Yoga-Chi Gung
wonderfully energising and cleansing

Yoga Chi Gung, a form combining the vinyasa yoga (ie. flow of postures) and Chi Gung (the principle of generating chi energy through specific practices) will be combined with the stronger dynamics of Astanga yoga. They are intended to combine awareness of alignment and energy flow with safe stretching practises and fluidity of movement. They will help create power and simplicity in movement by utilising the inner force of chi energy in the body.

Yoga Chi Gung is a blend of teachings from India, China, Japan and Tibet offering a way of unblocking the life energy, increasing and condensing it and encouraging it to flow freely and smoothly. Like all internal arts, it works on catalysing self awareness, mental clarity, emotional strength and stability, and physical vitality. It works on the systems, meridians and chakras in the body.

It has a strong vinyasa (flow) and is a wonderfully energising and cleansing system.”

Gavin Webber, trained as a Yoga Chi Gung teacher and having practised Astanga Yoga for over seven years, takes in other influences as well, namely Alexander Technique and Awareness Through Movement/Feldenkrais.



Meat and Bone
Contemporary technique

This class teaches the dancer how to gain maximum power in movement a la Ultima Vez, with minimal effort through the use of momentum. It is a very tiring class with a continuous flow and an aerobic quality, definitely a good workout.
We will be looking at release techniques and powerful floor work beginning with a joint release, some stretches, and pilates based exercises for strength. Then we will move into a systematic and relentless series of movement that travel down the room. Always there is a continuous aerobic quality and a necessity for the body to cope and find momentum pathways to sustain itself. A cooling down period and a Tai Chi series at the end brings the balance and stillness back to the body.



Gavin Webber
Gavin Webber fell into dance relatively late, after years spent hitch-hiking, skiing, writing, camping and studying English, Anthropology and Classical Studies. He joined Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre in 1993. He left in 1998 to drive a Kombi van around Europe and Morroco before running out of money and taking a job with Wim Vandekeybus and Ultima Vez in Belgium. He spent three years with the company and was involved in the creation of "In Spite of Wishing and Wanting" and "Inasmuch as Life is Borrowed".
Gavin returned to Australia in 2001 and began teaching and choreographing. Together with other former Meryl Tankard dancers he formed Splintergroup in 2003, working in Brisbane and Berlin. They created two works, "lawn" and "roadkill", which won 6 Greenroom awards in Australia in 2010. From 2005 to 2009 Gavin Webber was the Artistic Director of Dancenorth. Gavin’s work has toured throughout Australia, Asia, Europe and Canada. Most recently he has performed again with Ultima Vez in "Nieuwzwart", choreographed for Stalker and Perth Theatre Company, created a bar brawl for Berlin film maker, Julian Rosefeldt and worked with PVC in Freiburg. He created "Rock Show" with Australian rock band Regurgitator, "Food Chain" with Grayson Millwood, and his latest work, "Little Pig", produced by PVC, performed in Germany in 2010. He is currently living and working in Freiburg, Germany and establishing a new company with Grayson Millwood and other artists combining work in Australia and overseas.