The MoveMap :: Dance First Association Member's Events

Let your wildest, deepest core roots of growth, expression and raw essence emerge as you step into the journey of your own wild core. This October you have the opportunity to embark on a journey that will lead you to your wild roots, somatic wisdom and a deeper resonance with the earth. I have included [...]

Mid Summer Festival is a gathering that unites people from Italy and abroad. Days immersed in nature, practicing several awareness disciplines, with qualified teachers and musicians. Several 5Rhythms sessions every day with a session of Movement Medicine, Soul Motion, Open Floor, Azul, Trance Dance during the time together  Yoga every morning before breakfast with offerings of [...]

Passages is a ZeroOne movement journey through your life. An opportunity to let go of some old baggage and become creative with the gifts and wounds you’ve gathered along the way. So much is beyond our control! Ancestral imprints and DNA, cultural forces, the vast current of life — we are truly a tiny droplet [...]

Make hump day your happy place with a weekly dance party in a sweet retreat on Oakland's Lake Merritt! KRS-10's unique playlists are full of surprises but easy to follow. Experience salsa, bhangra, flamenco, street, reggaeton, calypso, funk, blues, pop, glitch hop, and so much more, while getting a juicy interval workout designed for your brain, [...]

Music & Movement to Nourish Our Souls Soul Kitchen Dance is a fun & liberating place for YOU to Dance for JOY! Feel deeply & move freely within your very own conscious dance community. More mind body practice than traditional dance class, Soul Kitchen is a safe, sacred, fun & liberating space for normal people like [...]

summer workshop This summer workshop is a perfect time to relax and recharge yourself. The 5Rhythms movement meditation is our inspiration. The sea and sun are waiting for you to envelop you in warmth and tranquility. The rhythm and pace of the program is adjusted to the summer. There is enough free [...]

Join thousands of women around the world on this day to Come Home to your TEMPLE BODY and REMEMBER that you are DIVINE. . discover your body as a temple Your presence is Golden. You belong here, in your Temple Body, in this Collective, and in the Rise of the Divine Feminine. It is time [...]

Come investigate and experience the ways that movement, sound, image, and performance can inform human culture. With multiple workshops each day, teaching artists from the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium (IIAC) and participants from around the world create an embodied dialogue at the intersection of modalities—voice, improvisation, site-specific performance, physical theater, and more. Open to all levels and backgrounds. [...]

We are awakening to new realities – within and without – created by higher frequency universal energies pouring into our collective consciousness. Realities that we at first may experience as confusing, in constant change, not linear and therefore, unpredictable and we feel uncertainty, become tired, restless, not knowing what to do or what we want. [...]

Calling All Intrepid Female Explorers . . . Soul Kitchen’s Ladies Lab joyously offers women opportunities to grow stronger and more confident by finding, enjoying and reclaiming our power, pleasure, expression & creativity. A sensuous and womanly playground to hiss, punch, grunt, growl, roar, slink, gyrate – lay still and sob – all in one place. [...]

The weekly Somatic Movement Mediation lessons are based on Feldenkrais® and Body-Mind Centering® somatic education. They are verbally guided, gentle, slow movements done lying on a mat (and sometimes in sitting, standing or walking). They improve flexibility, alignment, coordination and self-awareness. Everyone has a great capacity for learning and to change habits that lead to [...]

Dance Jam Berkeley :: Ecstatic Dance Friday Nights YOU ARE INVITED! You’ve found Berkeley’s longest running “barefoot / freestyle / ecstatic” dance! Grooving every week since 1976 with a long line of various community leaders carrying the torch. There’s no steps to learn, no dress code to adhere to, just freedom to move and play in [...]

TRUE RHYTHMS weekly 5Rhythms conscious dance class. Paul St Community Centre, 26 Paul St, Shepton Mallet, UK BA4 5LA. DROP-IN CLASS - £10 cash on the door - adults only. EVERY SATURDAY EXCEPT: these dates in 2019: May 18th, November 9th, November 30th, December 7th, December 14th WARMUP BEGINS 10:45, DOORS CLOSED 11:00, CLASS COMPLETES 12:30 [...]

Join Breema Staff Instructors for the weekly Saturday morning class at the Breema Center, Oakland, California. Breema offers a practical means of becoming present and a commonsense approach to physical, mental, and emotional health. The more you are present, the more you can connect with others, and with all life. In this class you will [...]

Drumming, Meditation, Healing Bowls.. delight your spirit the first 45 minutes with a meditation practice then transition into a Music, Movement and Dance practice at 10:30am. Come for one or both. Meditation only payment is by donation. Sierra Conscious Dance is committed to offering and promoting conscious practices to foster a shared experience of awareness and [...]

