CREATE YOUR FESTIVAL with 3 dance floors running every morning & afternoon. Choose your favourite workshops from an incredible selection.
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Between dance sessions is yoga & guided relaxation and at night we gather for ecstatic dance & ceremony, or, you can kick back and relax in the Chill Tent.
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​MEAL TIMES are the same every day:
Breakfast (optional) - 7:30-9:30am
Lunch (community lunch included in ticket) 12:30-2pm
Dinner (optional) - 5:30-7pm
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THURSDAY
Day 1 - arriving
3-6pm - WELCOME
Welcoming and Festival Opening
Pause, breathe and arrive with us!
We will open the Festival and the Dance Floor. Our first chance to be and move together.
FRIDAY
Day 2
7-7:45am - Morning Yoga with Bex
Gentle Morning Wake Up (optional)
9:30-12:30 - SESSION ONE
2-2:45pm
Sound healing with Total Yoga Nidra. Come lie down, rest and integrate.
Please bring any supports such as a yoga mat, cushions, blankets.
Jeanette Ida
2-5pm - SESSION TWO
7:30pm- EVENING ENTERTAINMENT (2-3 hours)
with Jade Ferriere
Show up just as you are, move with whatever is present. This is a safe container with no teaching, only gentle whispers for your inspiration. A space purely for your personal practice. You might use this time to rest and digest, move to a dynamic soundscape or explore through creative drawing or writing.
SATURDAY
Day 3
7-7:45am - Gentle wake up and stretch with Bex
Gentle Morning Wake Up
9:30-12:30 - SESSION THREE
2-2:45pm
Restful Yoga Nidra with Kate Fulton
2-5pm - SESSION FOUR
7:30pm - EVENING ENTERTAINMENT (2-3 hours)
with Jo Woods
Join Jo Woods - Open Floor movement teacher, queer activist, and gender fluid humxn for a night of gender bending and playful RELEASE. Together we will step towards gender as we know it, and play with the edges of the the archetypes that potentially bind us. Utilising props and dress-ups (BYO) we will dance & play with the many different aspects of gender waiting to be explored within you!
SUNDAY
Day 4
7-7:45am - Yoga with Kate Fulton
Gentle Morning Wake Up
9:30-12:30 - SESSION FIVE
Trauma Informed (TI) facilitation creates safety that makes real, lasting change not only possible but perhaps inevitable. TI facilitation is an invitation to explore embodied experiences of power from within. This workshop is for teachers of any kind.
with Hester Phillips
Option 2
Examining a decolonisation of movement, imagination and voice.
through the inspiration of Butoh dance, Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement, Linklater Vocal training and physical theatre...
with Damara Sylvester
This gentle, clothed movement exploration will offer the opportunity to delve into the terrain of the pelvis and explore the edges of our own ancestral, cultural and socially gendered movement pattern...
with Claire Eccelston
2-2:45pm
Sound healing with Yoga Nidra.
Come lie down, rest and integrate.
Please bring any supports such as a yoga mat, cushions, blankets.
Jeanette Ida
2-5pm - SESSION SIX
7:30pm - EVENING ENTERTAINMENT (2-3 hours)
This is a space to integrate, process, rest and digest. An candlelit evening to symbolise the individual light of awareness and the collective light of our group body. You can expect a gentle time of inward reflection and energy restoration with seated ceremony & sounding.
PANEL DISCUSSION
Being a Conscious Dance Facilitator in Aotearoa/NZ
Spend an evening with three diverse conscious dance teachers ( Jaime, Kerry--Ann and Damara) who discuss their respective journies and experiences of being a Conscious Dance teacher in Aotearoa/NZ. Bring any questions you may have.
MONDAY
Day 5
9:30-12:30
CLOSING CEREMONY
In our closing session, we will dance and move together as a whole community and harvest the gems that have emerged for each of us during the festival. This session is designed to help us integrate our experiences, insights, visions and dreams for possible next steps. It will also be a time to celebrate and lean into the support of new and renewed collegial relationships as we prepare to re-enter the world, empowering each other to hold fast to our visions, hopes and dreams, and bring a sense of grounded closure to our time together.
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