Contact Improv Intensive (4hr) with Katie Scott (ATL)

Name: Contact Improv Intensive (4hr) with Katie Scott (ATL)
Start: 2024-10-13T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-13T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Be One Collective 1651 John Ward Rd SW Marietta, GA 30064

Schedule

Sun Oct 13 2024 at 04:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Be One Collective 1651 John Ward Rd SW Marietta, GA 30064 | Marietta, GA

Have you been wanting to dance with another, but haven't known how to approach them (or what to do)?!
Have you been yearning to use dance & music as tools to get out of your mind and feel more liberated?
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Join Katie Scott to awaken and remember your body’s innate wisdom and capacity for balance, flow, creativity, somatic healing, sovereignty, and self-sourcing power through Contact Improv– Dance of Empowerment!
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Benefits of a 4-hour deep dive intensive:
🌀 create new neural pathways & patterns in the body for the knowledge to really stick
🌀 build confidence in asking others to dance
🌀 have the repetition to let your body get used to dancing with other bodies.
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📣 NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED! Suitable for bodies of all shapes, sizes, and strengths!
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SPECIAL 🤲 OFFER : a day of somatic healing & attunement:
Receive 50% off your adjustment from our amazing friends at Be One Collective (Tati & Nick). This is valid the week of the event only!
Have you heard of or experienced the next-level attuned chiro work that Nick and Tati offer?! Yall....I canNOT recommend their work enough! Completley on another level. This is a great deal and I am so happy to collab with them!
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We believe before or after the dance is a
p e r f e c t time to receive an adjustment!
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Why Contact Improv?
✨expand your intuitive movement
✨deepen your listening & attunements skills
✨build trust {with self & others}
✨overcome fears
✨break down walls of resistance to touch/intimacy
✨strengthen your core & balance
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Contact Improvisation can be a powerful gateway for heightened mindfulness, safe connection, trust/confidence building, and empowerment. Exploring dance with other bodies can be deeply fun, transformational, and help us know ourselves even more. However for almost all of us, it can be frightening and awkward. It doesn't have to be, though!
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This workshop includes:
✨Contact Improv foundational lesson
✨Demystifying awkwardness, perfectionism, & over-thinking on the dance floor
✨Chi Gong (energy/breath/movement) for Grounding & Empowerment
✨How to approach/intiate a dance with someone, respectfully and consensually
✨Remembering child-like play and joy
✨Tap into the natural rhythms and movements of the earth through dance & contact
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● WHAT: Contact Improv Intensive: Workshop & Jam
● WHERE: Be One Collective 1651 John Ward Rd SW Marietta, GA 30064
● WHEN: Sunday Oct 13, 4-8pm
● WHO: beginners, intermediate & advanced welcomed!
● EXCHANGE: $75 early bird. $95 after Oct 10
● WHAT TO WEAR:
leave the jewelry at home! I like to wear tight-fitted clothes, t-shirts, or pants that won't get caught on other people. some people wear long sleeves and long pants. feel into what suits you, and bring options to change into if you'd like!
● AVOID skirts or dresses, this can be challenging if you start rolling on the floor
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RESERVE YOUR SPACE:
send your payment of $75: venmo to @katie__scott
reach out if venmo does that work for you
cash accepted at door
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💕 This class is designed for beginners, yet will be completely accessible for intermediate/advanced contact dancers.
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🌹YOUR GUIDE, KATIE SCOTT:
Katie is living proof of how dance is medicine, and how embodiment can be a pathway for healing, evolution and reclaiming our power. Katie's strongest prayer is for all humans to embody shamelessness and overcome self-sabotage & people-pleasing, specifically through dance and embodiment.
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She specializes in supporting folks struggling with addiction/poor habits and sxual trauma. Katie is an Embodiment Guide and Intuitive Healer, fusing 11 years of experience with Mindfulness, Embodiment, Tantra, Taoism, Partner Dance, Trauma-Informed Somatics, Intuitive Energy healing, Chi Gong, Theta Healing, & Self-Sabotage reprogramming. Katie is founder of Chattanooga Contact Improv and co-creatrix of Ecstatic Dance Chattanooga.