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
​and
know our true nature
connect
feel fully alive
live in love
and
be of true service.
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​​Join me in the dance of discovery, of deeply knowing, embodying and offering who you are.

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photo by Pearl Martin-Eagle

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 & Reach Out (working with disenfranchised populations), I am part of the Salt Spring Island Dance Temple Collective, bringing weekly Conscious Dance to the community.   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 19 years as a Mama. 

I spent my youth moving  between Canada, where I skied & snowboarded, and the Dominican Republic, where I danced.  Years later, I discovered 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. The following week I attended my first 5Rhythms® ​class, and made the declaration, "everybody deserves the right to dance and experience themselves through movement!" Today, I find myself dancing and moving with such a variety of amazing people.  
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Combined with my  love and study of conscious, free form, partner, sacred and Latin dance  I bring a great fascination with why we get in the way of love and how we might break down the barriers to live more fully in love.
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Dancing with people, is my total joy: Children, Teens, Specially Abled Adults, Elder Care Residents and everyone in between.  I hope to meet you one day and dance together, thank you for visiting my website.
~Shauna