Participants describe my facilitation style as… immersive, action-packed yet surprisingly spacious in feeling, oriented towards embodied practice and self-discovery, clear brief and inspiring in demonstrations, imaginative or inspired by metaphor and imagery, enlivened and grounded, high-permission and welcoming of being as we are now. If there's anything you'd like to share or ask, please contact me.

Facilitator Bio - Angela Heyun

Angela Heyun is curious about everything embodiment and improvisation - all the ways we inhabit ourselves, meet life, cultivate presence and imagination, and make choices as humans together. Her approach to Contact Improvisation focuses on the relational and collective, primarily influenced by Nita Little, as well as by Nancy Stark Smith, and Alicia Grayson. Her CI practice emphasizes presence and honesty, being where we are now, honoring a sustainable pace, and moving at the pace of moving together.

Angela is rooted in Contact Beyond Contact, a dance and healing practice which integrates modalities Authentic Movement, Contact Improvisation, Passing Through (Group), Qi Gong, Family Constellations, psychology, Taoist philosophy, and more. Contact Beyond Contact’s heart is energetic attunement, inviting and being invited, embodied leadership, boundaries, dance as a practice of life, and dancing to embody connection - with ourselves, in relationships, with nature, and as an interwoven community.

Angela has been teaching in embodiment for a decade. Beyond CBC and its integrated modalities, she is influenced by Tango, Fusion Dance, Yoga, Butoh, Contemporary Dance, Tai Chi, bodywork, grappling, movement research, and music improvisation. In her facilitation, Angela creates spaces for discovery, to be playful and reverent, to be with what is emerging, to go into the unknown together. She is committed to always being in the practice and learning of what she holds dear.