai Massage Principles:
When we learn principles we can use them in our daily life for anything we do. With the healing touch of Thai Massage, we will learn the basic principles to allow us to dive deep into the smooth, simple healing way to approach a body by giving and receiving.
modern dance with lael
My modern dance classes are a fusion of everything I have learned in dance as a form of healing and modern dance technique. I begin with a guided embodiment practice called intuitive technique that takes dancers on an improvisational journey through the seven body systems that will help awaken the dancers into their fullest embodiment. From this point we go into a more traditional style modern dance technique class starting with floor work, core strengthening, and flexibility after which I will be teaching my own choreography. I break it down into phrases in order to workshop and let people ask questions as we go. At the end we piece it all together and perform!
aerial & acro with tara
Intro to Lyra
Experience the joy and challenge of floating on a ring in the sky. This class is ideal for getting aquatinted with and practicing moving around this beautiful apparatus. We will work on body positioning, flexibility, and conditioning as we trust our hands, knees, hips, feet, or other body parts to hold us.
This workshop sequentially teaches how to get on and off the apparatus safely, move between poses, above, below, and inside the apparatus and enjoy spinning.
Flexibility
Back Mobility and Recovery for Adults)
Proper technique allows for integration first for pain free mobility second. Tara has been experimenting and studying the best way to teach these movements to adult bodies for over 15 years. This introduction to back flexibility focuses on joyously opening and finding structural balance in foundational movements initiated from the spine. We carefully break down techniques and muscular actions within familiar movements to create more ease, room, and breath in your body. The class draws on principles from Gyrokinesis gymnastics and yoga as well as Chinese and Mongolian circus training techniques.
acro dance & contact improv with camellia & willoughby
“Ground Connection and the Axis of Us”
Willoughby and Camellia will guide participants in a dive into the fundamentals of contact improv. Willoughby draws on his experience as a Structural Integrator, dancer of multi disciplines, and a practitioner of contact improv. He is an active participant of the Axis Syllabus, a research community centered around an ever growing collection of information and resources on movement and dance with an emphasis on finding safe and effective movement strategies.
Camellia is a multimedia artist, she conducts movement research and creates performance and workshops in acrobatic dance. She is passionate about CI as a laboratory to explore our connection to the body, to self and other, creativity, trust, nonverbal communication, touch, expression, openness, presence, and listening. (For more info about the instructors please see their Bios)
In these series of classes our point of inquiry will be on how we connect to the ground through our feet and the rest of our body. We will investigate our relationship with gravity and the moment of weight transfer, looking at how that modulates our connection to the ground as well as our connection to a dance partner. Within that investigation we will practice giving and taking the weight of our partner and look at strategies for finding balance. We will explore our anatomy, and different forms of connection. We will work on finding our center, and dancing off our center and how to find support that is both stable and agile.
Willoughby and Camellia are committed to facilitating a safe and inclusive learning environment.
Throughout the curriculum there will be an emphasis on both subtle listening and examining relationships between one’s self, the ground, and another dancer. We will observe the effect of different actions, concepts or ideas on these relationships so we may gain greater understanding of what it means to move, dance and connect in multi dimensional space. This series will build on itself, by the end of the week students will feel like they have built a resource within themselves so they can feel safe and comfortable jumping into any contact jam anywhere.
yoga with vaza
VAZA's dynamic approach guides students through a physically and spiritually expansive journey.
Her teaching is unique in that her vigorous style is coupled with a strong focus on proper
alignment and total body awareness.The use of personalized instruction helps students of any level harness
the power that comes from an understanding of the relationship between breath and movement, body and mind.
VAZA infuses her Vinyasa based and multifaceted knowledge of Yoga with personal passion to inspire students to truly listen to their bodies, leave their egos at the door, and - most importantly -reconnect with yourself!