Event by Alicia Grayson and Dea Luvon
Lummi Island
Duration: 4 days
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https://www.lummisilentcontact.com
A gathering for experienced CI practitioners who wish to spend 4 days moving and living in silent awareness. The pillars of verbal silence, contact improvisation, authentic movement and meditation will be the container for deepening the CI practice and journeying into self-knowledge.
The retreat will take place on beautiful Lummi Island, near Bellingham, WA.
Practices:
The practices we will use during the retreat are Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement, and Contemplative Dance Practice. There will also be space for you to practice whatever form of meditation you enjoy, and time for artistic expression.
Silence:
A lot of time and energy in most CI events is directed to verbal communication and socialization. In this retreat we invite you to take that energy and redirect it into your movement research, your meditation, and self exploration. In this silent retreat, we have an exceptional opportunity to leave aside social noise and devices to invite deeper presence and focus.
Participation:
This is an intimate retreat limited to 20 participants. To ensure a common ground of understanding, we require participants to have experience in Contact Improvisation and Authentic Movement and Contemplative Dance Practice. Due to the silent nature of the retreat, there won’t be explanations or classes, therefore the principles that inform these practices must be known and familiar to all.
Registration:
Please fill out application form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zil_GiahYKB8hanQQbVU8DnFgLbBAQWaqZZ66KeetLs/edit
We want to ensure that the retreat is a safe space for all participants and this includes a minimum level of experience in the forms as well as emotional maturity and self-responsibility. Your application will be read carefully by the retreat organizers. After applying, you will receive an email regarding your application status: acceptance, need for more information or waitlist.
Facilitators:
Alicia Grayson has been passionately involved with dancing, teaching and performing Contact Improvisation for the past 36 years. She has taught CI as an adjunct faculty at George Washington University, University of Denver, Naropa University and Shenandoah University. She teaches CI classes in Boulder, CO, and regularly travels nationally and internationally to teach. Her long time practices of authentic movement, yoga and pilates and her love of nature are important influences on her dancing and teaching. She facilitates somatically based transformational workshops, teaches yoga and pilates and works with individuals in-person and online. She is a certified Hakomi therapist, certified perinatal somatic attachment therapist, certified Feminine Power transformational coach and facilitator and mentor for coaches and facilitators in training and certified Biodynamic Breath and Trauma Release practitioner. She delights in exploring and discovering new depths to contact improvisation and related disciplines and is particularly interested in the intersection of physics and expression and the mind/body relationship. She is dedicated to supporting her fellow humans to be the most amazing embodied beings that we are.
www.aliciagrayson.com
Dea (dee-uh) Luvon has been sharing her love for movement and physical expression, by dancing wherever she is, and by teaching it for more than twenty years. She is a performer and choreographer as well. She teaches Contact Improvisation, Creative Movement and Movement for Grounding.
Dea has her Masters in Social Work and completed coursework at the Seattle School of Body Psychotherapy. Since she has always found dance and movement to be her therapy, she now sees clients and guides them in somatic therapies like Core Energetics. This approach helps people to use their bodies to see the patterns that cause them to feel stuck in their lives, and to use their bodies to help shift and dissolve these patterns and held constrictions so that they may live more fully.
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