Every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. we gather at Santa Barbara’s Gustafson Studio to express our most authentic selves through movement. There are no steps to follow, and no right or wrong ways to move; the intention is to feel the sacred through the movement of our bodies. Dance Tribe welcomes all ages. It’s [...]

~ Align with the Divine ~ Join together in celebratory community to remember our wholeness and to amplify our sacred work in these times of great change. No Dance experience is necessary, only a longing to move with life in authenticity and love. All are Welcome. Please check our website for up-to-date location information and occasional [...]

Music & Movement to Nourish Our Souls Soul Kitchen Dance is a fun & liberating place for YOU to Dance for JOY! Feel deeply & move freely within your very own conscious dance community. More mind body practice than traditional dance class, Soul Kitchen is a safe, sacred, fun & liberating space for normal people like [...]

A 5Rhythms Waves Class w/Rebekah Zhuraw We are all different, but we are all one. At the center of all our struggles there is only love. Sanctuary is a sacred space to explore the shapes of your dancing heart within a safe haven of other moving bodies and the refuge of our collective breath. The 5Rhythms [...]

Join Breema Center Staff Instructors for the weekly Monday evening class in Breema, the Art of Being Present. Experiencing Breema’s Nine Principles of Harmony, through practicing nurturing and energizing Breema bodywork and Self-Breema exercises, gives us a foundation for tasting balance and harmony in our lives. As body, mind, and feelings become balanced, you experience [...]

Tuesdays - 8:00-9:15 a.m. ~ Aletia Alvarez Come deepen your connection to self and other with this joyful morning movement class! Emphasis on breath awareness, and sequencing breath with movement. Flowing from one moment to the next with awareness that individual expression and creativity begins at home with our ability to occupy internal space. This is [...]

A Breema Intensive is a unique opportunity to enter into Breema’s practical approach to life—a chance to experience a new way of moving, thinking, and feeling, in harmony with universal principles. In an accepting, nurturing, and alive atmosphere, you learn and practice Self-Breema exercises and Breema bodywork. Both are ideal ways to become familiar with Breema’s [...]

Breema® is about coming to a tangible and direct experience of your essential self. It is a practical down-to-earth approach to being present that can bring more meaning and understanding to your life. Breema bodywork, Self-Breema exercises, and the Nine Principles of Harmony are natural expressions of the unifying principle of Existence. They provide ideal [...]

Dear Sisters, the circle has opened… Take our hands and join our circle of women dedicated to the journey of wild abandon and holy ecstasy~ We dive deep to the realms of intuitive, visceral and instinctual movement to invite and invoke our deepest healing essence as we move our bodies in our shapeshifting beauty, wisdom [...]

Presence, An Open Floor Movement Class with Christina Fanizzi We come together to be with ourselves and each other fully. We explore ourselves—physically, emotionally, mentally, soulfully—in good company. We move with PRESENCE. Each class is unique and offers insight into the multitude of ways we experience our humanness. With mindful attention, we use our body as [...]

We know setting up and getting your MM class or workshops or other Professional offering going can be challenging. Additionally, as time passes we have recognised that teaching MM has some particular challenges sewn into it. This CPD module is a Teacher’s Retreat to refresh, support, inspire your professional practice wherever you are in that. It [...]

At this residential gathering in the beautiful venue and natural surroundings of Haluzice you will learn practices and exercises to resource and create resilience in your day to day life. The power of core messages we tell ourselves can have a profound effect on our relationship with ourselves, other and the world. This is an opportunity [...]

Breema® is a practical way to bring body and mind together and raise our level of consciousness. Breema's natural movements and nonjudgmental approach introduce a unique quality of touch that is a direct expression of being present. We discover an open-hearted, balanced relation to ourselves, others, and all life. The aim of Breema is to [...]

When Lyrical is grounded, when we have the body, heart, mind working as a unit, we are not spaced out. We can improvise movement faster than a jazz musician. In Lyrical we discover that we have the ability to shift energy with freedom, to never get stuck in one possibility and to know that all [...]

Imagine the possibility of allowing life to be as it is. In Azul we work with four Orientations: Listening, Allowing, Opening, and Moving Towards. This workshop focuses on Allowing.   In allowing life to be as it is, we discover that it is much richer and deeper than we had perceived. Imagine not resisting what life [...]

