INVESTIGATE REVEAL CONNECT
The body knows who you are.
When we investigate ourselves by moving our bodies
dancing
listening
especially together
we open up to an awareness of all that we are and all that we are not.
Our stories, our conditioning, our fears, our strengths, our passions, our light, our joy.
We reveal ourselves.
The dance floor provides a space
where we can move and express these revelations.
There we can
know our true nature
connect
feel fully alive
live in love
and
be of true service.
Join me in the dance of discovery, of deeply knowing, embodying and offering who you are.
photo by Pearl Martin-Eagle
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I have been practicing and studying the 5Rhythms® since 2005. In 2010 I trained to be a certified teacher with Gabrielle Roth and her amazing faculty, Kathy Altman, Lori Saltzman, Andrea Juhan (Open Floor) and Jonathan Horan (5Rhythms). Along with offering 5Rhythms® classes & workshops, I created Dance Your Ability, a program offering movement to children, elderly, specially abled & trauma survivors. I am also part of the Salt Spring Island Dance Temple Collective, Ecstatic Dance Nanaimo & Dance Temple Cowichan, bringing weekly Conscious Dance to these communities.
Other trainings include, Yoga Outreach Core Training™, over 10 years as a Level II Ski Instructor, currently studying with Banafsheh Sayyad (Dance Of Oneness®), a BA in Latin American Studies/Spanish, with a Direct Studies on the Merengue Dance and 20 years as a Mama. |
I spent my childhood living in Canada, where my most joyous moments were when I was dancing with my friends, walking in nature or playing in the snow. In my late teens I moved to the Dominican Republic, I found myself dancing almost every night, what joy! Years later, I realized how deeply profound dance and movement were to me, along with my desire to share that passion with others. An evening at a Rumi recital with Banafsheh Sayyad dancing totally changed the course of my life and brought me to the dancing path. That night I researched ecstatic dance, found Gabrielle Roth's work and the following week I attended my first 5Rhythms® class. During the class I made the declaration, "everybody deserves the right to dance and experience themselves through movement and I am going to make that my mission!" Today, I find myself dancing and moving with such a variety of amazing people, YEAH!
Through offering dance events, classes and workshops to people of diverse needs since 2006, what I now know and deeply understand is that human beings are wired to connect. We have used connection in the past as a means of survival, and in our modern day society we still need to connect, more than ever. Free movement and conscious dance are an unique opportunity for connection. Through receiving and responding to the music with our physical being, so much about ourselves can be revealed, we have an opportunity to get to know ourselves in a way that cannot be put into words. Once this connection to self is felt, we are more able to connect to another, and eventually to know our place and importance in the group as a whole. Music and dance holds us as we explore ourselves and each other in all of our joys & sorrows, awkwardnesses & strengths, in all of our humanness.
Dancing with people, is my total joy: children, teens, specially abled adults, elder care residents, violence survivors, the marginalized and everyone in between. I hope to meet you one day and dance together, thank you for visiting my website.
~Shauna
Through offering dance events, classes and workshops to people of diverse needs since 2006, what I now know and deeply understand is that human beings are wired to connect. We have used connection in the past as a means of survival, and in our modern day society we still need to connect, more than ever. Free movement and conscious dance are an unique opportunity for connection. Through receiving and responding to the music with our physical being, so much about ourselves can be revealed, we have an opportunity to get to know ourselves in a way that cannot be put into words. Once this connection to self is felt, we are more able to connect to another, and eventually to know our place and importance in the group as a whole. Music and dance holds us as we explore ourselves and each other in all of our joys & sorrows, awkwardnesses & strengths, in all of our humanness.
Dancing with people, is my total joy: children, teens, specially abled adults, elder care residents, violence survivors, the marginalized and everyone in between. I hope to meet you one day and dance together, thank you for visiting my website.
~Shauna
