November 4 - 13, 2023 • BALI, INDONESIA
Momentum
Contact improvisation facilitator training
certification by Aalia Hashem @facesofci
contactas a mirror for life.
Leading a dance revolution.
Do you feel that spark of aliveness when you dance Contact?
So do I.
Do you want to live your days on your own timeline, a fuller expressed version of yourself, in your body and feeling connected to those around you in your community?
Of being touched by the hearts of those around you as they open up into greater possibilities in body, mind, and soul, all through the art of Contact Improvisation?
Welcome
Momentum Contact Facilitator Training will change the way you see yourself, your body, and the world around you, as an initiation into leading the Contact Improvisation movement.
Held over 10 days in the south of Bali, we will deep dive into all things Contact, including leadership and facilitation tools, somatic supporting practices, and of course, our tried and true workshop method for sharing the practice with new dancers.
It will be a trajectory shifting decision, expanding from your center into a more whole version of you.
Sound exciting every cell in your body? Read on.
About momentum
Momentum Contact Improvisation Beginners Skills Workshop is the workshop we are training you to teach. As a two day workshop over 11 hours, we cover the primary pathways in Contact Improvisation for newcomers.
It has been shared 20 + times in Bali and Canada since 2020.
In Momentum Workshop students learn:
✔️ Contact Improvisation principles, such as falling, sharing weight, listening, and connecting our centres of gravity.
✔️ Beginners Foundational Skills, including low post, surfing and basic lifts.
✔️ Supporting practices - Authentic Movement, Contemporary Floorwork, Bartenieff Fundamentals and Qigong.
From our momentum Bali workshop
Feb 2023
THIS TRAINING IS FOR YOU IF!
You are in love with the dance and are ready to spread Contact Improvisation in your community, wherever you are, expanding your impact by bringing the roots of the practice worldwide.
You are a contact dancer, conscious leader, or movement practitioner looking to lead Contact jams, beginners classes and workshops from a solid place of embodied knowledge.
You want to teach from the balance of Yang masculine energy of skills and structure with Contact principles and Yin feminine component of energetics, flow, somatic listening, and inspiration.
You do not need to be a "great dancer" with high flexibility or be a dance teacher already to join.
You do not need to desire to quit your job and open a dance studio.
You need to be a seeker of the truth through the body and feel joy emanate from your being when you dance,
Our Momentum dancers have gone from being afraid of touch and partner dancing, lacking knowledge and structure to :
✔️ Breaking internal mental and physical blocks by challenging themselves to learn Contact skills.
✔️ Improvising in dance with creativity, playfulness, and flow.
✔️ Finding inner strength, embodying boundaries, and learning mechanics of lifts.
✔️ Softening into presence, and coming home to their bodies.
in this training
what’s included?
✔️ Momentum Workshop manual
✔️ Leadership, business & marketing sessions
✔️ How to facilitate Contact Jams Guide
✔️ Contact Body - online reference videos
✔️ Curated Spotify playlists
✔️ Fortune Score Deck Game
✔️ The Contact Resource Library
✔️ Professional dance photo portraits
✔️ FACILITATOR-led 1 day class exam
✔️ 2 follow up Zoom calls (group & 1:1)
This is a certified 50 hour training.
Classes are 8 days total with 2 days off.
teaching as a calling
You will be called into a deeper relationship with yourself and others, resourcing with an internal toolkit to navigate teaching challenges.
This training will change the way you see yourself, movement, the body, and the world around you, as an initiation.
Previous Momentum students are already facilitating Contact Improvisation classes and jams in the local and International dance communities.
Let us serve you with framework, and knowledge, to share the practice.
How you move is how you do life.
A sample of classes, modules, and topics we cover in the training :
✔️ Momentum Workshop - Teaching Beginners Contact Improvisation Skills to newcomers
✔️ Contact Improvisation history, networks and resources
✔️ Facilitation, leadership skills and trauma awareness
✔️ Art of Hosting Jams & Musicality
✔️ Marketing / Social Media / Business Management
Hi. I'm Aalia.
I'll be guiding our journey into CI.
Contact Improvisation became a driving force to knowing my body and other's, since it entered my life in 2018. It has shaped my identity because of it's fluidity and ever-changing form. Having danced many forms for over 20 years - from hip hop to swing dance, I fell in love with Contact from first touch / flight.
As part of the lineage of CI, a 3rd generation CI teacher, I stay connected to it's historical roots in North America. My training began in Vancouver & Pacific Canada, with some of the great CI originators of the practice, including Andrew Harwood, Martin Keough, Anne Cooper, Kirstie Simson & Peter Bingham.
This is the embodied wisdom from teaching the last 4 years, and my background continuing to study with over 40 International Contact teachers across Asia and Canada, forming the path of hosting retreats, classes, jams, and workshops in Bali, Thailand, and Canada.
to be a contact facilitator
This is the unconventional, inspired life that I have valued from its inception. It’s led from my obsession with finding parallels between the Contact Improvisation practice, relationships, the body and how we show up and do life.
It’s grown my sensitivity and energetic capacity, as my relationships and network, fostering beautiful connections with Contact communities and friendships around the world.
Since stepping into a role of sharing the practice 3 years ago, that choice has catapulted me into taking ownership of what it means to be a facilitator that "holds space responsibly", as well as "humanly", not just "let's learn the dance."
What I've actually learned in Contact Improvisation -
The secret sauce of being a leader is in this : kindness to self = kindness to others.
It's not how you do it.
It's how well you listen to self, to other, to the group, to what's alive and holy.
To put your "self" aside and just play and be present with what's in front of you.
To let go of your motives for the dance of life.
Where we dance
Uluwatu, Bali
We dance in a newly built intimate shala in a boutique resort in Uluwatu, South Bali.
This space is a dream.
We have a swimming pool, sauna, and cold plunge for breaks and after care.
The restaurant (meals not included) has an incredible menu catering to vegetarians and omnivores. I eat here locally even when I'm not teaching.
Modern joglo rooms are available if you wish to stay on site.
testimonials
Investment
Early Bird by October 4th
Late Bird by November 1st
1200 usd
1400 usd
Limited spaces - 10 spots available.
Financially, it’s a no brainer as a side or even full time career. In Yoga Teacher Trainings, you potentially study for a month to make $40 - $80 a class to start. (I’m told by my yoga teaching friends who have hustled for years).
With this training you can make back your investment within teaching approximately 1 - 4 Momentum workshops. That’s a big ROI for the time you are putting in. You have control to book in workshops or classes wherever you land in the world.
Join us now
Are you ready to feel pride and accomplishment as you watch others flourish under your guidance, knowing you played a part in their transformative journey?
Want more info?
Zoom zoom! Let's chat.
In this 45 min session we will see if it's in alignment for you in the next step of your dance career (and for us to be your guide), and answer any of your possible queries.
We will be prioritizing students who have attended Momentum Beginners Skills Contact Improvisation Workshop before. If you have not yet attended, it will be a requirement to take this training. Alternatively you can take Contact Body, the online version, in advance.
Just know, I am here to lead you with ease, expertise and humour into the dance realm.
Sound good?
PROJECTS
Contact body
Learn Contact Online Course
Faces of ci podcast
Interviews with CI Facilitators Worldwide
