wcciJAM

Dancing with Size Differences with Jeffrey & Leslie

Jeffrey Balinsky (Large) Co-Teaching with Leslie Castellano (Small). This class seeks to disrupt preconceived notions around size and reciprocation by offering skills, strategies, and pathways for navigating and utilizing size differences within a dance. In Contact Improvisation every combination of moving bodies provides unique opportunities. With the right mental frame searching these possibilities can be fascinating, joyous, and humbling. We will practice weight sharing, using space, and maintaining collaborative volition while questioning and provoking playful explorations of "normal roles".  

Yoga Nidra with Jeffrey

 

If possible, please bring things that make you comfortable. Mats, pillows, blankets, socks, jackets, eye masks, and perhaps a stuffie are welcomed and encouraged.

 

Arrive by 2pm for Yoga Nidra. Facilitated coherent group rest. 30 ~ 40 minute verbally guided resting meditation pointing towards the realms of awareness in between being awake and being asleep. Gather and craft the container, lay the bodies down, be still and listen for a while, externalize and reintegrate. Session is designed to be easy and accessible. Yogic practices and understandings delivered utilizing Neuro Linguistic Programming.

 

Arrive at 3pm for Soundscapes. Expect resting in progress, enter with care. For the remainder of the time I will provide a more non-linear form of nap facilitation. I will play some instruments, primarily my set of Tibetan brass singing bowls, and I will offer a few verbal suggestions. At the end of our time I will build us back together again propelling us into the rest of our jam.

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About Jeffrey
Dancer, Yogi, Lover, Student, Builder, Teacher. A deep resounding voice. I play many games, but my favorite is Contact Improvisation. Synapsis trained in Eureka, California. Since 2016 I have hosted hundreds of jams, taught dozens of Contact Improvisation workshops, and led 1000+ yoga classes in Humboldt County, California. I travel regularly to Berkeley to jam. wcciJAM makes my heart sing. I endeavor to build joy and I orient by helping others. www.yogijeffrey.info
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About Leslie
Leslie Castellano has been engaged with the practice of contact improvisation for 20+ years. She works between spaces of poetics and physics, often using CI practice as a tool for researching ideas of curiosity, otherness, and physical presence. Leslie works in community, serving as city council representative in Eureka, California, engaging in organizations as strategies, and stewarding Synapsis, a performance and art space/project.