
Explore mindful partner dance to heal and support well-being and relationships through embodied practice, a somatic approach to relating, and compassionate communication that builds intimacy.
Practice a solo warmup inspired by Tadashi Suzuki's physical theatre method to center breathing and body awareness through slow, smooth weight transfer from foot to foot while walking across room.
Practice the car and driver exercise to cultivate trust and listening, surrender control, and practice guiding or following with presence, breath, and grounded embodiment for a fun, safe ride.
Explore how to experience intimacy with sovereignty and maintain sovereignty as you deepen intimacy with another. Take two minutes to reflect on what sustains sovereignty in intimate experiences.
Engage in the monkey and tree game to explore polarity, connection, and attunement. Practice holding frame, maintaining center, playful creativity, and respectful boundaries with your partner.
Shape the space with your body to invite your partner through pass-by turns in open and closed embraces. Build ease and connection by generous, clear invitations and tuned leads.
Master turns in social and mindful partner dance by focusing on terms and rotation, body-part positioning, posture, and footwork to create fluid, connected movement across the dance.
Master a playful cuddle move with an inside turn and side-by-side connection. Focus on invitation, keeping hand contact, and smooth exits to guide momentum and flirtation safely.
This course is designed for couples, friends and small groups alike, to explore connection through movement. We strongly believe in the power and efficacy of partner dance to heal, support overall well-being, and help relationships of all kinds maintain their integrity, coherence and vitality.
The foundational techniques and embodiment practices contained in this course are intended to guide you and your chosen dance partner(s) into an easy and playful process of becoming comfortable connecting with one another on the Fusion partner dance floor, where many of these techniques originated, or any other place you feel moved to dance, like the club or your kitchen!
Over the course of this program, we’ll be dropping tips and practices for cultivating greater intimacy and mindfulness into the mix of dance form and technique, so whether you are working with a romantic partner or friend, this course will give you powerful tools to explore a somatic approach to your relating.
Cocréa is a continually evolving holistic movement modality. It blends the connected, structural integrity of social partner dance, with the organic, blissful expression found in free dance.
Intended to bring individuals into strong, empowered, expressive relationships with their bodies and their communities, participants learn to listen and respond in every moment to co-create spontaneously and practice presence moving together as one.
Weaving the threads of collaboration, cross-pollination and consciousness, Cocréa focuses on how dance can enhance and expand relationships into a deeply connected, honest and powerful tool for personal, interpersonal and collective transformation.