AC ⚡DC-Authentic Connecting through Dance and Cuddles L1

3095 21st Street,San Francisco CA 94110

14 February, 2023

Description

ACDC was created in regard to one's own well-being and happiness. It has been able to bring the community together, support friendship, and become acquainted with the community and creating a safe forum of expression, decreasing judgment, and welcoming acceptance. Many community members have been wanting a safe space to communicate and expand healthy relationships. This will be a plutonic space. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nsv58469oZc&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE Aadopted agreement of ACDC Consent, Respect, Clarity, Responsiveness, Autonomy, Non-entitlement, and Reset. Each participant accepts these values to create a safe container for the community. Authentic Connecting through Dance and Cuddles L1 is a group of games and exercises to allow you to play, communicate, witness, and be present to yourself and others by creating a safe container to experience and explore in a communal setting Students will participate in guided practice with a partner(s) and feel how they are reacting to the exercise, how the partner(s) are reacting to it, and how to work together as a team to build more presence at the moment. Students will be informed about consent culture building an environment around mutual consent. It respects a person's decisions and autonomy of their own body and acknowledges that they are the best judge of their wants and needs. Consent is ongoing, meaning it can be withdrawn at any stage and must be freely given. Students will practice the basics of Authentic Relating. Welcome everything, assume nothing, reveal your experience, own your experience, and honor yourself over anything. Tantra's aim is to teach true love and cultivate it within yourself and others around you within a science of energy. Tantra has the ability to transcend all superficialities and facades that cloak modern connection of the heart and assist individuals to reach divine love in the context of life. Chakras are the sophisticated energy centers of the human being serving as antennas that allow a human being to communicate, coordinate, resonate, and attenuate with the universe and a myriad of universal energies. Dance is a movement that combines harmony with the rhythm and the result is cooperation. It is a partnership. Here you will increase awareness of verbal and nonverbal communication. Massage can help relations which is enhanced from communication, which in turn builds rapport and trust. Cuddling is known to increase oxytocin, boost the immune system, decrease cortisol and increase connection. David " Maha Dave" Mahabali, MS has been involved in health and wellness for 34 year. Holding a Masters in Curriculum in Leadership, Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology, and many other certifications such as Reiki Master, Massage Therapist, Athletic Trainer, First Aid CPR Instructor , Somatic Experiencing. Currently he operates Catalyst Health and Performance as an intuitive somatic healer and coach. Herprovides spaces in emotional support, consent, and life work education. In his spare time he coaches youth sports and is DJ DRMZ for MC and djing events.