Winter Harvest

 We’re calling you to harvest. We collect all the many good things we can be just grateful for. Through movement, dance, and words, we make visible everything that lives in us that defines us on the surface or in our depths. It always vitalize me when I can dive into the dance. It brings alive all the parts of my soul that I don’t listen to at other times. My playful parts, my creative parts, my freedom-seeking parts, my deep-feeling parts.

Dance gives me space. As we stretch, we physically scan the space around us and find that there is free space we can stretch into. And at the same time, we also create free spaces within our bodies, tasting the liberating feeling of stretching. The dance is a stretching of the soul: we explore, we discover the space where our attention, our desires, our dreams can reach out, and in doing so we create more space within ourselves for our desires, our inspiration to be born.

On this workshop we’ll follow the map of Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms. Movement allows us to connect to things beyond our everyday thoughts. We can connect to the wise intuition of our subconsciousness and with the flowing current of our humanness.

This kind of movement doesn’t require special training. Everyone who joins will be able to follow the simple instructions and bring their bodies into motion. And anybody who brings their body into motion in a free improvisation will bring their psyche into motion as well, and will be able to connect to their inner source of power and vitality. This process is basically the waking up of our life force.

"TRANSITIONS"

Transitions are thresholds where transformation happens — the shifting ground from one rhythm into the next, from one emotion into another. These in-between spaces hold power, mystery, and the invitation to awaken.

Over three days, we’ll journey through both the Waves and Heartbeat maps of the 5Rhythms practice, weaving body and emotion into one continuum of awareness.

We start with the body — exploring how the 5Rhythms flow into one another, each one supporting and transforming the next. Then we turn toward the heart — exploring how emotions move like waves through us, how Fear, Anger, Sadness, Joy, and Compassion are connected, and how each opens the way for the next.

This workshop is an opportunity to dance with the unknown places of transition — in body, in heart, in life.

Step into the dance, and let’s meet in the mystery of what awakens when movement and emotion come together.