Faces Of CI

🎙️ New Solo Episode ~ Aalia here. In this personal solo episode, I share about the complexities of community, healing, belonging, and navigating conflict within Contact Improvisation spaces.

✨ Community conflict & gatekeeping
✨ Belonging, and being "cancelled"
✨ “Healing spaces” vs real human behaviour
✨ Returning to self-trust & humanness

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Our guest today is Caiomhe Day Rush, a graduate of our Momentum Contact Facilitator Training, recorded December 2025.

Caiomhe reflects on their experience moving from practice into facilitation — sharing what felt supportive, what felt challenging, and how the training helped build confidence to hold space for others in Contact Improvisation.

This episode offers a grounded glimpse into the facilitator pathway — beyond technique — and into what it means to step into leadership through embodied practice.

🎓 Join our next Momentum Contact Facilitator Training!

Level 1 is available online. Group Starts March 2026, self-paced available.

Level 2 Certification in person. April in Koh Phangan, Thailand & June in Ubud, Bali.

👉 Apply & more info:
https://momentum-contact.com/2026

📍 Find Caiomhe teaching in Dublin, Ireland:
Instagram: @kumoyuki_yoga

🎙️ New Episode ~ Faces of CI: Conversations on Contact Improvisation

In this episode, I’m joined by my longtime friend and fellow Gemini, Ivan Guryanov — a dancer I’ve shared the floor with for years across Thailand and Bali.

We sat down in Koh Phangan to speak about:
✨ Dancing with possibility — from technical Contact to Water Contact, Butoh, and Tango
✨ Letting performance arise from presence
✨ Creating in strange and poetic terrains
✨ Teaching & traveling with CI
✨ Sharing the weird and wonderful

Ivan is a powerful performer, teacher, and dance partner whose wild weird continues to inspire me.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify
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Our guest today is the multi-directional being Leilani Weis — Contact Improvisation teacher of 26 years. Originally from Chile, she helped develop CI scenes in Mexico and Italy, and now resides in Barcelona.

In this episode, we discuss:
✨ Her decades-long mentorship with Martin Keough
✨ Dancing into impossible places
✨ Preparing the body-mind for Contact
✨ The dancer superpowers
✨ Our mutual love of falling

📍 Recorded during Saltspring Contact Festival 2023, on the unceeded Coast Salish Territory in British Columbia, Canada.

🪩 Leilani on Instagram
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🎙️ New Solo Episode ~ Faces of CI: Conversations on Contact Improvisation

It’s Aalia here. I’m opening up in a raw and real solo episode:

✨ Transitioning to Thailand
✨ The Art of the Pause
✨ Being vulnerably first in new CI communities
✨ ADHD, mold illness & concussion recovery
✨ Getting “cancelled” in community & the lessons that followed
✨ Trusting the unknown + moving forward with grace

This one’s close to my heart.

🎧 Instagram: @momentumcontact
📅 Join Upcoming Contact Workshops
🌐 Facilitator Trainings : www.momentum-contact.com

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