Heart Dance: Animal Body

Thursday November 20th | 6:30-8:30p | Nevei Kodesh

$15-25 at door (Venmo or cash)

General information below

Flow:
6:30-6:45 | soft open, arrive, land, open to contact your own body and being
6:45-7:10 | facilitated relational movement, dance, and play
7:10-8:30 | freeform dance & closing circle

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Theme:

The word animal shares its root with anima—meaning “soul,” “breath,” or “life-force”—and with Carl Jung’s conceptualization of anima/animus, the inner psychic energies that animate our consciousness from within.

In this sense, the “human animal” is the embodied vessel of living soul in motion, and our instinctual capacity to dance is a direct expression of the anima’s primal creativity. When we allow our animal body to dance and move freely, we reconnect to the deep, instinctive intelligence that restores our sense of being fully alive.

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.”

Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

Overview:

This is a relational contact (physical and/or energetic) friendly dance that encourages finding balance between moving together and moving in our individuated expression.

Please note that any and all physical contact is absolutely optional. Consent, respect, and choicefullness are discussed in our opening container.

This dance is devoted to coming together to be alive in our bodies; connected to our own inner rhythm and inter-connected in relational presence.

I am facilitating here in the lineage of my teacher and mentor Zuza Engler who is a student of Vincent Martínez-Grieco and has trained in the schools of both Soul Motion and Open Floor.