Dance By Heart: A blindfolded movement workshop for all movers
with Matia Divitt
Saturday December 8th 2018, 7:30-9:30pm
Matia is an avid dancer and co-founder of the weekly Friday Foothills Fusion Dance in Grass Valley, CA at the Golden Empire Grange. She has been dancing solo and in partnership for over 20 years, and has been teaching dance for the past four years. She weaves her love of dance, and extensive bodywork background with Somatic Relationship & Sex Coaching to offer a playful, curious and creative approach to bodies moving in space together. She empowers her students and community through the invitation to show up as they are, honoring that each unique individual has a gift to offer. Her mission is to support all people with their relating skills, communication tools, connections and intimacy to themselves, each other and the earth in order to create more Peace, Passion and Play.
$25 per person
** dance party to follow! ** |
Matia Divitt will be offering a guided blindfold fusion dance experience exploring the expanded awareness, freedom and sensation that arises with sightless partner dance. The blindfolded class will be an experiential, somatic playground of solo, group and partner dance. We will create an inviting container to increase our body wisdom, balance and proprioception, our ability to listen, root down and feel the floor through another. When we have fewer default cues for connection, we have fewer distractions, we are more able to be present, and have to center ourselves to remain balanced. One of the things that happens when we take sight away is that we often slow down and open up.
70% of our brain function is taken up by our sight. When we remove our sight, our other senses step up and inform our experience. We focus on the safety and sensory pressure of another’s touch rather than an assumed preference created by culture or story. Come Play-Ground-Soar! “Dancing blindfolded has made me a much clearer lead and a more sensitive follow. My awareness of where I am and what I want comes through my body into movement, and is communicated to my partner. When I feel overstimulated, being blindfolded helps me drop into the present moment and experience what is in front of me.” -Matia Divitt "We will learn to experience ourselves and the room not just with our sight, but with the unique vision of our fingertips and our hearts, the soles of our feet and our hips.Through this intimate physical connection we bridge the places in-between with moving awareness that enriches our whole being. Alone and together we move with new perspective and renewed attention.” -Arjuna, Soul Motion Pre-requisites: An open heart and a desire to explore what you can find out of movement beyond where your eyes can take you! |
Cancellation Policy
All cancellations must be made 48 hours before the start of workshops, and we will fully refund your workshop fee.
No refunds are given if the cancellation occurs within 48 hours of the start time of the workshop (except in the case of proven emergencies - severe weather alerts/closed roads, doctors note, obituaries etc...)
All cancellations must be made 48 hours before the start of workshops, and we will fully refund your workshop fee.
No refunds are given if the cancellation occurs within 48 hours of the start time of the workshop (except in the case of proven emergencies - severe weather alerts/closed roads, doctors note, obituaries etc...)