Saturday, November 16, 2019 at 10 AM – 5 PM
Flowspace
6315 Doyle St,
Emeryville, California
Guess What?
Underbelly and Being Danced are getting married!!!!
(EEEE)
....ok ok, we're committing to each other for a day!
Join our wedding on November 16th at Flowspace where we
will combine our facilitation fantasies and take you out of analytical habits
and into real time impulse and creativity.
Better said: We will take you out of your head and stick
you in your body, where your brain will literally be in your butt, and that
will be completely acceptable. Don't you want that!? Feel that?! Are we crazy!?
Anyway....sign up!
Here is the deal:
Underbelly in the morning, picnic lunch, and Being Danced
in the afternoon. How can it get better than that!?
Underbelly is a conscious dance experience, meditation in
motion, emotional processing space and embodied movement inquiry. Explore The
Art of Slowing Down in this “subtle energy open jam” with music, movement,
presence, and human contact to reveal unique states of connection and
authenticity. Invite movement from feeling the intimate spaces of your body,
breath and being while in an immersive aesthetic of light and sound. Cultivate
deeper awareness, listening, and attunement as you relate to self, other and
the environment. Voyage beneath the surface of our fast culture and dive into a
slow sanctuary for unearthing what is alive, tender, honest and real for you in
every moment.
This experience is not a solution, method or teaching of
tools. It is an intentional/invitational container for self-discovery,
facilitated deep diving, awareness cultivation and spacious inquiry.
Music: Pre-curated playlists/soundscapes ranging from
beautiful, sensual, live and emotionally evoking to ambient, silent, soulful,
and downtempo.
Amy Rogg is an emotional alchemist, activating and
nurturing the human spirit. She is also the creator and facilitator of
Underbelly: Discover Your Slow Dance.
Amy permissions people out of limitation and into greater
vulnerability and authenticity by awakening pathways of intimate awareness,
attunement, and subtle energy. She anchors people into their emotional inner
world and intuitive body wisdom by slowing down, making space and embodying
what's truly real in every moment.
Amy has a B.A. in television/film production and is a Los
Angeles trained actor. She has also taught yoga (E-RYT 500) and somatic
movement for the past decade. She weaves these modalities together creating
portals for alchemical-emotional processes and cultural/relational evolution.
Her greatest movement practices/inspirations: GAGA,
Contact Improvisation, Anna Halprin, Stefana Serefina, Qi Gong, Yoga, Open
Floor, Ecstatic Dance, Dancing Freedom, 5 Rhythms, Soul Motion, Micro Fusion,
all things Somatic, and romantic relationships.
****About Being Danced****
Being Danced is a vehicle for embodying presence and
playfulness. An improvisational, play-based somatic movement class geared
towards igniting the creative spark in people.
We work as an ensemble in silly and theatrical ways to
co-create an alive response to our togetherness.
Participants will be guided through simple scores, and
games that create connection, promote positivity and develop awareness
training.
Gifts you will receive from this class:
- To participate with life in a more authentic way.
- To trust your instincts and intuition.
- To find intelligence in improvisation.
- Laughter and Full Permission to be yourSelf.
"True play is revolutionary. While tradition
conserves and preserves, play turns over a new leaf, turns things upside down,
stands things on their heads. We’re urged to play around and not follow the
rules, to take risks, to be spontaneous (child’s play), open-ended (free play),
experimental (play by ear), inventive. Play is accessible to everyone."
~from James Carse's :'Finite and Infinite Games'
Shannon Sahaja is a dedicated yogini, dancer, artist, and
lover of the earth. With nearly two decades of experience as a movement
facilitator, Shannon is devoted to inspiring students to live an embodied life
full of play and spontaneity. Her soul-nourishing approach to yoga breathes a
fresh perspective on what yoga can be.
As the Creative Director of Ecstatic Dance, Shannon is
responsible for booking and guiding the DJs and Sound Healers.
Shannon is the founder of Being Danced, an improvisation
group that is devoted to creating movement art, and rekindling the wild one
within.
Shannon received her BFA in Dance from State University
of New York. She has a 500-hour massage certification from SF school of Massage
and a 200 hour Yoga Alliance Certification, among others.
She is deeply influenced by the teachings of Angela
Farmer (yoga), Nancy Stark Smith (contact improvisation), and Cass Phelps
(continuum).
Cost: $85 - $95
