Thursday, May 27, 2021

Soul Motion® Foundations with Camilla Steen Larsen & Doreen Tönjes

May 4, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - May 8, 2022 @ 1:00 pm EDT

Soul Motion®: Foundations

Workshop with Camilla Steen Larsen and Doreen Tönjes

This five-day immersion for those just beginning their Soul Motion path as well as for seasoned movers looking to refresh; is a deep dive into the architecture and foundational elements that support the practice of Soul Motion. Emphasis is on the foundational four Soul Motion movement landscapes; dancing alone, dancing with another, dancing with everyone, dancing in the everyday with special focus on the platforms of pause presence, orbit orientation and echo inspiration.

Body Prayer Online with Zuza Engler

May 30 @ 9:45 am - 11:15 am EDT

Body Prayer is a facilitated event devoted to inquiry into embodied consciousness through movement. As an awareness practice, conscious movement is a vehicle for self-discovery, inner development, and a deeper communion with others and the world. Body Prayer offers a place to be safely uncomfortable as we experiment with ourselves and with each other in our awkward and magnificent dance at the edge of possibility. For more information and to book, click here.

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

SILVER WHISPERS

December 19

“I want to feel that we can touch each other through the screen towards a new kind of intimacy. Listening with the ear of the heart, seeing with the eye of the heart, speaking from the voice of the heart through the screens that we share. Let’s find our way into this landscape of creativity and possibility together.” -Lorca

Fear, Courage & Perspective

June 17, 2022 - June 19, 2022

Our emotions are important resources in our lives. They generate energy that is immediately released for appropriate action. Fear is the emotion that protects us from danger. Without fear we would not be able to survive and we would take life-threatening risks. It is therefore an indispensable and instinctive tool. When we start thinking too much about something frightening that we have to do, we become paralyzed. All movement stops and we become ‘thinking zombies’. This is the shadow that most of us know.

Roots and wings – Bildungsurlaub

May 23, 2022 - May 25, 2022

Bildungsurlaub 5Rhythmen® dance
roots and wings

The 5 rhythms depict five different qualities of life in us:

Inner support and personal roots, inner strength and goal orientation, dedication and reorientation, individuality and creativity,
balance and inner equilibrium.
By dancing we will feel and develop these qualities in ourselves. The aim is to recognize and strengthen the individual qualities in us as well as to develop a repertoire to use them more clearly in work and everyday life.

Anger, Intimacy & Love

January 28, 2022 - January 30, 2022

Our emotions are important resources in our lives. They give us strength and direction. The emotion anger helps us to honor our limits. We defend what we love with our anger. The access to anger is also the gateway to an intimate relationship

Resilience

April 2, 2022 - April 3, 2022

In this weekend we use the 5Rhythms practice as our container for movement. We include tools from Somatic Experiencing® and focus on resilience and self-regulation. We will be personal , and include some of our obstructive life stories that are ready for change and movement. We create a circle with safe boundaries for exploration and witnessing.

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Dance First Member Insight from 5Rhythms Dance, Dharma, and Meditation leader Lucia Horan!

This week’s Dance First Member Insight is from 5Rhythms Dance, Dharma, and Meditation leader Lucia Horan.

Grief Dancer: Resource & Renewal in the time of the Pandemic

Many things have been learned during the time of the Pandemic. We have been asked to address the collective grief and come to terms with the fact that almost everyone is exhausted. So: how do you deal with grief? How do you attend to your exhaustion?

As a teacher of Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms® and the Buddha Dharma, I have found this work has become more precious and needed than ever before in my lifetime.

Monday Love to Your Valuable Opinions

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth”

~ Muhammad Ali

I’ve got a slightly different Monday Love for you today, sort of a cross between an invitation and a request.

As you probably know, the Dance First Association was formed to serve the needs of the international movement community. Conscious Dancer began as a magazine and now is the umbrella for all of our publishing activities.

