"Everything flows from your own heart."
Fa-Yen

In this 5Rhythms workshop we will explore the wilderness of the heart. As we move we will be tracking what we are feeling right here, right now. Can we express that feeling and let it move through us freely?

Our feelings are states of being and they call out to us to know and befriend them. Often we are distracted, in denial or too scared to let an emotion arise completely and be our teacher. In this map of the heart, we will move through the landscape of our own hearts as we explore the many emotions of our everyday lives, including fear, anger and grief. By fluidly moving our emotions, we can track their messages to us. This leads to vulnerability and freedom and finally to compassion, the emptiest and clearest expression of love.

This workshop fulfills the Heartbeat prerequisite for Cycles.

Others inspire all sorts of feelings in us: positive ones, negative ones – every possible texture, tone, and frequency. Sometimes we act out or amplify these feelings, sometimes we try not to notice them – and sometimes, in an effort to stay with our own experience, we avoid others altogether.

What would our lives – and our relationships - be like if, instead of investing and re-investing in our likes, dislikes, and pre-judgments, we remained openly curious about the feelings we inspire in one another?

In this workshop, we will use the physical and energetic language of the 5Rhythms® to explore and express our natural responses toward one another. Instead of fixating on or ignoring these responses, we will practice including them, with awareness, in our dance. As we allow the many textures of relationship to move through our bodies, we can experience a new sense of fluidity and authenticity in our needs, preferences, and attachments. Using mindful movement practice, we will investigate and develop our innate curiosity, including it in our range of habitual responses so that we may move from prejudgment and separation toward a sense of openness, connection, and peace in the company of others.

This ongoing Heartbeat work opens up to an area that is vital to the heart: one-on-one relationships and then into tribal/community relationships.

: In "YOU AND ME ", we will explore the relational elements of Heartbeat work and the emerging interpersonal patterns that our fear, anger and sorrow can find us stuck in. Using the mindful movement practices of the 5Rhythms we will explore moving beond what stands in the way of expanding our abilities to open our hearts so that we can compassionately embrace and understand the "other."

 

In "US/TRIBAL" ( October TBA) we will take the Heartbeat work into a tribal form. How is our community thriving (or not), and what of our own hearts' work (done or not done) are we bringing to bear on our tribe? This work is life-changing and strengthens our ability to contribute to the well-being of our community and our world. How do we responsibly process our own heart's material, so that we can walk in compassion with all our relations? Please join us for a deep exploration and expansion of your own heart.

Christine Havens will be leading 5Rhythms movement during this workshop taught by Gloria Burgess, Ph.D. This workshop explores being conscious and intentional, not only about what we do, but also about who we are. In our fast paced lives, we can become disconnected from our true selves and the beauty within and all around us. "Legacy of the Heart" is about reconnecting with your inner beauty and calling and reigniting your soul's desire. Through insightful teaching, dialogue, movement, meditation, creative arts, and time in nature, you will explore practical tools to align your values and actions, leaving you restored and recommitted to living your legacy now.

We will gather to dance as a community amidst the wonders of the Marsh House on Whidbey Island, WA. This is the tenth year we are returning to dance at Aldermarsh which is a sanctuary for us all, as we settle into 4 days together.

This workshop will have Heartbeat hours. Christine Havens has been studying with Gabrielle Roth for 20 years and has been teaching 5Rhythms, internationally, for 12 years. She is certified to teach Heartbeat and is the founder of Wavesdance in Seattle,WA.

Notes: Aldermarsh is a natural beauty of 16 acres of woods and meadow, an intentional environment created for spiritual exploration. We dance in a 6-sided glass dance space in the midst of open fields. This is a unique opportunity to deeply explore the practice of 5Rhythms Dance with lots of time and space to renew your spirit and rest in emptiness. As one dancer said, "Aldermarsh is Heaven! I can't wait to return."

"Everything flows from your own heart."
Fa-Yen

In this 5Rhythms workshop we will explore the wilderness of the heart. As we move we will be tracking what we are feeling right here, right now. Can we express that feeling and let it move through us freely?

Our feelings are states of being and they call out to us to know and befriend them. Often we are distracted, in denial or too scared to let an emotion arise completely and be our teacher. In this map of the heart, we will move through the landscape of our own hearts as we explore the many emotions of our everyday lives, including fear, anger and grief. By fluidly moving our emotions, we can track their messages to us. This leads to vulnerability and freedom and finally to compassion, the emptiest and clearest expression of love.

This workshop fulfills the Heartbeat prerequisite for Cycles.

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