This ongoing Heartbeat work opens up to an area that is vital to the heart: one-on-one 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 beyond what stands in the way of expanding our abilities to open our hearts so that we can compassionately embrace and understand the "other". Where do we get stuck? How can we truly open our hearts and feel safe and vulnerable at the same time? We will explore these and many other relational issues to increase our capacity for compassion and joy in all our relationships.

This workshop will count toward Heartbeat hours for prerequisites for the teacher training.

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. Every year the workshop is called "Sanctuary" and then has a particular focus. This year's focus is on joy! We will be dancing in the Heartbeat map and focusing on lyrical. We will be experiencing how joy arises, how we may resist or block it, and how our fear, anger or sorrow may stop our joy. Joy is a natural state of being - not doing. We will dance and be in/dwell and bask in joy's open, free state. We will nourish ourselves in joy. (Slather ourselves with joy!) Joy is big and ecstatic or quiet and soft as in belonging, comfort, and serenity.

This workshop will have Heartbeat hours. Christine Havens has been studying with Gabrielle Roth for 21 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. At Aldermarsh we experience a togetherness and quiet that is life-giving.

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 will count toward Heartbeat hours for prerequisites for the teacher training.

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