CATCH A DEEPER WAVE!
Find the magical powers in the 5 rhythms.
Monika Ortner (CH) and Otto Richter (USA / DE) will clearly and lovingly help you to tap into the energy of Samhain. At this ancient Celtic festival we can harvest what has grown within us so that we can go into the dark season well nourished and with a lot of strength.
Actually I had planned 3 weekends, now there are only 2 weekends left. I had to cancel the first appointment due to Corona. But when we have learned one thing through Corona, always stay in the flow and be supple and flexible.
Caitríona hopes to hold this workshop live at The Sanctuary Dublin 10am to 4pm.
A day combining Mindfulness Self Compassion (MSC) and 5 Rhythms Movement Practice.
MSC enables us to respond to difficult moments in our life with kindness, care and understanding.
Atem (brief Englisch description below)
Zum Jahreswechsel 2021/2022 nehmen wir uns Zeit Atem zu holen. Wie und wo sind wir gerade hier? Was kommt mit ins neue Jahr? Was lassen wir los? Wie verbinden wir uns miteinander? Inwieweit sind wir mit uns selbst verbunden? Inwieweit sind wir verwurzelt im Leben und wo darf etwas Neues entspringen?
This weeks Dance First Member Insight is from Banafsheh Sayyad, creator of Dance of Oneness.
Greetings dancers,
Empowerment comes from taking a courageous stance not just for ourselves but also on behalf of everything we love. The circle of the self is completed when we extend our embrace, our care, and our protection to nature, the environment, the world; to wherever there is a need. We feel embraced back when we extend compassion and care – and we become empowered because we live with purpose. “The most powerful starting point for any endeavor is not the question ‘What do I want?’, says Eckhart Tolle, but ‘What does Life want from me? How do I serve the whole?'” It is by serving the whole that we become whole.
How’s your local dance going? Are you getting back together in person? Are classes and workshops in your area getting back to normal?
Then again, what exactly is “normal”? Will things ever be quite like they were, oh, say, two years ago? Back in the “before-time” also known as pre-pandemic it seemed like life would just keep on keeping on and that the idea of society being turned upside-down and outside-in (literally) was ludicrous.
If anything, in some way our innocence has been stripped away and our comfortable illusion of safety has been cast away for good. After a year-and-a-half of masking up, socially distancing, and scrupulously sanitizing, we certainly have a better grasp on what it takes to keep us and our loved ones protected in the face of danger and uncertainty
“Unleashing our power through the Rhythms and their shadows”
First we will find ways to be awake in the body, in the heart and in the mind as we move through the 5 Rhythms, exploring in depth their energy and hidden treasures, letting them teach us their medicine: fluidity, focus, surrender, creative freedom and connection.
For the eleventh time we’re offering the wonderful combination of dance and sweatlodge this time in winter 2021
We will combine the 5Rhythms dance meditation practice with the ancient sweatlodge ritual during a weekend at beautiful Kura Waka’s. Inviting the energy of midsummer to make visible what wants to be seen and also what wants to hide. Listening to the wisdom of our body and unique movement guided by the 5Rhythms Waves map Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness and to embrace all that you are!!
6th annual retreat. Dance & soak. 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
With the map of the 5 rhythms we arrive completely in the presence and align body, mind and emotion.
In Flowing we strengthen the motherly energies and nourish the unconditional love for life. Rooted feet dance freely on this earth.
In Staccato we learn to express ourselves and how to set and defend limits. We bring into life what is important to us. Fiery hips swinging in the rhythms of creativity and passion.
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Bildungsurlaub 5Rhythmen® dance
balance inside and outside
The 5Rhythms 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.
Join us in a special collaboration with the Women of Color Collective in celebration of the summer solstice!
In this two-hour workshop, we will cultivate the fire within us through breathwork, meditation, and dance!
Fire offers us warmth, passion, drive, and it presents us the opportunity to transmute, heal, grow, release and renew in order to manifest and embody our dreams.
Reconnect with your body, tune into your inner wisdom, and manifest your heart-felt desires with greater ease and joy. This class series focuses on supporting the manifestation of one summer goal or intention you have with Dance from the Heart.
