Conscious Flow: Contemporary Dance, Improvisation & Holistic Embodiment

Weekend Immersion Journey

Day 1: Friday Evening – Embodied Foundations: Awakening The Primal Body

This evening session focuses on tuning into the body’s subtle intelligence and imaginative pathways to perceive the body’s structure and innate movement, foundational to Mindful Movement Arts. It concludes with a collective grounding practice.

Day 2: Saturday – The Dynamic Body: Personal & Creative Expression

Building dynamic movement from embodied awareness, exploring personal improvisational flow, inner dialogue, and expanding movement vocabulary.

• Morning Sessions:
  • Session 1: Aligning Awakening: The Primal Body in Flow: A full-body introduction to contemporary flow technique.
  • Session 2: Applied Conscious Flow: Improvisation & Refinement: Focuses on cultivating precise and efficient movement through visualization, understanding energetic lines and flow.
• Afternoon & Evening Sessions:
  • Session 3: Spontaneous Alignment (Guest Alisya):
    This workshop uses Authentic Movement principles to explore one’s kinesthetic impulses and capacity for witnessing, making space for new movement vocabulary while experiencing interweaving states of playfulness, spontaneity and vulnerability.
  • Session 4: Movement Play Lab: Integrating & Exploring: A playful and in-depth exploration of the day’s learnings, focusing on integrating concepts through creative movement tasks and guided improvisational structures.
  • Optional Evening Open Jam, Self-Exploration & Reflections

Day 3: Sunday – Integrated Connection: Interconnected Movement & Embodied Wisdom

Deepen relational awareness and integrate weekend learning into a holistic Conscious Flow practice.

• Morning Sessions:
  • Session 1: Sensing Connections: Beyond Touch: Explore relationality beyond direct physical contact, focusing on authentic interactions with props, the environment, and sensing energetic connections with others in shared space without touch.
• Afternoon & Evening Sessions:
  • Session 2: Contact & Weight Sharing (Guest David): Embodied Dialogue & Lab: Led by David, this session explores fundamental Contact Improvisation principles, including sensing weight, giving/receiving, finding points of contact, navigating shared space responsively, and practice flowing in and out of contact, with a dedicated Movement Lab for deeper inquiry.
  • Session 3: Integration and Exploration: Open Jam.

* Please note that workshop timings and content are subject to minor adjustments. We’ll inform all participants of any changes as soon as possible.

Meet Your Facilitators

• Jennifer Lai: Founder of Soul Dance Space, Jennifer Lai is a dance and yoga teacher, dedicated to teaching dance through improvisation, mindful awareness and embodiment, conscious alignment and creative expression, which she now calls Conscious Flow Technique and mindful movement arts. Her unique approach is informed by her teacher Mew Chang Tsing and her personal practice in deep meditation and mindful yoga, guiding students to profound body-mind connection.

• Alisya Razman (Guest Instructor): Alisya Razman is a dancer/choreographer based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, newly returning from New York city. She graduated with a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and has performed with multiple dance companies and artists in her career. She was a teaching artist and choreographer at The Ailey School, Fordham University. Her work aims to uncover universally resonant movement to tell stories that reflect the nuances of our human nature.

• David Lim (Guest Instructor): A Kuala Lumpur-based Contact Improv Teacher and Jam/Event Organizer, David has practiced and taught contact improvisation since 2005. He has regularly organized the Contact Festival Kuala Lumpur since its inception in July 2011. His approach is deeply informed by various movement modalities including Alexander Technique and Body-Mind Centering. He is also known for his contributions to the local dance community through various channels.

About Soul Dance Space & Jennifer

Soul Dance Space, founded by Jennifer Lai in Petaling Jaya, is a hub for Mindful Movement Arts. Its aim is to develop highly skilled, creative performers rooted in improvisation and diverse aesthetics. Jennifer’s unique approach emphasizes body-mind-awareness, guiding you to connect with your inner wisdom, fostering not just physical mastery and effortless flow, but also authentic expression through insight and self mastery, leading towards personal transformations.

Photo by David Lim