Online Series: Body Mapping ~ with Natan Daskal

 

Online Series: Body Mapping ~ with Natan Daskal
March 3, 2022 @ 10:00 am - March 31, 2022 @ 11:30 am PST
|
$65
4 Thursdays:   Mar 3, Mar 10, Mar 17, Mar 31 | 10-11:30am PST | $65/series

Each part of our bodies is unique: each has developed specific functions, moves in particular ways, and has its own stories to tell and dances to dance. In this 4-part series, we focus on a new area of the body each week. For each body #part, we study anatomy and body mechanics, we explore its movement somatically

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https://consciousdancer.com/event/online-series-body-mapping-with-natan-daskal/

#Online #Daskal #bodies #developed #dances #mechanics

Online Workshop: Dancing Breath ~ with Natan Daskal

 

Online Workshop: Dancing Breath ~ with Natan Daskal
March 20, 2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
|
$35
“Dance is the breath made visible.” — Anna Halprin.
Breath is foundational to all of our movement; to life itself. How can our breath find creative expression through dance? How can our dances be in harmony with our natural rhythms of breathing? This workshop explores the breath as a gateway between embodied presence and creative expression, inviting us to find more ease, depth, and awareness in our dances and in our lives.

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https://consciousdancer.com/event/online-workshop-dancing-breath-with-natan-daskal/

#Online #Dance #breath #movement #awareness #rhythms

Dance First Member Insight from Leslie Merrill Schmidt & Tamalpa!

 

This week’s Dance First Member Insight is from Leslie Merrill Schmidt, a student of Tamalpa!

A Year of Life and Art in the Tamalpa Level 1 Online Training Program

Whenever my daughter and I play hide and seek, I know I need to hide quickly because I’ll only have until the count of 3 before the seeking begins. In a random parenting article on toddlers, I read that even though some can “count” upwards of ten through rote memorization, their tangible mathematical understanding of these numbers typically doesn’t extend beyond three. So we’re playing hide and seek, and I frantically dart behind the nearest piece of furniture, nervously awaiting the moment that I will be discovered… “1, 2, 3. Ready or not, here I come!”

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Monday Love to your New Year

 

“ Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.”

 ~ Goran Persson

Say hello to ’22, may it bring good times to you,

Say farewell to ’21, it’s been fun, but now we’re done.

A little lyric to lift your heart,

Just a tease, only a start.

The secret sauce to the year ahead?

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Sacred Dance Path

 

Sacred Dance Path
January 4, 2022 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am HST
|Recurring Event (See all) |$20

Women’s weekly online dance drop in. Sacred Dance rooted in Polynesian dance expressed through hula and Tahitian, reggae hula, prayer, and story dance. Experience multilevel embodiment, all-bodies wellness – MENTAL, PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, BREATH, ENERGY, SPIRIT & SOUL. Low impact, no experience needed, deep dance tune up for all women.

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https://consciousdancer.com/event/sacred-dance-path/2022-01-04/

#Women #Sacred #Polynesian #prayer #Experience #BREATH

Slow Dancing with Chaos

 

April 15, 2022 - April 18, 2022

Slow Dancing With Chaos
In these funky, frenetic times, we need our feet on the ground, our instincts intact and our intuition in full force. Being true to the signs and signals that come from within is our survival art, not to mention a way to move with integrity in a world in flux. Hidden in chaos, like the eye of the hurricane, is the moving center, your power center, a place deep in your belly that holds your equilibrium and harmony. The way to this center is a deep medicine journey, a journey of blood, bones and sweat — nothing less than an intimate affair with yourself.

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Cycles

 

March 30, 2022 - April 3, 2022

Cycles With Jonathan Horan

Please bring a journal, some family photos, and an object of deep meaning to you.

In this workshop, rooted in Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms movement practice, we use our dance like archeologists to dig beneath the surface, to seek buried treasures and pearls of wisdom gleaned from our own life experience. The 5Rhythms offer us both a map to understanding and a way to deeply embody the patterns, waves, and vibrations that organically move us from birth to death.

