03/26/2020,
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If you like to do improvisational contact while you dance with a partner and you like to cuddle in puddles of people, then this event is specifically made for you!
We will first start with some basic Qigong moves to warm up and become more present in our bodies and ground fresh energy into them. This will also help us connect both hemispheres of our brain together so we have full control of our bodies and to help with inspiration and creativity of how we move.
Then we will then move into some basic exercises on how to practice our contact improvisational skills and also how to be respectful touching and playing with one another.
Once the practice is completed we will move into a full on contact improvisational jam session and practice what we have learned. After the jam session we will decompress with an optional cuddling portion and talk a bit about what we have learned and what our experience was like.
This experience is for people looking to bring more movement into one’s life and meet new people who are also passionate about dance as well.
Cuddling with boundaries teaches participants that they alone create their own safety container. How did it change my life? When I was growing up and received a NO, it felt like I was being rejected. The result was my emphasis on being nice, being lovable and being unconditionally available. The profound learning came when I realized my unyielding YES’s became a subconscious inability to trust another person’s YES, without their own personally vocalized NO!
I am very appreciative and honored by the courage shown by those who have clear boundaries, and an ability to voice their YES and NO decisions without guilt, shame or fear. It gives me the confidence to ask for what my own heart desires, instead of censoring myself, knowing the receiver of my request has the voice and courage to embrace or withdraw, based on their own perimeters. “Thank you for taking care of yourself”
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Regular: £25 GBP
FACILITATORS
Author of Beyond Cuddle Party and workshop facilitator extraordinaire Monique Darling has led over 2000 workshops in the past decade. She is the founder of Everyday Tantra, an organization dedicated to empowering people who are questioning the assumptions of how their life should be and to offering tools for self expression that create trust, inner knowing and wisdom to enjoy the life they have.
Monique has taught at colleges across the US including Yale. She has been featured on TLC and The Doctors as well as various radio shows, podcasts and magazines across the globe.
She specializes in helping others reclaim their power and natural sensuality by transmuting fear and repression into courage, self-love and freedom. Her primary purpose is helping folks bring out their vulnerability, energetic embodiment and fearless relating.
YOU, you are the gift!
Peter Petersen has been a certified Sheng Zhen Qigong teacher for nearly 20 years. Peter is also a personal wellness coach. He has been teaching Qigong and wellness in health clubs, hospitals, retirement villas, and several different spas & resorts in Mexico and the United States, including Rancho La Puerta, Mayacamas Ranch, and Present Moment Retreat.
His Qigong practice helps people to ground themselves into their “Now“, to increase their present moment awareness of their behaviors, and to find solutions to personal difficulties or problematic habits such as: eating, moving, negative thinking, and sleeping. The result of this toolbox of healthy information is that clients become their own health advocates, incorporating a sense of stability, peace, and well-being into their everyday lives.