photo by Pearl Martin-Eagle
Greetings Sweet Ones...
My summer will see me slowing down a bit and staying close to home, while building Dance Your Ability, a growing not-for-profit.
I will still be teaching on Salt Spring Island and Nanaimo, BC Canada for the Summer and have exciting dance offerings planned for the Fall and Winter. Please stay tuned...
My summer will see me slowing down a bit and staying close to home, while building Dance Your Ability, a growing not-for-profit.
I will still be teaching on Salt Spring Island and Nanaimo, BC Canada for the Summer and have exciting dance offerings planned for the Fall and Winter. Please stay tuned...
SALT SPRING ISLAND
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Continuing through the summer!
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Dance Temple ~ Salt Spring Island
www.dancetemplesaltspring.com
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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 |
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This conscious dance event takes place the last Friday of the month.
We are a collective of 3 different facilitators/teachers. May 31 Melissa Nobles June 28 Chantell Foss July 26 Shauna Devlin August 30 Shauna Devlin
November 29 Melissa Nobles December 27 Chantell Foss |
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.
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.
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?
