Join us for a workshop designed to help you get into a state of embodied flow and connection. We will be exploring three complementary modalities: Contemporary Dance, Zenthai Shiatsu Bodywork, and Contact Improvisation. Open to all levels of experience.

✦ Date: Saturday October 19th
✦ Time: 1:15pm-6pm
✦ Where: Curl Curl Sports Centre, Main Hall

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◈ Contemporary Dance & Floorwork with Fra Gozdek ◈

After warming up the body, we will explore how to move with more grace and fluidity: up, down, and across the floor, using techniques and movement patterns derived from contemporary dance. Fra will guide us on how we can blend technique with improvised expression.

◈ Zenthai Shiatsu Bodywork with Emma Wilkinson ◈

Zenthai Shiatsu is a fluid and dynamic form of remedial & energetic bodywork therapy, seamlessly blending the traditional somatic understanding of Zen Shiatsu with Traditional Thai Massage and Osteopathic techniques. Loving awareness and focused intention are fundamental threads of this practice that weave together to create space for deep surrender and for the body to remember its’ innate blueprint for healing

Emma will guide us through a simple yet therapeutic bodywork sequence where you will have the opportunity to both give and receive.

◈ Contact Improvisation with Lillian Donnell ◈

Contact Improvisation is a mindfulness-based movement and dance practice, involving two or more people engaging in a physical dialogue through deep listening, touch, and shared weight.

Lillian will guide us in exercises to help us embody the fundamental techniques and somatic qualities of contact improvisation, before leading the group into an open dance, or jam. This will be a space for us to move in solo dance or connection with others, with a curious awareness of what our bodies have absorbed through each modality explored in this workshop.

~ More details ~

You are welcome to arrive at 1pm for a 1:15pm start. We will take about an hour and fifteen minutes to explore each modality, with a 15 minute break in between.

This workshop is quite physical, though open to all levels of experience. Every exercise is given as an invitation; everyone is encouraged to listen to what their own body needs in that moment, and participate according to their wishes and capacity.

~ What to Bring ~

Comfortable clothing, with no or minimal zips, buttons, or metal tags.
Layers for receiving Zenthai bodywork
Water bottle
Snacks to have in breaks
A yoga mat or blanket to lie upon when receiving Zenthai bodywork
1-2 cushions

~ Pricing ~

Early Bird* ~ $69 until 9th October
General Admission* ~ $79 until 17th October
Final Release* ~ $89 (if you book within 2 days before)

*Plus booking fee.

Space will be limited to a total of 21 participants, so we recommend securing your spot early!

~ About Your Facilitators ~

Francesca Gozdek is an Italian freelance dancer, teacher, performer, and choreographer. With a background in jazz, classical, modern and contemporary, she has been teaching dance from the age of 17, and complements her dance practice with certifications in yoga, pilates, and sports coaching. Her style is fluid and expressive, with a focus on floorwork.

Emma Wilkinson is a somatic kinesiologist, bodyworker and facilitator of experiences designed to cultivate conscious connection. At the core of her offerings are the intentions to support you to alchemise pain and challenges into embodied wisdom, empower you to embody your highest potential and deepen your relationship with the pulse of your intuition and body wisdom.

Lillian Donnell is a multi-modal coach of dynamic movement practices, including including aerial silks, functional mobility training, Animal Flow, and Contact Improvisation. She also facilitates workshops and co-creates events in the realms of ecstatic dance, aerials, fire dancing, playfighting, and live music + dance jams. Her passion lies in helping those who are yearning to move with more freedom in their lives, developing skills of strength, awareness & fluidity, and challenging limiting beliefs about how one can be in the world.