Saturday CI Workshop: Soft Awareness

Join us for an afternoon workshop exploring Contact Improvisation as an intentional awareness practice.

We'll move from gentle grounding and floor work into partner exercises and later a jam with music, then wind down with bodywork and finish with a bring-and-share social.

Our journey will follow a gentle arc — we'll start with a slow grounding into ourselves, a chance to actually stop and feel stillness if we wish. From this inner space, we will move outwards in our own way and time into a warm-up and some floor work explorations, discovering ways that we can move in relation to the ground. This will lead us into partner exercises, followed by a jam with music. After the jam, we'll gently bring the energy back down with some bodywork to close the practice, followed by a social (bring food to share!).

We will let our solo and shared practice, the offered exercises and the co-created dance of the jam be a landscape in which our awareness can deepen, with a lightly held intention to simply notice what is.

Level: Something for everyone — this workshop is structured to offer pathways for a range of movement skill levels.

Timings: 2–7pm

2pm onwards:

Opening circle with grounding practice
Warm-up / floor work explorations
Partner exercises and games

Break: c. 4.30pm

4.45pm approx:

Jam
Bodywork
Social (bring food to share): 6.30pm approx

7pm: Finish

N.B.

• You may wish to make a plan with someone beforehand to share the bodywork session.
• Do please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.

About Justin

Justin is the host and resident teacher of the Brighton CI Community. He is a multidisciplinary mover with a background in martial arts and Thai massage. He has been dancing CI for over 12 years, teaching CI since 2018, and runs Moving Stillness — School of Somatics.