Sunday, May 23, 2021

Full Moon Eclipse Workshop ~ Dancing with the Inner Child

May 25 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

| $30

We are fast approaching another glorious full moon this month. Honoring the moon cycles can help us to tune in and honor the cycles within us. We are always in a cycle of change – whether it’s starting something new or finishing/letting go of something – this process of becoming allows us to reveal the fullest expressions of ourselves, just like the full moon

Intro to Dance from the Heart: Journey through the 7 Steps

Intro to Dance from the Heart: Journey through the 7 Steps

May 25 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

|Recurring Event (See all)

| $20

During this intro class, go on a journey through the 7 steps Dance from the Heart to envision and manifest your dreams. Using an embodiment process called Dance from the Heart, we dance to manifest from the heart with greater grace and ease. No prior dance experience needed.

Dance from the Heart: Healing through the 7 Chakras Class

May 27 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

|Recurring Event (See all)

| $20

In this class, we journey through the 7 chakras to help us ground, connect, release, embrace, and embody our dreams. Each class focuses on a different chakra to balance, revitalize and support your radiant health and wellness. Learn about each chakra and get to explore how to activate and tap into the power of each energy center in your body with the gentle guided movements of Dance From The Heart.

Conscious Dance Festival – Retreat Edition in Greece

June 25 - June 29

☀️ The summer is around the corner, and we are longing to feel the touch of the breeze and sun on our skins. At the same time many of us can’t wait to enjoy a good dance together with others, feeling the beat of the sound vibrating in each cell, the sweat of our prayers washing off all that’s not needed, and the tuning and synchronicity of our heartbeat — YES! Let the magic of the conscious dance floor arise.

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Celebration Cyprus

June 25 - June 27

Let’s open a space for celebrating: deep, warm and true.

Not shiny, not shallow, but organic and real.

A feast where both grief and gratitude are on the menu. Shaky legs as well as strong arms are welcome at the table. Tears and laughter to fill our glasses.

Entering through the fast-growing cracks in ‘civilised’, we venture into the wilderness to dance, move, breathe, and let our voices ring out for truth and love: this is the time to celebrate everything.

Moving Paths May

Using movement, meditation and speaking, we enquire into the truth of the moment: within oneself, with each other, and in the world.

You commit to a seven-week cycle, 3 hours on a Wednesday morning. You’re with the same small group of people for that seven weeks, then it opens up to newcomers if there’s space.

You may encounter strong feelings, new pathways and deep freedom. There are likely to be challenges, wild celebration and much beauty. You’ll need a willingness to step into the unknown and be curious about what you may find there.

Menswork

November 20 - November 21

Time with men, to dance deep and speak the truth. Nothing like it.

Strengthen your sense of self, purpose, and compassion.
Deepen your ability to navigate these wild times with integrity.

This is it, right now. Everything’s changing, including the role of men.

How can we acknowledge the ways in which we have been, or are, abusive, without collapsing into guilt? How can we acknowledge our shame in ways that enable us to see the fine, noble beauty of men that lies beyond it?

Being together with other men creates a unique blend of strength and tenderness, enabling us to face our own shadow and stand in our radiance. It helps us to find the courage to speak out for what we know deep down, even if it’s culturally taboo at the moment.

Menswork

November 20 - November 21

Time with men, to dance deep and speak the truth. Nothing like it.

Strengthen your sense of self, purpose, and compassion.
Deepen your ability to navigate these wild times with integrity.

This is it, right now. Everything’s changing, including the role of men.

How can we acknowledge the ways in which we have been, or are, abusive, without collapsing into guilt? How can we acknowledge our shame in ways that enable us to see the fine, noble beauty of men that lies beyond it?

Menswork

December 18 - December 19

| $55 – $95

Time with men, to dance deep and speak the truth. Nothing like it.

Strengthen your sense of self, purpose, and compassion.
Deepen your ability to navigate these wild times with integrity.

This is it, right now. Everything’s changing, including the role of men.

Dance Alchemy Heart Meditation

We would like to invite you to this series of monthly live online free classes of Dance Alchemy with Heart Meditation.
As we are bombarded from everywhere with information, opinions, political upheaval, fighting, angst, drama and unconscious actions, it feels like the only thing worth putting energy into in our lives is love, transformation and consciousness. Perhaps instead of being knocked down, we can ride on those waves towards that which is beyond all this.
It is more powerful when we do it together. Let’s transform and rise high as we dance and go deep into the heart!

