Interfusion Festival X (IFX)

Drawing from her own background as a burlesque/vaudeville and butoh dancer, Vangeline teaches a workshop that explores the link between sensuality and Butoh, as well as receptivity and its impact on the nervous system. This workshop will also draw from the techniques of Noguchi Taiso. No dance experience is necessary, this is an all-level class and beginners are welcome. Some experience with mindfulness or somatic practice can be helpful. This workshop is trauma-informed.
*Participants will have free access to Vangeline’s online lecture on the topic as a companion to the workshop

🌶 Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.

This is a ritual that was downloaded to Peter from the universe, where he will take you on an adventure through music, movement and connection, both inward and outward.  We will all first set an intention and then Peter will take you on a journey that has you move through the 5 elements.  Earth, Water, Fire, Air, an Ether. Music is selected to take you through each of the five elements to help you bring forth your dream, goal, or desire into manifestation. If you love to move your body to passionate music, you will adore this ritual.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.

Have you ever wanted to have deeper and more intimate conversations with others, or found that your conversations and connections aren’t quite having the impact or the depth you desire? Do you want to connect with others in profoundly intimate, trustable, soulful ways, and build relationships with people that are built on transparency, integrity, and responsibility?

Led by ART International Co-Founder and Senior Course Leader Ryel Kestano, this session brings together the most powerful and immediately applicable tools, skills, and exercises within the practice of authentic relating to produce a profoundly transformational immersive experience specifically tailored for people who identify as men.

This session is designed for all men interested in more consciously defining and navigating the notion of “masculinity” in today’s world--no matter where you are along your journey. The tools and skills you will learn in this course have a long and proven lineage of great potency in navigating all kinds of social contexts, dynamics, and relationships that men navigate in their lives. 

🌶️  Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.

Did you know that according to the renowned family therapist Virginia Satir we need 4 hugs a day for survival, 8 hugs for maintenance, and 12 hugs to thrive? We are born wired for touch and many of us are actually starved of deep nourishing connection. Join us for a delicious hugging meditation practice and an exquisite assortment of platonic touch activities to nourish and soothe your body, mind, heart and spirit.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.