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WEEKLY WEDNESDAY ONLINE 5RHYTHMS CLASSES
~ Dancing Alone Together ~
~ Dancing Alone Together ~
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WEDNESDAY'S 9:00-10:00am PST
In an effort to keep us dancing together during this time of social distancing, I have created an online platform for our weekly Wednesday morning 5Rhythms Class. I will hold these for as long as needed. We will use Zoom: Instructions & links below. * Please note that preregistration is required for these classes. Each week registration Opens: Monday 9am Closes: Tuesday 11pm PST. Link to Zoom Meeting will be sent by 8am Wednesday, room opens at 8:45. |
5RHYTHMS WORKSHOPS
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ONLINE - NEW DATE SCHEDULE:
FRIDAY || JUNE 5th || 11:00-2:00pm PST Lyrical || The Ecstacy of Flight Each Rhythm is a teacher. When we spend time moving, exploring and investigating ourselves in these Rhythms we have an opportunity to understand all the different rhythms that live within us. The dance floor provides space to play with all that we are in any given moment. Register: info@shaunadevlin.net ZOOM (link sent with preregistration) ( Stillness Date TBD) |
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Take your dance outside, tapping into your untamed nature.
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These workshops will give you an opportunity to be in the company of others while practicing safe distancing.
We will be outside for the entire workshop and will use Silent Disco headphones for the music. Headsets are provided. Limit 20 participants. Our time will be spent dancing, sharing, creating natural alters and writing. Preregister & Etransfer: info@shaunadevlin.net |
Themes:
June 27th | The Untamed Body July 25th | The Untamed Mind August 22 | The Untamed Soul Times: 10:00-4:00pm PST Location: Salt Spring Island, BC (Exact location to be revealed upon registration.) Cost: Sliding scale $75-95 2 Angel Spots (no cost) & 2 Crew Spots (discount) |
We invite you to join in the creation of sacred space that celebrates the Feminine.
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As SHEs we will come together to honour our body temples and the wisdom they hold, finding within our true power and beauty.
Through the transformative practice of 5Rhythms® we will bring kindness and compassion into the cracks and wounds of our humanness. 5Rhythms® is a path of integration, of healing the split between spirit and body; a path of dancing ourselves back into wholeness. Through storytelling and witnessing, we will honour the stories we each hold that have created separation, doubt and our own version of the “beast within”. Through Embodiment and Voice work we will explore how to claim our power and stand in our unapologetic truth. Morning Yoga will support us in our embodiment and energetic alignment. Kundalini Yoga will be taught by Sarah Calvert, Ayurvedic Yoga will be offered by Melanie Phillips. A nourishing feminine dance and fire ceremony will be offered by Delia Aaron during the Summer Solstice Celebration. Together we will step through the gateway to becoming the embodied, feminine, intuitive, powerful beings we are meant to be. |
Friday, June 19th
6:00 - 7:30 PM: Opening Circle & Dance (The Sacred Vessel) Saturday, June 20th 9:00 - 10:00 AM: Ayurvedic Yoga (optional) 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Feminine Mythology & Dance (My body holds my story, the Beast within) Afternoon contemplation and free time 3:30 - 5:00 PM: Summer Solstice Ritual & Fire Ceremony, Song & Dance 7:00 - 8:30 PM: Summer Solstice Celebration Dance DJ set (optional) Sunday, June 21st 9:00 - 10:00 AM: Kundalini Yoga (optional) 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Embodied Voice/ Mantra & Dance (Power & Beauty) Afternoon ritual and free time 3:30 - 5:00 PM: Closing Circle & Dance (Honouring, Sisterhood) No previous experience is required. Everyone is welcome who identifies as a SHE. Tuition: $150 and discounted options available. Please see event website for more info about the retreat and faculty: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07egujdw0cb29b44da&llr=4av456cab&showPage=true |
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DANCE TEMPLE
Salt Spring & Victoria
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Live Streaming!!
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Monday & Thursday 7:00-9:00pm PST
Sunday 10:30-12:00pm PST
Shauna's Dates: May 28th
Follow us on Mixlr & Facebook
We will use Mixlr for the music and Zoom for video during the dance
DANCE TEMPLE
Salt Spring & Victoria
*
Live Streaming!!
