FEET FIRST - A 5 Week Online Group (13th April to 11th May) - 3pm GMT or 10am Eastern or 7am Pacific

ZOOM DANCING – some guidelines

~ You are responsible for setting up your own safe dancing space, and for holding your own physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual wellbeing!

~ Use of a laptop is usually better than a smart phone or tablet and a set of speakers or earphones/buds to optimise your experience of the music

~ Make sure the space is safe and give yourself as much room to move as possible.

~ Have drinking water on hand, and anything you might need to make yourself comfortable, both during your dance and immediately afterwards.

~ Tidy your space in advance, and set up anything else that would help make the vibe nice – lighting, an altar, etc.

~ Move at your own pace and in ways that suit your own body.

~ Look after yourself, anyone else (including pets!) in the room, and the environment you are in.

~ Jenny Fahy/facilitator cannot take responsibility for any injuries sustained as a result of participating in these sessions.

~ Try not to be transfixed by the screen – this is not like a Zoom ‘meeting’ or TV show – the screen is there to remind you others are dancing ‘with’ you, not as a focus for your attention.

~ Switch off ‘Self view’ – it’s the one that’s hardest to ignore! We usually cover the mirrors in a dance studio in 5Rhythms – it’s the same thing.

~ AND finally, please let’s keep our online spaces completely safe and respectful – you agree when you sign up to make no recording of any kind, whether audio, video or screenshots etc. Thank you.

(Thanks to Dancing Tao in London and Bernadette ryder in Bristol, on whose guidelines this is based)

THIS SESSION WILL BE RECORDED SO IF YOU CANNOT ATTEND THE LIVE EVENT, AN AUDIO RECORDING OF THE EVENT WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR YOU AFTERWARDS