NATURE COMMUNITY
27th AUGUST- 1st SEPTEMBER 2023
THE BALANCING ACT
How can we balance our need for connection with freedom? The needs of the individual with the groups? Our need for safety with taking risks? On your feet or off the ground? Push and pull? Homeostasis and evolution? Give or take? Our desire to Follow and lead? Our dominant side with our submissive? Pleasure or Pain? Visible or hidden? Our body and the relational body?
How can a balancing act become dynamic, fluid and effortless?
How can the tension between two and more opposites create new opportunities for play?
We welcome you to explore and learn together in the ever experimental expanding act of Touching and Playing.
“Remember that Life is a Great Balancing Act.” Dr. Seuss
OFFERINGS
Touch&Play events entail facilitated workshops, daily morning circles and evening activities, small-group processing & peer support, discussion groups, embodied rituals, participant-led offerings, and many emergent shenanigans.
INTENSIVE CLASS: Going deep with the same facilitator and group each morning of the event!
An Intensive Class is taught four mornings of the retreat with the same group so you can evolve together and build on whatever you created and learned beforehand. The three Intensive offerings run parallel so you will have to decide for one Intensive class you would like to commit to.
SINGLE CLASSES: Where are your interests? Where do you want to grow? Single classes happen in the afternoon and you can spontaneously choose a class you would like to join. A timetable with an overview which workshop will happen where and when will be offered at the venue during the retreat.
MANU BOSCH & DANIEL J. HAYES
ABOUT
This is a retreat about play, vulnerability and building community rich in emotional, sensorial and erotic intelligence.
The Touch&Play project started in 2010 and grew from an exploration of the chemistry and the edges of Contact Improvisation. It currently frames itself as an exploration of “The Relational Body” which uses CI as one of a few core practices to do this.
This year we’re particularly interested in material that inspires the Balancing act on one or more of the following levels: intra and inter-personal, collective or tribal, societal or Spiritual. Some of the fields we work with are: Embodied Consent, BMC, Healing Practices, Dance, Somatics; Contact Improvisation technique, Power Sensation Role and Rope Play, Authentic Movement, Performing-Witnessing; Conscious Sexuality, Gender Explorations, Queering the Dance, Ritual, Discussion groups, The Oracle, Singing Circles and more.
We invite you to come home to this diverse community of dancers, somatic explorers and embodied humans. Happy to stumble, dance and touch and play with you again!
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NATURE COMMUNITY
