BraveSpace New Year's Ecstatic Contact Improvisation Immersion

 

December 30 · 10am - January 1, 2025 · 6:30pm PST

 

 

IOOF

520 Dana Street

San Luis Obispo, CA 93401

 


Facilitated by Matthew Nelson

Celebrate New Year's with Intention and Community:
Join BraveSpace®, where we co-create a circle of belonging safe enough to explore embodied authenticity and vulnerability. In BraveSpace we consciously cultivate and de-shame our sensual intelligence as a community through the relational practices of contact improvisation. We’ll uplevel our physical and metaphysical attunement skills to tap into the joyful healing power of communal inter-being. Beginners will be offered the tools they need to suceed, and more advanced dancers will be met in their expertise.

For New Year’s, we invite you to tune in deeply, not tune out. It’s a time to embrace transformation, release old patterns that no longer serve you, and intentionally welcome the new. Through movement, touch, connection, and sacred medicine, we will elevate ourselves and each other—entering the New Year with clarity, purpose, openness, and play.

 

There are ten fundamental principles of BraveSpace® which derive from the art of contact improvisation, multiple somatic lineages, and a few mysticism traditions. These principles will serve as the essential framework for our experience together:

1) Somatic Research: Notice the sensations, emotions, images, and movements that arise in your body. The truth of your body cannot be manipulated away by your mind.

2) De-shaming: You are nature, both wild and civilized. Bear witness to the divine light and darkness that comes through yourself and others by holding your stories and judgements lightly.

3) Trans-formation: You are comprised of patterns. Be willing to change your form, face your trauma, and invite discomfort so you can grow in alignment with your joy, purpose, and truth in community.

4) Improvisation: True power is the ability to stay present with what is. Invite awe and wonder as you inhabit the mysterious gap between the little bit that you know and the infinite unknown.

5) Response-ability: Reposition yourself in relation to others and the world to find where you belong in each moment. Communicate your truth, yet do not attempt to control others’ actions in order to avoid your own shifts.

6) Heart-Centeredness: Approach your heart as a gateway to spirit and communal consciousness so that you may function and serve beyond the limitations of your mind and individual identity.

7) Tensegrity: Tensional integrity is fundamental to the wholeness of living systems. Practice holding the tension of opposites physically and metaphysically to build greater range and capacity in your being.

8) Risk: You are going to die: Everything has a beginning, middle, and end. Embrace fear without being led by it.

9) Eros: Follow your joy, pleasure, vitality, and longing to develop loving fullness within yourself. Connect your sexual essence first to spirit within so that you have capacity to love and attune with others generously.

10) Interbeing: You are simultaneously an individual and a part of this collectively animate world. Speak, listen, move, feel, and be willing to change your mind.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bravespace-new-years-ecstatic-contact-improvisation-immersion-tickets-1042159265417

(FREE) Mosaic Festival Silicon Valley 2024

 

Sunday, October 6 · 10am - 6pm PDT

 

History Park

635 Phelan Avenue

San Jose, CA 95112

 

Experience a multitude of cultures from your very own neighborhood!

 

Celebrate the American mosaic of cultures at the fourth annual Mosaic Festival in Silicon Valley at San José's very own History Park through multicultural music, dance, vendors, and activities. This destination event is a journey that welcomes each of us to honor our unique history while also co-creating a vision of our shared future of belonging, healing, and harmony. Presented by Mosaic America.

 

Visit The Healing Garden – the sacred space to release from everyday stresses through accessible and welcoming classes. Meditate, go on a sound journey, paint, journal, converse, in a safe & peaceful environment. You can even get a massage, your palm read or henna’d on!

 

Interactive and fund activities for entire family.

 

https://mosaicfestival.org/

Mt. Shasta 2024 Sound Healing Retreat

 

Saturday October 12th 10-1, 2-5 & 6:30-8:30

Sunday October 13th 10-1 - Up on the Mountain

 

Crystal Tones Event Center

201 N. Mt Shasta Blvd.

Mount Shasta, CA


 

How sound affects us physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually with many heart opening meditations.

 

You will learn advanced techniques for using the voice and playing crystal bowls (Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls® by Crystal Tones®). We will also practice doing treatments on yourself and each other.

You will learn basic concepts of healing based on Sound, Music and Vibration. This includes releasing stuck emotions, and doing brainwave entrainment with rhythms.

 

You will also learn how to access higher consciousness with sound. We will do exercises to access Universal Love and Oneness with sound.

 

But most importantly, we will do many heart opening sound meditations using crystal bowls and the voice.