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Warrior in Light

 

March 25, 2022 - March 27, 2022

WARRIOR IN LIGHT

“If you wish to be a warrior prepare to get broken. If you wish to be an Explorer, prepare to get lost, and if you wish to be a lover prepare to be both.” – Daniel Saint
In Warrior in Light, we move from the cultural shadow of the “warrior” to the light filled place of dancing into the world with courage, discipline and love. We ask our inner explorer “what action can I take” in my quest for a better life, a better world, better relationships? Our inner Warrior in Light gifts us with the discipline and courage to speak our truth and stay on our committed path. Together, the Explorer and Warrior release the lover in each of us as we put down our shield and welcome love and belonging into our lives.

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Dance First Member Insight from Kumu Karyne Daniels and Sacred Dance Path!

 

This week’s Dance First Member Insight is from Kumu Karyne Daniels and Sacred Dance Path!

Dance Drop 

Many of us throughout the world have dropped into our “dance body” in our living rooms. It has been an uncommon season, which in turn, has bred uncommon fruit. I won’t downplay the severity and seriousness of this pandemic but rather speak to you artistically from a creative viewpoint. This particular dance season has not been negative.

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Monday Love to your Soulful Solstice

 

“Aloha aku no, Aloha mai no”

 ~  I give my love to you, you give your love to me

Mele Kalikimaka and a Happy Solstice to you!

May this turn of the sun bring you happiness, meaning, fulfillment, and joy.

Keeping it brief this week and sending you love from the islands…

Mahalo!

M+

Mark Metz
Director of the Dance First Association
Publisher of Conscious Dancer Magazine

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Rumi’s Wedding Night Celebration

 

Rumi’s Wedding Night Celebration

December 18 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

| $40

December 18th at 5pm
Location: House Concert in West LA, CA

An intimate out-doors gathering of inspiring sacred music, dance from the heart, stories and poetry in celebration of Rumi’s anniversary of death that he called his Wedding Night.

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Rumi’s Wedding Night Celebration

 

December 17 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

| $40

December 17th at 6pm
Location: House Concert in Studio City, CA

An intimate out-doors gathering of inspiring sacred music, dance from the heart, stories and poetry in celebration of Rumi’s anniversary of death that he called his Wedding Night.

Yuval Ron – Oud & Musical Director
Banafsheh Sayyad – Whirling
Misaq Eshaghi – Kamanche, Tombak
Jamie Papish – Daf, Dhol

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https://consciousdancer.com/event/rumis-wedding-night-celebration/

Welcoming the NEW!

 

Welcoming the NEW!

January 2, 2022 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm PST

| Free

Sunday, January 2, 2022 @10:30am – 12pm PT | 6:30- 8pm UTC

This Session is a balance between guided movement, free-style dance, mystical poetry and inspiring music with a focus on grounding in peace and centering in love and joy so we can start the year from an empowered state, ready to put love into action on behalf of the Earth and all of the Earth community.

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https://consciousdancer.com/event/welcoming-the-new-2/

Dance First Member Spotlight on Caroline Kleindienst & Somatic Healing Arts, Maui!

 

This week’s Dance First Member Spotlight is from Caroline Kleindienst & Somatic Healing Arts Maui!

Caroline Kleindienst, MA, RSMT, is a registered somatic movement therapist, expressive arts therapy practitioner, and artist living in Maui, Hawaii.

She has been engaged in the healing arts for 20 years and runs a private practice as a somatic movement therapist, specializing in trauma, depression and anxiety, grief and loss, relationship issues, chronic illness, eating disorders, recovery from addiction, and life transitions.

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https://consciousdancer.com/dance-first-member-spotlight-on-caroline-kleindienst-somatic-healing-arts-maui/

Monday Love to your Cultural Connections

 

“ Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”

 ~ Thomas Wolfe

Just how far apart are we, anyway? Is there really such a vast divide between people, especially here in the USA? What if there was more focus on what we have in common rather than what makes us different?

