What is Contakids?
Contakids is a group where adults and children come together for movement practice, games, and play. No special experience is needed. With enthusiasm and full presence, I will guide you through each session. Week by week, we build on what we've learned, allowing you to apply and improvise with the techniques. This helps create new pathways in your daily life. Contakids helps build a deeper, more enjoyable form of communication between adults and children, enhancing each child's interaction and communication in the real world.
Connect your body intelligence.
Bond deeper with your child.
Create and play together.
Touch is a fundamental way we experience the world. As children, we learn through our physical senses, but often vision and hearing take over, especially nowadays in the age of smartphones and online interactions. These changes can affect your child’s social, emotional, and cognitive development. Contakids encourages you to explore family time through your sense of touch, presence, and body language as powerful communication tools. My hope is to support children's abilities in real-time connection, perception, and full-body interactions while also helping parents be a profound example to their child and stay connected to their bodies, hearts, and play.
At Contakids, I celebrate diversity and welcome families of all backgrounds, abilities, and identities.
And as always, for those that know me, your feedback matters!
Please keep sharing your suggestions so I can improve my classes and better serve your family.
“CONTAKIDS is unique in it’s offering in remembering children are experts at play.”
“Contakids is an invitation for parents and children to play together. Contakids opens a door to us, to meet the happy, playful child we used to be.”
Benefits of Contakids
Bonding: Discover a deeper, enjoyable form of communication between parent and child through movement, the art of touch, and physical play.
Skill Development: Children enhance their motor skills and self-confidence, while parents build a bond of trust with their child.
Independence: Children learn self-reliance and develop an independent spirit. Parents learn to interact with them as equals, offering unconditional support, owning their emotions when the child seeks independence, and learning to ground and enjoy themselves in their solo body.
What Parents Should Know
Arrival: Please arrive 10 minutes early for a calm start and bring comfortable clothes for movement.
Patience: Every child has their own pace to get comfortable and start playing within a group.
Presence and Curiosity: Leave expectations and goals at home, and make space for discovery.
How Does the Practice Look?
Program: 45 minutes of practice + 15 minutes of free movement and cuddles.
Routine: Includes warm-up for adults, partner games, and group and duo dynamics. Cool - and cuddling-down.
Activities: We dance, slide, swoop, go upside down, roll, jump, fall, and run. Both adult and child can expect to be challenged, make friends, and have a lot of fun.
Participation: Unlike most classes for kids, the adult is as much a part of the activities as the child, taking full advantage of the special adult/child bond present at this stage in a child's life.
