VITAL
Sunday May 10th, Brighton UK
A day of dancing inside/outside on Brighton Beach - tending to our own aliveness; exploring, embodying, expressing and enjoying ourselves...
We need our vitality. Our aliveness. Our get up and go.
In this afternoon workshop we will tending to our own aliveness by dancing inside/outside of the stunning Yellowave studio right on Brighton Beach using “silent disco” headsets.
“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.” ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
5 Rhythms dance is the bases of our enquiry- in this dance practice our movement come from own internal impulses. There are no steps to learn and nothing that we need to do right. We are gently challenged to move in new ways-to dive deeper into the experience of being alive, to grow our range and reach of movement and to try on embodying new ways of being. Vital. Vivid. Visceral. Real.
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” - W.B.
Why does movement matter? To put simply it’s a practice. When our bodies move our lives literally move, we’re in better shape, we cultivate choices and can make changes. we engage with our own energy, coming into contact with our own vital life force. Working with the body is an excellent short cut to tapping into the deeper feeling currents within us and to bring about change in our outer lives.
We will also work with eco-somatics- strengthening our connection with the natural world around us. Cultivating our feeling of being here, belonging, being a part of it all…
Be warmly welcomed.
Whom is this for? If you have a body you can dance!
We welcome all genders, races, faiths, nationalities and abilities. Mavericks and misfits are welcome!
These events are not suitable for those under 18-we work with diving deeply into our own internal world and so a depth of developmental maturity is required.
Super early bird rate (until the 10th January 2020): £35 / £30 concessions
Early bird (10th January to the 31st March 2020) £40/£35
Regular price: £45/ £40 concessions
Full refund up to 30 days before.
WORKSHOP ARCHIVE BELOW
Women Wisdom, Wildness Wonder.
A Sunday soul tending session.
Sunday 7th June. Sussex UK
We will gather as group of women exploring what is means to be both wild and wise in our lives. How can we tend to our (so needed) wild soul- our inner experience and still be sensible, self- sustaining adults?
How can we make room for wonder amidst all that we must tend to day today? How can we make space amidst the busyness to find the wisdom within us?
This will be an afternoon that gives us space to connect- to ourselves, to each other, to the lovely land around us.
We will dance the 5Rhythms (hopefully out of doors with the silent disco headsets if the weather is good)
We will use the creative arts to listen in deep to what is true for each of us.
We will sit in circle on the land hearing each others hearts.
We embody what we need to see us through.
( if the weather is awful then we will do all of this indoors inside the super-sweet Iford Villege Hall).
Moving with the Mystery
Retreat Day, near San Fran USA
Sunday 18th August 2019
Moving with the mystery- tending to our own transformation.
Dancing outdoors in shady oak grove out on 200 acres of stunning private land in North Marin -just 40 minutes North of San Francisco.
"We have not been raised to cultivate a sense of Mystery. We may even see the unknown as an insult to our competence, a personal failing. Seen this way, the unknown becomes a challenge to action. But Mystery does not require action; Mystery requires our attention. Mystery requires that we listen and become open. When we meet with the unknown in this way, we can be touched by a wisdom that can transform our lives.” - Rachel Naomi Remen
We will begin with a morning 5 Rhythms dance session out on the land. There are no dance steps to learn and nothing to "get right", just a willingness to dive deeply into the dance and to be with our own experience.
When we dance we get to explore those those myriad of mysterious worlds within us. Using the dance to drop in deep. Moving with our own mystery.
Tending to our own transformation.
Re-member meaning to let it back inside our limbs, to literally “coming to our senses.”
Creating space to connect- inside, outside.
Dance sessions will take place using "silent disco" headsets so that there is no noise pollution to the surrounding environment -with music and gentle guidance delivered through the headsets.
For lunch we will have a delicious farm-to-table shared feast together in the EarthRise restaurant.
In the afternoon we will start with a simple-sharing circle in the shady oak grove; finishing up with another deep-dive dance session out under the cover of the trees, coming back in to close contact with the mystery, within us and around us.
"One morning you might wake up to realize that the knot in your stomach had loosened itself and slipped away, and that the pit of unfulfilled longing in your heart had gradually, and without your really noticing, been filled in—patched like a pothole, not quite the same as it was, but good enough. And in that moment it might occur to you that your life, though not the way you planned it, and maybe not even entirely the way you wanted it, is nonetheless—persistently, abundantly, miraculously exactly the way it is."- Lynn Ungar
Wisdom and Wonder
Retreat Day, near San Fran USA
Sunday 9th June 2019
Wisdom and Wonder: a retreat day of dance outdoors out on 200 acres of stunning private land in North Marin -just 40 minutes North of San Francisco.
We will explore the theme of wisdom and wonder throughout the day. Will listen in to the wisdom within our bodies by using the dance to drop down out of the brain, coming in close to our somatic sensations, seeing what is happening within us, in each unfolding moment.
We will come into wonder by getting present to the great grace of the living world around us. We will let nature nurture us: recharging, refreshing, renewing ourselves with shared time outdoors.