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Pray…Dance…Aloha: “TRUTHSEEKER”

May 26 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm HST

| Free

Women’s Moon Dance Gathering:

Let us honour the Creator of the Creation by creating danced prayer within the FULL MOON! If you believe in the power of prayer, and that dance can be utilized for sacred purposes, then come create with women from around the world as faith and movement co-mingle to manifest miracles in the HERE and NOW!

Dance from the Heart: Healing Through the 7 Chakras w/Patille

Dance from the Heart: Healing Through the 7 Chakras w/Patille

April 29 @ 6:00 pm - June 10 @ 7:30 pm EDT

|Recurring Event (See all)

| $20

Healing Energy with Heart-Centered Movement.

In this series, we will learn about each of our 7 main chakras and get to explore how to activate and tap into the power of each chakra center with the gentle guided movement of Dance from the Heart.

Dance First Member Insight from Movement Medicine co-founder Ya’Acov Darling Khan!

This week’s Dance First Member Spotlight is from global movement leader Ya’Acov Darling Khan, co-founder of Movement Medicine.

Greetings dear dancers,

My whole life has centered around the great unanswerable questions of our universe. The original iteration of this fascination was: ‘If God created all this, what created God.’ From the age of 5, I would fall asleep with the delight of this question on my lips, vanishing into the vastness of the night and the ‘much more real than waking life’ territory of my dreams. I loved the mystery. I still do.

Another word for the mystery is the Unknown. Each of us has a different threshold when it comes to the twin needs of certainty and uncertainty. Certainty, even if it’s an illusion, gives us a feeling of safety. Uncertainty, even if that’s an illusion, too, provides us with the sense of movement and evolution. The pandemic tipped that balance for most of us. Susannah (my wife of 35 years) and I saw the writing on the wall and, very early on, made the decision to cancel ALL our traveling for a year.

Monday Love to your Magic and Mystery

“The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we CAN imagine…”

~ J.B.S. Haldane

What’s your relationship with mystery? How do you approach the great unanswerable questions of the universe? Do you ever get confused between empirical evidence and unsubstantiated beliefs?

Wouldn’t it be great to be absolutely certain about everything? To go through life with absolutely no questions or doubts? But then again, one might argue that would take the fun out of it.

Sure, science has lots of answers, and seems to be figuring more things out every day, but c’mon, why is it that only one sock goes missing when you do your laundry? Why does the shortest line at the supermarket usually have someone doing a complicated and time-consuming return? Does the postman really always ring twice?

Saturday, May 15, 2021

Ya’Acov Darling Khan presents The Calm at the Centre of the Storm: An Online Movement Medicine 3-day Shamanic Journey

June 4 @ 12:00 pm - June 6 @ 1:30 pm EDT

| £195

21 GRATITUDES PRESENTS
A NEW 3 day LIVE Online Workshop

with Ya’Acov DK and special guests
Manari Ushigua & Estas Tonne.

The Calm at the Centre of the Storm
THE POWER OF PEACE IN TIMES OF CHANGE

4th June – 6th June 2021

Dance of Oneness® Radiant Embodiment Series Module IV: Heart Chakra, Mother Mary and Quan Yin

In this 8-Session Module, let the rose of your heart blossom and open your heart to oneness through dance, letting your body become an instrument playing love songs that transmit the healing balm of compassion to wherever it is needed. Step into the infinite through your heart, the gateway to the quantum field of love consciousness. Explore the Sufi Path as the path of living love, and learn to embody love as a state of being from Mother Mary and Quan Yin.

Dance from the Heart: Journey Through the 7 Steps Series w/ Janet

Dive deeper into each of the 7 steps of Dance from the Heart with this 90 min weekly virtual class. This class is for anyone seeking support on their journey to healing, self-care, growth or upliftment. Taught by Janet, one of CMDC’s core teaching artists.

