Complete Union Taoist School

A practice for two

Tao of Tango

The embrace as investigation: listening, weight, axis and shared presence. Where inner work stops being a solitary affair.

In Tao of Tango we bring into the embrace what the school cultivates standing and in silence: the perception of one's own axis, breathing that is not forced, attention that does not grasp. Only here there is another person — and everything you think you know about your body is tested in contact.

It is not a dance class or a tango workshop: we are not here to learn figures. We are here to study what happens in the body when another body appears. How weight is shared. When leading becomes pushing. When yielding becomes absence. What softens and what defends itself when someone comes close.

Human regulation is not only individual: it also happens through the bond, the presence of others and the experience of community.

It is one of the most direct forms of what the school calls co-regulation: the idea that a human being does not regulate only from within, but also through the bond, the presence of others and safe contact. In the embrace that stops being theory within two minutes.

The practice, from inside

Two people facing each other, hands meeting in the air
Hands meeting
Night practice by candlelight, with trails of movement
Practice by candlelight
One practitioner guides another with a hand on the shoulder
The listening hand
Work on the embrace between two practitioners
The embrace as study
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From the seminar in La Plata

Fragments from the seminar of 20 July 2024. They play only if you ask: nothing is downloaded when the page opens.

Walking together: weight passing from one to the other
Finding the axis without pushing
The round: changing partner, changing listening

Those who were there

The seminar group, at the end. La Plata, July 2024.
The seminar group, at the end. La Plata, July 2024.

Practice

Tao of Tango is offered as a seminar, in Argentina and abroad. Upcoming dates are announced in the calendar; if you would like us to let you know, write to us.

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