DESCRIPTION

GRIEF, LOSS & THE BODY IN MOTION
3 day workshop - 5Rhythms (Waves/Heartbeat level ) & griefwork
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To lose someone or something we love, or to let go of our cherished dreams, is an intrinsic part of being human. While we all face these intrinsic life challenges, how we react to them is unique to each of us. We are living in a time of great chaos, upheaval, and grief. We may be experiencing numbness or isolation, as we feel the natural human emotions of sadness, love, anger, fear, and confusion. How can we move forward with grace and self-compassion during this time of difficult transitions?
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In this workshop we will come together in a safe and supportive space, to explore and move all that we’ve been feeling and holding. Over the course of three days, we will use the tools of the 5Rhythms® Waves and Heartbeat Maps, as well as offer a process of grief work often referred to as "Externalization" developed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, this "deep-dive" exploration can include simply witnessing, or possibly releasing feelings through verbal as well as physical expression.
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As we move through the process together, the combination of dancing, externalization, and griefwork can help us heal and possibly transform our life experiences into greater wholeness, opening us to an even deeper embodiment and connection to ourselves and each other.
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This workshop is open to all, and is intended especially for those who have experienced loss, or are carrying a grief that feels stuck or unresolved. This can include loss of loved ones, of relationships, our health, possibilities, or the way we thought our lives were supposed to be. The workshop offers ways of moving through and releasing these feelings, in the service of healing and wholeness.
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About the teachers
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Karen Ritscher has been teaching 5Rhythms® for ten years,
after completing her training with Gabrielle Roth. She became a Heartbeat teacher in 2019 and has worked with people living with Alzheimer’s and cancer as well as led weekly classes in New York City. She currently teaches 5Rhythms® at the Healing Loss Workshops and the Cancer Survivor Groups at Montefiore Hospital. As a concert violist, she has performed all over the world with such distinguished artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Leonard Bernstein, Michael Jackson and Sting. She is on the faculties of Manhattan School of Music, New York University and the Chautauqua Institution.
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Peter Selwyn, MD, MPH, is professor and chairman of the Department of Family and Social Medicine, and director of the Palliative Care Program, at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx,New York. He has been a caregiver for people with AIDS and others at the end of life for close to 40 years. He facilitates workshops on grief and loss, and care for caregivers in New York. Peter is the author of Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor, a memoir of the early years of the AIDS epidemic, and his own journey grieving the loss of his father to suicide at a young age. He completed training as a 5Rhythms teacher in 2021, and holds 5Rhythms classes for hospital staff and community in the Bronx.
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More info to come soon!

Booking will open shortly.

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QUESTIONS?
Email Julia Mercurio at mercurio.julia@gmail.com