Dance from the Heart: Journey Through the 7 Steps Series w/ Azucena

April 27 @ 6:00 pm - June 8 @ 7:30 pm EDT

|Recurring Event (See all)

| $20

Dive deeper into each of the 7 steps of Dance from the Heart with this 90 min weekly virtual class. This class is for anyone seeking support on their journey to healing, self-care, growth or upliftment. Taught by Azucena, one of CMDC’s core teaching artists.

Explore your relationship to your body through gentle movement, breath, and the elements in this mindfully curated brave space.

Each week, we build on the next so the entire journey is recommended but not mandatory. You can sign up for a drop-in or for the entire series.

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Dance First Member Spotlight on Lorca Simons, 5Rhythms Ritual Theatre Innovator and creator of LiveWire and WingSpan!

This week’s Dance First Member Spotlight is from UK-based Lorca Simons, creator of the Live Wire & Wingspan interpretations of 5Rhythms Ritual Theatre.

“I want to feel that we can touch each other through the screen towards a new kind of intimacy. Listening with the ear of the heart, seeing with the eye of the heart, speaking from the voice of the heart through the screens that we share. Let’s find our way into this landscape of creativity and possibility together.” – Lorca.

An eruption of soul straight from the heart
Fueling the spirit & casting edges wide
The magic of theatre begins here…

Monday Love to your Creative Balance

“ Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.”
~ Alexander Calder
Have you ever heard of The Boho Dance? No, it’s not the latest conscious movement modality, far from it. We’re talking art, specifically the world of Modern Art in its 20th Century post-WW-I manifestation.

If you’re like me, you may have had moments where you were baffled by some of the works that have been proclaimed ‘masterpieces’ and have sold for astronomical amounts of money. Just what the heck are all those ‘isms’ that live under the umbrella of Modern Art anyway? Impressionism, Surrealism, Cubism, Minimalism… The list goes on.

Sunday, May 9, 2021

Saturday Morning Class

May 24 @ 9:30 am - 11:30 am PDT

|Recurring Event (See all)

| $20

Physically, mentally, spiritually exhilarating. Verbally guided and often music accompanied.

Saturday Morning Class provides a safe and nurturing space for exploration of present moment thoughts, feelings, and sensations expressed through the body. Inner-directed and self-permission based, we include the foundation of safe and dynamic body trainings, which include, but are not limited to: warming up, stretching, strengthening and the cultivation of strong heart and lungs – all at each participants’ level of fitness, ability, and willingness to engage.

Friday, May 7, 2021

WING SPAN (On Zoom)

May 22

“I want to feel that we can touch each other through the screen towards a new kind of intimacy. Listening with the ear of the heart, seeing with the eye of the heart, speaking from the voice of the heart through the screens that we share. Let’s find our way into this landscape of creativity and possibility together.” – Lorca

An eruption of soul straight from the heart
Fueling the spirit & casting edges wide
The magic of theatre begins here…

Come spread your wings, free your mind, expand your imagination, magnify your curiosity, and illuminate your breath in the beat. Awaken and sharpen those places in yourself that need a rewire, recharge, a realigning back to what is most original and true.

Let Your Yoga Dance June Salon

Let Your Yoga Dance June Salon

June 8 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT

| $5

6:00-7:30pm EDT (5:00-6:30pm CDT, 4:00-5:30pm MDT, 3:00-4:30 PDT)

ANNOUNCING an evening concert with the great sing-songwriter Linda Worster. She will take you to the land of JOY AND FUN where you will also MEET DEEP AND SACRED. This is our second Let Your Yoga Dance Salon! Please come and bring your friends for a wonderful evening on ZOOM!

Pray, Dance, Aloha: “ABIDE”

May 11 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm HST

| Free

Women’s Moon Dance Gathering:

Let us honour the Creator of the Creation by creating danced prayer within the NEW MOON! If you believe in the power of prayer, and that dance can be utilized for sacred purposes, then come create with women from around the world as faith and movement co-mingle to manifest miracles in the HERE and NOW!

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Wild Mindfulness (Heartbeat In Training)

June 20

A day workshop near Padova on a private property with a large park and lovely wooden flowed hall.

