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)

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
 

Friday Oct. 10th: 6:30 – 9:30pm

  • Connecting to Rhythm
  • The Magic of Structure
  • Open Dance
Saturday Oct. 11th: 12:30-5:30pm
  • Arrive with Gentle Dance and Breath
  • Embodied Consent: Deep Listening for Aligned Connection
  • Practicing Good Physics for the Dancing Body
  • Welcoming your Sacred Clown to Play
  • Guided Dance
Sunday Oct. 12th: 11am-4pm
  • FlowDance Meditation
  • Jedi Musicality ((or)) Becoming Sound
  • Spirals, Revolution and Backbody Awareness Development
  • 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.

Ashé Jordan

Pro Zouk Dancer and workshop participant

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.

Harry Bo

Ecstatic Dance Philidelphia

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.

Linsday Bee

Lead Songstress at Brightside Blue

Exploring the Essence of Deep Connection that Underlies All Partner Dance
 

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:

 

  • Skills and Practices for Navigating Empowered Interpersonal Relationships
  • The importance of Consent and Communication
  • The practice of coming into Right Relationship
  • Mindfulness Practices
  • The Organic Expression of Authentic Movement 
  • Concepts from Contact Improvisation
  • Deconstructing Gendered Dance Rolls 
  • Exploration of the Resolution of Conflict through the lens of Theater as a Pathway of Transformation
  • A Contemplative Approach to Life through the Wild Wisdom of the Gene Keys
  • Deep Ecology and the Role of Humans and Dance in Earth Stewardship
  • The Potency and Power of the Breath
  • Power and Surrender
 
Whether you’re completely new to partner dance, have been dancing in other spaces for awhile, or have a completely different embodiment practice, this workshop is an opportunity to support you in taking your embodied movement with others to a new level! 
 
Cocréa = Collaborative, Organic Connection, Revolutionizing Embodied Awareness.

What is Being Offered
Cocréa is as much a path of personal development as it is a training ground to become a better dancer. This two day workshop will be an exploration of embodiment and refinement in listening – both with the self and others. We will embrace form and structure, and deepen into a practice of presence with one another.
 
Playing within the structures common to many of the world’s social partner dances, participants will learn tools to invite and allow an easeful flow to emerge through deep listening and responding in presence with the moment. Through meeting and joining energy, we emphasize connection, communication and creative expression between two humans within a community of others.
 
Themes we’ll play through:
  • Consent
  • Emergence
  • Polarity – the Mutable Energetics of Lead and Follow
  • Change and Co-Creation
  • Pause
  • Patience
  • Stretching into Discomfort and Uncertainty as an Opportunity for Growth
  • Shaping intention and energy for Optimal Listening
What the attendee could learn/intention of the workshop: 
  • Core Stability & Balance
  • Lead-Follow-Neutral Dynamics
  • Variable Frames of Connection
  • Accessing Intuitive Movement
  • Expanding Connection Points
  • Activating Your ‘Spinaesthesia’ (Jedi Musicality)
  • Embodying the Freedom of the Sacred Clown
 
Building on the foundational elements of social partner dance technique as our common language, Wren LaFeet’s playful and sincere guidance teaches how to wield creative expression with consideration to another body and practice nuanced responsiveness to one another in improvisational, co-created dance. Cocréa is a gateway to accessing the body’s wisdom to deepening Self and relational attunement. Our intention is to explore form and play creatively from our heart, body and spirit, in full support and appreciation of ourselves and one another.
 

EXPERIENCE LEVEL
This workshop is accessible to movers of all experience levels.
 
ACCESS
Cocréa believes in providing low income access to those in need. Please only choose one the lower priced or free options if paying the full price would constitute a financial burden. Thank you!
 
On another level of access, this is admittedly not accessible for all bodies at this location due to stairs. Our apologies if this impacts you negatively and we will have other opportunities. 
 
If you’re not feeling well, even a little, please don’t come! Please be in the mindset of care and do your best to be mindful of how you interact leading up to this event.
 
WHAT TO BRING
Comfortable clothes to move in
Two pairs of socks
A water bottle
An extra layer for warmth
Natural deodorant if needed (please no perfumes or chemy scented stuff as facilitator is and others may be allergic)
A snack/lunch to stay nourished
 
Wren LaFeet

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.

Accessing the Unbound Embrace - Belfast

Registration for Full Weekend Cocréa Workshop with Wren LaFeet in Belfast. Friday evening - Sunday afternoon. No Accommodations Provided!

£

Sliding Scale Pricing

£111 – £222

We’re doing our best to strut the middle path as a service based business within a financial system that needs radical shifting.

In our mission to host creative, community spaces for transformation through joy and connection, we want to meet you where you’re at by letting you choose an exchange rate that feels right for you within a range of options.

Pay what you can afford – what you think is honoring of the value on offer, and take a look at our NOTAFLOF option if you have greater need.

Holding the intention of dancing the change we want to see in the world.

 

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