Moving with Intimacy - Full-Day Conscious Dance & Platonic Touch Workshop London
🧡 Welcome to our second edition of Moving with Intimacy - A full day event that welcomes us to explore and connect both through movement and dance and also through some gentle opportunities for platonic touch in a tender and heartfelt way, with choice and care to stay tuned in to ourselves and our needs.
Through this delicate gathering with a shared intention for welcoming all that we are in our authentic while sometimes messy minds, Moving with Intimacy is about building and creating a heartfelt community in London!
We are invited to dance with the raw and the profound, the subtle, the silly and the sacred, gently exploring and unravelling our layers through movement, sharing, ritual and tenderness, while knowing there is always a sanctuary, always space for tears, for silence, for love and for pain also. We are welcome as we are. There is no expectation or need to do anything, only to hold the intention to be true to our hearts and bring an open mind.
There'll be a choice of 2 warm-up intro sessions before a break, and then we'll move into a free-flowing session where you can move between the Movement Temple and Touch Temple spaces. There'll be time to relax and hang out together in our sweet and secluded venue just 10 mins from Caledonian Road.
The event will begin and end with an Opening and Closing Gathering to include setting an intention and any boundaries, giving us time to land together and offering the space to share anything necessary for the event and also before we depart at the end of the day.
Please do arrive before 12pm so we can all be present and share our Opening Circle together.
Everyone is welcome - no need to bring (or find!) a partner, and also you are welcome to bring partner(s) and choose when/if you'd like to work with them - We'll always clarify what each exercise will be, so you can choose to opt in and decide how you'd like to participate.
We look forward to sharing some gentle times with you!
The Schedule
- 11.30am Welcome to arrive!
- 12pm Opening Circle - Landing together and setting our container
- 1pm Choice of 2 Intro sessions - Movement-focused or Touch-based
- 2.30pm Break - Tea / Snacks available
- 3pm We open our 2 free-flow spaces including our Gentle Jam Space and the Cuddle Space!
- 5pm Closing Circle - Time and share anything needed before we part
- 5.30pm Event Ends (Optional food at the Lord Stanley nearby)
Facilitators will be announced soon!
Agreements
Thanks so much for respecting these agreements!
- 🧡 Consent - Dancing with or touching others / anyone, is always OPTIONAL - We are all free to move away any time!
- 🧡 Confidentiality - Agreement not to share names or any experience other than our own
- 🧡 Sober - No Alcohol / Drugs
- 🧡 Clothing - This is a clothed event - We ask everyone to keep their tops and bottoms on! - Plus no outdoor shoes on the dance floor - Thanks!
- 🧡 Non-Sexual - While intimacy and sensuality are welcome, this is a non-sexual space
About the Organiser
Julia is the creator of the Moving with Intimacy Camps in June and Rumble festival, a conscious dance event that combines many different forms of movement and therapeutic practices that enable us to explore our inner and outer worlds in a safe and supportive environment. She has been teaching partner dancing for over 12 years and is the founder of London's Brazilian Forró night, Forró Family.
Julia has also created and been running Moving Connections weekly, for over 3 years in London!
Julia's work is inspired by various movement systems such as 5 Rhythms, Contact Improvisation and Ecstatic Dance through which she has been developing her own experience and understanding of dance, connection and the power of movement to bring us into the present moment and explore our relationship to ourselves and our world.
Julia is passionate about creating community in the simplest and most accessible way, welcoming all that we bring and encouraging authentic and open relating in all its forms.
🧡 IMPORTANT:
This event is alcohol, smoke and drug free. Thank-you for your care to hold this safe space together.
Please respect everyone's choice for physical contact or connection. We are all free to choose with who, when and how we'd like to connect and we ask everyone to listen carefully and trust each other to say "no". We appreciate a "no" as a gift of honesty and self-care. Thank-you for being you and for being brave and showing up!
Entry is at the organizers discretion
Many thanks and looking forward to moving with you!
