Shadow Dancer

Tuesdays

6:30PM to 8:30PM

February 11th

February 18th

February 25th

March 4th

March 11th

March 18th

Join us for a transformative 6 Week Series delving into the shadow map of the 5Rhythms: Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness. In this immersive experience, we will explore the hidden gifts embedded within each rhythm’s shadow—gifts often buried beneath patterns of tension, disconnection, and self-limiting beliefs.

In the 5Rhythms practice, each rhythm has a shadow side where we may feel stuck in our movement:

Flowing may become heavy with inertia or boredom, blocking our ease and connection to life’s flow.

Staccato can become tense, isolated, or rigid, holding back our authentic self-expression.

Chaos may spiral into confusion, carelessness, or self-doubt, blurring our access to intuitive, free-flowing energy.

Lyrical can feel spaced-out, phony, or overly light, causing us to drift from our embodied presence.

Stillness might feel numb, cold, or stuck, leaving us unable to tap into the mystery and depth of simply being.

Through movement, we’ll dive into these shadow aspects, allowing our bodies to bring unconscious patterns to the surface. With compassion and curiosity, we’ll explore how each shadow holds a precious gem for our journey, revealing possibilities for growth, healing, and playfulness.

Together, we’ll engage in practices designed to reconnect us with the wholeness that lies within each rhythm, reclaiming the disowned parts of ourselves and integrating them into our dance. This committed series invites you to discover the profound gifts that emerge when we fully embrace our shadows.

Details:

Who is this for? All levels and abilities are welcome. This practice can enrich any ongoing self-exploration or offer a solid starting point for beginners.

What to expect: Movement-based practices, guided reflection, and opportunities for deep self-inquiry.

Requirements: No prior experience necessary—just come as you are.

Reconnect, rewire, and reclaim. Step into a powerful dance with your own shadow and rediscover the gifts waiting within.

The Holy Actor

The Holy Actor
A 5 Rhythms retreat 

“I have noticed a remarkable shift in me since the workshop: I am able to love myself, to give my attention unconditionally to others, and to lose myself easily. Such profound transformation”

“Letting the dance, each unfolding moment, all of everything flow through me: I’m so grateful to taste this true experience of being fully alive” 

“Wonderful, healing, joyful and loving!
The Holy Actor is the most extraordinary workshop I’ve ever been to”

Take some time for yourself: relax, breathe deep, and make space for your soul to soar. 

Staying at a vintage New England retreat center on the Atlantic shore, we will create a supportive community for rich, healing work. Together we’ll dance the 5 Rhythms, explore the landscape of our hearts,  and improvise wordless theatre, offering ourselves to the universal stories that are waiting to be told. We'll open to connect more deeply to our creative, heartful self: not so much a solid, definite personality.. more a fluid range of possibility, full of life.

The Holy Actor is a joyful, challenging, and healing journey in search of inspired transformation. It’s a practice in possibility ~ being truly alive in each moment, willing to show up and respond, with courage and with curiosity, without needing to know how it will all turn out, trusting your instinct to take the next step.

It’s a practice in being human ~ in being alive, in meeting deeply. It’s a celebration of creativity, and the willingness to feel, and serve, and connect. It’s a practical course in freedom, and the infinite possibility of your soul. It’s serious fun, and sacred play, and about as good as it gets.

Will you join us?