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CREATE YOUR FESTIVAL with 4 dance floors running every morning & afternoon. Choose your favourite workshops from an incredible selection.

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.

This year we have a stream of workshops running through the festival that explores 'how can we use our embodiment practices to deepen & expand our sense of fulfilment in relationship with others?' The workshops some teachers created in response to this prompt are highlighted with a rainbow banner.

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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Browse through the selection of workshops on offer and choose one for each session. When you're ready, go ahead and save your festival line-up:

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THURSDAY

Day 1 - arriving

3-6pm - WELCOME

Welcoming and Festival Opening

Pause, breathe and arrive with us! Details to be confirmed.

FRIDAY

Day 2

7-7:45am - Morning Yoga with Bex

Gentle Morning Wake Up (optional)

9:30-12:30 - SESSION ONE

Option 1

Alchemical Intimacy

In this workshop we'll navigate the dance of finding the right distance to one another, and explore an embodied relational awareness practice that offers us insight that we can share with one another of what it's like to be in one another's presence.

with Ellie Wilde

Option 2

Moving our relationship with the Inner and outer "Other"

As we become curious about potentially disowned or alienated parts within and open to explore our relationship with these parts we may increase our capacity to be with Others in potentially new ways...

with Ingrid Nagl

Option 3

I am Not Old, She Said, I am Rare.

An InSpirited Aging/Artist in Motion session where we will move, write, create, converse and then

move again. Does the ‘vector’ of aging need to prescribe us? How is our soul alive and dancing with us?

with Kerry-Ann Stanton

Option 4

Attuned to Self

An invitation to land in oneself.

Jooske will guide you on an interoceptive journey through the 4 bodies. Spiritual…. Mental…. Emotional…. Physical…. Where we create and re- connect to our own energetic space.

with Jooske Honig

Your preferece for session one:

Alchemical Intimacy

Inner & Outer "Other:

I am not old, she said.

Attuned to Self

2-2:30pm

Gentle Yoga Practice with Jeanette Ida

3-5pm - SESSION TWO

Option 1

Reclaiming

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

Option 2

From Intimacy to Play

In this session, I invite us to explore our neuroceptive capacities together- how our sense of safety, social connection, self-connection, and activation are affected by movement, posture, proximity and interaction...

with Miriam Marler

Option 3

Acceptance of the Other

What makes us different from others and what do we have in common? Let’s be curious about what we notice in our bodies when next to something different, unknown or unexperienced.

with Jan Jeans

Option 3

The Fundamentals of Contact Improvisation

Contact improvisation (C.I) is a wonderfully dynamic and open ended dance practice, rich in its capacity to cultivate present moment awareness, self discovery, intimacy, and play. In this workshop you will learn the basic movement vocabulary...

with Ross Inness-McLeish

Your preferece for session two:

Reclaiming Our Dimensional Self

From Intimacy to Play

Acceptance of Other

Contact Improv

7:30pm- EVENING ENTERTAINMENT (2-3 hours)

EVENING GATHERING

Bliss Molecule: Cacao Infused Evening of Dance

with Jade Ferriere

Science has recently revealed 6 biochemical compounds in Cacao that have the ability to nurture our movement practice in ways you can only begin to imagine! With potent levels of ethanolamides (NAEs) for feelings of intense bliss, polyphenols for mental clarity, tryptophan for sensations of joy and happiness, tryptamine and phenylethylamine (PEA) for feelings of intense satisfaction, embodiment and spiritual awakening - cacao makes an amazing companion for any dance!

In this evening gathering we will sit and sip cacao, awaken insights into the therapeutic properties of this plant medicine before immersing ourselves in a soundscape that offers freedom of movement and expression. Your gateway to bliss!!

