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Feet 1st



Feet 1st is a monthly online gathering for ICMTA members.
We all are holding others a lot.
This is a space for us to be held, by your own feet and by your own tribe. 

Feet 1st  is always on the 1st of a month.
Timing varies each time to include different time zones.

Feet 1st  is for teachers by teachers.
Any of us can hold a session and we are all welcome to come to dance.

The annual rhythm includes :
- 8 "regular" Feet 1st sessions :
1 hour dance + 15-30min to hang out together afterwards (
- 3 quarterly Continuing Professional Development sessions
- a special Community End of Year Session on December 1st


If you missed our last sessions, you can still catch up and dance with the audio recordings available here (reserved to members).

If you would like to offer to hold a Regular Feet 1st session, click on the button and fill in your name to an available date:


Continuing Professional Development

Included in our monthly dances together through the year will be a quarterly offering by specialist teachers in their field.

These sessions will be a focus on a very particular area of professional development and education. For example, inclusivity work on the dance floor, music and DJ skills, non-violent communication, sexuality, creative processes such as writing/theatre/voice work in conscious movement spaces...

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) sessions last for 2 hours. Read more info about our CPD sessions here.

Upcoming

    • 01 Jun 2025
    • 17:00 - 19:00
    • Zoom
    Register


    Continuing Professional Development

    Embodied Sexuality: Feeling Your Yes and No

    with Imraan Ismail

    Sunday June 1st 2025

    5:00 PM BST - 6:00 PM CEST - 7:00 PM IDT - 7:00 PM MSK - 9 AM PDT - 12 pm EDT  (JUNE 2ND 2 AM AEST - 4 AM NZST )


    This 2-hour online session offers a clear, experiential introduction to embodied sexuality.

    We will begin with guided movement practice, focusing on developing somatic awareness of yes and no as they arise in the body. From there, we’ll transition into paired exercises to explore how these internal signals respond and shift in relational space.

    The second part of the session includes two layers of group reflection:
    • A participant-centered discussion to share personal experience and insight
    • A facilitator-focused dialogue unpacking the teaching objectives and the structure behind the practice.
    Finally we will cover the key principles of embodied sexuality, including foundational theory and accessible practices.

    This session is designed to support both personal exploration and professional development, offering tools to deepen presence, cultivate consent, and engage the erotic with integrity and care.

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    About Imraan

    Born in South Africa as a person of colour and living through the end of Apartheid, I had an unusual childhood. In addition to being raised as Sufi, I realised I was queer.

    This opened me up to a path of tantra as well as the LGBTQI+ community. I soon realised that there was a real need for people to become more aware of their boundaries and informed consent within these communities (and in general life).

    I am trained as an Open Floor teacher, graduating in 2018. I am active in Sex Positive communities in Belgium and the Netherlands, teaching embodied consent workshops as well as workshops on grounding and centering while connecting to needs, desires and boundaries.

    I have studied a more gentle approach to body-dearmouring that is trauma-informed.

    I draw on all these teachings, together with my spiritual background, as well as my Masters’ degree in biochemistry and genetics, in my workshops.

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    This event is free for ICMTA members. Open to non-members teachers of conscious movement for a fee.

    This event will be recorded and made available to those registered, and to all ICMTA members through our website.

    If you're not a teacher of one of our recognised schools, please let us know at info@icmta.com if you would like to attend.

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    This is one of regular Continuing Professional Development events held by the ICMTA. Find more about these sessions here.

    If you are a member, you can watch the recordings of the previous sessions here.

    Let us know if you have a suggestion of a theme or topic you would like us to explore next time, or if you have an expertise in a subject that could be of interest for your colleagues - conscious movement teachers - and you would like to hold one of these sessions.

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