Dance to uplift yourself and raise your frequency. Our aim is to create inner and outer harmony: in ourselves, in our relationship with the Earth, with Spirit and with one another through guided and free-style dance, conscious movement, and meditation.
Join Conscious Dance Member and Registered Somatic Movement Educator, Kelsay Myers, and Soul-based Coach, Rebecca Eckland, for a 2-Day in-person Magic of Embodied Metaphor Retreat this summer! We will use a combination of movement, emergent collage, writing and soul-based inquiry to guide you in embodying your inner fire and help you move forward with your creative projects!
Body Positivity Podcast is hosting a 4-Day Virtual Symposium called MIND, BODY, SOUL, MOVEMENT: SHIFT YOUR RESULTS FROM THE INSIDE OUT on Wednesday – Saturday, May 18-21, 2022. Elevate Your Mind. Nourish Your Body. Unleash Your Soul.
This week’s Dance First Insight is from Dr. Birgitte Tan!
Tell Us a Story About a Patient or Client Suffering From Grief and How Dance Therapy Helped
Penelope (name has been changed) had complicated grief from cumulative grief (grief overload) as well as disenfranchise grief (grief downplayed or overlooked by others) for over 40 years. She confided that the only reason she had not committed suicide is for her disabled mother for whom she feels more and more resentment to and wishes her mother would die soon. She revealed that she had not cried since her father left the family 35 years ago. And for 14 years since her divorce, she has lived her life day to day feeling numb like a zombie.
Do you ever wonder about the path not taken? Have you ever considered where you might be at this very moment if you would’ve made a different decision somewhere along the way? The most important question is: How do thoughts like that make you feel?
Your thoughts are just the content. How you feel about them generates the magnetism that either leads you to what you want or repels it from you.
Read More Here
https://consciousdancer.com/monday-love-to-your-path-yet-taken/
Dance and cooking — 3-day retreat
led by Adam Barley and Maria-Carin Gala
Movement and healthy food for body and soul, supported by the beautiful Bala Brook residential centre on the wild land of Dartmoor.
Peace is an inside job, nourished by movement, wholesome foods and good company. So let’s DANCE, COOK, EAT AND CONNECT!
When we are facing unknown futures on every level, when we’re scared, angry or hurting — that’s when we need steady ground within us.
That’s when we need an instinct for the truth, to find our way in the dark.
Would you like some time in nature, to move and dance with a big group of people led by facilitators from different disciplines?
Adam from ZeroOne, but also there’s Movement Medicine, Contact Improv, Tantra, Qi Gong, BMC, GAGA, bodywork, breathwork and more. Wow . . .
Fear is real: our early warning system for danger, vital in times like these. It is primal, instinctive, and holds enormous power if we can find the courage to face it, feel it, and go through it.
Dance and cooking — a 1-day retreat
led by Adam Barley and Maria-Carin Gala
Peace is an inside job, greatly supported by movement, wholesome foods and good company. So let’s DANCE, COOK, EAT AND CONNECT!
We will weave together movement practice with cooking delicious plant-based and gluten-free food, feasting and story-telling
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 cycle of several weeks, 3 hours on a Wednesday morning. You’re with the same small group of people for that time, then it opens up to newcomers if there’s space for the next cycle.
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#Evolution #falling #edge #catapulted #sense
This week’s Dance First Insight is from Lamara Heartwell!
When we push our bodies hard without compassion — using, abusing, exploiting, or unconsciously depleting our inner resources — we are mirroring a larger pattern of a dysfunctional relationship with Mother Earth.
This destructive pattern has become so commonplace in Western culture that we think of it as normal.
We degrade our bodies in the name of accomplishment, productivity, money, or success — to prove our worthiness.
This toxic approach can put you in a degenerative cycle of high stress, tension, and bodily pain that keeps you feeling out of balance and unable to stay present with people you love — and blocks your ability to authentically express yourself.
All it takes to step out of this unhealthy rhythm is a conscious decision to gently and lovingly regenerate your body by reconnecting it with its own intuitive ways of moving (like a baby moves) and the naturally restorative rhythms of nature.
Did you know you have a superpower? You might’ve never even noticed that you have it. Well here’s a little secret. If you’re anything like me you have the power to make things invisible!
Wait a second, let’s back up a little bit. I think everyone has this power to some degree, some of us more than others. And superpower may not be precisely the right term, too much of this ability could be detrimental.
What I’m really talking about is entropy. I recently had the sudden insight that invisibility is a hidden property of entropy.
Hallo lieve dansers
Massage Dans is een zachte beweging op rustige, inspirerende muziek. We
laten de dans ontstaan, zonder doel en/of intentie. We uiten ons met
sensitiviteit, emotie, in vrijheid, speelsheid en creativiteit. We
brengen rust en verstilling in onze dans. Massagedans is een dans van
aanraken en (aan)geraakt worden.
To potovanje je klic, da raztegnemo svojo domišljijo z davno pozabljeno nedolžnostjo in se premaknemo skozi spekter ženskih in moških arhetipov, da te like oblečemo v ritualno gledališče, vstopimo v njih in jim damo izraz. Nihče drug ne more biti moški ali ženska tako kot vi.
Inspired by Sonya Renee Taylor and her book, The Body Is Not An Apology, InBloom Spring Festival is a free community offering to honor the beauty and vitality of everybody, unapologetically embrace ourselves and our bodies in a collective statement. Inbloom festival will host an array of healers, interactive art installations, vendors, meditation and a sound bath to honor and respect the body in all its authentic expressions. As we learn how to free ourselves from body shame due to toxic narratives based in racism, colonialism, limiting binaries, and patriarchal norms, and under capitalism, we create a space within ourselves and as a community to reimagine our relationships to our own body and the planet in the best way possible. Our event will take place at El Sereno Community Garden and invites community members to embrace radical self-love.
This week’s Dance First Insight is from Critical Mass Dance Company!
Trauma-Informed Principles in Action: Working for CMDC
Working for Critical Mass Dance Company (CMDC), I’ve witnessed and experienced trauma-informed principles for myself in a workplace for the first time in my adult life. This experience in and of itself helps me to continue to heal my relationship with being in community.
CMDC’s movement modality, Dance from the Heart (DFTH), is a trauma-informed, community-based embodiment practice designed to help people practice bringing their greatest dreams into the world. And, this trauma-informed approach extends beyond class participants to our staff as well.
Read More Here
https://consciousdancer.com/monday-love-to-your-ideas-and-instincts/
#Monday #Instincts #Pauling #Listening #ideas
This week’s Dance First Insight is from Kristen Mangione and LILA – Dance Alchemy for the Soul!
After two years of isolating in a completely upside-down world, what does it mean to reemerge and dance in a shared space now?
I asked others to join me in answering this question in our first in-person LÎLA Dance Alchemy for the Soul event since the pandemic began. Originally, LÎLA had been an in-person group embodiment journey, melding guided dance/movement improvisation with creative exploration while journeying through the energetic centers of the chakras and meridian systems
Do you ever feel like sometimes you need a little jolt? What kind of nudge from the universe do you get that brings you into the present moment? Do you ever run across something that gives you perspective and helps you take the big picture view?