Craving a nurturing sacred container to explore new moon magic in July? Join us in an evening of grounding, centering, dance, and meditation as we move through and invoke the sacred elements to support our greatest, highest healing.
Reconnect with your body, tune into your inner wisdom, and manifest your heart-felt desires with greater ease and joy. This class series focuses on supporting the manifestation of one summer goal or intention you have with Dance from the Heart.
5 Wednesdays, September 1-29,10-11:30AM, Pacific Daylight Time
$75/ series
https://www.tamalpa.org/calendar/online-series-equilibrium-fall-equinox-explorations-with-elisabeth-osgood-campbell
Fall Equinox (September 22 in the northern hemisphere), is one of two days during the year when the amount of daylight equals the amount of darkness. This date also signals the “official” start of autumn when we harvest the bounty of the Earth.
4 Thursdays, September 2, 9, 16, &23, 9-10:30am PDT
$60/series
“Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.” ~ Meister Eckhart
Join us for a 4-week class series and dive into creative inquiries to
embody radical presence, develop self-compassion, and unearth your
body’s resiliency this Summer.
Workshop features the Tamalpa Life/Art® methodology: embodied anatomy,
somatic movement, drawing, creative writing, and improvisation.
4 Mondays, September 20 – October 11, 10am-12pm PDT
$80/series
Through the lens of Indigenous wisdom, we humbly re-learn and remember
our interconnectedness with people and land. We tap into nature’s bodies
to reconnect with who we are — our creation stories or cultural origins
that live within our bones. Where do we come from? What is my ocean?
What is my mountain? Who are my people?
Inspired by exploring dances with Anna Halprin in the natural
environment, this workshop evokes sensations, feelings, and imagination
as we find reflections of ourselves in nature. Using the practices of the
Life-Art Process, we create and hold space to dance, witness, and learn
from each other.
4 Thursdays, September 2, 9, 16, &23, 9-10:30am PDT
$60/series
“Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.” ~ Meister Eckhart
Join us for a 4-week class series and dive into creative inquiries to
embody radical presence, develop self-compassion, and unearth your
body’s resiliency this Summer.
Workshop features the Tamalpa Life/Art® methodology: embodied anatomy,
somatic movement, drawing, creative writing, and improvisation.
It’s a big day in the cosmos! Our Mama Earth has teetered just as far as she can possibly go giving us the longest day and the shortest night of the year, (unless you happen to be in the southern hemisphere of course). So Happy Solstice, wherever you may be!
Sacred Dance For The Devotional Woman
* Hula & Tahitian Basics
* Contemporary Sacred Dance
* Heavenly Hawaiian Music
beginner level / dance LIVE or with class replay
In “Dancing out of Trauma” is space for joy of life and humor are as well as the pain from of old wounds. To lift the pain like a treasure in the therapeutic process, and to transform it in the dance, releases strength and bound energy. Lightness and deep therapeutic work complement each other. Dancing out of Trauma
We all need something we can depend on – something solid, trustworthy, and reassuring; somewhere we can sink back into, and feel we belong.
What if we could find these qualities within ourselves?
Dance & Ritual during the sacred magic time between Christmas and New Year.
The 5Rhythms practice provides us with the energetic maps to traverse the territories of the body, heart, mind. Through our dance and movement and other focused creative work, we will identify and move stuck energy, physically, emotionally and psychologically, give it life, and turn it into art to uncover the true nature and greatness of our soul.
8-Session Live Online Course with Banafsheh
July 6 – 30
Tuesdays & Fridays @10-11am PT | 5-6pm UTC | Unlimited Access to Recordings
In this 8-Session Module, activate your center of creativity and will. Find your authentic voice and the ability to express your truth in a coherence between your heart and your head. Mary Magdalene and the Sufi mystic Rabia will inspire us to courageously express
4 Tuesdays, August 3 – 24, 10:30AM-12:30PM PDT
$80/series
Take your theme to the next level – into performative ritual and video document as an artistic keepsake.