*
Monday & Thursday 7:00-9:00pm PST
Sunday 10:30-12:00pm PST
Shauna's Dates: May 28th
Follow us on Mixlr & Facebook
We will use Mixlr for the music and Zoom for video during the dance
To fully participate in our online 5Rhythms connection, there are a few things you will need to do before class:
- To connect through video, you will need a device with a camera for Zoom and best to connect to external speakers or wireless headphone, but speakers on your device will be fine. (You will have the option to join with or without video.) You can use Zoom for video & audio during the dance as well as for participating in the beginning and end of the class.
- Pre Register: info@shaunadevlin.net
Download Zoom onto your device. Instructions:
a) Click this link (https://zoom.us/j/7234748477?pwd=MGNES1lrWVNES3lnaktVcjBDV1VxUT09) to launch a browser window that will prompt you to download Zoom.
b) Agree to the download.
c) Install and launch Zoom.
d) In my experience, it doesn’t take you into the meeting the first time you install and launch. So you will want to close Zoom.
e) Come back here and click the link again.
f) The second time you launch (and every time you launch a meeting after that first installation) you will be taken directly into the meeting.
g) All participants will be muted at the start and during the dance, unmuted at the end for those that wish to participate in a group check in (depending on numbers we may break into smaller groups). It’s really nice to be able to see everyone, so I strongly encourage using your video! And be sure to update your name so that we can see who you actually are.
h) On the top right of your computer screen (not possible on phone) you can choose either Speaker or Gallery View. Choose Gallery View and you will be able to see everyone. - Choose and set up a dancing space for yourself–somewhere you will feel comfortable moving uninterrupted for our time together. You may choose to light a candle, pull a card, whatever you can do to create a good space for you to move.
NANAIMO
ON HOLD
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POSTPONED
MONTHLY FRIDAY NIGHTS NANAIMO Time: 7:00-8:30 (doors open at 6:30) Cost: $15 Location: OmTown Yoga 43 Commercial Street |
This conscious dance event takes place the last Friday of the month.
We are a collective of 3 different facilitators/teachers.
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Schedule:
March 27 Chantell April 24 Melissa May 29 Chantell June 26 Shauna July 31 Melissa August 27 Shauna September 18 Melissa |
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
5Rhythms® Morning Drop-in Class:
Beginning with a short warm-up of Body Parts meditation, the remainder of the class we will dance a Wave, a very organic and natural process of moving through the 5 Rhythms: Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical & Stillness.
This class will have light facilitation, no experience is necessary. All ages and physical abilities are welcome.
5Rhythms® Evening Drop-in Class:
The class will have a balance of instruction mixed with your own movement, whatever that might look like on any given day. Generally, a class will begin with a 20-30 minute warm up. This is an opportunity to arrive into the space and physically warm up our bodies. Music will playing, but little instruction. After that I will begin to guide the class through each of the Rhythms, Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness®. Some classes we will work with a theme or a specific Rhythm and others the group energy will guide the class. A large variety of music is played, all to get your body moving. There are no steps to learn no left or right, no counting, just your courageous heart, breath and body. All are welcome, no experience is necessary.
Mini Workshops:
Either an all day or half day workshop, offerings where we can dive deeper into the practice or work with a theme. These shorter workshops are an opportunity to give more attention to and more space for exploration of self, self in partnership and self in the group body. When we investigate our selves through movement within a group environment the opportunity to break through our stories and get to our essence is very real. No experience is needed, everyone is welcome.
Family Dance:
All ages are welcome to this community-loving class where we simply move ourselves to music, in the classic 5Rhythms® "Sweat Your Prayers" tradition. A welcoming space & create waves of energy and exploration. How does it feel to meditate in movement, in personal freedom, & yet in togetherness? Come find out in this warm, wild, & sacred practice. There are no steps to learn - just your own breaths & steps to take.
Dance Your Ability Classes & Programs:
Dance Your Ability Therapeutic Movement Foundation, is a not-for-profit organization.
We offer movement & dance programs to people who would not normally attend public classes:
specially abled, elderly, children, incarcerated, at-risk youth, those in recovery & trauma survivors.
