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SUMMARY:Compassionate Contact with Brandon Schwinn & Chloe Loftus
DESCRIPTION:Dates: Friday 31st January – Monday 3rd February 2025\nIn this retreat we will explore contact between ourselves and our environment/community.\nUsing tools from Contact Improvisation dance, meditation, presence work, and play we will expand a sense of empathy and connection.\n\nThere is a spectrum of possibility between stillness and dynamic movement.\nThis retreat will offer space to explore that and allow the impetus for movement to come from the awareness of our heartfelt listening.\nThis retreat is for dancers and non-dancers. There will be open jams and creative non-verbal spaces for exploring new possibilities of interaction. By learning to trust the wisdom of our bodies, we will engage with our communities in more connected and compassionate ways.\n\nAbout Brandon Schwinn\nBrandon Schwinn is a dance artist and meditator living in Vancouver, Canada. He has been studying Dharma for over twenty years and finds it a fundamental tool for living a life that values compassionate action. He has always found creativity to be essential for his spiritual practice. He has studied visual arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and he has been studying contemporary dance in Vancouver Canada intensively for the past 6 years. He has also completed a transformative training program in the art of clowning, which is where his interest in presence work and creative process in community began to take an artistic form.\nAbout Chloe Loftus\nChloe is a professional dancer, choreographer, mass movement director and Contact Improvisation devotee. She is best known for her mesmerising outdoor dance-theatre creations, cultivating communities through performances and participatory offerings. Italian born and Aotearoa bred, Chloe trained in the UK and established her early career there. Now, with 20 years experience of championing inclusivity, connection and imagination, she tours her work internationally but is delighted to call Whakatū Nelson home.\nLinks – www.chloeloftus.com @Loftyloftus (Instagram) @Chloe Loftus Dance (Facebook)\nCosts\n\nCosts include food, single room accommodation, a cooks fee and a small resource fee.\nRooms / Huts\nMembers $376\nNon members $406\nCamping\nMembers $313\nNon members $322\nAbout dana\nThe costs do not include any payment for the teacher who is offering the weekend on the basis of dana (generosity). Please bring cash with you if you would like to offer dana to Brandon & Chloe.\nAn offering of dana to the teacher, traditionally at the beginning of the retreat, and is a profound practice in itself. Giving can help us open; and through an open-hearted state of receptivity, we can find ourselves more able to receive.\nInformation\nFor further information contact Chloe at chloe@chloeloftus.com\nRegistration\nTo register please fill out our online registration form\nRegister now\nPlease consider becoming a Wangapeka member – click here for details.\nphoto credit: Ana Clara Ortega both of us dancing.\n
URL:https://wangapeka.org/events/compassionate-contact-with-brandon-schwinn-2025/
CATEGORIES:Body Work,Compassion,Dance,Meditation,Mindfulness,Movement,Retreats
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