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Rolling Point of Contact: Intro to Assisted Thai Yoga
with
Nicole Touzien
March 14 2016, 6:30-8:30pm
SUGGESTED DONATION $8 OR PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Brooklyn Arts Exchange

Class Description
In this class, we will explore basic Assisted Thai Yoga (also called Thai Massage) principles through practice. Working with a partner, we will give and receive energetic bodywork by using acupressure and passive stretch. We will use our bodyweight as related to gravity as well as safe alignment of our bodies to support our practice. 
 
Assisted Thai Yoga is done on a mat, fully clothed. It has been referred to as the dance of metta (healing touch). It is not only relevant to, but also beneficial for many dance and physical practices. Benefits of Thai Yoga include increased range of motion, stress reduction, improved circulation, deep relaxation, and injury and illness prevention.

No bodywork experience and no partner necessary.

About Nicole
Nicole Touzien, a dance artist, educator, advocate, and administrator, came to practice Assisted Thai Yoga through her work with Contact Improvisation and interest in sustainable bodywork practices. She has taught a Thai Massage for Dancers workshop for the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival and NYC Dance Week, and is currently developing The Healing Lab, an improvisation-based healing group practice. She trained under the direction of Al Turner, II, completing Levels I and II Nuad Boran Basic Certification and Advanced Sen Sumana Therapy. Nicole currently serves Dancewave as Director of Education and is on the Board of Directors for NYC Dance Week. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from Texas Woman’s University in 2009, and has served as Adjunct Dance Faculty at Glendale Community College in Arizona and has been a Guest Teaching Artist in Queens, New York, and Seoul, South Korea. She has performed across the US, in Mexico, and in Ireland. https://assistedthaiyoganyc.wordpress.com/

about this series
This series is geared towards the professional development of dance teachers, and as a mean to offer affordable training for the dance community.

​This series is a part of the CREATING SPACE Program. Funded in large part by the Lambert Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, the CREATING SPACE Program provides opportunities to support and develop artists of all races, backgrounds, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and aesthetic traditions.