4 Mondays, August 9-30, 10-11:30AM PDT
“Imagine how alive you would be if your kinesthetic sense were to be heightened and cultivated beyond its present consciousness.” –Anna Halprin
Sunday, August 22, 9AM-12PM PDT
Recovering from trauma requires that we recuperate the capacity to inhabit our bodies. The Tamalpa Life/Art Process offers an effective therapeutic model that not only recognizes the body in its full dimension, but also facilitates connection to preverbal and symbolic aspects of self, which are beneficial when working with trauma. The language of the arts provides a world beyond analytical thought and conventional communication
This week’s Dance First Member Insight is from Emma Leech, founder of Emma Dance!
~ Stepping out and feeling our way back into a new world, post-pandemic.
Sensing, feeling from my body, instinct turned raw and real, switched on and tuned in. The 5 Rhythms Movement practice has given me a place to lean into these sensations. My spine uncurls, my stomach, my gut is listening. I’m like an animal, feet walking on the earth with even more awareness, plugged into my natural wisdom. The feminine, receptive and intuitive intelligence become my sat nav for living in this new world. We are shaken, broken, dismantled, and disrupted, navigating ourselves back to a path changed forever by the human collective – this pandemic earthquake.
Here’s to hoping your living is easy this summer. When you walk outside and the air feels like a flannel shirt turned inside out and the light has a glint to it like water on a frogs back, you know it has arrived.
Flowers are coming and going at a rapid pace, some linger for weeks while others make a huge splash for just a day or so. (like my San Pedro’s above, 48 hours and it’s over. However, they usually make one or two repeat performances before the summer is over.)
At the top of the hill on our pre-breakfast morning walk we witnessed a pair of Tiger Swallowtail butterflies doing an impressive duet. Chasing each other around the bushes near the one spot where the wind stops these two would suddenly whirl around each other in a frenzy going straight up in the air at least fifty feet before diving off in separate directions, only to regroup a few moments later and do it again.
Loving is fierce! At least sometimes. To truly love, we have to be up for being passionate, disturbing the peace and giving our wild-hearted nature some breathing space.
We need harmonious connection with others, but we also have the need for authenticity, and because we are all different, we have to deal with conflict.
“Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.” — Rumi
Yes!
Yes to the body and the beat,
to the awe and the truth, deeper than we know
to the holy communion of instinct and intelligence
to being together where eyes meet hands meet footsteps
Yes to One, the wildly abundant life that we embody
Many seekers and people who serve others (e.g., therapists, teachers, artists) ask questions of this nature. In this day retreat and continuing education program, Dr. Jamie Marich and Irene Rodriguez will help you realize that you and the people you serve have been meditating all along! They incorporate numerous teachings from their respective yoga trainings within traditions that emphasize life as the path of engagement, in addition to their experiences with building the Dancing Mindfulness approach to expressive arts therapy.
Mindfulness is the simple practice of noticing without judgment and returning to the present moment. Moreover, the efficacy of mindfulness-informed clinical interventions are well-established in peer review literature, and the ways of teaching clients mindfulness skills for coping and distress tolerance are ever expanding in the clinical literature. Mindfulness, psychodrama, meditation, and yoga are modalities that can promote wellness and recovery, and the larger traditions of Gestalt psychotherapy and person-centered therapy have a rich tradition of drawing from their wisdom in clinical work.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a comprehensive mindfulness-informed intervention for addressing emotional dysregulation as it manifests in a variety of diagnoses. DBT can be used as a stand-alone intervention, or its numerous components (particularly the skills) can be utilized within a comprehensive paradigm of trauma focused care.
This week’s Dance First Member Insight is from Melissa Michaels, founder of Golden Bridge!
Integration and Emergence!
This past weekend, a small group of Golden Bridge movers and shakers stepped onto the dance floor for the first time in 15 months. With both a well-honed orientation towards solitude and a longing for connection, we entered into a landscape deliciously familiar and a delicate and new situation worthy of great care.
Consensual hugs and words of welcome flowed with familiarity. Yet beloved friend’s faces seemed strangely unfamiliar, all initially cloaked in masks of many colors. Soft and spacious music supported everybody as they slowly came into the room. Attention was uniquely inward.