How does your life shape your dance? How does your dance shape your life? How can movement inspire and renew your creativity? In the Tamalpa Life / Art Process, movement and life are intertwined. The body contains our life experiences and movement is our primary language. When we dance, we say something about our lives. When [...]

if paid by August 17th; $150 thereafter “The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those [...]

heart Waves is the foundational map of the 5Rhythms, the dynamic movement practice of being in your body, created by Gabrielle Roth and practiced by tens of thousands worldwide.  It sets us free to explore the dance of moving and being moved.  We come to the Wave to feel, to be held, heartened, informed, lightened, [...]

For all levels, including beginners. If you can take a brisk walk, have a fair amount of energy, and are ready to experience the dance of your own creativity, give yourself this gift of a lifetime. Far more than instruction to become a Let Your Yoga Dance® teacher, this training also invites you to explore all [...]

Breema® is a practical way to bring body and mind together and raise our level of consciousness. Breema's natural movements and nonjudgmental approach introduce a unique quality of touch that is a direct expression of being present. We discover an open-hearted, balanced relation to ourselves, others, and all life. The aim of Breema is to [...]

Ya'Acov and Susannah Darling Khan, founders of the Schoolo of Movement Medicine, will offer a serie of events this September all over Japan. Weekend workshops, residentials, drop-in classes and private sessions. Check out the school's calendar for details. MM Founder Susannah&Ya’Acov Darlingkhan Japan Tour “For All Our Relations” **12th Thursday　 Evening Talk [...]

heart “We come together as a tribe, to share our practice, to share our journey, to connect with ourselves, and with one another.” In this workshop, we will dive deep in the body for two days of movement -- flesh, blood and bone. Then, we will sink further into the inescapable, inevitable, and enduring heart for [...]

Integrating Higher and Lower Self - A Six Day Azul Residential Retreat Integrating Lower & Higher Self is an exploration of the lower and higher self. It is designed to explore and experience the nine matrixes of the lower self: gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, pride, lust, fear and deceit. As we come to understand the [...]

The whole body is an expression of the heart dance, when we move with surrendered grace and listen to whispers of of the Souls’ voice sweeping us away deep into the mystery of who we are. The beat seduces our feet caressing the ground, earth’s tongue, plugging us into intuitive and inspired choreography. Barefoot Love [...]

with Banafsheh and Tony Khalife 7-day Intensive: September 13-20, 2019 Weekend only: September 13-15, 2019 The entire universe belongs to the dancer. If you don’t dance, you won’t know what will come to pass. -Jesus Dance invites us to take up space in the world with confidence, conviction and service. It’s exhilarating, joyous, sacred, sensual, transformative, [...]

Breath and Movement™" is an official Transformational Breath® Foundation introductory weekend that allows you to learn about the three levels of Transformational Breath®, the science of movement and breath, and to experience how movement enhances the breath. You will also enjoy five very powerful breathing sessions! "BaM" is a perfect way to explore both movement and [...]

Quais são os anseios de sua alma? Talvez seja se expressar de forma autêntica sem ser manipulado pelo medo da rejeição e do julgamento? Ou mesmo criar conexões mais reais, fluidas interrompendo padrões inconscientes? Através da criatividade e da intuição podemos nos mover por caminhos misteriosos. Quando expandimos nossa atenção e presença pelas cores, pelos [...]

Join the Cocréa team and special friends for a sweet weekend of connection, movement and learning. Play with friends in the open structure of this emergent dance form. Drink manna from the exquisite Heartland environment as we join and celebrate another lap around the sun through summer. Tickets are on sale at https://dancecocrea.com/heartbeat/ Starting at [...]

A 5Rhythms Pilgrimage with Laura Martin-Eagle Friday Sept 13: 7-9:30 pm, Saturday Sept 14: 11am-6pm, Sunday Sept 15: 10:30am-6pm Cost: $220/ $195 early bird (until 8/15/19) Be Moved Studio 2 e. 7th street Lawrence Kansas www.bemovedstudio.com A pilgrim (from the Latin peregrinus) is a traveler who is on a journey to a holy place. Some [...]

A Women’s Weekend to Explore Movement as Medicine For Body, Heart & Soul with Susannah Darling Khan This is a space to liberate yourself, to reclaim your authenticity and your power, your sensuality and the joy in being YOU. In this workshop, through developing awareness of your own authentic boundaries you will learn how to safely [...]

A Movement Medicine Inner Shaman Journey for Humans Who Care for Life With Shaman and Co-Founder of Movement Medicine, Ya’Acov Darling Khan ‘Ya’Acov leads very powerful workshops and ceremonies that transform thousands of people helping them to deal with their suffering and answer their most important questions. He is a great healer who has helped me [...]