The program invites everyBODY to move & dance, using music & gentle facilitation to welcome ALL to experience themselves in healing motion. All programs infuse trauma informed teaching and a style to effectively meet varying individual learning and physical abilities.
Please contact us for more information about Dance Your Ability programs & classes.
Dance Temple Monday & Thursday Nights:
A lightly facilitated community gathering to tune in, join in, celebrate, meditate and unwind. These nights are lightly facilitated with invitations to explore movement and to explore larger themes as a whole through your movement. Much of the time it is an open dance floor for you to explore different rhythms, patterns of movement and your inner journey.
Babes & Adult Class:
A dance and movement class for babes, toddlers and their grown ups. An hour of creative free style dance, inspired by our own movements and a variety of beats and music styles. We will use the map of the 5Rhythms®, dancing through the Rhythms of Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness®. (No experience necessary). Dancing together helps to build bonds and connection between child and parent. And dancing increases neural activity, finding pathways in the brain helping with decisions and more intelligence, plus improves muscle memory, allowing for greater agility and responsiveness. (Pausing for summer).
WORKSHOPS
Some of Shauna's past workshop offerings:
Contact me if you would like to offer one of my workshops in your community.
The Dance of Connection
"Dance to fall in love with the spirit of all things." ~ Gabrielle Roth
Using our dance we can investigate and express how it is that we connect to our self, how we relate to another, and where do we find ourselves in the larger tribe. When we take the time to dance on our own and then take the leap, dance with another, we strengthen our deep and ancient knowing of tribe.
Liberation
Movement & Inquiry Workshop
Your knowing of self is your liberation.
Dance invites self inquiry.
Your dance is your liberation.
Daylong movement workshop where we will use the 5Rhythms practice to explore what it is to be liberated, what it is to be free and to flourish. What might be in your field that is keeping you bound. Where do you get in your own way of your own liberation.
Love
Movement & Inquiry Workshop
“Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.”
— Rumi
You are invited to spend the day inquiring and moving with love.
We will use the 5Rhythms practice and the poetry of Rumi to explore, lean into and perhaps better understand our knowing of love.
No experience is necessary.
Movement is self paced and gently facilitated.
Weave & Mend
A Day Long Workshop for Women
"There are Women everywhere with fragments
gather fragments
weave and mend
When we learn to come together we are
whole
when we learn to recognize the enemy
we will know what we need to know
to learn to come together
to learn to weave and mend"
~Anne Cameron
A daylong retreat type workshop for women at the beautiful Stowel Lake Farm on Salt Spring Island, BC.
We will use the 5Rhythms® movement practice, group/partner exercises, great music and sharing/witnessing to navigate what is it to weave and mend, as both a woman and a human being.
- for love of thy self~
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves...Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." -Rainer Maria Rilke
What if we took time to investigate each part of our body, what would we discover? What treasures await?
In this 3 hour workshop we will use the map of the 5Rhythms® and the meditation practice Body Parts to investigate and re-member our bodies in the company of others as they too re-member.
Nourishing Hearts
A Mother Daughter Retreat with Lori Austein & Shauna Devlin
No other relationship comes close to the one that we share with the woman who mothered us or the daughter we mothered. It has the potential to make or break us - often both at the same time. Generational differences separate us, familial similarities connect us. It's a love that can be one of our greatest comforts, supporting us throughout our lives.
Through ceremony, storytelling, art, dance, nature and exercises in communication, we gain skills that build bridges and nourish our hearts through the pre-teen with our beloved other and with all who gather. We will honor our female ancestors, celebrate the joys and sorrows we share, and find new ways to bring ritual and meaning to this special bond.
Soul Adventure
Snow and Dance
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." -Anonymous
Come and join us for a residential weekend of snowshoeing, dancing, and fonduing. Where the snowy mountains, and your own body will be all you need for a soul adventure. We will stay at the Vancouver Island Mountain Center on beautiful Mount Washington BC.
The activities of snowshoeing and dancing offer a tangible physical experience of the sacred nature of our bodies and the earth. Providing a rich set of metaphors for seeing life's ups and downs as part of a sacred rhythm.
