Dance with Flying Fox is a mindful dance journey with live music tailored to dancers’ moment-to-moment vibration, coming home to our bodies and exploring our authentic movement, emotion, social connections, and spirituality.

The framework of Dance with Flying Fox is rooted in Taoism and dance culture from southwest China, where dance is part of our daily life. In this dance culture, we dance to imitate, exaggerate, elaborate, communicate, and transform our experience of life; men working in the field, women doing laundry by the river, children playing, fox preying… It is a way of keeping in touch with our experience and embodied process through moving perspectives. I also blend in various movement traditions and psychotherapy, e.g., sufi-dance, movement meditation, contact improvisation, existential psychotherapy, and expressive art therapy.

Key elements of my dance journey include:

• Finding freedom of motion in our emotional, social, physical, and spiritual being. Letting go of judgments.

• Widening our dance repertoire by increasing awareness and breaking away from habits

• (Re)establishing connections to ourselves and others with loving intention

In this session (27th Oct 2024), as part of the "Authentic self in movement series", we will dance connected to our authentic emotional experience, activities include:
• Deepen connections to our bodily sensations through somatic dance meditation
• Explore emotions with curiosity and compassion using a range of playful improvisation and dance therapy techniques
• Reflective paired/ group work for further integration
• Dance journey to move in authentic self

Some notes about connecting to our emotion in our personal growth:

• "The more we accept our emotions, the more we can understand ourselves and grow as individuals."
• "In facing our authentic emotions, we find the courage to confront the complexities of life and deepen our existence."

- Emmy Van Deurzen

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