improv for anxiety w/ aurora moss
This is a four week course with sessions running 1-3pm on the following Sundays:
November 1, 8, 15, 29. There is no class Nov 22 due to an existing booking.
Classes are for students aged 18+
Please register with your preferred name so we know who will be in the class and what to call you!
Improv For Anxiety is a 4-week course aimed at using improv skills, games, and techniques to improve present-moment awareness and connection, develop a tolerance of uncertainty, increase cognitive flexibility, and foster self-compassion. Throughout the course you will learn how to recognize your anxious states of being, and how to bring your mind-body back into the present moment.
This will be the first ever offering of this class, and your feedback will be essential in developing this class further.
Space is limited to 6 students. Regrettably, we are not able to offer scholarships for this course.
Prerequisites: none.
Instructor: aurora moss
Aurora (she/her) is a performer, actor and avid improviser with over 10 years of experience performing and creating improv. She has called The Kinkonauts her improv home for these past 10 years and has a special interest in long form improv that focuses on character relationships and grounded, emotional scene work. She has directed, devised, and performed in too many improv shows to count over the years, but a few special highlights for her are:
Heartstrings: An Improvised Theatrical Experience Exploring Queer Love and Relationships / Two Girls Improv / Directed by Owen Chan
Wuthering Frights: An Improvised Gothic Novel / The Kinkonauts / Directed by Andy Stefanato
Beauty Love Truth / The Kinkonauts / Directed by Rob Janowski
26 Hour Improv Marathon / The Kinkonauts / Various Shows Devised by Various Peoples
Aurora's main focus as a teacher is to push her students beyond their self limiting beliefs, get them to follow the fear, and to learn that failure is the only way forward.
Right now Aurora can be found teaching through the Calgary Improv School, and performing with her improv duo "Two Girls Improv". "Two Girls Improv" can be found performing in Calgary throughout the year and on Instagram @twogirlsimprov.