The Listening Body
A cross pollination of Zenthai Shiatsu & Contact Improvisation
Wednesday, 8th April 2025
Mullumbimby Civic Hall
“It’s in and through the body” that we return to right relationship with life.
The more fully we are able to allow the present moment to touch us and be felt as it is, the more we are able to experience ourselves at ease with being; in non-separate union with the whole.
The Listening Body is inspired by my experience of the interrelationship between Zenthai Shiatsu and Contact Improvisation. Both practices invite us to refine our awareness and ability to respond to what arises in the moment.
These art forms interweave and inform one another and this workshop experience brings us into contact with how that relationship flows.
Both practices sharpen our attunement and bring opportunities to set down of patterns of protection as we contact the recognition of safety in the now.
All of this research is in service to expanding our embodied wisdom, which yields more ease and joy, not just in our dance practices.
This offering is dedicated to my regular supporters of Nightshift, and welcomes anyone who feels called to be a part of this journey.
It’s a 7 hour process all together, which includes:
Awareness Mapping
Movement practices for the contact body
Movement practices for Zenthai Shiatsu
Contact improvisation technique exploration
Zenthai Shiatsu
Nightshift Somatic Immersion and Contact Jam