Yesterday I had a great conversation with Toni Bergins, founder of JourneyDance. It had been quite a while since we caught up, so we had considerable ground to cover. I was glad to learn that she’s coming back out to the West Coast early next year for a workshop at Esalen!

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https://consciousdancer.com/monday-love-to-your-cultural-connections/

Dance First Member Spotlight on Studio Sadie!

 

This week’s Dance First Member Spotlight is from Studio Sadie!

Discover the possibilities and opportunities waiting for you, starting right where you are, as you are.

Studio Sadie, founded by Luscious Life Artist Sarah Sadie, is an audacious experiment, an ever-changing (r)evolution, and an online studio for a variegated community that spans the continent and then some, glorious in color and costume.

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https://consciousdancer.com/dance-first-member-spotlight-on-studio-sadie/

Dance First Member Spotlight on Golden Bridge!

 

This week’s Dance First Member Spotlight is from Golden Bridge!

Golden Bridge is dedicated to Birthing a Generation of Globally Conscious ~ Embodied ~ Spiritual Leaders

Through the arts of body, heart, and soul, we support individuals and communities as they repair and move into collaborative service and leadership. Our leaders are empowered to move into the world from a place of deep kinesthetic connection with themselves, their people, with the earth, and with all of life, seen and unseen.

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Monday Love to your Attitude of Gratitude

 

“ Gratitude is the Attitude! ”

 ~ Anon

What are you grateful for? With that simple question we kick off the Holiday Season here in the good ole USA, home of Thanksgiving and all the related Turkey Day traditions.

And kick it off, we do. Football and parades on the TV, topics to approach or avoid around the dinner table, trains and planes and automobiles, it’s all part of the annual ritual of gathering with friends and family to express our gratitude, firstly and fore-mostly through the enjoyment of food.

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Free and True

 

July 30, 2022 - August 3, 2022

This workshop is taught in Dutch, together with Annick Jossa from PRH.

This workshop counts for the 5 Rhythms teacher training as a 5 day elective, or as 25 hours of waves practice. You can follow this workshop if you have done at least one five-day workshop with PRH before; no prior experience with the 5 Rhythms is required.

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Midsummer Festival 2022 (Heartbeat In Training)

 

August 12, 2022 - August 22, 2022

This is the biggest conscious dance event in Italy.

It brings together many dancers and teachers from all over Italy, Europe and beyond. 

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Endless Waves: residential retreat in Suomenlinna

 

August 26, 2022 - August 28, 2022

Endless Waves 2022: retreat in Suomenlinna
Taught by Karoliina Valontaival

Endless Waves is a residential 5Rhythms retreat on the island of Suomenlinna, just off the coast of central Helsinki. Melt, unwind, and ease into the pleasure and restorative power of movement. The nature around us will support us in relaxing and opening our senses: time in nature is scientifically proven to bring down stress levels and boost our soothing parasympathetic nervous system.

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WATER – Elemental Rhythms – Residential Intensive (can be booked individually)

 

September 22, 2022 - September 25, 2022

The third of four residential workshops for those who

• Have fallen in love with the dancing path
• Are passionate about the natural world
• Want to open to the wisdom holding & healing of the elements.

Elemental Rhythms is a series of four workshops, each devoted to the teachings of one of the elements: Earth, Fire, Water and Air. The workshops can be done individually, but they will also build on each other in a progressive sequence – each element being a gateway to a deeper connection with our world, our-selves, and our potential.

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My Inner Riches

 

July 30, 2022 - August 3, 2022

This workshop is taught in Dutch, together with Patrick Jossa from PRH.

This workshop counts for the 5 Rhythms teacher training as a 5 day elective, or as 25 hours of waves practice. You can follow this workshop even if you have not done any other workshop with PRH; no prior experience with the 5 Rhythms is required.