Tender yet fierce ecstatic dance and music performance followed by a free-style dance celebration Dancer Banafsheh & musicians Tony Khalife & guests Saturday, September 14 8:00 – 9:30 pm Stowel Lake Farm Salt Spring Island, B.C. Tickets: $15 Contact: (250) 709-1921 or info@shaunadevlin.net All are welcome in this circle of love Come, unleash your wild devotional dance and [...]

Transforming fear, guilt, and shame What steps can you take, to move beyond fear, guilt, and shame? These feelings can be cripplingly painful, and many of us go to great lengths to avoid having to feel them, yet somehow constantly troubled by them in the back room of ourselves.  This workshop gives you practical tools [...]

“Trance is a tricky place, a place not many understand. It’s a mindful state that only happens when you get out of your way and fall into your true self so deeply that something inside clicks and you are simultaneously being and witnessing yourself.“ -- Gabrielle Roth We all long for a place to call home, [...]

Phoenix Medicine for Who We Are and the Times We Live In – A Movement Medicine Shamanic Journey with Ya’Acov & Susannah Darling Khan Movement Medicine is an invitation to rise from the ashes of your suffering and evolve a new story that dignifies who you are and strengthens your love for and therefore, action on [...]

Integrating Lower and Higher Self - A Six Day Azul Residential Retreat Integrating Lower and Higher Self is an exploration of the lower and higher self. It is designed to explore and experience the nine matrixes of the lower self: gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, pride, lust, fear and deceit. As we come to understand the [...]

Come to a complimentary evening to Experience Breema and attend the workshop to learn the practice for your self. The aim of Breema is to bring us to a tangible experience of presence that becomes our foundation for a new dimension of health, consciousness, and self-understanding. Breema’s Principles are universal, and support us to bring [...]

Dancing is a great way to feel our aliveness. Moving our bodies as a meditation, we experience how the life-energy flows through us. We can align our movement and our consciousness with this life-force, expanding our awareness and growing our ability to be present, awake and fulfilled. During this workshop we will explore the core embodiment [...]

Experience music & movement unfolding together in improvisation. Each month a new musician fills the space as we dance in playful exploration. All dance levels & styles are welcome. $15 - $20 (No one turned away for lack of funds) About the Musicians Quirk!  (Richard Adams and Dan Lederer) Featuring Richard Adams [...]

In this workshop, rooted in Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms movement practice, we use our dance like archeologists to dig beneath the surface, to seek buried treasures and pearls of wisdom gleaned from our own life experience. The 5Rhythms offer us both a map to understanding and a way to deeply embody the patterns, waves, and vibrations that [...]

Autumn is a time of transition and transformation. Let’s take some time for ourselves to pause; to prepare ourselves for what is to come. Invest in yourself with this 4 night/5 day retreat near Zion National Park. We will offer you daily Nia classes and exposure to many new and different practices to open yourself to [...]

Community of Selves with Andrea Juhan There is an inner community inside of us, a community of selves. Some that have a voice, some that are quiet. Some that are known through sensation, emotion, thought. Other selves have agendas, advice, and accusations. Each of these selves has a history, an emotional state, and a felt [...]

The spirit may be willing but the flesh and voice are sometimes tongue-tied. Yet the spirit longs to break the silence and speak from the deepest Live Wire place within us. What words express your current state of being? How does the voice move within the shapes of the body? How do those physical shapes breathe? [...]

A moving exploration of the juiciest polarity of all! No matter what gender you identify as, no matter what your sexual orientation, you’ve got these two forces going on inside you all the time, and you’re dealing with them in all your relationships too, whether you’re with friends, at work, or in bed. We’ll unpack our [...]

Recharge and Renew! Gently move your yoga, play, meditate, relax, and dance your yoga in Megha’s beautiful home studio in the beautiful Berkshires. Enjoy a weekend of user-friendly gentle yoga, qigong on the lawn, Let Your Yoga Dance, moving meditation, relaxation, and sharing with wonderful new friends! All levels welcome! Go home feeling completely refreshed! [...]

Dancing the Essence of Archetypes for healing, play and power is a weekend retreat for women on the healing land of the Eureka Center in N. Idaho. Inspired from the book "The Four-Fold Way" by Angeles Arrien Ph.D, we will explore the empowerment tools of the *Healer *Warrior *Visionary and *Teacher Archetypes that can be activated [...]

Who and what is the Earthdance community? For 33 years, this question has danced through our studios, made its way across the land, and filled our days with wondering. Built over three decades of dedication, Earthdance holds the care of hundreds—maybe thousands!—in its bones. Earthdance also rests on the ancestral land of the Agawams, Pocumtuc, Nipmuck, Wabanaki [...]

