The Instinctual Body and Contact Dance with Jamus Woods

The Instinctual Body and Contact Dance with Jamus Woods.
 2 - 4 week mini courses. Every Monday evening 7.30pm to 9.30pm. 01179429774. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . www.movementmeditation.co.uk . Open  to all : Cost £28 full / £24 conc per 4 week block

Course 1: Fundamental Movement
Course 2: Core Partnering Skills`& CI Basics

Course 1: Fundamental Movement
This course focuses on relearning many of the movement skills we had when we were crawling and first exploring the world. It reintroduces us to movement resources we may have forgotton or lost such as support of the breath, the rebounding force of gravity through our bones, a clear sense of our instinctual body (the animal body) and awakening a whole body awareness.

These first four weeks will be focused on resourcing ourselves and learning new movement skills and maps.

Course 2: Core Partnering Skills and CI Basics
The focus is on relating through movement, meeting the other, through space, through skin, muscle and bone, making friends with the floor and playing with our weight and gravity. Working with simple movement maps and principles to find more aliveness, more of a sense of being in the body and more physical capability.

For the last 10 years Jamus has drawn creativity, expression and clarity into his life through the practice of contact improvisation and somatic practices.  Jamus, has been both inspired  and studied with many teachers, such as Nancy Stark Smith, David Zambrano, Malcolm Manning, Ray Chung, Lisa Nelson, Angela Dona, Kirsty Simson, K J Holmes, Simon Whitehead, Su Prapto, Helen Poyner, Janis Claxton and many more. All are teaching evolutionary work and Jamus has integrated these teaching and created a down to earth understanding of movement and the workings of our awareness. ‘Wholeness’ and the ‘Instinctual Body’ are the under lining principle of his work.

In 2008 Jamus joined Touchdown Dance. Since then he has researched and performed with Touchdown most recently ‘Closer’ in 2010. In addition to performing with Touch Down in 2003/5 he worked on Alex Howard’s Botanic Dances on 2 separate productions both set in historic gardens.

Jamus teaches regular classes in contact improvisation, nonstylised movement and somatic yoga in Bristol with additional classes and worshops around the country.

Jamus is making a return to sight, after a long period of visual impairment. Jamus has had both cornea’s replaced and is in ongoing surgery at Morfields