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the dance I start to sense myself - I begin to remember
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What is Core Connexion?
In the dance we can reconnect with the aliveness and creative potential that lies at the core of all of us - at the core of all living beings.
Core Connexion is a practice which - through dance and expression - reconnects us to our core - the essence - and which inspires and transforms people all over the globe.
At the core of every body is the dance. Dance and movement are affirmations of the mystery, the variety, and the wonder of life. Without movement, our bodies degenerate. Slowly we lose our vitality and our potential for full creative expression. Through movement, we can touch the gifts, talents, wisdom, and resources that are stored inside our bodies. When dance is used authentically, we experience our bodies in the present moment.
Core Connexion
is a movement and expressive arts practice, designed to renew
the joy of fully inhabiting our bodies and connect body, mind,
heart and spirit. By telling our personal stories in creative
ways we reinhabit our bodies and gain new resources for our
daily lives and ways to listen to our soul's inner promptings.
Beyond our physical body, our emotions and thoughts lies a field
of infinite, creative potential. Through the Core Connexion
process we can also access this potential, and get in touch
with the universal life energy that dances at the core of everything.
Core Connexion is a very deep, embodied but playful way of reconnecting
to the natural life force within ourselves. Playfulness
in combination with deep processes unites us with or natural
resources and self healing processes in body, psyche and spirit.
It also makes us aware of our place in the order of the universe.
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We
always start with the Body...
In the
dance we can reconnect with the aliveness that lies at the core
of all of us - of all living beings.
In the
Core Connexion process, our body informs our mind. Our bodies
have the ability to remember the flow of life energy. As with
everything in life, all beings, cells and atoms are always moving,
all the time. In fact movement is the most natural expression
of life itself. The studio becomes a playground for insight
into movement and life patterns, an opportunity to gain a new
movement repertoire and to reclaim our aliveness.
The more
we sense ourselves, the more we know our bodies and the more
we also know ourselves.
We practice
to become present and centered although we might feel confused,
under pressure or off balance. We learn to orient ourselves
around solutions and inner resources instead of problems.
Core Connexion
teaches through a series of experiments. It is interdisciplinary
and experiential. Core Connexion does not offer special steps
to follow, but music, images, qualities, rhythm and questions
to play with.
This practice is designed to release the dancer and artist in
every Body, no matter what shape, size, age, limitations or
experience.
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1.
Core Connexion Cycle - Practice of Presence
- Connect deeply to the sensations
in our bodies, the "dancing body within",
different levels of awareness
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2.
"Dancing is Dreaming with our Body"
- making the invisible visible, exploration,
improvisation
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3.
Centering Practice
- practice responding to life rather than reacting
in an automatic way. Center, breath and gravity,
energy management
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4.
Expressive Arts -
Drawing,
writing, performance: letting body, heart, mind
and sprit expres themselves through different
media
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5.
Psychology, philosophy, Perception
- making meaning from experiences, establishing
an Inner Witness, giving feedback
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6.
Ritual in community
- To hold space and being held.
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Core
Connexion employs and interweaves these techniques together
in different ways each class, touching, connecting, recovering
and integrating different parts of ourselves.
Core
Connexion is an education in creative life skills.
This
technique is founded on different schools of Philosophy, Psychology,
Martial Arts, Dance, Expressive Arts, Meditation Practices and
Somatic Sciences from all over the globe and on stretching the
envelope through constant inquiry and playful experimentation.
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