contact improv in vergennes
embodiment/Bodywork/Developmental Movement training with CHristine Cole
May 3-5, 2013
Join Christine Cole for an in-depth exploration of developmental movement, embodiment and bodywork.
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Join Christine Cole for an in-depth exploration of developmental movement, embodiment and bodywork.
Learn more...
workshops at dharma Door:
Learn Thai Massage with Abbi Jaffe and Lori Flower
Dec 7, 6:30-9pm
AcroYoga (Mtl) Day Long Retreats with Lori Flower and Abbi Jaffe
Dec 8, 9-6pm, Intermediate Level, with guest teachers!!!
Ayurveda Winter Wellness Class with Adena
Dec 9, 3:30-5pm
Nourishing Potluck and Class: Learn to make Herbal Infused Chocolate and Winter Cordials
with Hailey Cohn and Special Guests
Dec 9, 5:30-9pm
JourneyDance, Potluck & Sister Circle with Megan Waite and Abbi Jaffe
Friday Dec 14th
Hanukkah Potluck
Sunday Dec 16th, 4pm
Spiral Down to the Center: A Winter's Retreat to Honor the Year Past and Dream the New Year into Being
Saturday December 29th, 9am-9pm
with Lydia Russell, Anjali Budreski, Devon Byers, Fearn Lickfield and Food by Lisa Mase
Mindful Resolutions with Susan Whitman PA-C/Integrative Health Coach
New Years Retreat and Coaching Sessions
Saturday January 12th 9am-3pm
Exploring the Body From A Body-Mind Centering Perspective with Christine Cole
Next workshop is March 1-3rd: Embodying Evolution with Developmental Movement, and another workshop with Christine May 3-5th.
WORKSHOPS at other locations:
AcroYoga Mtl Workshops with Abbi and Lori
Workshops in Burlington, St. Johnsbury, and Bethlehem NH coming soon.
Workshops in Burlington, St. Johnsbury, and Bethlehem NH coming soon.
events at other locations:
Burlington VT International Contact Improv Jam
April 19-21, 2013
Wanderlust Yoga and Music Festival
June 21-24, 2012 at Stratton Mountain, Vermont
In addition to featuring great yoga and music, this summer's festival will also feature the brand new Wanderlust Expeditions outdoor activities program, Wanderlust Farm to Table Dinner, Soulful Cinema, Speakeasy talks, and AcroYoga.
I enjoyed learning Slackline Yoga, engaging in primal conditioning, and dancing.
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Past CLass offerings: (that will be offered again)
Contact Improvisation Dance
Class for Beginners and Open Jam
Location: Contemporary Dance Studio, 18 Langdon Street (3rd Floor), Montpelier VT
Jan 8, Jan 22, Feb 5, Feb 19, March 18, April 15, April 29, May 13, May 20, June 17
(Sundays: Class 10am-11am, Jam 11am-noon).
$5-10 sliding scale (includes jam). Jam $3-5.
Contact Improvisation is a dance technique in which points of physical contact provide the starting point for exploration through movement improvisation. In class you will learn to cultivate your awareness and listening skills and learn how to find ease in your movements and safely move with another.
We are passionate about this dance form and would love to share it with you. It is accessible to all levels, even those with limited mobility. Try it once and see if it is for you. Come and observe a jam and enjoy the performance.
"I went to Contact Improv tonight for the first time. I'm not an athlete or a real dancer but it was a fantastic experience. Only the accomplished dancers did lifts or acrobatics. The rest of us established a point of physical contact and kept it moving. It was a hot evening and I was afraid it would be nasty but... it was incredibly sweet and thoughtful. No music but the sound of our feet." -Delia Robinson, age 65
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Gentle-Subtle-Safe
A movement class for all levels with Abbi Jaffe
Let's inhabit the softest parts of our bodies and practice gentleness and ease. Let's explore the exquisiteness of subtle movement and practice safe ways to share and receive weight.
During this all levels class we will practice articulating: how we are doing, what we are open or closed to exploring, and how we invite or decline weight sharing on a physical/non-verbal level. We will practice listening with our eyes, ears and through our skin.
As we deepen our awareness and articulation of subtle body language we will practice being authentic to our own dance while also meeting another mover and a room full of movers. This class includes activities in contact improvisation, partner yoga, and experiential anatomy.