Awakening the Goddess
Dance ~ Ceremony ~ Circle
"The Goddess becomes known in embodied sacred moments." -Jean Shinoda Bolen
A day long workshop for woman where dance, ceremony and sitting in circle are used to ignite and awaken the divine Goddess nature that is our birth rite. Dance reunites the body, soul and mind. Ceremony offers sacredness in a modern world where we have forgotten its gift. Sitting together in circle allows for deep connection and healing. When we tap into our Goddess nature we tap into an infinite amount of energy, wisdom and health.
Know Thyself
A Day of 5Rhythms & The Way of Council for Women
"'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be Thyself' shall be written." -Oscar Wilde
During this day, we will weave these two core practices to connect to who we are. Come and discover that everything you need to navigate through this time of transition is already within you. Through authentic movement and our own stories we will connect with our hearts and our gifts and will leave prepared to step into our fullest expression, our fullest power.
The Way of Council Link
Unwriting Our Stories
Through Movement & Voice
Combining the ancient practice of sitting in Council with the catalytic nature of the 5Rhythms, we will explore the story that we know and make space for the story that is still to be told.
During this day, we will weave these two core practices to explore our stories, particularly the old ones ready to be released and the new ones that are emergent. What might we discover as we unwrite our story and expand our curiosity of our untold stories?
Beginning with a short warm-up of Body Parts meditation, the remainder of the class we will dance a Wave, a very organic and natural process of moving through the 5 Rhythms: Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical & Stillness.
This class will have light facilitation, no experience is necessary. All ages and physical abilities are welcome.
5Rhythms® Evening Drop-in Class:
The class will have a balance of instruction mixed with your own movement, whatever that might look like on any given day. Generally, a class will begin with a 20-30 minute warm up. This is an opportunity to arrive into the space and physically warm up our bodies. Music will playing, but little instruction. After that I will begin to guide the class through each of the Rhythms, Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness®. Some classes we will work with a theme or a specific Rhythm and others the group energy will guide the class. A large variety of music is played, all to get your body moving. There are no steps to learn no left or right, no counting, just your courageous heart, breath and body. All are welcome, no experience is necessary.
Mini Workshops:
Either an all day or half day workshop, offerings where we can dive deeper into the practice or work with a theme. These shorter workshops are an opportunity to give more attention to and more space for exploration of self, self in partnership and self in the group body. When we investigate our selves through movement within a group environment the opportunity to break through our stories and get to our essence is very real. No experience is needed, everyone is welcome.
Family Dance:
All ages are welcome to this community-loving class where we simply move ourselves to music, in the classic 5Rhythms® "Sweat Your Prayers" tradition. A welcoming space & create waves of energy and exploration. How does it feel to meditate in movement, in personal freedom, & yet in togetherness? Come find out in this warm, wild, & sacred practice. There are no steps to learn - just your own breaths & steps to take.
Dance Your Ability Classes & Programs:
Dance Your Ability Therapeutic Movement Foundation, is a not-for-profit organization.
We offer movement & dance programs to people who would not normally attend public classes:
specially abled, elderly, children, incarcerated, at-risk youth, those in recovery & trauma survivors.
The program invites everyBODY to move & dance, using music & gentle facilitation to welcome ALL to experience themselves in healing motion. All programs infuse trauma informed teaching and a style to effectively meet varying individual learning and physical abilities.
Please contact us for more information about Dance Your Ability programs & classes.
Dance Temple Monday & Thursday Nights:
A lightly facilitated community gathering to tune in, join in, celebrate, meditate and unwind. These nights are lightly facilitated with invitations to explore movement and to explore larger themes as a whole through your movement. Much of the time it is an open dance floor for you to explore different rhythms, patterns of movement and your inner journey.
Babes & Adult Class:
A dance and movement class for babes, toddlers and their grown ups. An hour of creative free style dance, inspired by our own movements and a variety of beats and music styles. We will use the map of the 5Rhythms®, dancing through the Rhythms of Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness®. (No experience necessary). Dancing together helps to build bonds and connection between child and parent. And dancing increases neural activity, finding pathways in the brain helping with decisions and more intelligence, plus improves muscle memory, allowing for greater agility and responsiveness. (Pausing for summer).
WORKSHOPS
Some of Shauna's past workshop offerings:
Contact me if you would like to offer one of my workshops in your community.
