Intensive
Contact Improvisation & Feldenkrais
Auroville
Experienced teacher
Simonetta Alessandri
Over 30 years of teaching experience
open to beginners
7,8,9 January
8:45 am to 11 / 1 pm to 4 pm
info & registration
aurovilleartworld@gmail.com
Discovering Inner Awareness through Contact Improvisation & Feldenkrais
Presented by Simonetta — A Dance Artist and Somatic Educator
In the heart of Auroville, we invite teachers, educators, bodyworkers, and those passionate about movement and self-discovery to a workshop that explores the synergy between Contact Improvisation and the Feldenkrais Method within the framework of Integral Yoga. This workshop, facilitated by Simonetta, a seasoned dance artist with over 30 years of experience, offers a journey into movement as a pathway to consciousness, self-awareness, and a more profound connection with others.
What You’ll Explore:
* Contact Improvisation: Through shared weight, balance, and spontaneous movement, participants will experience the art of “physical conversation” and explore relational dynamics. Exercises such as giving and receiving weight offer insights into how we “carry” others professionally and personally, mirroring the dynamics within teaching teams and student interactions.
* The Feldenkrais Method: This approach invites you to discover habitual movement patterns, gain freedom from unconscious tensions, and embrace a more fluid, adaptable body. Participants will be guided to identify and release patterns of tension, leading to a greater alignment of body and mind.
Why This Workshop?
This experience combines movement and observation to foster a holistic connection between mind, body, emotions, and spirit. Integral Yoga teaches that each aspect of our being plays a role in evolving our consciousness. By bringing these dimensions into harmony, we aim to align with our inner guidance, creating a space of authenticity and acceptance.
In this workshop, participants will explore awareness through movement, ATM Feldenkrais, and beginner exercises from Contact Improvisation. They will discover how movement can channel their inner landscape, unveil patterns, foster self-awareness, and re-pattern sequences of movements—liberating movements. This approach resonates with Integral Yoga, where every inner potential is nurtured, and our journey toward consciousness creates a harmonious environment that supports collective growth.
Connecting to Integral Yoga and Integral Education
This workshop encourages us to cultivate presence within ourselves and with our family, community, colleagues, and students. As we gain self-knowledge and bodily awareness, we contribute to a nurturing environment where we feel connected to our inner guidance. Integral Education fosters autonomy and authenticity. It emphasizes that as teachers become more conscious of their physical and emotional patterns, they can inspire trust and mutual respect in their students, creating a space of growth and unity in diversity. We encourage Teachers in Auroville to join us.
Simonetta is an Italian dance artist and a somatic educator based in London. She applies the Feldenkrais Method in dance and movement training and performance making. She teaches at Trinity Laban, Goldsmiths University, and London Contemporary Dance School.
Her work is based on more than 30 years of dancing, teaching, and choreography. Her choreography has been for dance companies, student pieces, large-scale opera, improvised performances, site-specific, and movement direction for theatre.
She taught for over 20 years in Italy and kept Contact Improvisation alive in Roma for 10 years with her classes and jams. She was one of the few dance practitioners in Italy who began working with Contact Improvisation in the 90’s. She has been a guest teacher in Germany, Colombia, the UK, Norway, Israel, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, and Taiwan.
She obtained her Post Graduate Diploma at London Contemporary Dance School;
she is a qualified teacher of the Feldenkrais Method and holds the Teacher Certificate from the Royal Academy of Dance. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is one of the founders of CI@Goldsmiths, an association of dance artists dedicated to promoting and disseminating Contact Improvisation in London and the UK.