Each class is $15. Sign up for both for $25. Sign up by Nov 28th for both classes for $20.
All must register by December 2nd with Abbi at abbi.jaffe@gmail.com or 318-3927.
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Discover Contact Improvisation
An Intensive with Abbi Jaffe
June 11-15, 2012: 5:30-7pm, 7-7:30 additional practice time ($60).
Location: Contemporary Dance and Fitness Center, 18 Langdon Street, Montpelier VT
Find ease of movement practicing safe ways to share and receive weight; cultivate awareness and listening with eyes, ears, and skin; be authentic to your own dance while moving with others. For all levels, including those with limited mobility (though the workshop is held on the third floor without an elevator). Includes a 20 min 1:1 session with Abbi, to be scheduled.
Sign up with the Dance Studio at 802.229.4676
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Yoga Mama
New groups forming
A group of fabulous Mama's organized themselves to create this class. The Yoga Mamas take turns being the main one on childcare and sometimes the kids play in the room as we breathe and practice yoga. $10/person
Please let me know if you are interested.
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Movement and Song Circle
Facilitated by Abbi Jaffe and Jen Cherkasov.
Arrive into the room and into your body with ease-full movements. Warm up your voice with toning. Then create a song circle and share songs and voice practices collectively. Songs and practices from a wide background (mantras, chants, rounds, sacred songs, folk songs, your songs!). Dance, move, sit, share. $5-10/person (Sliding scale)
This class is not currently running. If it interests you, please let me know.
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Aerial Fabric and Flying Yoga EVENT
Facilitated by Abbi Jaffe and Elana Davidson
All Levels! Learn how to play on Aerial Fabric or deepen your current practice. Learn therapeutic and acrobatic Flying Yoga.
Visit Elana's website for more information.
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DanceAbility with Liza Bender
Sunday Oct 21, 2012:
2-4pm: workshop
4pm: potluck early dinner
5:30-7:30: open dance jam to music
Monday Oct 22, 2012:
2-4pm: workshop
4:30pm-5:30pm: discussion with Liza about DanceAbility
-You can attend one or both sessions
-RSVP by Oct 19th
-workshop is by donation
-if you are interested in this work and the workshop hours don't work for you or you would like more of an immersion,
just let us know and we will try to accommodate you.
DanceAbility has been researched and taught internationally since 1987. I wanted our community to have the opportunity to experience this work. Liza is recently certified in DanceAbility, and while Liza does not live on the East Coast, I asked her to visit Vermont to share DanceAbility.
DanceAbility is improvisation and dance to promote play and connection for people of all abilities.
These workshops are for anyone who loves creative movement and community and who wants to explore and uproot misconceptions and prejudice between people with and without disabilities. DanceAbility workshops provide a supportive atmosphere for attitudes to change, and for people to learn about the beauty and joy of communicating through movement.
DanceAbility's mission is to cultivate a common ground for creative expression for all people with regard and regardless of physical abilities, economic status, age, or race.
The workshop material is drawn from the group present in a given situation and isolates no one. The method supports self-empowerment by offering ways that all individuals can participate fully in expressing their creative choices, including respecting one's own limits. Following one's own interest and desire, and applying that to the benefit of one's community, is a basic DanceAbility teaching.
Recently DanceAbility was commissioned by the Colombian Government to support their Veterans.
I am totally inspired by the possibilities of this work and I think you will be too.
"Without experience we are a mass of prejudices and ignorance." ~Steve Paxton, Founder of Contact Improv
"I traveled a long way to learn DanceAbility because this kind of work does not exist in Argentina. I want to understand my own body better and understand more deeply other people's bodies and make people in Argentina conscious of the possibilities."
~Marina Gubbay, a dancer who had a stroke affecting her right arm and leg.
Learn more about DanceAbility by clicking here.
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Laughter Yoga Class
with Fran Joseph, Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher
Oct 26th, 2012 (9-10am)
http://www.startlaughingvermont.com/index_files/Page381.htm
Laughter Yoga is a unique form of gentle exercise that
combines unconditional laughter with yogic breathing. Its
goal is to promote health, wellbeing and joy in everyday
life. No sense of humor or yoga experience necessary.
$10. Class fee.