About the venue: Earth Rise is a retreat centre with 200 cares of spectacular private land with rolling hills, circling hawks and rooted oaks. It is located in San Antonio, just two minutes off junction 467 North on Highway 101, roughly 40 minutes out of San Francisco.
The centre was founded by Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s, one of the Apollo astronauts whom witnessed the earth rise from space and was completely awestruck and wonder-filled by its beauty. On his return to earth he co-founded the retreat centre to create a daily reminder of the life-changing moment when he (and then through those infamous "earth rise in space" photos -all of humanity)— witnessed the majesty of our beautiful blue planet emerging from the darkness. We can’t think of a better place to spend the day coming back to the wisdom and wonder of it all.
Earth Rise Retreat Centre, 101 San Antonio Rd, Petaluma, CA 94952
Date: Sunday June 9th from 1030 am to 5pm.
Suitable for ages 18 to 108!
"One morning you might wake up to realize that the knot in your stomach had loosened itself and slipped away, and that the pit of unfulfilled longing in your heart had gradually, and without your really noticing, been filled in—patched like a pothole, not quite the same as it was, but good enough. And in that moment it might occur to you that your life, though not the way you planned it, and maybe not even entirely the way you wanted it, is nonetheless—persistently, abundantly, miraculously exactly the way it is."- Lynn Ungar
Woodland Dance day
Bluebells and Beauty
Near Brighton, UK
Monday 6th May 2019
Dance with us amidst the bluebell woods in Stanmer Park at this bank holiday Monday springtime special.
The workshop will take place just after the May-day festival of Beltane and the woods are in full bloom with bluebells. We will dance in a wooded clearing bordering the bluebells in this public park (whilst being careful not to squish them underfoot!) Dance session will take place using silent disco headsets so that there is no noise pollution to the surrounding environment. The day will involve an outdoor dance session followed by a simple sharing circle and time to be still in nature.
When we dance we can drop down out of our minds, landing back in to our bodies- giving ourselves the gift of our own attention. There are no steps to learn in 5Rhythms dance- just a willingness to dive into the dance and to be with our own experience.
We will let nature nurture us, recharging, refreshing, renewing ourselves with shared time outdoors, coming back in to closeness with what is wild and wonder-filled within us and around us.
We will work in Stanmer Park which is easily accessible by both car and public transport from Brighton, Lewes and London. Full meeting place info is sent on booking.
Movement matters-a workshop for honouring times of change
Are you going through a time of change and growth in life?
Feeling big shifts abounding and wondering what happens next?
Come join us in Brighton on the 17/18th November 2018 for a weekend workshop supporting us to skilfully negotiate times of change. We will take time to be with what is shifting and changing shape in our lives.
We will we take time to honour what was;
Learn to be with what is-accepting and allowing it and into the heart;
Then boldly and bravely find our next steps forwards.
Wild as the Wind
A woodland based 5Rhythms workshop for women.
Next date:
Saturday 28th July
11am to 5.00 pm. £35
It seems that sometimes as women we show up as soft summer breezes- gently caressing everything we touch; other days it feels like an irrational, irrepressible storm arises unforeseen from somewhere within us.....
Join us for this one day workshop involving morning and afternoon outdoor dance sessions, sharing circle and simple nature-based ceremony.
It seems that sometimes as women we show up as soft summer breezes- gently caressing everything we touch; other days it feels like an irrational, irrepressible storm arises unforeseen from somewhere within us. We will use the dance to learn to be with all the ways that life shows up- within us and around us. When we dance we can drop down out of our minds, landing back in to our bodies- giving ourselves the gift of our own attention: moving with the mystery- inside and outside us.
We will let nature nurture us, tending to our wild soul- recharging, refreshing, renewing ourselves with shared time outdoors.
We will practice accepting, allowing and appreciating ourselves- just as we are.
We will make space for those whispers of intuition that we may hear on the wind, coming back in to closeness with what is wild and wonder-filled within us.
Dance session will take place using silent disco headsets so that there is no noise pollution to the surrounding environment.
We will work near Stanmer Park which is easily accessible by both car and public transport from Brighton, Lewes and London.
Please bring lunch to share.
Spaces are limited so early booking is highly recommended.
Weather: This event takes place England - it may well rain! (though please hold the vision of sunshine...) If it is grey or drizzly then the event will go ahead and we will stay warm under the shelter of trees, wearing lots of layers and sharing hot drinks- and no refunds for bad weather will be given.
If full-on torrential rain/storms are forecast then we will cancel the event by 5pm on the day before with cancellation notification sent out via meetup. In the event of this advance cancellation due to bad weather then a full refund to anyone booked will be given.
SHE TALKS ABOUT THE WIND
By Jack Crimmins
a woman is restless in the evening wind
she has traveled far
nurtured, danced in cities,
held men, held women, been held by them,
lost and lost again
kept her own mind
her sadness and grief within
she knows the mysteries of hidden things
takes sustenance from the earth
again and again
she's pierced her heart early
and known the blood of time
and in her knowledge
there is an art
of living
a quiet truth
at evening she waits
and makes decisions
to dance or hide with the wind
to dance sometimes and gather strength
to hide sometimes and find freedom within
she knows the earth and trusts the wind
