This Human Heart
May 3rd - 6th @Wildways Retreat Centre
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In these times, it is important that we tend to our hearts.
These are challenging times and many of us are feeling the impact of the world around us. We have our attention pulled in many directions, family, work, news, social media. How much do we pay attention to our hearts? We may be feeling numbed, overwhelmed, fearful, full of grief;
not able to access the joy and beauty of life that is our birthright. This workshop is inviting you to find some compassion and kindness for yourself and to take a little time to tend to the garden of the heart. Our heart garden may be neglected and running wild, or possibly neglected and barren. We may need to cut back and prune some old growth, till and water the dry earth and plant some new seeds.
A little mulching might help and a sprinkling of fertilizer wouldn't go amiss.
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Dancing close to the land in nature is restorative. Wildways offers us a bounty of spring energy at this time of year with its bluebell woods and verdant valley. Neil will guide us with embodied movement informed by the 5Rhythms Heartbeat maps, and with connection to the seasonal tides of spring rising and the support of community, we will call on courage, compassion, forgiveness, acceptance and generosity. Your Human Heart will once more become a place of refuge and resource in your life, a garden of delight.
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If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl.
Gabrielle Roth
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The workshop is offered residential and will be three nights starting on the evening of Friday 3rd and running till the afternoon of Monday 6th. Shared communal accommodation or camping as options, though Wildways also has a couple of spaces for solo or couples if you book early.
Campervans welcome. Food will be bring and share.
Bookings are open now at the earlybird price of £333 (till April 7th) £350 after.
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Our time together will be tender, warm and playful as we explore the territory of the heart.
We will share 5Rhythms dance, time on the land, community & saunas. Food will be bring and share.
All welcome with some experience of 5Rhythms - This workshop counts as 3 days of Heartbeat work for 5RTA
Roots & Wings
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June 8th- Birmingham
Ascension Church Hall, Pineapple Grove, Stirchley, B30 2TJ
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With the rising of summer energy, all that has been nurtured
in the roots of winter heads upward to blossom and unfold towards the light. We too follow this natural becoming through the dance of the 5Rhythms. Day workshop 11.30-6pm
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"From earth to air do all things grow."
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This day will offer support to your dance from the ground up. When we are rooted in the earth and fluid in our bodies then the flow of life can move through us, accessing our vitality and life force. With movement comes engagement, growth and expansion so that the energetic bodies of spirit and flesh dance now together, filling us with creativity and a lightness of being that comes easily. On this workshop we will explore the waves of the 5Rhythms with our attention specially on flowing and lyrical. We will discover that when we are centered, balanced and open, life dances through us effortless and we experience the lightness of our being.
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£55 till May 12th / £65 after
Life Arising
EXPANSIVE
Summer Solstice Weekend 21st - 23rd June
Residential workshop @Wildways
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Super Earlybird price £200if booked in April
then earlybird £222 till May 26th (£250 after)
includes workshop fee and basic accommodation or camping
5Rhythms brings us together as a community of dancers to celebrating this midsummer. Being close to the land offers us a natural way to recharge and honour the great cycles of the year at this summer solstice.
Dancing, wild swimming, body painting, sharing food and creating rituals of renewal on this private woodland site.
Earth,Sea & Sky
August 21st-28th 2024
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Summer Waves, invites you to immerse yourself in the Earth, Sea & Sky of this beautiful Greek landscape on the Pelion Peninsular. Renowned as the place where the Greek Gods would take their summer holidays, it is truly a magnificent and relaxing location for a 5Rhythms vacation. Our home will be the holistic community of Anilio on the chestnut forested mountainside overlooking the Aegean Sea. Here we will dance, share laughter, eat amazing local food, swim, explore the locality and participate in community. This will be a nurturing and transformative week of 5Rhythms dance, beach holiday, Greek life and community experience. All are welcome no matter what your 5Rhythms or dance background.
For more info click here.
Bookings open - prices from 625 Euro
Other Workshop offerings for 2024
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HOLY SMOKE - Samhain Weekend @Wildways
October 25th - 27th
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Earth Heart New Year Retreat
December 29th 2024 - Jan 3rd 2025
Bookings
Terms and conditions
By booking you agree to the terms and conditions.
Payment in advance for a class or day workshop is non-refundable.
Longer workshops require filling out a booking form where terms and agreements are posted.
We reserve the right to cancel any workshop at any time.
Under these circumstances a full refund of any fees paid will be reimbursed.
Any other expenses such as travel can not be claimed for.
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