photo by Pearl Martin-Eagle
“When we dance we touch the essence of who we are and experience the unity between spirit and matter.”
― Angeles Arrien
SALT SPRING ISLAND
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5Rhythms ~ Salt Spring Island
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Dance Temple ~ Salt Spring Island
www.dancetemplesaltspring.com All Welcome $10 Location: Beaver Point Hall 1361 Beaver Point Road Day: Monday & Thursday Time: 7:00-9:00pm Shauna's Dates: November 14th |
NANAIMO
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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:
November 29 Melissa Nobles December 27 Chantell Foss January 31 Melissa Nobles February 28 Shauna March 27 Chantell April 24 Melissa May 29 Chantell June 26 Shauna July 31 Melissa August 28 Shauna September 25 Melissa |
SERIES, WORKSHOPS & TRAININGS
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BEING HUMAN
A 5Rhythms Movement & Inquiry Workshop "To answer the question, “What does it mean to be a human being?” we need to defer to our feet and move back to our roots. These roots are made of light that connects us to 75,000 years of ecstatic dance tradition, to all who have danced to transport themselves out of their heads into the wilderness of their own psyches to experience, in poetic patterns, the shape of their souls." -Gabrielle Roth (creator of the 5Rhythms® practice) You are invited to spend the weekend exploring & inquiring. We will use the 5Rhythms® movement practice, group & partner exercises, loads of great music and the group energy to navigate the dense terrain of being human. November 29 - December 1, 2019 Schedule: Friday 7:00-9:00 Saturday 10:00-5:00 Sunday 11:15-4:00 |
Venue:
Breath of Life Yoga Studio 150-2237 2nd Ave Whitehorse, Yukon |
Angel Spots (no charge) & Crew Spots available.
Please do NOT let finances keep you or someone you know from attending. |
A WORK of ART A 5Rhythms® & Loving Inquiry Workshop with Shauna Devlin & Ahava Shira January 3 - 6:00-9:00 January 4 - 9:30-4:30 Stowel Lake Farm can host for $100/night plus tax for this event, meals not included. stowellakefarm.com |
About Loving Inquiry
Created through Ahava Shira’s PhD in Art-Based Education, at the heart of Loving Inquiry is the commitment to cultivating a kind and accepting attention toward ourselves and others, helping us to free our unique expression and embrace our connections with the worlds inside and around us. An invitation to listen, play, have fun, make mistakes and encounter our wild imaginations, whether we are putting our pens to the page, feet on the floor, scissors to the magazine (and images into new forms) or sharing our voices aloud, as we engage in the nourishing and restorative process of enchantment we make and keep making meanings that honour diversity, complexity and imperfection. Through this curious, care-full process, we become comfortable with the beautiful messiness of our creations, and our lives.
About the 5Rhythms®
Created by Gabrielle Roth in the late 70's and practiced by tens of thousands worldwide, 5Rhythms® is a philosophy, perspective, performance art and a dynamic movement practice rooted in the principle that if you put the psyche in motion it will heal itself. Movement is both the medicine and the metaphor, reaching across all languages, cultures and age groups to transform suffering into art, art into awareness, and awareness into action. Wherever the 5Rhythms are practiced, a community is born to dance, to sweat, to change, to support, and to provide a safe space for each of us to shatter the ego’s hold and awaken the juicy, unpredictable, fascinating, edge-walking, rock star part of ourselves that yearns to be free.
About Ahava
Ahava Shira, PhD is a writer, poet, spoken word performer, dancer, collage artist and facilitator/ mentor who has been fostering authentic creative expression for diverse populations in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years. Creator of Loving Inquiry, an arts-based contemplative practice, Ahava is the author of a book of poetry, a spoken word CD and co-author of Writing Alone Together. She lives on Salt Spring Island with her husband and the community of earth and human beings.
About Shauna
Shauna Devlin has been studying and dancing the 5Rhythms since 2005, and became a teacher in 2011. She is also a Conscious Dance DJ, offering events since 2006 and more recently she founded the not-for profit Dance Your Ability Therapeutic Movement Foundation, bringing music, movement & conscious dance to those that would not normally attend public classes. She lives with her family on Salt Spring Island, BC.
Created through Ahava Shira’s PhD in Art-Based Education, at the heart of Loving Inquiry is the commitment to cultivating a kind and accepting attention toward ourselves and others, helping us to free our unique expression and embrace our connections with the worlds inside and around us. An invitation to listen, play, have fun, make mistakes and encounter our wild imaginations, whether we are putting our pens to the page, feet on the floor, scissors to the magazine (and images into new forms) or sharing our voices aloud, as we engage in the nourishing and restorative process of enchantment we make and keep making meanings that honour diversity, complexity and imperfection. Through this curious, care-full process, we become comfortable with the beautiful messiness of our creations, and our lives.
About the 5Rhythms®
Created by Gabrielle Roth in the late 70's and practiced by tens of thousands worldwide, 5Rhythms® is a philosophy, perspective, performance art and a dynamic movement practice rooted in the principle that if you put the psyche in motion it will heal itself. Movement is both the medicine and the metaphor, reaching across all languages, cultures and age groups to transform suffering into art, art into awareness, and awareness into action. Wherever the 5Rhythms are practiced, a community is born to dance, to sweat, to change, to support, and to provide a safe space for each of us to shatter the ego’s hold and awaken the juicy, unpredictable, fascinating, edge-walking, rock star part of ourselves that yearns to be free.
About Ahava
Ahava Shira, PhD is a writer, poet, spoken word performer, dancer, collage artist and facilitator/ mentor who has been fostering authentic creative expression for diverse populations in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years. Creator of Loving Inquiry, an arts-based contemplative practice, Ahava is the author of a book of poetry, a spoken word CD and co-author of Writing Alone Together. She lives on Salt Spring Island with her husband and the community of earth and human beings.
About Shauna
Shauna Devlin has been studying and dancing the 5Rhythms since 2005, and became a teacher in 2011. She is also a Conscious Dance DJ, offering events since 2006 and more recently she founded the not-for profit Dance Your Ability Therapeutic Movement Foundation, bringing music, movement & conscious dance to those that would not normally attend public classes. She lives with her family on Salt Spring Island, BC.
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Cost: $40 for each OR
$180 for entire series |
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More info: danceyourability.com
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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.
Saturday Workshops:
An all day workshop is an offering where we can dive deeper into the practice or work with a theme. Day longs 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
Shauna's 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.
Saturday Workshops:
An all day workshop is an offering where we can dive deeper into the practice or work with a theme. Day longs 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
Shauna's 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?