Let your wildest, deepest core roots of growth, expression and raw essence emerge as you step into the journey of your own WildCore. WildCore is a dance based practice that explores the wilderness of body and soul. Leading the dancer on a path of untamed self-discovery, healing and expressive movement that uses metaphor as a bridge [...]

The Dancing Warrior is an archetypal force that resides within us all. It is the energy that provides us with the challenges of life and navigate our experiences with wisdom and flexibility. The Dancing Warrior awakens unconsciousness and travels all the way through to making a commitment to fully embodied knowledge. This 5 day embodied journey [...]

Slow Saucy and Sacred: A dance and wellness retreat offering you the opportunity to slow down, turn inwards and explore your sensuality from a place of reverence, safety and acceptance. Journey into the Rapture of being in body. Join the Cocréa Core Team, Usha Rose, Chrissy Mehnert and Wren LaFeet at the exquisite Eudaimonia Retreat [...]

An investigation of soul through the body. A single thread is cast through space, invoking emptiness - a basket is placed full of blank pages, waiting for whispers and entrances. The unravelling - the revealing tale of the feet, the hips, the head, the hands and the breath - an unveiling of the truths discovered through [...]

Movement Medicine weaves together the exhilaration of free dance with the depth of movement meditation, therapeutic understanding and the spirit of shamanic practice. BODY HEART SOUND is an opportunity to rememeber that the awake, moving body is a strong, safe and versatile vessel for the heart. Inviting permission and acceptance of all we are and all [...]

Come to a complimentary Experience Breema evening on Friday and return that weekend for a full immersion in learning the practice of the Art of Being Present. Breema is based on a profound understanding of the principles that govern the entire universe and everything in it. Learn and practice simple Breema partner sequences and Self-Breema [...]

Embody. Empower. Express. Evolve. Danyasa Yoga Arts, created by Sofiah Thom, comprises a dynamic fusion of vinyasa yoga, and expressive movement designed to access creative potential and empower the graceful warrior within. Dance + Vinyasa = Danyasa! Danyasa Yoga Arts encourage practitioners to listen to the wisdom of the body as the innate and ultimate [...]

Fear is real. It is primal, instinctive, and holds enormous power if we can find the courage to face it, feel it, and go through it. Mostly we avoid feeling fear,  tensing up or dissociating, but its true nature is a life-giver, a heart opener, an agent of transformation and rebirth: simply energy that can become [...]

In the modern Western world, we are told that accumulation offers the road to satisfaction. Yet, despite acquiring more ‘stuff’ than any of our ancestors, we are arguably more lost, lonely and dissatisfied than any culture that has gone before us. Our focus on what we need to get is causing suffering, not only to our [...]

We will use the map of the 5 Rhythms to investigate the energy of Fear and Courage. When we open to the teachings of the map as pure energy, the essence of our hearts dance. We bring our curiosity, and plug into the body’s instinctive language of rhythm, the shapes of fear as it moves [...]

Voice of the Heart ~ Azu Conscious Movement Workshop 11-13 October, 2019 Buenos Aires, Argentina We have so many voices that chime inside of us – dance is one way to listen through the chatter and hear the voice of your deepest knowing. Listening is the key that opens the door to hearing the voice [...]

Autumn's vibrancy of colors, shapes, and forms enters our bodies as we play with a range of approaches to Contact Improvisation and community. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Scholarship application is open! Now through September 8th. The DEI Scholarship is open to anyone who has a budding relationship with CI and feels they are part of an underrepresented and/or [...]

Join Director Jon Schreiber along with staff Instructors of the Oakland Breema Center for a week of intensive study of the practice of Breema, the Art of Being Present. These seasonal intensives also feature guest Instructors and students from around the world and US. Breema bodywork, Self-Breema exercises, and the Nine Principles of Harmony are natural [...]

breath We are immensely and deeply affected by what’s going on globally, from the devices in our hands to news of vast change that comes through them. This weekend is an opportunity to reset. To find our ground, to centre, to connect to the human scale of things again. ZeroOne in practice . . . [...]

A time for people to come together, working side-by-side, to give Earthdance some extra love & care as we prepare the buildings and grounds for Winter. We invite those who have a long history with Earthdance, those who have never visited before, and all those in between! If this is your first time, come experience the [...]

“Libido is appetite in its natural state” Carl Jung Libido is an essential part of our body’s natural expression. Complicated one moment, ecstatic the next. Absent or burdened with expectations of past experiences, this energy within and between us comes to the dance longing for freedom. The intention in Open Floor Movement practice is to [...]