(further adventures of a musical youth…)
During my fifth grade year, my parents made a decision that would forever mark my life. They were somewhat disillusioned with life in Clifton, Colorado, and were contemplating a major shift. They weren’t sure where they wanted to settle down long-term, and my dad was at an in-between point in his business life, so they came up with a radical idea to pull me out of school for a year and travel around the country to see if there was any place else they would rather be, taking in the sights and educating me in the process. My dad, being the iconoclast that he was, wasn’t happy with any of the ‘recreational vehicles’ that were on the market at the time, so he bought a 1948 Brill bus that had formerly been a Greyhound liner and proceeded to do his own conversion.
“The Way is not in the sky. The Way is in the heart.” – Buddha
My intention as a teacher, and in my own emotional evolution, is to practice staying present with feelings. So it is with great tenderness that I approach this journey into the heart, the part of us that beats and pumps and gives and receives and takes the old and transforms it into the new, purifying us, every minute of every day.
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.
DUE TO COVID, PROOF OF VACCINATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS CLASS. YOU MUST HAVE YOUR VACCINATION CARD TO SHOW WHEN YOU ARRIVE.
ALL STUDENTS REQUIRED TO SIGN A COVID RISK WAIVER, HAVE THEIR TEMPERATURE CHECKED, AND ANSWER A WELLNESS CHECK UPON ARRIVAL
DUE TO COVID, PROOF OF VACCINATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS CLASS. YOU MUST HAVE YOUR VACCINATION CARD TO SHOW WHEN YOU ARRIVE.
ALL STUDENTS REQUIRED TO SIGN A COVID RISK WAIVER, HAVE THEIR TEMPERATURE CHECKED, AND ANSWER A WELLNESS CHECK UPON ARRIVAL
CLASS IS CURRENTLY LIMITED TO 50 STUDENTS ONLY. MASKS OPTIONAL.
There is a creative adventure calling you!
Can you imagine our beautiful Mother Earth as a healed and transformed living planet?
I’m wondering what that would look like for you – I bet we all have our own ideas. Some wacky and wild, some tender and graceful, some radical and revolutionary…
My good friend and colleague Alexis Cohen – visionary artist, creativity mentor, and shamanic practitioner – has created The Art Medicine VOYAGE to explore exactly this.
During this FREE four day virtual creative vision quest, me and a whole crew of other artists, healers and visionaries will co-create an adventure where healing, transformation and creativity come to PLAY.
From 21st May to 18th June we will be in Peter Griffiths hall, with limited tickets and social distancing.
From 25th June, as far as we know, social distancing measures are lifted and we can dance “as normal”!
Here’s the information about the 21st May to 18th June:
There are two smaller groups of one hour each.
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
You can either choose to join one of those groups and stay in it every week, or, you can choose which day suits you better on a week-by-week basis.
If the lockdown ‘roadmap’ goes to plan then we can be more people in the class. We will limit the numbers to aclimatise to the growing group slowly. I’m really sorry if this means there aren’t tickets straight away, feel free to buy a ticket in advance to ensure your space.
Open Floor is a dance meditation practice. Our aim is to become more embodied, to be more comfortable in our own skin, present for anything and everything. When we live an embodied life we are fluid, flexible and free to experience all of the wild and subtle moments that go by, the ones that are heavenly as well as the ones that have us dragging our feet.
From July 3rd we will be back in our glorious venue in Forest Row.
Join us!
1st Saturday of the month
Saturday Night Sweat is a guided 5Rhythms Wave, beginners and experienced movers welcome alike. This group has been dancing together for many years
We follow the 5Rhythms map: Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness. It follows an arc of energy, the beginning and end are soft and slow, and the middle is fast and wild. At the end people often feel transformed. The intention is to allow our moods, textures, flavours to be part of the dance, so we’re not trying to ‘get rid’ or ‘improve’ but instead allow ourselves to be exactly as we are. Our defences have been allowed to soften, our hearts and souls have been tended to. It is connecting and builds strong community bonds, “people who dance together stay together” – not sure who said that but it’s very true.
