Free community offering to learn rest & restoration practices in cultivating community care as part of caring for ourselves and each other.
We’re so excited to announce our fall community event – Rest Refill Renew: Reclaiming Rest as Community Care on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022 at El Sereno Community Garden.
As winter approaches, our energy begins to turn inwards. We are often called to return to home base, to sit at our own Hearth, to reflect and tend to our own inner fire.
This three-part series is an opportunity to stir, explore, and embody the natural movement and intelligence of our hearts – to gather with others in a committed group and to be warmed, enlivened, and encouraged by what we may discover, witness, and share.
“God Sex and the Body is and always will be a profound and integral part of the 5Rhythms® curriculum. It has personally informed my way of being, my teaching style, and, most deeply, my acceptance of who I am and who I am not.” — Gabrielle
When you think of personal transformation, what comes to mind?
You’ve probably seen how most people allow themselves to be influenced by whatever’s going on in their lives, or by the news, or their bank balance. They wait for changes to magically happen, and they let their moods get hijacked by things that happen “to” them.
But personal transformation starts when you make a shift to choose what mood you will be in – and the mood you are in dictates what experiences you are magnetizing in your life.
Monday, October 31, 2022
8-10am PST / 3-5pm UTC / 6:30-8:30pm IRST
Calling all lightworkers to join Banafsheh, Marianne Williamson,
Lynne McTaggart, and Jim Garrison in a shared intention to support,
uplift, and send love to Iranians who are courageously standing up to
the insidious inhumanity of the Islamic gangster regime for their
inherent right to live freely as human beings.
By sharing this intention for freedom in Iran we can catalyze a shift
beyond the clutch of fear and the violence of doing nothing toward a
forgotten path of what is sacred and worth rising for within all of us —
and all of life. But only if we stand together.
This week’s Dance First Insight is from Jamie McHugh and Tamalpa!
Embodying Nature, Becoming Ourselves by Jamie McHugh We are elements of nature: our soma and psyche are reflections of the planet. This relationship between the inner and outer ecosystems is key to any discussion about ecosomatics. Many conversations about ecology, with all of the doom and gloom statistics, often overwhelm people with despair. It is hard to hold a space for hope when fear arises. Returning to a direct sensory encounter with the natural world, though, can awaken a powerful passion and connection.
Here’s the latest in the “who would have thought?” file. Did you know that cassette tapes are making a huge comeback? What on earth could be driving people to breathe life back into this long-forgotten format? If the vinyl revival is perplexing then the resurgence of cassette culture is downright confounding.
If you think the vinyl revival had them stumped, this one really has the pundits scratching their heads. What on earth is going on with cassettes? Why would anyone want to revive a cheap and funky format that most people assumed was dead and gone for good?
Well, one theory is that it all comes down to the magnets. To analyze cassette culture objectively, it would seem that for some sensitive folks no amount of inconvenience or hassle will stop them from getting that electromagnetic feeling.
Schedule and dates of modules and thematic courses of the AP 9 :
The Long Dance ceremony is a way to join in deep community to dance, sing and pray together for all our relations. After a gap of two years, it will happen for the 12th year in a large marquee in a magical valley in South Devon in the South West of the UK. The ceremony provides a profoundly healing,
We invite dancers from all 8 Generations of Movement Medicine apprentices to this year’s Winter Dream Dance.
The Winter Dream Dance will offer a held gathering space for all generations of apprentices and will lead into the 48-hour Winter Dream Dance ceremony.
Movement Medicine is a deeply creative dance practice that will reconnect you to the wisdom of living from the heart, the joy of knowing who you are and the satisfaction of making your unique contribution to life.
At the darkest point of the year, Ya’Acov invites you to join him for a rare UK workshop at the beautiful Rill Estate in Devon, UK, to reflect on and digest all that we have lived through in the previous twelve months.
This week’s Dance First Insight is from Evangelos Diavolitsis and Four Ways To Freedom!
Evangelos Diavolitsis means “Angel-Devil.”
From a young age, I was baffled by our human existence and struggled to find meaning in a seemingly difficult world. Blessed with a Greek philosophical mind, a polite Canadian upbringing and a longing for the pleasures of life, I was propelled into an early life of hard knocks and extremes (mostly self-induced).
Here’s a conundrum for you. What is the one thing that is essential, yet we often seek to avoid? Why is this bad for us in excess, yet valuable in small quantities? The benefits can be replicated by taking a pill, yet the real thing is freely available nearly every day.
Pondering yet again one of the great mysteries in this dance of life. It’s the root of many philosophies and seemingly the source of great wisdom. Without it, everything in nature would perish, too much of it, the world becomes a wasteland.
Trauma/Tension Release Exercises, commonly known as TRE, is a practice created by David Berceli, Ph.D. “TRE is an innovative series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma.” (Berceli). By utilizing these low impact movements along with self-regulation techniques, individuals can activate a safe natural reflex mechanism of shaking, often called a neurogenic tremor. The provider will guide you through the exercises while maintaining a safe and controlled environment allowing you to tremor or shake out existing muscular tension.
Come sing with us! Kirtan is from the Indian tradition of Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of devotion, and is practiced by group singing of simple mantras and the names of the divine in various archetypal forms. Whether one comes to kirtan for a sense of community, the joy of devotion, or the pure love of singing, chanting together can lead us to connect with the peace and stillness that is inherent within each of us. No prior experience is necessary.
This week’s Dance First Insight is from Lorca Simons & Live Wire!
“I believe in the power of motion, the wisdom of gravity, the emptiness of true love, the fact that there is no way out but through the body, no way up unless we all go together, no way down unless we follow the beat, no way in unless we embrace the dark.” Gabrielle Roth
Hello Dancers and Shakers,
Lorca here. Hello! I want to share what the 5Rhythms theatre wing, LIVE WIRE has been up to.