Health Benefits of Laughter:
Boosts immune system
Reduces stress & fatigue
Improves circulation
Strengthens tummy muscles
Lowers blood pressure
Increases positive thoughts & emotions
Founded in 1995 by Indian physician, Dr. Madan Kataria and his wife, Madhuri, Laughter Yoga is a body/mind system of exercise based on the innovative idea that anyone can laugh for no reason at all. By choosing to laugh from our bodies, we initiate powerful, positive changes in our body, mind, spirit,
and emotions.
Let Abbi at Dharma Door know if you want to attend, and then she will send you directions. 802-318-3927
abbi.jaffe@gmail.com
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CircusYoga with Abbi Jaffe and Christine Holt
Nov 4th, 1-3pm
$20
Come join the circus!
Ages 7-97!!
Together we create a tribe that embraces balance, joy, courage, agelessness, appropriate risk, and transformation. CircusYoga is an imaginative, fun-filled experience designed to strengthen self-confidence, focus, trust, and teamwork. CircusYoga combines the consciousness of yoga with the communal ceremony of circus.
Participants will open new realms of vocabulary for play and communication through: Mandala Yoga, Partner Acrobatics, Juggling, Clowning & Physical Comedy, Flying Partner Yoga, Group Story-Creation, Thai Massage, and Creative Movement & Dance. For more info on CircusYoga, click here.
Class for Beginners and Open Jam
Location: Contemporary Dance Studio, 18 Langdon Street (3rd Floor), Montpelier VT
Jan 8, Jan 22, Feb 5, Feb 19, March 18, April 15, April 29, May 13, May 20, June 17
(Sundays: Class 10am-11am, Jam 11am-noon).
$5-10 sliding scale (includes jam). Jam $3-5.
Contact Improvisation is a dance technique in which points of physical contact provide the starting point for exploration through movement improvisation. In class you will learn to cultivate your awareness and listening skills and learn how to find ease in your movements and safely move with another.
We are passionate about this dance form and would love to share it with you. It is accessible to all levels, even those with limited mobility. Try it once and see if it is for you. Come and observe a jam and enjoy the performance.
"I went to Contact Improv tonight for the first time. I'm not an athlete or a real dancer but it was a fantastic experience. Only the accomplished dancers did lifts or acrobatics. The rest of us established a point of physical contact and kept it moving. It was a hot evening and I was afraid it would be nasty but... it was incredibly sweet and thoughtful. No music but the sound of our feet." -Delia Robinson, age 65
***************************************************************************************************************************************************************
Gentle-Subtle-Safe
A movement class for all levels with Abbi Jaffe
Let's inhabit the softest parts of our bodies and practice gentleness and ease. Let's explore the exquisiteness of subtle movement and practice safe ways to share and receive weight.
During this all levels class we will practice articulating: how we are doing, what we are open or closed to exploring, and how we invite or decline weight sharing on a physical/non-verbal level. We will practice listening with our eyes, ears and through our skin.
As we deepen our awareness and articulation of subtle body language we will practice being authentic to our own dance while also meeting another mover and a room full of movers. This class includes activities in contact improvisation, partner yoga, and experiential anatomy.
Each class is $15. Sign up for both for $25. Sign up by Nov 28th for both classes for $20.
All must register by December 2nd with Abbi at abbi.jaffe@gmail.com or 318-3927.
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Discover Contact Improvisation
An Intensive with Abbi Jaffe
June 11-15, 2012: 5:30-7pm, 7-7:30 additional practice time ($60).
Location: Contemporary Dance and Fitness Center, 18 Langdon Street, Montpelier VT
Find ease of movement practicing safe ways to share and receive weight; cultivate awareness and listening with eyes, ears, and skin; be authentic to your own dance while moving with others. For all levels, including those with limited mobility (though the workshop is held on the third floor without an elevator). Includes a 20 min 1:1 session with Abbi, to be scheduled.
Sign up with the Dance Studio at 802.229.4676
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Yoga Mama
New groups forming
A group of fabulous Mama's organized themselves to create this class. The Yoga Mamas take turns being the main one on childcare and sometimes the kids play in the room as we breathe and practice yoga. $10/person
Please let me know if you are interested.
***************************************************************************************************************************************************************
Movement and Song Circle
Facilitated by Abbi Jaffe and Jen Cherkasov.