Returning to the present moment at The Sanctuary

June 24

Theme- Returning to the present moment. Join Caitriona Ni Ghiollophádraig for a celebration of movement and dance on her 2hr Zoom Workshop as she combines cutting-edge neuroscience with the 5 rhythms movement practice of Gabrielle Roth. You can experience renewed vitality, less stress and greater health in mind and body no matter what your age or physical condition, or gender, so come along and be prepared to get active and have some fun.

Nature of the Heart

June 25 - June 27

Surrounded by the mystical, ancient red rock desert of Moab, Utah, we journey on a vision quest to unearth our hearts and reclaim our aliveness.

Friday 7 – 9:30 pm

ALIVE (Heartbeat In Training)

July 2 - July 4

When the movement is awakened by our senses and our instincts, it creates itself organically, free and spontaneous. Our body then dances its primal art form, finds pleasure, unfolds our life force, and creates intuitively. The voice offers the ultimate extension of our presence in the world, it expresses what is alive for us, offers a path to the emotions, allows us to release tensions in the body, and to connect to our power and our inner unity.

Cultivate Being: a 5Rhythms and Art Residential Workshop

What would happen if you got nothing done today?

If your ‘to do’ list turned into a ‘be’ list?

Can emptiness feel good?

We lose ourselves in the hundred details that keep life in forward motion. When we’re fixing we stop noticing how perfectly right things are. Life’s treadmill can overwhelm us. When we hop off for a moment, move even just a little bit away, perspective ripens. Take this opportunity to drop all the doing. Retreat in the cradle of community for more than a few breaths as we give ourselves collective permission to just be.

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Online Workshop: Be Moved with Rosario Sammartino and Joshua McClain

June 27 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am PDT

| $30

Sunday, June 27th, 9-11AM PST

A collaboration between somatic expressive arts therapist Rosario Sammartino and cellist Joshua McClain, the Tamalpa Be Moved workshop invites you to journey into your body’s own dynamic melodies, dive into feeling and imagination, and move to the rhythm of discovery. Let the powerful vibrations of the cello, combined with the evocative teachings of the Tamalpa Life/Art Process open you up to the stories your body has to tell.

Ecstatic Dance

May 6 @ 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

| $20Ecstatic Dance is a substance free, barefoot movement practice releasing the dancer from the egocentric self, undoing self-consciousness and connecting to their intuitive rhythm.

Dance of Seven Chakras

Dance of Seven Chakras

June 11 @ 8:00 am - June 16 @ 5:00 pm CEST

In this life-changing process you will dance your heart open, expanding your capacity for self-love, using the powerful process of Dance Energy Transformation, to transform your pain and negative emotions.

Dance First Member Insight from Alexis Mulhauser, founder of Nourish the Essence!

This week’s Dance First Member Insight is from Bay Area-based Alexis Mulhauser, Nia Technique, Self-Breema, and Yin Yoga facilitator and founder of Nourish the Essence.

“Learning to Teach; Teaching to Learn”

Bringing expression to the dancefloor during COVID.

It never occurred to me a year and a half ago that I would find myself writing an article on my experience teaching people to move, dance, and experience connection through Zoom. This sudden change in my outer life catapulted me into a deeper exploration of movement, dance, and self-connection. Over the last year of the pandemic, I have found great support and benefit from saying yes to the experience of being connected within myself – and with sharing that with others through teaching Nia and Self-Breema online classes.

Monday Love to your Musical Moments of Maturity

“Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.”

~ Lois McMaster Bujold

(Please enjoy these further recollections about growing up under the influence of vinyl)

“In which a curious youngster discovers that music may have consciousness-raising effects.”

5th grade saw me uprooted from the cattle ranch and Scenic Elementary, my father had had enough of raising cattle and had got back to his roots developing real estate. We sold the ranch and relocated to Clifton, on the far side of the Grand Valley where he had built an “adults-only mobile home park” in other words an upscale trailer park for retirees. We lived in a model unit modular home in the center of the park, and I was the only youth among the 49 residences.

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