Angela is back with a new CBC session! 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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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 that are immersive, engaging yet spacious, oriented towards embodied practice and self-discovery, imaginative, grounded, and welcoming of being as we are now. She is committed to always being in the practice and learning of what she holds dear.

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✨ UPCOMING CLASSES ✨

Oct 6 🌟 Coco - The Art of Tender Tussling [Alchemy House OAK]

https://plra.io/m/oct6-coco

Oct 13 🌟 Angela Heyun - Contact Beyond Contact [Alchemy House OAK]

https://plra.io/m/oct13-angela

Oct 20 🌟 River & Chuck - Creating Your Sexual Menu [Alchemy House OAK]

https://plra.io/m/oct20-riverchuck

Oct 27 🌟 Philippe Lewis - The Art of Attuned Sensual Touch [Alchemy House OAK]

https://plra.io/m/oct27-philippe

Nov 3 🌟 Glory Moonfire - Sweet Surrender in Rope [Alchemy House OAK]

https://plra.io/m/nov3-glory

Nov 10 🌟 Malkaprem - Heart Connection & Soundgasm [Alchemy House OAK]

https://plra.io/m/nov10-malkaprem

Nov 17 🌟 Joshua Hathaway - Ecstatic Playground: ReMembering our Innocence [Alchemy House OAK]

https://plra.io/m/nov17-joshua

Nov 24 🌟 Claire Rumore - The Power of Slow, Attuned Intimacy: An Intro to Subtle Sexuality [Alchemy House OAK]

https://plra.io/m/nov24-claire

Dec 1 🌟 Maha & Brigitte - AC⚡️DC Authentic Connection through Dance and Chakras [Alchemy House OAK]

https://plra.io/m/dec1-mahabrigitte

Dec 8 🌟 Hema Ganapathy - Slow the F@#$ Down

https://plra.io/m/dec8-hema

Dec 15 🌟 Willow Faith - Play With Me Workshop! [Alchemy House OAK]

https://plra.io/m/dec15-willow

Dec 22 🌟 Adam Chacksfield - Erotic Shadow Play [Alchemy House OAK]

https://plra.io/m/dec22-adam

Dec 29 🌟 Philippe Lewis - Trusting in Maybe: Exploring Our Growth Edge [Alchemy House OAK]

https://plra.io/m/dec29-philippe

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 🫶