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Relief

 

October 23, 2022

This workshop is part of a series of ten Sundays in 2022, given by Edo and Nancy. It puts the focus on the Joy basic emotion of the 5R Heartbeat map.

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HoloWave – Samhain

 

October 28, 2022 - October 30, 2022

Finde die verborgenen Schätze in den 5 Rhythmen.

Kannst du dir vorstellen, dass in jeder rhythmischen Bewegung viele Dimensionen persönlicher Ressourcen schlummern,  die nur darauf warten entdeckt zu werden?

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Journey Into Trance

 

January 28, 2022 - January 30, 2022

An opportunity to deepen our 5Rhythms practice
Moving through specific maps and meditations that teach us how to more deeply traverse the world of trance.

We all long for a place to call home, a place where we feel totally connected and at peace. But there is no home unless we find it in ourselves. 

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Online Series: TENDING OUR INNER LIGHT through Life/Art Explorations with Elisabeth Osgood-Campbell

 

December 1 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am PST

| $60

4 Wednesdays, Dec. 1, 8, 15 & 22, 10-11:30am Pacific Time, $60

As we approach Winter Solstice, the darkest day of the year in the Northern hemisphere, we can consciously connect with sources of light within and around us by engaging with the expressive arts.

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Online workshop: Grief and Gratitude Ritual Workshop* ~ with Dohee Lee

 

December 18 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm PST

| $100

December 18 | 10AM-4PM Pacific Time with a 1 hour lunch break from 12:30-1:30PM | $100

This special workshop will be facilitated by performance artist and ritualist Dohee Lee. Dohee’s work, based on East Asian philosophy and traditional Korean arts combined with new art forms and rituals, is deeply influenced by her Korean cultural heritage.

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Dance First Member Spotlight on Rachel Goodman!

 

This week’s Dance First Member Spotlight is from Rachel Goodman!

Hello Conscious Dancer Community!

I am a resilience consultant, facilitator, and speaker from Canada. I am also a movement, vocal, and visual artist.

In 2020, I suddenly had to learn many skills to get my work online. Before COVID times, my business had grown by in-person word of mouth. I’m a Gen Xer who started high school with a typewriter and has been living on a tiny island of 850 people for the past decade. I had very little online presence before the pandemic.

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Monday Love to your Roots and Culture

 

“Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people.They are inside you.”

 ~ Isabel Allende

How deep are your roots? How far back can you trace your history? Do you stay in touch with the traditions of your culture?

I’m going to start with an assumption that most of you reading this email are in the US. And for those of you who aren’t, you’ve probably visited. Then you probably won’t mind me saying: The USA is pretty odd place.

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Dance First Member Spotlight on Contact Improv in Costa Rica with Moti Zemelman!

 

This week’s Dance First Member Spotlight is from Moti Zemelman, host of the world-renowned Contact Improv Retreat in Costa Rica!

As I’m sure most dancers can attest, keeping our dance practices alive during the pandemic has been a challenge. This has been especially true for an intimate partner dance form like Contact Improvisation, which is based on touch! I’ve personally been put to the test working creatively to find safe ways to lead dances over these last two years.

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Monday Love to your Widening World

 

“ Whereever you go, there you are.”

 ~  Jon Kabat-Zinn

How big is your world? Where are the edges? Why is it that no matter where you are, you’re always at the center?

The human experience is a fascinating thing. You go along minding your own business in the place you call home until one day something changes and you find yourself somewhere else.

You don’t think about your home turf the same after you spend some time somewhere else. The kind of perspective you gain by looking homeward from afar is invaluable.

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The Sanctuary of Welcoming iRest® Intensive

 

November 23 - December 28

iRest® and The Practice of Welcoming offers life-skills in form of meditative self-inquiries that shift perspective and create new connections in our nervous system. Becoming aware of the states that keep us locked in a particular groove of reaction opens new ways of being in the world and with each other.

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Grief and Gratitude

 

November 13 - November 14

Grieving has to be done. It’s a physical and emotional labour, entwined with a loss of knowing.

