The Dance of Relating

And we are back!!! We are incredibly excited to welcome you into a continued exploration of Authentic Relating meets Contact Beyond Contact dance. Let’s support each other to begin a fresh new cycle of empowered relationships in this new year!

Whether you attended our last workshop or are ready to explore this practice for the first time, we cannot wait to share with you the magic of this powerful container! It is unique from any we have seen or experienced before.

Many of our community dance contexts are nonverbal spaces. This allows for rich, somatic-based connection different from our everyday more cognitive-based realities. However, without the opportunity to use our words, some of our needs, feelings and desires may be suppressed. For many of us, this suppression is nothing new. “Same story, different context.” This begs the question: How much more safety & intimacy might we be capable of experiencing? Both on the dance floor and in life?

Let’s find out! As we intentionally blend Authentic Relating (AR) partner and group practices with guided contact beyond contact dance (CBC), we will cocreate a context that empowers us to be more real with each other and true to ourselves. As we gather valuable insight from this journey, we will explore how we can take it into all of our relationships in this new year.

“The Dance of Relating was a breakthrough experience for me. I got to use my voice to speak my needs, desires, and feedback to the person(s) I was dancing with in a way that further empowered me to maintain a healthy connection to my body, heart, and mind. Matthew and Violet encouraged open communication around how a dance connection was feeling for all parties. At first, this felt vulnerable, but it ultimately led to deeper feelings of safety and intimacy. It was one of my favorite and cherished dance experiences to date.” -Tink

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Do YOU want to experience more depth in connection?

Do you desire to cultivate a greater sense of safety to be just as you are in the moment?

Do you crave to feel more fully expressed, and feel truly seen and understood?

In essence: do you want to free your authentic self?

If you’re nodding your head, come join us as we dive deep into embodied relating. The exercises are consciously designed to equip you with more agency in your dances, and in your relationships–here, and in life. As we empower ourselves and each other in this way, we create a greater felt sense of safety and consequently—aliveness. Over the course of the workshop, we’ll follow the current of the present moment together into the mystical unknown. Along the way, we’ll uncover parts of us that normally get left behind or can’t wait to finally express themselves. In this tender, joyous and liberating process, we reclaim our wholeness, together.

*Limited to 36 participants. Tickets sold out last time so please make sure to get your tickets early!

MORE ON AR & CBC:

Authentic Relating is a practice of revealing and inviting our true experience, in a way that steers people toward a sense of wholeness. This is a space where all sensations, emotions, and thoughts are integrated into unified expression of consciousness.

Contact Beyond Contact is a dance and healing practice that integrates body, mind, heart, and spirit for personal and relationship growth. This practice helps you discover your true inner voice, to create honest and genuine connections with other people, and find a clear enlightened purpose in life.

ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS:

Violet Starkey is a transformational facilitator, passionate about creating somatically-empowered, soulful group fields where people feel deeply seen, felt and heard. Through intuitively, gently steering the ship towards the delicious experience of group coherence, she opens the doorway for the possibility of healing relational wounds and experiencing breakthroughs in belonging. Violet is trained in trauma-informed Field Facilitation with Rachel Rickards, Devorah Bry and David Cates, Living Essence Spiritual Psychology with Scott Hamilton and Rose Pearson, Hypnotherapy & NLP with Sunny Jackson, and Shake Rising spiritual movement practice with Sara Folsom. She also draws extensively from trainings in Authentic Relating and a decade of conscious world travel. She intuitively weaves her wisdom gained from all of these experiences to support beings to come home to a felt-sense of safety and true love.

Matthew Stackowicz is an embodiment alchemist weaving breath, visualization, movement, shamanic devotion, reiki, somatic awareness, and dance into all he does. He hosts regular men’s circles, dance practices, shamanic journeys, retreats, and community embodiment endeavors in Chicago, Indiana, and around the world. He gently and artfully guides others into connecting with themselves, others, and the divine in deeply held sacred containers where people can explore the intricacies of their heart, mind, body, and soul. His hope is to connect people to their fullest truth, authenticity, and expression to bring about the healing that this world desperately needs. He is a level 3 Contact Beyond Contact facilitator (teacher Van Legakis), Shamanic Reiki practitioner (teacher Angell Deer with The Healing Sanctuary), and breathwork facilitator in training (teacher Kaya Leigh of Sacred Breath Academy).

THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR YOU IF...

*You long to relate to others in a more present, authentic, embodied way

*You’d like to gain more resource & confidence in social settings

*You want to learn how to communicate in a more heartfelt, embodied & soulful way

*You are working on honoring or sharing your needs and desires with others

*You are tired of surface level conversation & want tools to invite depth into the everyday

*You crave to deepen with community and feel truly met

*You are curious and want to explore relating differently with others

*You’re open to exploring your edges and expanding your comfort zone

*You’re ready to grow your capacity to be vulnerable and more fully expressed

WHAT TO BRING:

Water bottle

Loose fitting clothing, athletic wear, or comfortable clothes to move in

Item for altar

Journal

*Doors to the practice space open at 12p

LOGISTICS:

*Please arrive 10 minutes beforehand so that we can begin in time.

*There is free parking around the corner from the studio on the side streets, about a 3 minute walk away. The studio is on the 3rd floor of the building--you can take the elevator or stairs.

*If you have any questions, feel free to reach out:

Violet | [email protected] | +1 530-557-9656

Matthew | [email protected] | 574.315.6689

Host or Publisher Matthew Stackowicz