Dancing Through Life at Playa Xinalani! 2nd Annual Retreat for YOU! A Yoga, Movement, Breath and Relaxation Vacation in Mexico! Joanie and Adelle are hosting a retreat at Xinalani Retreat Center in Playa Xinalani, Quimixto! Xinalani is an exclusive Retreat Center that offers an unparalleled retreat experience: authentic and magical, immersed in lush jungle surroundings [...]

This workshop will be a creative exploration on returning home to the body and to the heart of what matters in your life through movement and art making. There is a potent connection to be made between our physical, emotional and imaginative experiences. As we make this connection, movement can serve as a metaphor and a [...]

How are you with setting boundaries? What’s in the way of you having clarity with what you believe? How can you find the courage to stand in the fire and be in service of life? Movement Medicine practice works with three central archetypal characters. The Dancing Warrior, The Wise Elder and the Dancing Fool. These serve [...]

Prerequisite: For students who have completed Module 1. Module 2 brings together everything you’ve learned so far. After a period of at-home practice following Module 1, return with confidence to lead Let Your Yoga Dance® classes for your peers. Offered in an atmosphere of compassion, kindness, and no competition, this training includes In-depth mentoring, skill-building, and [...]

Belongs to project: (New!) Social Change Sundays: Tools for Healthy Community Engagement Programming category: Local Community Programs Register Here! Social Change Sundays is a series of 7 workshops for opening dialogue about intersectional social justice at Earthdance and across the region. Through critical thinking as well as creative, interactive, & movement-based tools for interrupting oppression, the intention of the series is to build authentic, equitable [...]

Join Andrew Harvey, Banafsheh Sayyad, and other spiritual teachers on an Experiential Journey to Bali October 28-November 10 Bali, Indonesia REGISTER HERE! Join Andrew Harvey, Lilly White, Dr. Scilla Elworthy, Banafsheh Sayyad, and Jill Angelo Birnbaum for a once in a lifetime spiritual travel experience that includes the opening of the Center of Hope in [...]

In the dancing path of the 5Rhythms®, "God, Sex and the Body" is an initiation into being an embodied soul. It is a deeply personal journey, a celebration like no other, a ritual for the hot and holy you. It's a call to stretch our imaginations and move through a spectrum of feminine and masculine archetypes, [...]

5Rhythms Waves Teacher training spans one year and 3 modules.  This is the second module in the training year.  Application are due by June 30, 2018 for the 2019 program.

Human beings are of the natural world, and like the natural world, you have rhythms and cycles. To honor the rhythm and cycles of life is to honor the life within you. You may have experienced disconnect from the natural world, and by setting aside time to realign yourself with these patterns, you will restore harmony [...]

Do you want to try yoga and meditation but don’t know where to begin? Are you looking for a safe and welcoming environment in which to explore the basics? Kripalu master teacher-trainer Megha (Nancy Buttenheim) has created an accessible weekend immersion that offers the practical skills you need to make yoga and meditation part of your [...]

The Wisdom of the Dancing Fool How much time do you spend in a state of wonder and amazement? What is getting in the way of you being curious and fascinated? How can you relax into being simply you? Movement Medicine practice works with three central archetypal characters. The Dancing Warrior, The Wise Elder and the [...]

♥ November 3-10 ♥ Join us for this 1 week, fully catered by Emilybellish, residential experience that will be sure to drop you deep into your body, and initiate you into the next version of your Self. This is an opportunity for you to become your own “elemental alchemist“; to dive deeper into the power [...]

♥ 3rd - 24th of November ♥ Join us for our 22 days of Embodied Leadership Facilitator Training and Soul Quest Retreat! Dancing Freedom is a conscious movement practice, that supports healthy intimacy, full body expression, loving boundaries, emotional coherency and spiritual awakening for individuals and whole communities. This is no ordinary training. Our training [...]

More information on registration coming soon Email info@banafsheh.org with questions

To feel into our depths takes courage, and courage we have, for our true nature is wild, along with every other living thing on this beautiful magical earth.  Maybe we just forgot for a while — pretending that we’re civilised, and then pretending that we’re not pretending…  But the body doesn’t lie, so movement and [...]

NOURISH & FLOURISH Fire up Your Creativity A HUMAN POTENTIAL RETREAT WITH CATHERINE LLEWELLYN Wanstrow Village Hall, Frome Road, Wanstrow BA4 4SX 6pm Friday 8th to 3pm Sunday 10th November 2019 WEB PAGE for info & booking: http://catherinellewellyn.co.uk/events/nourish-flourish-8th-to-10th-november-2019/ QUESTIONS: Catherine catherine@catherinellewellyn.co.uk 07770 267230   NOURISH & FLOURISH Fire up Your Creativity A HUMAN POTENTIAL RETREAT WITH [...]

