CI Lab - Tues March 24th 6-8pm Gretchen's House @ Oak Valley Dr

[Jonathan Leake]

Hello everyone! Looking for an opportunity to practice CI skills outside of a jam context? We will be hosting our 2nd "Contact Lab" on Tuesday March 24th from 6-8pm. 

The Lab is a place for peer-to-peer instruction and skill sharing to take place. If you are completely new to CI it would be a good idea to go to a few classes before coming to the lab so that you can get more out of it. 

The cost will just be the rental cost of $70 split between the attendees. The more that come, the more affordable it is :D 

The agenda for the first lab was created by Moss and I, but we welcome anyone else interested in facilitating or creating exploration topics to take on that responsibility in the future. We have a WhatsApp group that you can join where we talk more about this stuff beforehand: join with this link. 

Agenda:

**Warmup section ~30mins**
solo stretching/warmup
opening circle

Exploring Energetic Differences

- We will be getting in touch with our energy bodies, and noting the similarities and differences of how our energy interacts with the others in the class. Partnering up, closing our eyes and hovering our hands palm to palm an inch or two apart and just feeling into it, switching off until most people have experienced each other/timing allocation is up. This is at its base an energetic info gathering, our energy body is constantly sending out information and in contact (and in life) it is this information that is subtly picked up on before physical touch is involved. 

**Exploration Topic 1 ~30-45mins**
Pouring Weight into Different Parts of Standing Body
- The purpose of this exploration is 1) to learn which parts of the body can support (or resist) a lot of weight, and which parts of the body cannot support/resist a lot of weight and 2) to explore how our bodies can move with and accept weight pouring .This will be a sort of "game" format with partner switching and then a group exploration.
Come back as group and share what we learned.
**Exploration Topic 2 ~15-30mins**
Lifts - have a lift you want to work on or teach someone else? Would be a good extension for anyone who goes to Cara's lift class on Sunday. Will let naturally transition into a free form jam
Come back as group and share what we learned
**Jam and then Closing circle and discuss topics for next lab**