The Dance of Connection
"Dance to fall in love with the spirit of all things." ~ Gabrielle Roth
Using our dance we can investigate and express how it is that we connect to our self, how we relate to another, and where do we find ourselves in the larger tribe. When we take the time to dance on our own and then take the leap, dance with another, we strengthen our deep and ancient knowing of tribe.
Liberation
Movement & Inquiry Workshop
Your knowing of self is your liberation.
Dance invites self inquiry.
Your dance is your liberation.
Daylong movement workshop where we will use the 5Rhythms practice to explore what it is to be liberated, what it is to be free and to flourish. What might be in your field that is keeping you bound. Where do you get in your own way of your own liberation.
Love
Movement & Inquiry Workshop
“Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.”
— Rumi
You are invited to spend the day inquiring and moving with love.
We will use the 5Rhythms practice and the poetry of Rumi to explore, lean into and perhaps better understand our knowing of love.
No experience is necessary.
Movement is self paced and gently facilitated.
Weave & Mend
A Day Long Workshop for Women
"There are Women everywhere with fragments
gather fragments
weave and mend
When we learn to come together we are
whole
when we learn to recognize the enemy
we will know what we need to know
to learn to come together
to learn to weave and mend"
~Anne Cameron
A daylong retreat type workshop for women at the beautiful Stowel Lake Farm on Salt Spring Island, BC.
We will use the 5Rhythms® movement practice, group/partner exercises, great music and sharing/witnessing to navigate what is it to weave and mend, as both a woman and a human being.
- for love of thy self~
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves...Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." -Rainer Maria Rilke
What if we took time to investigate each part of our body, what would we discover? What treasures await?
In this 3 hour workshop we will use the map of the 5Rhythms® and the meditation practice Body Parts to investigate and re-member our bodies in the company of others as they too re-member.
Nourishing Hearts
A Mother Daughter Retreat with Lori Austein & Shauna Devlin
No other relationship comes close to the one that we share with the woman who mothered us or the daughter we mothered. It has the potential to make or break us - often both at the same time. Generational differences separate us, familial similarities connect us. It's a love that can be one of our greatest comforts, supporting us throughout our lives.
Through ceremony, storytelling, art, dance, nature and exercises in communication, we gain skills that build bridges and nourish our hearts through the pre-teen with our beloved other and with all who gather. We will honor our female ancestors, celebrate the joys and sorrows we share, and find new ways to bring ritual and meaning to this special bond.
Soul Adventure
Snow and Dance
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." -Anonymous
Come and join us for a residential weekend of snowshoeing, dancing, and fonduing. Where the snowy mountains, and your own body will be all you need for a soul adventure. We will stay at the Vancouver Island Mountain Center on beautiful Mount Washington BC.
The activities of snowshoeing and dancing offer a tangible physical experience of the sacred nature of our bodies and the earth. Providing a rich set of metaphors for seeing life's ups and downs as part of a sacred rhythm.
Awakening the Goddess
Dance ~ Ceremony ~ Circle
"The Goddess becomes known in embodied sacred moments." -Jean Shinoda Bolen
A day long workshop for woman where dance, ceremony and sitting in circle are used to ignite and awaken the divine Goddess nature that is our birth rite. Dance reunites the body, soul and mind. Ceremony offers sacredness in a modern world where we have forgotten its gift. Sitting together in circle allows for deep connection and healing. When we tap into our Goddess nature we tap into an infinite amount of energy, wisdom and health.
Know Thyself
A Day of 5Rhythms & The Way of Council for Women
"'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be Thyself' shall be written." -Oscar Wilde
During this day, we will weave these two core practices to connect to who we are. Come and discover that everything you need to navigate through this time of transition is already within you. Through authentic movement and our own stories we will connect with our hearts and our gifts and will leave prepared to step into our fullest expression, our fullest power.
The Way of Council Link
Unwriting Our Stories
Through Movement & Voice
Combining the ancient practice of sitting in Council with the catalytic nature of the 5Rhythms, we will explore the story that we know and make space for the story that is still to be told.
During this day, we will weave these two core practices to explore our stories, particularly the old ones ready to be released and the new ones that are emergent. What might we discover as we unwrite our story and expand our curiosity of our untold stories?
