Inside Outside will be an ongoing group holding us in community, movement, expression and quiet as we stay with ourselves in different landscapes and aspects. Each module will hold an invitation, a theme to move from and explore the within and without of our-selves in these times we are living through.
In this drop in Open Floor class, through movement, all kinds of music, good company and a good map, time and again we find ways to connect to ourselves and each other – even online. I’m so curious about the marrying of the collective web we tap into on Zoom/ in cyber space.
This week’s Dance First Insight is on the Conscious Dance Festival, this October in Berlin!
The CONSCIOUS DANCE FESTIVAL® was born from the desire to use movement as a way of reaching into the very centre of our being. It’s an opportunity to get to know and to experience different movement practices that help you to get into your body and, from there, to open up towards a more conscious life.
Have you ever looked at something and wondered just how in the heck the laws of physics actually work?
There’s a big dance going on around us every day between forces we can’t see and objects we interact with physically. We take things like inertia and gravity and the laws of motion for granted because we swim in them every moment, much like a fish swimming in water.
Berlin WE LOVE YOU! And we love dancing with you
In this workshop, we will explore, with our whole body and with our amazing creativity of movement, this feeling of aliveness and well-being in our heart. This ability to meet the ups and downs of our life with authenticity and perspective.
When you think about getting into flow, what comes to mind for you?
A lot of people think about activities of inner contemplation, like journaling, meditating or even taking a few minutes to just breathe…
A little-known Medicine Dance 1-hour session every Friday 12noon Pacific Time
Use guided self-initiated movement to access information and inspiration.
Sponsored by Women In Technology International (WITI) Wellbeing Center
Mystica is en blijft vaste gast bij ons. De sets van ★ Mystica ★ kenmerken zich door een kleurrijk palet van zorgvuldig gekozen nummers die met een zekere intentie of gevoel resoneren, die zij vervolgens weeft tot een kunstwerk dat spreekt van emotie, een spiritueel inzicht en levenservaring. Het verhaal van haar sets gaat soms diep, over de viering van het leven, inspireert of wakkert de helende werking van muziek aan.
“It’s about trust. Trusting that your body knows what to do. It made itself, whatever it is and whoever you are. Nobody else knows what’s going on the way you do.” – Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
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.
This week’s Dance First Insight is on Caroline Kleindienst & Somatic Healing Arts Maui!
Caroline Kleindienst, MA, RSMT is a registered somatic movement therapist, expressive arts practitioner, and artist living on Maui, Hawaii.
Caroline uses various healing modalities to gain a deeper relationship to your body, discover your true self, and open your life to new possibilities for passion, purpose, and love.
When it comes to your belongings, do you consider yourself a collector? Or do you simply accumulate things?
Some folks are able to go through life barely owning anything, while others tend to amass vast amounts of stuff. You and I, and most average folks out there fall somewhere in between.
There’s a huge difference between carefully collecting and organizing some specific sort of items and simply letting stuff pile up. Collectors tend to obsess over the details as well as knowing the background, history, and minutia of whatever it may be that they’re obsessed with.
This workshop is a quest for reconnection.
To Truth, Integrity, Love and Presence.
Many of us are habitually self critical unable to give ourselves love
and acceptance. Often carrying old shame stories we unconsciously look
outside to get the affection and positive feedback we have not yet
learned to give ourself.
Improvised somatically guided movement.
Experiential anatomy and embryological embodied stories.
Council – style sharing.
“Mindful body awareness awakens you to your inner world… This” key to wellbeing invites you to pay attention to your felt sense. As you get to know the territory of your inner landscape you will learn to trust your gut as a kind of compass that wisely guides your decisions and actions in the world. – Arielle Schwartz
Free Online Event
July 12 @5:30pm PT
Replay: July 16 @11am PT
Enjoy a short dance practice to activate peace and passion, and a talk about how sacred dance offers a path to awaken the feminine energies that we need today to usher in a new vision of the sacredness and unity of all life.
This week’s Dance First Insight is from Ilona Glinarsky and Living Tango!
I wanted to share with you that I have resumed my tango-inspired events and classes after having to completely shut down for almost two years. So relieved to see that things are picking up and people are more eager to dance and connect than ever.
Just recently, I revived my annual LA Summer Tango Marathon and it was a huge success! Whew! Also, being that I am originally from Kyiv, Ukraine and still have family there, the subject of war in Ukraine has been deeply affecting me. I have struggled with seeing what is happening with my homeland and its people. So, I’ve created a couple of Tango fundraisers and managed to raise almost 7K for humanitarian aid for Ukrainian citizens who’ve lost their homes and their loved ones.
Is it just me, or is the Full Moon energy really powerful this time around? More often than not when there’s a big full moon in the sky I find myself sleeping less, waking up in the middle of the night, and generally navigating what seems like all kinds of crazy energy in my world.
Apparently, the Full Moon coming up this Wednesday is a SuperMoon, (meaning that it’s full while it’s at or near the closest point to Earth in its orbit). It’s the largest one of the year, and third out of four in a row, we’ve got one more coming up in August.
This week’s Dance First Insight is from Emma Dance and 5Rhythms!
The 5Rhythms Movement and dance meditation is my life’s work.
I feel privileged to have been able to bring it to diverse communities. It has given me witness to the most profound depth and beauty in the artistic movement enquiry of human experience, both dark and light.
I have been dancing the 5Rhythms movement meditation practice for over 30 years and after diving into the practice for my own self healing from trauma for 10 years, I took the path as a teacher of the practice and trained with Gabrielle Roth the founder, to teach in 2001. Since then, I have travelled to different parts of the Globe and London’s suburbs taking the dance to a wide audience of disadvantaged communities, prison, addiction recovery and youth at risk and children living in the slums in Kolkata India. This disparate range of communities has become invaluable in expanding my teaching skills and insight into all walks of life, keeping me plugged into a reality of human survival where this dance can be of real service.
Do you ever think about compost? I know, I know, not the first thing that comes to mind on Independence Day morning. But then again, perhaps it’s a useful analogy.
First there’s a flower, then there is a fruit. Picture it, a peach, radiant in its ripeness. Bursting with flavor, delectable, just asking to be eaten or made into a scrumptious dessert.
Seemingly independent in and of itself, a ripe peach is an apt symbol of perfection. And yet, think of the interdependencies that come to play to create that delectable morsel of fruit.
In Heartbeat we explore our emotions as energy, as power, as part of being human. Old feelings that have been locked in our limbs or caged in our chest begin to shake loose. We get comfortable with feelings, neither hanging onto them nor pushing them away.
Join us for a rejevuenating weekend in nature, rustic cabins, hiking, floating down the Rainbow River ( fresh water spring with 75 degree crystal clear water) and dancing….connecting… creating with community.