The Azul Teacher Training is an experiential program designed for individuals who wish to deepen their understanding of embodiment and healing through movement – either as personal practice or as movement teachers. It is articulated in two 10 day modules, with additional mentoring and support after each module. * Who is the Training for The [...]

One Sunday a month, Earthdance Co-Founder and community member Penny Schultz brings us together to raise our voices in joyful harmony. Songs from around the world celebrate the earth, love, and community. No singing expertise is required, and people of all ages are invited to join! $5-$15+ sliding scale (No one turned away for lack [...]

Sex, money, power, and work A ZeroOne movement based enquiry into the four fundamental forces of adulthood. Enter into your relationship with sex, money, and power as the three egoic gateways to addiction and corruption, that we must grapple with if we are to establish healthy, pleasurable and creative ways of moving in the world. What [...]

If you are currently teaching any type of wellness-related class (yoga, Pilates, Tai Chi, dance, related modalities), if you are a classroom teacher, or a licensed/trained helping professional of any kind (e.g., counselor, psychologist, social worker, nurse, psychiatrist, CD counselor), you are welcome to take this weekend facilitator training intensive! Graduate students are welcome. You MUST [...]

Tools for Conscious Living and Optimal Mind-Body Health with Jon Schreiber, DC, Ellen Petry-Leanse, and Deborah Cohan, MD Are you ready to explore the essential nature of life and the deeper meaning of health? Are you ready to learn how to actualize it all? Lots of people talk about the body-mind connection, but fewer bring [...]

The spirit may be willing but the flesh and voice are sometimes tongue-tied. Yet the spirit longs to break the silence and speak from the deepest Live Wire place within us. What words express your current state of being? How does the voice move within the shapes of the body? How do those physical shapes breathe? [...]

“Trance is a tricky place, a place not many understand. It’s a mindful state that only happens when you get out of your way and fall into your true self so deeply that something inside clicks and you are simultaneously being and witnessing yourself. “ -- Gabrielle RothWe all long for a place to call home, a [...]

By Application Only. This training is open only to Accredited 5Rhythms Waves Teachers.

“The whole universe is love’s endless dance.” – Kabir Please read slowly, and as you read come in touch with something you are grateful for. Allow the feeling of gratitude to expand inside of you, into every cell, until you feel your wings. The energy of gratitude is both enlivening and soothing. Let this energy [...]

Belongs to project: (New!) Social Change Sundays: Tools for Healthy Community Engagement Programming category: Local Community Programs Register Here! Social Change Sundays is a series of 7 workshops for opening dialogue about intersectional social justice at Earthdance and across the region. Through critical thinking as well as creative, interactive, & movement-based tools for interrupting oppression, the intention of the series is to build authentic, equitable [...]

ONE OF THE MANY teachings that come from the masculine energy of Staccato connects us to the part of us that seeks our highest level of consciousness. The Zen master that watches his breath, The surfer that becomes the wave, the poet that follows her hand as she writes, the more you sip from this [...]

Loss and the grief that brings are, it seems, an intrinsic part of our ability to love. Although grief can be devastating we can also experience an incredible sense of vitality and joy in our love for what we have lost. Out of Ashes offers a space to include our individual and collective grief and explore [...]

In Fire in the Heart, we will take a dancing shamanic journey through the four chambers of the heart and meet the Wise Elder within. Intensive Movement Medicine practice will give you the tools to translate the language of the heart into the language of the dance. The human being who has learnt to dance with [...]

An investigation of soul through the body A single thread is cast through space, invoking emptiness - a basket is placed full of blank pages, waiting for whispers and entrances. The unravelling - the revealing tale of the feet, the hips, the head, the hands and the breath - an unveiling of the truths discovered through [...]

To grow as individuals and to become effective leaders, team members, creators and change makers, we need a safe space in which to explore, enquire, make mistakes and learn. Today, leadership is often less about command and control, than about guiding creative team work and collaboration. This kind of leadership requires us to develop many skills [...]

Immerse yourself in Breema in Mexico with Director Jon Schreiber this winter. Breema® is based on a profound understanding of the principles that govern the entire universe and everything in it. In this workshop, we will learn simple Breema treatments and exercises that introduce us to an entirely new and different way of moving and [...]

Out of the experience of meeting the jaguar and the butterfly in you, you will emerge with a growing capacity to harness the fascinating and alchemically potent blend of vulnerability and power that is so central to our human journey. Movement Medicine weaves together the exhilaration of free dance with the depth of movement meditation, story-telling [...]