It’s an unravelling dance, a longing song, a devastating love.

As we fall through that tangled grieving gateway, we are left with but one thing, in the tiny details of the day: we are still alive.

And that is such a miracle, so precious, that we are awash with gratitude, beyond words. 

It’s all beyond words. 

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GATHER: A RITUAL IN MOTION

 

November 14

LIVE WIRE PRESENTS:

GATHER: A RITUAL IN MOTION

Calling In
Letting Out
Dropping Down
Lifting Up
Finding True

Our Listening Faces Series continues with the magical touch of Martha Peabody, soulfully tuned in Tom Schulz & Live Wire Ritual Theatre director Lorca Simons.

We welcome you to the wire in our zoom wing because magic happens everywhere.

 

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Into the Wild

 

April 30, 2022

SAMEDI 14h30 -19h

Danser la part sauvage – « Sauvage est la proximité du sacré » (Holderlin)

La danse et la musique sont nos arts premiers, jaillis de notre source la plus profonde et ancienne. Dès l’aube de l’humanité, l’homme danse et bat des rythmes pour célébrer les grands passages de la vie, pour se sentir vivant, en lien avec son groupe et le Grand Tout.

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Residential Spring Weekend

 

May 13, 2022 - May 15, 2022

5Rhyhtms Lente Dansweekend

residentiele retraite

Dieper duiken in de dans van de 5Ritmes in verbinding met de natuur, het weer en de elementen als metafoor om vanuit te bewegen, te groeien en te transformeren.

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S P A C E

 

April 22, 2022 - April 24, 2022

6th annual retreat. Dance & soak at Lava Hot Springs.  Save the date! Always magical!

DETAILS TBA

This 5Rhythms® moving meditation workshop is open to all levels of experience. It explores how we can embody change and bring greater awareness to our interaction with it. Simple and profound, the 5Rhythms® practice will offer you valuable life tools to dance through changes with grace.

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Dance First Member Insight from Cocréa!

 

This week’s Dance First Member Insight is from Cocréa!

–

Fear is Safe.

Unraveling the paradox our mind can’t believe through listening to the body.

Hello Winter. Hello darkness. The old familiar, fertile ground from which we draw our sustenance.

In his Gene Keys contemplations, The 64 Ways, Richard Rudd, delivers this nugget, “Fear is safe.”

What a head job, hey? How does one take this paradox and apply it to one’s life?

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https://consciousdancer.com/dance-first-member-insight-from-cocrea/

Trilogy 3rd Module

 

November 25, 2022 - November 27, 2022

This on-going committed group will dance and dive deeper together during these 3 modules over a year. The continuity in this type of work together, along with the exploratory work we do between modules, creates and provides a strong, safe and supportive group space for our sharing and learning. Our life becomes our dance, and our dance becomes our life.

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Dancing out of Trauma

 

February 3, 2023 - February 5, 2023

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Anais Nin

Each of us has had painful experiences.

Stressful or traumatic memories block the natural flow of life.

With the help of 5Rhythms dance, we bring the stories and body memories that come from within back into consciousness and into the dance.

 

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Dance from the Heart – Scorpio New Moon Circle

 

November 5 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

| $11 – $55

📅 Friday, November 7th, 5-7pm PDT | Lead by Misha Agunos via Zoom

🌑♏ New moons are ripe for initiation. And with the moon in transformative, intense Scorpio, new endeavors involving in-depth emotional exploration and processing death + rebirth are especially favored this cycle.

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Milonga LAX – Argentine Tango dance social

 

 

Milonga LAX is a social style Argentine Tango dance party brining together Tango dancers from LA and beyond. Every month we feature a different DJ.
This events takes place in a spacious ballroom with hardwood dance floor, full bar on premisses, free parking in the back of the building, complimentary empanadas and other light refreshments provided.

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https://consciousdancer.com/event/milonga-lax-argentine-tango-dance-social/2021-11-19/

#Milonga #Argentine #dance #events #hardwood

Dance First Member Insight from Nancy Trunzo & Witch Way Wellness!