 

Schedule

Saturday Morning
Making Sound with the Voice
Higher Consciousness Physically, Mentally, Emotionally and Spiritually
Hierarchy of Vibration
Break
Resonant Chambers in the Body: Finding Resonant Frequencies of Health in the Body
Releasing Stuck Emotions
Oneness Meditation

Saturday Afternoon
How to play Alchemy Crystal Bowls
Treatments on each other
Break
Sound of Love:
Frequency of Love, Timbres and Syllables of Love, Music of Love
Universal Love
Oneness
All Hearts Connected Meditation

Sunday  Morning - Up on the Mountain (weather permitting)
Sound of Nature
Student Offerings

 

https://soundhealingcenter.com/store/mt-shasta-retreat/

Monterey Jazz Festival 2024

 

September 27-29, 2024

 

Monterey County Fairgrounds

140 W Franklin St,

Monterey, CA 93940

 


Home to an area holding some of the biggest names in festival history, Monterey Jazz Festival was founded in 1958 by jazz DJ icon, Jimmy Lyons. The festival features dozens of acclaimed acts, well known jazz musicians and other rising stars in the industry to the Monterey County Fairgrounds. With over 60 years of bringing some of the best jazz to Monterey every year, festival attendees are sure to hear some of the best in classic jazz and witness the evolution of jazz music in today’s modern music culture scene.

 

The festival theme “Crescendo in Blue” will give you a sense of the tremendous scope of jazz—past, present and future—as it exists in the world with its remarkable diversity of voices and nationalities. It will make you want to dance, laugh, sing, perhaps cry as we revel in the joy of this boundless art form we gather to explore, affirm and celebrate each September. It’s my hope that when you leave our Monterey Jazz Festival, you’ll have another perspective about the possibilities of greatness in your own life.

 

https://montereyjazzfestival.org/

11/11 Awakening of Humanity: Activate your Divine Spark

Dates: November 7 - 12, 2024 (5 Nights/4 Days stay)

Check In 4PM+ on the 7th.

Checkout: 10AM on the 12th


Location: Wisdom Spirit Ranch, Sedona, Verde Valley, Arizona



An immersive 4-day/5-Night experience at the breathtaking Wisdom Spirit Ranch in Sedona, Verde Valley, Arizona. This transformative experience is designed for spiritual seekers ready to take responsibility for their lives, break free from limiting patterns, and awaken their highest potential through powerful spiritual practices.

The Power of the 11/11 Gateway

This year’s 11/11 gateway presents a profound opportunity to transcend internal fears and limiting beliefs, connecting you with your cosmic soul essence.


The enhanced Divinity codes of this gateway facilitate a smooth transition between realities, guiding you toward infinite possibilities and deeper alignment with your true self.


This alignment promises lasting and transformational changes in your life, opening doors to a future filled with clarity, purpose, and spiritual awakening.


The Magic Formula for this Immersion includes:

Star Magic Meditations: Dive into the Quantum field to harness cosmic energies for profound spiritual growth and connect to your true cosmic self.


Ancient Alchemy Wisdom: Apply practical, time-tested alchemical principles in the Quantum field for accelerated transformation.


Identify and Release: Busting through outdated belief structures. This method transcends linear thinking, allowing individuals to access multidimensional awareness and reprogram their subconscious mind


Emerald Emergence Activations at Wisdom Spirit Ranch: Exclusive to Wisdom Spirit Ranch, receive original source code activations from alchemist Julie Valentin.


https://quantumalchemyfusion.com/1111


Baychata Festival 2024

 July 12 -15, 2024

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel San Jose

2050 Gateway Place San Jose, CA 95110


Baychata Festival will feature top international bachata artists from around the globe.

Our mission is to provide top quality training workshops to supplement the needs of dancers from all levels. Whether you're a novice just starting to dance or a seasoned professional, this festival is for you!

Baychata Festival will feature workshops on different topics, masterclasses, pool parties every day, late-night socials, shows, bachata competition with prizes, bootcamp with Noelia Otero with final performance, and so much more.


https://baychatafestival.com/


Radiant Equinox Women's Festival

 Sunday, September 22 · 10am - 5pm PDT

La Selva Beach

La Selva Beach La Selva Beach, CA 95076



Join the Radiant Autumn Equinox Women's Festival team, where it will be celebrated the power, beauty, and love of being a woman. This is your invitation to immerse yourself in a day filled with yoga, meditation, ecstatic dance, and engaging workshops.

Enjoy delicious food and elixirs, freshly prepared by our local chef, featuring sustainable festival food. Connect with like-minded women, explore unique vendors, and nourish your soul in a supportive community, all set in a magical and enchanted location.

There will be a few main events, but this is a day for you to "do you," you have full permission to wander and follow what your heart desires. Take all the classes, or just a few. Attend half the class and then go for a mini massage, shop, dance, or sit and enjoy the views.

Don’t miss this chance to rejuvenate, grow, and embrace the love we hold for ourselves and each other!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/radiant-equinox-womens-festival-tickets-918179819557


Locomotion Festival in Roaring Camp

 

August 2-4, 2024

Roaring Camp,

Felton, CA


 

Sol Bros debuts a new three day festival this summer with the Locomotion Fest at Roaring Camp, August 2nd, 3rd and 4th! Longtime Santa Cruz favorites String Cheese Incident play all three days, with special guests Railroad Earth, ALO, Dirtwire, Brokedown In Bakersfield, Midnight North, Hot Buttered Rum, Achilles Wheel, Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters and more rocking the meadow in the afternoon sun!

It offers a family-friendly environment with activities and entertainment for all ages.

 

https://locomotionfest.com/