SATURDAY

Day 3

7-7:45am - Gentle wake up and stretch with Bex

Gentle Morning Wake Up (optional)

9:30-12:30 - SESSION THREE

Option 1

Dancing the Way to Human Wholeness

A guided movement inquiry into the four directions. We will weave together Open Floor, the potency of Animas Valley and rites of passage to initiate ourselves into the rare and much needed state of True Adult. A journey to embody the gifts and uniqueness of our soul.

with Jaime Howell

Option 2

From Intimacy to Play

In this session, I invite us to explore our neuroceptive capacities together- how our sense of safety, social connection, self-connection, and activation are affected by movement, posture, proximity and interaction...

with Miriam Marler

Option 3

I'm Not Old She Said, I Am Rare

An InSpirited Aging/Artist in Motion session where we will move, write, create, converse and then

move again. Does the ‘vector’ of aging need to prescribe us? How is our soul alive and dancing with us?

with Kerry-Ann Stanton

Option 4

Belonging....Lone Wolf or Pack Mate

This somatic dance journey will take you into your body mapping the inner terrain to find your place of belonging, using your resources to hunt out your place within the larger pack and your place of belonging in the outer world

with Tia

Your preferece for session three:

Dancing the Way to Human Wholeness

From Intimacy to Play

I'm Not Old She Said

Belonging...

2-2:30pm

Restful Yoga Nidra with Kate Fulton

3-5pm - SESSION FOUR

Option 1

Subterranean. What Lies Beneath

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

Option 2

Why Don't We Ask For What We Want? And What Do We Do Instead?

A chance to explore consensual touch. Discover perhaps that it's not so much about the doing, and maybe more about the choosing. In this workshop we'll get to hang out in the choosing phase a bit longer and discover what emerges when we slow things down a touch.

with Ellie Wilde

Option 3

Accepting Other

What makes us different from others and what do we have in common? Let’s be curious about what we notice in our bodies when next to something different, unknown or unexperienced.

with Jan Jeans

Option 3

Contact Improvisation Workshop

more info to come

with

Your preferece for session four:

Subterranean

Why Don't We Ask For What We Want

Accepting Other

Contact Improv

7:30pm - EVENING ENTERTAINMENT (2-3 hours)

EVENING GATHERING

Gender Bender

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 Bex

Gentle Morning Wake Up (optional)

9:30-12:30 - SESSION FIVE

Option 1

Facilitating Trauma Informed Groups:

An Intro

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

Reclaiming

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

Option 3

Subterranean, What Lies Beneath

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

Option 4

Movement from the Heart

This gentle, playful and insightful movement exploration is crafted using Feldenkrais movement and meditative healing principles, creative enquiry, dance improvisation, and nature connection.

with Chani Grieve

Your preferece for session five:

Trauma Sensitive Group Facilitation

Reclaiming Our Dimensional Self

Subterranean, What Lies Beneath

Movement from the Heart

2-2:30pm

Gentle Yoga with Jeanette Ida

3-5pm - SESSION SIX

Option 1

Art in Motion

Dismantling the illusion of ‘professional & trained’ as being prerequisites for a rich, creative life. Jo’s wonderful sense of humour, experiential wisdom, creative intelligence & wild spirit become the backdrop for this inspiring 'Art in Motion' class.

with Jo Woods

Option 2

Dancing the Way to Human Wholeness

A guided movement inquiry into the four directions. We will weave together Open Floor, the potency of Animas Valley and rites of passage to initiate ourselves into the rare and much needed state of True Adult. A journey to embody the gifts and uniqueness of our soul.

with Jaime Howell

Option 3

Coming Soon

more info to come soon

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Option 4

The Underscore Unpacked

This final piece to the contact improv stream offers resources for self-practice, for connecting with others, and finally for appreciating the group body as the dance of improvision unfolds through space & time.

with Miriam Marler & Ben Bushelll

Your preferece for session six:

Art in Motion

Dancing the Way to Human Wholeness

TBC

The Underscore Unpacked

7:30pm - EVENING ENTERTAINMENT (2-3 hours)

EVENING EVENT

Integration Ceremony

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 who answer your questions and discuss their journey and experiences of being a Conscious Dance teacher in Aotearoa/NZ. Bring 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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Our team will use this information to help us work out the best venue for each workshop. If you want a copy of your selections, flick us a quick email and we will get the details to you ASAP.

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THURSDAY

Welcoming and Festival Opening

FRIDAY

Gentle Morning Wake Up (optional)

Gentle Yoga Practice with Jeanette Ida

SATURDAY

Gentle Morning Wake Up (optional)

Restful Yoga Nidra with Kate Fulton

SUNDAY

Gentle Morning Wake Up (optional)

Gentle Yoga with Jeanette Ida

MONDAY

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