ACCESSING THE UNBOUND EMBRACE
Belfast, Ireland
A Weekend of Finding Presence through Mindful Partner Dance
LOCATION
ABHYASA YOGA
433 LISBURN ROAD
Belfast, Ireland
DATE & TIMES
Friday – Sunday
Oct. 10th-12th
(Scroll down for Schedule)
Friday Oct. 10th: 6:30 – 9:30pm
- Connecting to Rhythm
- The Magic of Structure
- Open Dance
- Arrive with Gentle Dance and Breath
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Embodied Consent: Deep Listening for Aligned Connection
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Practicing Good Physics for the Dancing Body
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Welcoming your Sacred Clown to Play
- Guided Dance
- FlowDance Meditation
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Jedi Musicality ((or)) Becoming Sound
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Spirals, Revolution and Backbody Awareness Development
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Kintimacy: Breathing into Wholeness through Community
- Closing Dance
My key take aways from Cocréa are the power of listening, invitation (consent tools), conversational dance, and EMBODIED dance.
My experience at Wren’s Dance Your Medicine retreat was a total initiation.
The energy that Cocrea brings is one of really landing in the intimacy of the dance.
What stands out as one of my biggest takeaways is being able to more deeply feel the awe and wonder of my dance partner.
You are a wizard! You make incredible magic happen between people (individuals and groups). You have x-ray vision right into the heart of what’s needed and then you offer the exact medicine for whatever that thing is and the medicine you share is playful, juicy and sweet, so it’s a joy to receive.
A continually evolving holistic, embodiment practice, Cocréa strives to seamlessly weave the following into coherence through the connected fluidity of Fusion partner dance as inspired by American vernacular Jazz and Urban dances:
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Skills and Practices for Navigating Empowered Interpersonal Relationships
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The importance of Consent and Communication
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The practice of coming into Right Relationship
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Mindfulness Practices
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The Organic Expression of Authentic Movement
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Concepts from Contact Improvisation
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Deconstructing Gendered Dance Rolls
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Exploration of the Resolution of Conflict through the lens of Theater as a Pathway of Transformation
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A Contemplative Approach to Life through the Wild Wisdom of the Gene Keys
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Deep Ecology and the Role of Humans and Dance in Earth Stewardship
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The Potency and Power of the Breath
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Power and Surrender
What is Being Offered
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Consent
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Emergence
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Polarity – the Mutable Energetics of Lead and Follow
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Change and Co-Creation
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Pause
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Patience
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Stretching into Discomfort and Uncertainty as an Opportunity for Growth
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Shaping intention and energy for Optimal Listening
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Core Stability & Balance
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Lead-Follow-Neutral Dynamics
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Variable Frames of Connection
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Accessing Intuitive Movement
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Expanding Connection Points
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Activating Your ‘Spinaesthesia’ (Jedi Musicality)
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Embodying the Freedom of the Sacred Clown
EXPERIENCE LEVEL

Wren LaFeet
Facilitator • Cocréa Director and Co-Founder
Wren is an embodiment guide committed to practices that encourage living in right-relationship. A trained dancer, theater worker, mindfulness facilitator and former recovery counselor, Wren shares body-based practices synthesized from social partner dance, mindfulness, Taoism, the Gene Keys, waterways and relating with other humans that support interpersonal connection and positive change.
In 2013, Wren founded Cocréa with co-founder Antje Schaefer, as a vehicle for transformation through exploring mindful, consent based partnered movement as a relational practice. Channeling what he has come to acknowledge as an intelligence that wants the highest possible outcome for humanity, he creates brave spaces for humans seeking a deeper sense of belonging to come home to themselves and the earth through the body.
Wren is a TEDx speaker, featured author in “ReInhabiting the Village”, certified Attunement Therapy practitioner and HeartMath certified trauma sensitive educator. He holds a BA in Drama and Dance and began dancing in 1998 at the height of the swing dance revival. He immediately began fusing dance styles, particularly swing, hip hop and contemporary movement. He began performing in front of audiences at the age of 6 and as a neurospicy human, thrives when channeling his boundless energy, curious mind and empathetic capacity into service to others.
A devotee of the Gene Keys since 2013, he is currently training to become a Gene Keys Guide.
Sliding Scale Pricing
£111 – £222
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Holding the intention of dancing the change we want to see in the world.
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