Angela Heyun 🌟 Contact Beyond Contact
- Euclid Manor390 Euclid AveOakland
- Monday, Mar 3rd7 PM - 10 PM PST
- 77 people on the list
- Organized by The Somatic Playground
Contact Beyond Contact (CBC) is a dance and healing practice for deep connection - with ourselves, in relationships, and as an interwoven community with one another and nature itself. CBC emphasizes energetic attunement, inviting and being invited, clear intentions, boundaries, co-creation, community care, and dance as a metaphor and practice of how we move through life.
This is a facilitated 2-hour session of relational conscious dance, welcoming to people without movement experience and engaging to people immersed in dance. We’ll explore dance as a language of embodied communication, to express, invite, co-create, say yes and no. By the end, we’ll be dancing with the whole room, moving together as individuals and as a collective, in contact via our energy, senses, presence, touch, heart, and spirit. “Contact Beyond Contact” is a reference to this, how we are always in contact.
CBC integrates dance modalities including Authentic Movement (Solo), Contact Improvisation (Duet), and Passing Through (Group) with healing modalities including Qigong, Thai Massage, somatics, mindfulness and leadership skills, breathwork, philosophies of Taoism and Buddhism, and more. CBC is created by Vangelis Legakis - learn more at education.unityspace.org!
Angela Heyun is curious about everything embodiment and improvisation - all the ways we inhabit ourselves, meet life, cultivate presence and imagination, and make choices as humans together.
For her, dance is a kind of existential understanding; presence and touch are an immediate and fundamental ‘knowing.’ Angela is a teacher of Contact Beyond Contact, a dance & healing practice for personal development, relational growth, and open-hearted connection with community and nature. It is a practice of embodied communication, energetic attunement, clear intentions, invitations, boundaries, co-creation - a practice of our dance through life. CBC integrates modalities including Authentic Movement, Contact Improvisation, Passing Through, Qi Gong, Family Constellations, psychology, and Taoist philosophy. Learn more about CBC at education.unityspace.org
Angela has been teaching in embodiment for a decade. Beyond CBC and its integrated modalities, she is influenced by Integrative Somatic Arts, Tango, Fusion, Yoga, Tai Chi, Butoh, movement research, embodied theater, bodywork, grappling, and music improvisation. In her facilitation, Angela creates spaces to be with what is emerging, to go into the unknown together. She is committed to always being in the practice and learning of what she holds dear.
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✨ JOIN THE WHATSAPP GROUP ✨
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✨ UPCOMING CLASSES ✨
Mar 3 🌟 Angela Heyun: Contact Beyond Contact [Euclid Manor]
Mar 10 🌟 Francesca Gentille: One Night With a Hundred Lovers [Euclid Manor]
https://plra.io/m/mar10-francesca
Mar 17 🌟 Anna Spisak: Partner Touch for Somatic Connection [Euclid Manor]
Mar 24 🌟 Diana Soline: Tantra, Voice Your Chakras [Euclid Manor]
Mar 31 🌟 Thea Sheets: Giggles, Wiggles, & Jiggles [Euclid Manor]
Apr 7 🌟 Coco Post: Connection-Based Kink: Play with Power & Pleasure [Euclid Manor]
Apr 14 🌟 Shezza Sheryl: Bliss Sensual Energetic Touch [Euclid Manor]
https://plra.io/m/apr14-shezza
Apr 21 🌟 Ember Luna: Authentic Erotic Expression [Euclid Manor]
Apr 28 🌟 Michael McDonald: Sacred Touch: The Art of Subtle Sensual Touch [Euclid Manor]
https://plra.io/m/apr28-michael
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✨ WHAT IS THE SOMATIC PLAYGROUND? ✨
✨ Monday classes from some of your favorite FireLight & SoulPlay teachers and more!
✨ A place for you to learn, embody, and grow somatic, primal, emotional, energetic intelligence
✨ A space to co-create community with an embodied common language around relating, intimacy, sensuality, and sexuality
✨ An opportunity to slow down, connect, and move at the pace of trust
✨ A time to have fun, move, and dance together!
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Join us for a series of collaborative exploration at The Somatic Playground! These in-person events will take place on Mondays 7-10pm
Get ready to immerse yourself in a unique experience of connecting with yourself and others in a playful, expressive, & intimate way. Through various somatic exercises and activities, you'll discover new ways to move, connect, let go, and build trust with those around you.
Whether you're a seasoned dancer or have never stepped foot on a dance floor before, this event welcomes everyone. We're cultivating a thoughtful space to explore your body's language, express yourself freely, and connect with like-minded individuals.
In the Somatic Playground, we will cultivate a community of somatic attunement and relational intelligence. Each week, a different facilitator will guide you on a journey of research, play, and practice, honing your abilities to dive into your somatic, emotional, primal, energetic, and relational bodies - learning to listen through touch and taste the pathway of motion. An open jam will follow as a way to continue exploring together sparks and curiosities from class.
So, mark your calendars and come join us at The Somatic Playground for an evening filled with exploration, movement, touch, and connection. Don't miss out on this opportunity to let loose, meet new people, and discover the joy of moving at the rhythm of connection and trust.
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Our Community Agreements
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As teachers, facilitators, and participants, while we support everyone engaging with sovereignty (making good choices for themselves and others), we also understand that trauma has huge influence on people's behavior and experience, so we are trauma informed in the ways we teach, engage, and/or participate in these classes. We also recognize and continue to learn to be aware of the power dynamics that exist or might arise as we engage, and seek to level the playing field of power whenever possible, and engage with utmost attunement and consideration for each other.
Erotic energy may emerge but is not the goal. Sensual touch is welcome - we are exploring all that is possible in terms of how we relate to each other through sensing. Sexual touch is not a part of this container. Please reach out with any questions.
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Diversity and Inclusion
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For each class series, we seek to include a diverse group of facilitators to express the full range of humanness, bodies, and experience around race, age, gender, identity, sex, sexual orientation, and more. Some series may appear at first glance to favor some subgroups, and while may be accurate that this is what was available at the time, we continue to include facilitators who fit all of these subgroups.
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Similarly, and in collaboration with the Bloom App/Community, we seek to include a diverse group of humans and celebrate all experiences, bodies, and experiences, especially of those who have historically been less favored or appreciated.
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Please reach out with any questions.
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Refunds or Transfer
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If it ever turns out that a class isn't for you or that you missed a class for any reason, we'll be happy to either refund you or allow you to come to a future class instead. No problem 🫶