Discovering how to connect to self and your partner through Tango and Ki Aikido

Would you like:

  • To discover a way to be more connected to yourself and your partner ?
  • To feel the joy of being and feeling in harmony in the dance as a couple ?
  • To reflect on your experience and learn from it ?
  • To have fun walking and dancing on the music ?

If yes, then, we have a workshop for you!

Program

The program of the workshop is the following:

  • Day one:
    • Learn briefly about the history of Tango (also called Argentine Tango or Rioplatense Tango)  and the principles of Ki Aikido
    • Discover how to be more centered in yourself and the power it brings for yourself in everyday life and in Tango
    • Learn about your space and how to create a connection
    • Discover about leading, following and listening with your body
    • Reflect upon the practice with your partner and/or with the group using a mindful body-mind meditative approach (Focusing)
  • Day two:
    • Discover Kenko Taiso (easy Japanese exercices for good health)
    • Learn how to be connected to your partner while staying in connection with yourself (the abrazo and the axis / eje)
    • Learn to have fun with more advanced steps while keeping the connection
    • Learn about the concept of milonga, dancing with your partner, the music, the space and the group
    • Reflect upon the practice with your partner and/or with the group using a mindful body-mind meditative approach (Focusing)
    • Discover tango as a meditative approach for self and the couple

Approach

This workshop blends the power of Ki Aikido principles for feeling more centered with the concepts of Argentine Tango for being in connection in an harmonious way. Ki Aikido and Tango lets our body experience new ways of being. Focusing, a mindful body-mind meditation approach, is going to be used to enable you to get new insights from the practice.

For who is this?

The workshop is for anybody who would like to discover Argentine Tango in a mindful way. This workshop is also for people who would like to discover how to connect better to self and others through Ki Aikido principles and Tango.

Trainers

Magdalena Marsiglia is a social worker specialised in working with communities, families and children in vulnerable situations. Magdalena has learned to dance Tango in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. She first practiced the classical Tango that was danced in her family and then she has been practicing Argentine Tango since for more than ten years.

Olivier Gourmet is a senior business executive, coach and trainer specialised in management consulting, collective intelligence and leadership development. Olivier is a Certified Focusing Trainer since 2002 and Certifying Focusing Coordinator for Belgium and Luxembourg since 2011. He has also been practising Aikido for more than fifteen years and Argentine Tango for more ten years. He blends those practices to develop innovative coaching services and trainings.

Schedule

  • Saturday, the 30th of March from 10h00 to 13h00 and 14h00 to 17h00
  • Sunday, the 31st of March from 10h00 to 13h00 and 14h00 to 16h00

Place

  CambiArte, Hoogstraat 54, 3360 Bierbeek

Language

The workshop is being taught in English. The trainer has a basic knowledge of Flemish/Dutch. Explanations in Flemish can be provided by our host at CambiArte. Explanations in French, Spanish and German can also be provided if needed. Exercises can always be done in the language of your choice.

Price

Preferred price for a subscription and payment before or on the 28th of February 2019:

  • Two days :
    • 145 euro per participant if you register with a partner (both partner gets this price)
    • 175 euro per participant if you register alone
  • Saturday only (new participant) :
    •  95 euro per participant if you register with a partner only for one day (Sat) (both partner gets this price)
  • Sunday only (participants who did the first day of workshop before and want to continue with the program):
    •  95 euro per participant if you register with a partner only for one day (Sun) (both partner gets this price)

Regular price after the 28th of February 2019:

  • Two days :
    • 165 euro per participant if you register with a partner (both partner gets this price)
    • 195 euro per participant if you register alone
  • Saturday only (new participant) :
    • 115 euro per participant if you register with a partner only for one day (Sat) (both partner gets this price)
  • Sunday only (participants who did the first day of the workshop before and want to continue with the program):
    •  115 euro per participant if you register with a partner only for one day (Sun) (both partner gets this price)

The price includes the workshop fee and coffee-tea pastries breaks. No lunch is included but you can bring your own lunch that you can eat on location.

Prerequisite

None. A Level 1 in Focusing is recommended but not needed.

Testimonials

“-Best way to learn tango
– Great way to feel the connection with yourself and your partner
– Lovely way to spend some quality time together”
(Eva)

“Teaches you everything you need to know to enjoy dancing which you won’t find in regular courses”
(man participant in Bierbeek on the 2nd of June)

“if you like dancing and would like to feel more connection with your partner, it is very nice to do together” (V. D.)

“That workshop gives a good understanding how to start and get connected (Of course, it’s all that what most workshops I know are not doing)” (L. B.)

“The right way to initiate Tango”
(man participant in Bierbeek on the 2nd of June)

More information

If you need more information about the content of the workshop in Flemish/Dutch, please email Gerd Paquin on gerd@cambiarte.be or call at 0497/30.97.85.

If you need more information about the content of the workshop in English, please e-mail us at

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Registration

! We limit the workshop to 16 people (or 8 couples), so please register fast if you are interested. It is better to come with a partner for this workshop but you can be paired up with another participant if you don’t have a partner.

By filling the online form on the web site of Aiki Focus Center asbl/vzw at

Registration Form (English)

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