FIERCE HEART 5RHYTHMS HEARTBEAT WORKSHOP

The Workshop

We often think of the heart as a soft and vulnerable place, a sanctuary for tender emotions. But the heart can also be fierce. It holds a strength that fuels our courage to love, to be, and to take bold steps in life. In this Heartbeat workshop, we will explore the duality of the heart: its softness and its power.

A fierce heart doesn't mean a closed heart. On the contrary, it means embracing an openness that is rooted in deep courage. A fierce heart brings with it the capacity to stand strong in the face of fear and to show up for what matters most. It's the courage to love fiercely and live fully. Fierceheartedness guides us toward loving, right action—moving from our hearts, not just our heads.

The heart always knows. While the brain deliberates with "what ifs" and "maybes," the heart speaks clearly, decisively. This workshop will invite you to listen deeply, to trust your heart's wisdom, and to step into the power of its direction. In this space, we will move with the rhythms of fear, anger, sadness, joy and compassion, as we let the fierce heart emerge and lead us.

This is a co-creation of two powerhouse teachers: Sylvie Minot from the West Coast and Ann Kite from the East. Together, they are coming together to hold a deeply transformative space, weaving their unique energies into a dynamic movement journey for both body and heart. Join us for this transformational weekend, as we cultivate both compassion and strength, honoring the heart's true wisdom.

Embrace Your Shadow & Light: 5Rhythms® Movement and Expressive Arts Workshop

 The invitation for this workshop is to discover and uncover the polarities of Shadow and Light Maps created by Gabrielle Roth through movement and Art Expression!

Shadow has a way of showing up in unexpected places and ways. We sometimes feel our heaviness, tension, confusion, distraction, and being numb in our bodies at different times in our lives. In addition, Shadow reveals a part of ourselves that we may want to disown, not accept, or feel uncomfortable.  

However, moving through our light offers us a way to be more accepting of our Shadow in being Fluid, beat oriented, letting go, feeling our lightness and listening to what will arrive next. We begin to have and feel compassion for all of our different sides of ourselves. In moving the Shadow and Light, we become aware of our humanness! Having authentic expression in our daily lives can be healing. Shadow is our gravy of essential importance in moving the polarities and finding balance in our lives and bodies!

How is Shadow and Light of service to us to find healing in being 

authentic and accept parts of ourselves that we may want to disown?

“Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth-not some big truth that belongs to everybody, but the get, down and personal kind the what’s happening in me right now kind of truth!” Gabrielle Roth

Venue: Asia House828, 119 Coxe Ave. Asheville,NC 28806

Sun. Dec.15th 11am-6pm

Fee: Early Bird Price of $135 until Nov.24th

Regular Price: $155 Nov.24th-Dec.15th

Discount for crew and Teachers, please email at Chapman5Rhythms@gmail.com. Online payment through Paypal.me/Chapman5Rhythms or you may email me if you need other payment arrangements Chapman5Rhythms@gmail.com

About 5Rhythms®

Created by Gabrielle Roth and practiced by tens of thousands worldwide. 5Rhythms® is a dynamic movement practice rooted in the principles that if you put the psyche in motion it will heal itself.

About Karen:

5Rhythms dance is for everyone. This meditative instructional dance practice which is created by dancer and visionary Gabriellle Roth. Accredited 5Rhythms teacher Karen Chapman has been hosting dances in Asheville and around the country for 8 years. Through the dance, Karen acts as an instructional movement leader for the dancer to have a journey through the rhythms, based on how does the body move and change through this fast paced world?

About Ella:

Ella Raphëlle Dufrene is a French-Haitian-American visual artist and art therapist. Ella believes that art is our most primitive style of communication and expression, dating back to our earliest forms of art making in prehistoric cave paintings. Driven by the instinctual knowledge of the innate and powerful healing powers of art, Ella received her Masters in Art Therapy & Creativity Development from the Pratt Institute in 2015.

Currently, Ella is based out of Asheville, NC where she works as an art therapist in private practice. She has experience working with people on the autism spectrum, at risk youth, children and adults with special needs and developmental delays, drug/alcohol addiction, psychiatric rehabilitation, eating disorders, as well as adults and children in both individual and group settings. Ella emphasizes a holistic approach to wellness and utilizes a playful ‘person first’ approach to therapy.

Ella has worked with people who felt disconnected from their happiness and uninspired by the pressures of life. Through the magic and science of art therapy, she’s seen them transform into happier, more curious, more satisfied versions of themselves.  

All of those that know and work with Ella can feel her passion for the healing properties of nature, art, travel and movement. She approaches her day to day and work-life with a zest for life, a youthful spirit and a contagiously open mind.

Sound Healing: On Sun. Dec.15th, Erika Bear Banwell Sound Healer, who holds space at Haw Creek Commons in Asheville, NC will take us on a Sound Bath journey to relax and soothe our bodies before we go home for the evening!

Cancellation Policy:

I will give a full refund minus $40 administrative fee all the way until the first week of the workshop. During the first week of the workshop there will be no refund unless it is an emergency!

This workshop will be 1.0 days of Wave credit for the workshop and 0.5 credit Elective for students on the Dancing path.

Ella and I look forward to moving and expressing through art to embrace your Shadow and Light!