Arrive into the room and into your body with ease-full movements. Warm up your voice with toning. Then create a song circle and share songs and voice practices collectively. Songs and practices from a wide background (mantras, chants, rounds, sacred songs, folk songs, your songs!). Dance, move, sit, share. $5-10/person (Sliding scale)
This class is not currently running. If it interests you, please let me know.
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Aerial Fabric and Flying Yoga EVENT
Facilitated by Abbi Jaffe and Elana Davidson
All Levels! Learn how to play on Aerial Fabric or deepen your current practice. Learn therapeutic and acrobatic Flying Yoga.
Visit Elana's website for more information.
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DanceAbility with Liza Bender
Sunday Oct 21, 2012:
2-4pm: workshop
4pm: potluck early dinner
5:30-7:30: open dance jam to music
Monday Oct 22, 2012:
2-4pm: workshop
4:30pm-5:30pm: discussion with Liza about DanceAbility
-You can attend one or both sessions
-RSVP by Oct 19th
-workshop is by donation
-if you are interested in this work and the workshop hours don't work for you or you would like more of an immersion,
just let us know and we will try to accommodate you.
DanceAbility has been researched and taught internationally since 1987. I wanted our community to have the opportunity to experience this work. Liza is recently certified in DanceAbility, and while Liza does not live on the East Coast, I asked her to visit Vermont to share DanceAbility.
DanceAbility is improvisation and dance to promote play and connection for people of all abilities.
These workshops are for anyone who loves creative movement and community and who wants to explore and uproot misconceptions and prejudice between people with and without disabilities. DanceAbility workshops provide a supportive atmosphere for attitudes to change, and for people to learn about the beauty and joy of communicating through movement.
DanceAbility's mission is to cultivate a common ground for creative expression for all people with regard and regardless of physical abilities, economic status, age, or race.
The workshop material is drawn from the group present in a given situation and isolates no one. The method supports self-empowerment by offering ways that all individuals can participate fully in expressing their creative choices, including respecting one's own limits. Following one's own interest and desire, and applying that to the benefit of one's community, is a basic DanceAbility teaching.
Recently DanceAbility was commissioned by the Colombian Government to support their Veterans.
I am totally inspired by the possibilities of this work and I think you will be too.
"Without experience we are a mass of prejudices and ignorance." ~Steve Paxton, Founder of Contact Improv
"I traveled a long way to learn DanceAbility because this kind of work does not exist in Argentina. I want to understand my own body better and understand more deeply other people's bodies and make people in Argentina conscious of the possibilities."
~Marina Gubbay, a dancer who had a stroke affecting her right arm and leg.
Learn more about DanceAbility by clicking here.
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Laughter Yoga Class
with Fran Joseph, Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher
Oct 26th, 2012 (9-10am)
http://www.startlaughingvermont.com/index_files/Page381.htm
Laughter Yoga is a unique form of gentle exercise that
combines unconditional laughter with yogic breathing. Its
goal is to promote health, wellbeing and joy in everyday
life. No sense of humor or yoga experience necessary.
$10. Class fee.
Health Benefits of Laughter:
Boosts immune system
Reduces stress & fatigue
Improves circulation
Strengthens tummy muscles
Lowers blood pressure
Increases positive thoughts & emotions
Founded in 1995 by Indian physician, Dr. Madan Kataria and his wife, Madhuri, Laughter Yoga is a body/mind system of exercise based on the innovative idea that anyone can laugh for no reason at all. By choosing to laugh from our bodies, we initiate powerful, positive changes in our body, mind, spirit,
and emotions.
Let Abbi at Dharma Door know if you want to attend, and then she will send you directions. 802-318-3927
abbi.jaffe@gmail.com
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CircusYoga with Abbi Jaffe and Christine Holt
Nov 4th, 1-3pm
$20
Come join the circus!
Ages 7-97!!
Together we create a tribe that embraces balance, joy, courage, agelessness, appropriate risk, and transformation. CircusYoga is an imaginative, fun-filled experience designed to strengthen self-confidence, focus, trust, and teamwork. CircusYoga combines the consciousness of yoga with the communal ceremony of circus.
Participants will open new realms of vocabulary for play and communication through: Mandala Yoga, Partner Acrobatics, Juggling, Clowning & Physical Comedy, Flying Partner Yoga, Group Story-Creation, Thai Massage, and Creative Movement & Dance. For more info on CircusYoga, click here.
