Intro to Contact Meditation

Are you interested in meditation and would like to discover a new method based on spontaneous movement and social interaction? Are you a fan of ecstatic dance and would like to deepen your dance experience? Are you a practitioner of contact improvisation and want to explore its meditative potential? Are you just curious to try something deep and fun at the same time? Then this introductory workshop is for you!

Contact meditation is based on the principles of friendliness, equanimity and freedom. To help practitioners cultivate these qualities throughout their lives, it uses a dynamic approach that focuses on one's relationship to the ground, to oneself and to others.

This introductory workshop includes a more analytical part where we'll focus on cultivating the elements of grounding, listening, decisiveness, peripheral awareness, and letting go by working in duos, trios and quartets. The last part of the workshop will offer 1h ecstatic dance to experiment and improvise more freely with these elements.

The workshop is suitable for all levels: beginners will be introduced to the basics, and more experienced practitioners will find many opportunities to delve into the subtler details.