 

 

Dance First Member Insight from Nancy Trunzo & Witch Way Wellness!

This week’s Dance First Member Insight is from Nancy Trunzo and Witch Way Wellness!

Magical living isn’t about getting the “Quick Fix” from a candle, spell, or potion.

Magical living is about developing a resilient, thriving relationship with yourself by tending to the wellness of mind, body, and spirit.

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https://consciousdancer.com/dance-first-member-insight-from-nancy-trunzo-witch-way-wellness/

#Dance #Nancy #Wellness #Trunzo #Magical #tending #body

Monday Love to your Personal Best

 

“ il meglio è nemico del bene (best is the enemy of the good).”

 ~ Voltaire

Do you like deadlines? Or do you prefer finishing things on your own schedule? How does pressure affect your creativity?

Remember the old fable about the guy building a boat? The story goes something like this. A fellow wanted to be a fisherman and sail the salty seas (or so he said).

 

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Embodied Presence Alain Allard and Sarah Pitchford

 

November 12 - November 14

“The spirit likes to dress up like this:
ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders,
and all the rest at night in the black branches,
in the morning in the blue branches of the world.
It could float, of course, but would rather plumb rough matter.
Airy and shapeless thing, it needs the metaphor of the body, …”

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Space to Practice your Dance

 

November 12

This dance is an invitation to move; big or small, on every level.

Wat jouw ‘dance-practice’ ook is (5 rhythms, movement medicine, soulmotion, open floor, biodanza, ecstatic dance, ..), hier is ze welkom om gedanst te worden. We dansen op inspirerende, kleurrijke muziek, die afwisselend uitnodigt om dicht bij jezelf te blijven, te genieten, uitbundig te bewegen en te

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8th Annual Contact Improv Retreat in Costa Rica w/ Moti

 

 

February 13, 2022 @ 4:00 am - February 19, 2022 @ 9:00 pm CST

8th Annual Contact Improv Retreat in Costa Rica w/ Moti
February 12-19, 2022 @ Goddess Garden, Cahuita, Costa Rica
INFO/REGISTER: www.contactimprov.com/costarica
* PARTICIPANTS MUST BE FULLY VACCINATED FOR COVID-19 *
Come to the magical rainforest and Caribbean coast of Costa Rica to play, improvise, and enhance your Contact skills. Your host and teacher, Moti Zemelman, brings 33 years of CI experience to share.

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https://consciousdancer.com/event/8th-annual-contact-improv-retreat-in-costa-rica-w-moti/

#Costa #Annual #Garden #COVID-19 #VACCINATED

CMDC’s Harvest Healing Festival!

 

November 13 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm PST

| Free

CMDC’s HARVEST HEALING FESTIVAL is a free community offering to honor grief, and to grow attunement towards our self and collective harvest through an array of healing modalities. Honoring our elemental guides, participants will be led to WATER, AIR, FIRE, WATER, and WIND medicine that will support both physical and mental heartfelt wounds, and lead grief towards embodied movements of release and connection to the infinite possibilities of reconciliation and strength.

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Dance of Oneness® Radiant Embodiment Series Module VIII: Soul Chakra & Sophia

 

 

Dance of Oneness® Radiant Embodiment Series Module VIII: Soul Chakra & Sophia
November 2 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am PDT
|Recurring Event (See all)
|
$149
Dance Styles: Whirling, Veil Dance & Spirals
8-Session Live Online Course with Banafsheh
November 2- 26
Tuesdays & Fridays @10-11am PT | 5-6pm UTC | Unlimited Access to Recordings
In this 8-Session Module, the Gnostic feminine archetype, Sophia as the soul of the world will guide you into embodying your soul and stepping into your unlimited self.

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https://consciousdancer.com/event/dance-of-oneness-radiant-embodiment-series-module-viii-soul-chakra-sophia/2021-11-02/

#Dance #Series #Chakra #Whirling #Banafsheh