When do you get your best ideas? Have you ever paid attention to where or when good ideas appear? Conversely, have you ever noticed how hard it is to come up with a good idea on demand when you’re staring at a blank page?
If only there was some scientific research or a proven methodology to jumpstart your idea-forming process. Wouldn’t it be great if we could turn on inspiration with the flick of a switch?
Good ideas are like the spark that starts a fire. You might have plenty of time, all the resources you need, and the wherewithal to do a project, but without the flash of inspiration that ties it all together you’re going nowhere.
3 Thursdays: December 1, 8, 15 | 10 AM-12 PM PDT | $70/series
Who have I been, who am I now, how will I re-vision myself?
The closing of the calendar year provides an opportunity to mark the cycle of time, to take stock of where and who we’ve been, and to envision our future. As 2022 comes to a close and 2023 awaits us, we use the Tamalpa Life/Art Process to reflect on who we’ve been this last year, who we are today, and who we want to become. Using the power of drawing, dance, creative writing and community, we explore ourselves through a self-portrait process that can help us mark the passage of time and tend to our growth.
4 Wednesdays, Nov 30 – Dec 21 | 10 – 11:45 AM Pacific time | Cost: $80
As we approach Winter Solstice, we can consciously connect with sources of light within and around us by engaging with the expressive arts. We will explore what in our Life/Art provides illumination, and also dance with forms of light in the natural world, during this season of darkness. Weekly sharing in small groups helps to build a sense of creative community, and to affirm our individual and collective radiance!
4 Mondays, Nov. 28, Dec. 5, 12 & 19 | 10 – 11:30 AM Pacific Time | $70
The winter solstice marks a transition between seasons, inviting us to turn inward and make space for renewal. In this end-of-the-year movement workshop, we respond somatically, shift with the changing rhythms of our bodies, and slow down. Movement Ritual and Dance Explorations weave in sensations, feelings, and images, as we find inspiration from darkness and light, honoring the transitions between.
4 Thursdays, October 13, 20, 27, November 3 | 10-11:45am PT | $80/series
From a physiological perspective the human heart is an organ central to the circulatory system. From an archetypal perspective the human heart is an organ central to our imagination, intellect, and aesthetic sensitivity. The intention for this 4-week series is to explore, express, embody, and bridge into your life, the wisdom of your own heart. Participants will enter the somatic, imaginal, and relational realms of their heart and will learn that there is a connective tissue, a fluid rich membrane, between those realms. At the end of the series participants will gain embodied and creative resources to cultivate a practice of connecting with the heart, speaking from the heart, listening to the heart and, most importantly, trusting the heart’s wisdom in their day-to-day lives and relationships.
4 Fridays: October 7, 14, 21, 28 | 10-11:30AM PDT | $70/series
Celebrate the marriage of Embodiment and Creativity so central to Tamalpa and Anna Halprin’s approach. Each class begins with guided explorations of the body — deepening into sensation, awareness, movement, and presence — then moving into creative expression through dance, drawing, and creative writing. Through the arts we forge meaning between our creativity and our bodily experience, exploring themes such as breath, gravity, and space – physically, metaphorically, and artistically.
As we fall together into this time of trouble and transformation, what is your contribution to the collective?
This will be a highly focussed movement-based workshop designed to bring dreams to earth and empower choices ahead that impact yourself and your people in service to our world.
A weekly group experience of movement, presence and enquiry. Simple steps to encourage empowerment, connection and community.
Moving Paths is a connection builder, within ourselves and between each other. It’s local, small-scale, real, sometimes messy and confronting, often deeply moving. Much like love.
This week’s Dance First Insight is from Moti Zemelman & Contact Improv!
9th annual Contact Improv Retreat in Costa Rica w/ Moti: Feb 11-18, 2023 @ The Goddess Garden Yoga Resort – Cahuita, Costa Rica.
Contact Improvisation has continued to be an anchor for me during these challenging pandemic years. Having a regular practice that is about connection, relaxation and joy is key to living a healthy meaningful life. I’m inspired by the idea of having pleasure and willpower be a regular part of my movement practice. Feeling the pleasure of each micro-movement, the sensation of air on skin, leaves crunching under my feet, the delight of seeing my dance partner laughing as they slide down to the ground using my stable torso and limbs. This pleasure is one of our biggest resources.
If society is like the house we live in, what makes up the timber in the walls?
While we are all going about our lives in the various rooms of our societal abode, doing things like making a living, getting educated, starting businesses, or having fun, a network of support systems and guard rails sits just beneath the surface, so ubiquitous that we take them for granted and tend to forget they are there.
In a well-functioning society, the joists, studs, and rafters that keep our world together have a bland and boring name: Institutions.
ITALIAN * ENGLISH BELOW
Prendiamoci il tempo per integrare mente e corpo, desideri e bisogni, spirito e materia. Un vero processo di Vision Board fra creatività , mindset e danza per fare il punto dell’anno appena trascorso e costruire uno strumento che ci farà da guida e ispirazione per tutto l’anno a venire.
The Beginning of a new year is a good time to pause, look back at what was, see what is now and set out intentions, hopes, wishes and dreams for 2023.
We will use the 5Rhythms movement practice to let go of the old year from the year gone by…
To appreciate what is valuable in our lives in the present.
To creating dreams of intention for the year ahead.
To tap into our creativity and move with awareness we will use collage making and writing to awaken our creative impulses.
As winter approaches, our energy begins to draw inwards and we are often called to return to home base, to sit at our own Hearth, and to tend to our inner fire.
This three-part series is an opportunity to stir, explore, and embody the natural movement and intelligence of our hearts – to gather with others in a committed group and to be warmed, enlivened, and encouraged by what we may discover, witness, and share.
