"TEACHER'S HEART" Heartbeat for 5R Teachers

 This residential Heartbeat level workshop is dedicated to and created just for 5Rhythms Teachers.

This Heartbeat is addressing the teacher’s heart and its emotions and it is for all 5Rhythms teachers, Waves or Heartbeat certified. This is for 5Rhythms Teachers who teach a lot, who teach sometimes, who are on sabbatical, who never started teaching, who are done with teaching, who don’t know when or what or why or how to teach, who are teaching who are teaching some other movement practice as well, who are not in 5RTA…

Emotions as teachers. Teacher’s emotions.

We all know teaching can feel lonely. Even when teaching Waves level, we are holding space for many emotions in the group. Those emotions are often ungrounded, sometimes projected on us seeing us as an authority or some other role, and very probably moving, touching, triggering our own emotions and projections.

My intention is to offer space and time where we can move with the emotions that we feel when wearing the teacher’s hat. Some of our emotional journey already begins when we start announcing the workshop, and sometimes even that alone can stop us from going forward with our unique offerings. For me the crises can hit me right in the midst of the process, on that Saturday evening of a weekend workshop, when I am too deep in and can not go backward but need to keep going forward and I am not sure how to do it and what is the point of it. For some of us, the hardest time we give ourselves is after the workshop, doubting what we did and how we did it, or dealing with students’ feedback and questions.

Boundaries

 “Only when we are truly, and fully able to say no,
we can truly enjoy our yes.“

— Unknown

This workshop title doesn’t really need any explanation. Boundaries, present or not, are one of those essentials things that shape our life. As Brené Brown says: “Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others.” The invitation in this workshop is to start the process of embodying our boundaries, so that clarity can be felt.

In this 5Rhythms Heartbeat workshop we will slowly unpack all the different layers that go into embodying your boundaries. The fear or losing connection, the anger of not being listened to, the pain of all these times we’ve been hurt. As well as the joy we can feel when we are respected in our boundaries and the compassionate connections we can make whilst respecting the needs of the other.