We're always in a constant state of flux, traveling and traversing from our essential selves to our shadow selves -- a place where if we stay too long our ego starts to run the show. It is our constant struggle and our shamanic task to create a personal awareness of our shadow places and spaces. The [...]

At the darkest point of the year, we invite you to join us at the beautiful Waldhaus Zentrum in the foothills of the Swiss Alps to reflect on and digest all that we have lived through in the previous twelve months. Nurtured by our stunning surroundings, we will follow the energy of the season and let [...]

Prepare to enter 2020 dissolving the NO that holds you back and embracing the YES that moves you towards love and prosperity. We are living in extraordinary times and much is being asked of us. We are like the caterpillar in the cocoon dissolving. In the cocoon there is a battle between the cells that [...]

Dance Your Art Out – Antwerp An Open Floor Art in Motion workshop with Sarah Davies 25-26 January 2020 Friday Night: Dance Your Art Out Intro, open to all 7.30 –10pm Workshop times: Saturday 11am–6pm and Sunday 11am–5pm Dance is an artform, an adventurous process, it can be exciting, bewildering, scary, sexy, surprising and transcendent. We [...]

If you are currently teaching any type of wellness-related class (yoga, Pilates, Tai Chi, dance, related modalities), if you are a classroom teacher, or a licensed/trained helping professional of any kind (e.g., counselor, psychologist, social worker, nurse, psychiatrist, CD counselor), you are welcome to take this weekend facilitator training intensive! Graduate students are welcome. You MUST [...]

Now in it’s 7th year, although this year within the modality of ZeroOne for the first time. However, this workshop goes beyond all modalities really. If you’ve been involved in a movement practice for a while, then this may be for you: a format designed to radically open up your ability to work creatively and effectively [...]

Sexual energy is the Source of creation. We have all been given the possibility of experiencing this energy as a powerful and healthy resource for dynamic and inspired living. Beyond guilt, blame and shame, there is movement, connection and the awakening of a sexuality that is a potent source of creative energy for all areas of [...]

Come to the magical rainforests and Caribbean coast of Costa Rica to play, improvise, and enhance your Contact skills. Your host and teacher, Moti Zemelman, brings 27 years of C.I. experience to share. We’ll improvise in the beautiful wood floor studios and do site-specific dance explorations with the trees and on the beaches. Nightly jams will [...]

Spend 5 days and 4 nights in empowered, expressive relationship with your body, music, nature and intimate community. Relax into the beautiful jungle ocean oasis of Playa Dominical and the Danyasa Retreat, specifically designed to support your growth and learning.

Doorways to Love ~ Azul Trilogy 6 day residential retreat Six Doorways of Love covers six core values that – when embodied – awaken love and bring greater health, harmony and well being into your life. These six values are: honesty, self-responsibility, kindness, dedication, beauty and service. Together they provide the foundation needed to engage [...]

Spring Rites - Coming Into the Light Spring Rites Sweat Lodge, Movement, Respite and Healing The spring season is a beautiful time of renewal and rejuvenation. We draw upon the lessons of new life as the grass becomes green once again, and new life begins to poke out of the earth. We recognize and meditate upon [...]

Portals of Healing ~ Azul Trilogy 6 day residential retreat Inside the portals resides all areas of human conflict and struggle as well as our key to freedom. The Three Portals of Healing: Mother, Father, God, point us back toward our childhood and help us identify a core wound, of which all other wounds are [...]

The Azul Teacher Training is an experiential program designed for individuals who wish to deepen their understanding of embodiment and healing through movement – either as personal practice or as movement teachers. It is articulated in two 10 day modules, with additional mentoring and support after each module. * Who is the Training for The [...]

By application only. For the 2019/20 Waves Training Program, Applications are due June 30, 2018.

By Application Only. This training is open only to Accredited 5Rhythms Waves Teachers.

5Rhythms Teachers Association Refresh. Open to 5RTA members only. SAVE THE DATES!  Registration will open Fall 2019

If you are currently teaching any type of wellness-related class (yoga, Pilates, Tai Chi, dance, related modalities), if you are a classroom teacher, or a licensed/trained helping professional of any kind (e.g., counselor, psychologist, social worker, nurse, psychiatrist, CD counselor), you are welcome to take this weekend facilitator training intensive! Graduate students are welcome. You [...]

The Azul Teacher Training is an experiential program designed for individuals who wish to deepen their understanding of embodiment and healing through movement – either as personal practice or as movement teachers. It is articulated in two 10 day modules, with additional mentoring and support after each module. * Who is the Training for The [...]