The Well ~ A 5Rhythms Waves Class w/ Layah (Peterborough, ON)
May
3
7:00 PM19:00

The Well ~ A 5Rhythms Waves Class w/ Layah (Peterborough, ON)

Amidst our culture of high speed “doing”, 5Rhythms movement meditation offers us space to let ourselves “be”. Time to touch in on what’s below the surface. To dowse for wellsprings of wonder. A place for a community of practice to emerge, with room for each of us to arrive as we are. A space to nourish, replenish, and ReSource.

Come, let’s gather by the waters of our shared love of movement. Let’s make space to honour the ebb and flow of griefs and joys that dance through us. Let’s rest into the pleasures of good grooves, and the good company of other dancing seekers of the sacred. Let’s empty out, and let’s fill ourselves back up, with some long deep drinks from the Well.

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Rituals of Belonging 2 ~ Connection ~ A 5Rhythms & Open Floor Workshop w/ Layah Jane & Majero Bouman (Toronto)
May
11
11:00 AM11:00

Rituals of Belonging 2 ~ Connection ~ A 5Rhythms & Open Floor Workshop w/ Layah Jane & Majero Bouman (Toronto)

In these times of disconnect and division, there is a yearning to come together--
To meet the living mystery of our unfolding,
And to move in the poetry of our longing for connection.
What do we welcome and what do we leave out when with an other?
What does relationship call forward in us, whether welcome or not?
How can our movement practice help facilitate more belonging in connection and strengthen the dance of relationality?

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Light & Shadow ~ A 5Rhythms Waves Workshop (Halifax, NS)
Jun
7
to Jun 9

Light & Shadow ~ A 5Rhythms Waves Workshop (Halifax, NS)

  • DANSpace at the Lighthouse Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Life dances us deep. It’s delicious, devastating, and delightful. There’s so much moving through us and around us, that it can be a challenge to be awake enough in our experiences, to have the agency to choose our response. Sometimes we find ourselves stuck in an old groove, unable to motivate or mobilize. Sometimes we brace ourselves against it– rigid and tight – trying our darndest to control. When a wave of change hits, how do we navigate the chaos and confusion? Do we space out or pretend we are feeling something we actually aren’t? Faced with the possibility of love and of being hurt, how can we soften our walls of self-protection, to feel this precious life moving through?

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5Rhythms and Continuum Nature Immersion with Layah Jane & Kim Brodey (Madoc, ON)
Aug
14
to Aug 18

5Rhythms and Continuum Nature Immersion with Layah Jane & Kim Brodey (Madoc, ON)

  • Black River Farm and Wilderness (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Beneath the bustle of busy lives, there is a yearning to slow down and resource. To turn towards ourselves and our relationship with nature,  co-creating sacred space for embodied prayer.

This August we will gather by The Black River in Madoc, ON for a midsummer movement sojourn, held in the temple of Forest, Sky, Rock, and River. Supported by 5Rhythms and Continuum practice, we will attune to the primordial rhythms that come from within and journey together into deeper communion with the wilderness within us and around us.

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The Well ~ A 5Rhythms Waves Class w/ Layah (Peterborough, ON)
Sep
13
7:00 PM19:00

The Well ~ A 5Rhythms Waves Class w/ Layah (Peterborough, ON)

Amidst our culture of high speed “doing”, 5Rhythms movement meditation offers us space to let ourselves “be”. Time to touch in on what’s below the surface. To dowse for wellsprings of wonder. A place for a community of practice to emerge, with room for each of us to arrive as we are. A space to nourish, replenish, and ReSource.

Come, let’s gather by the waters of our shared love of movement. Let’s make space to honour the ebb and flow of griefs and joys that dance through us. Let’s rest into the pleasures of good grooves, and the good company of other dancing seekers of the sacred. Let’s empty out, and let’s fill ourselves back up, with some long deep drinks from the Well.

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Sacred Earth, Sacred Body ~ 5Rhythms Waves Retreat (Camp Kawartha, ON)
Oct
25
to Oct 27

Sacred Earth, Sacred Body ~ 5Rhythms Waves Retreat (Camp Kawartha, ON)

This October we will gather at Camp Kawartha, where over 186 acres of trails, forests and wetlands will be our sanctuary. We will dance on the shores of Clear Lake, receiving the teachings of Autumn forest, Sky, and Water. Held by the sacred beauty of our surroundings, we will come together to listen to the wild wisdom of our bodies, and the moving mystery of the wilderness around us.

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Home ~ A 5Rhythms Waves Workshop with Layah (Fredericton, NB)
Nov
8
to Nov 10

Home ~ A 5Rhythms Waves Workshop with Layah (Fredericton, NB)

Each of the 5Rhythms is a quality of energy that lives within us. Exploring the 5Rhythms through the lens of how they are at home in us, can offer us insight into our true natures, and give us tools to move through the places where we disconnect or get stuck. As we dance Wave after Wave of the 5Rhythms, we can re-connect to the spectrum of aliveness that is available to us. The dance delivers us to our most spontaneous, surrendered selves. It reminds us, returns us, and renews us. The body leads the way. The body lead us home.

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Elemental - A 5Rhythms Workshop with Layah (Guelph, ON)
Nov
23
to Nov 24

Elemental - A 5Rhythms Workshop with Layah (Guelph, ON)

Dancing the 5Rhythms can be fun, meditative, transformative, and healing. We have the opportunity to step into a sandbox where we can play with different embodiment tools that support us to express a wider spectrum of our aliveness.

In this workshop we will explore the 5Rhythms through the metaphors, magic, and essential qualities of each of the elements. We will find Earth through Flowing, ignite Staccato through Fire, dive into Water’s Chaos, lighten up Lyrical through Air, and enter the spaciousness of Stillness through Ether.

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Arise ~ A 5Rhythms and Writing Workshop with Layah & Sasha Singer-Wilson (Toronto)
Mar
9
11:00 AM11:00

Arise ~ A 5Rhythms and Writing Workshop with Layah & Sasha Singer-Wilson (Toronto)

Emerging from a long winter, the first kiss of spring arrives before the crocuses sprout, and the red maple buds appear. The soil must be tended and cared for in order to welcome future growth and abundance. With devotion and discipline, we return to presence, deepening our capacity to listen to our internal wisdom. In our time together we will weave 5Rhythms® with timed writing practice, alternating between the two, seeing how they support and inspire each other, and how the marriage of these practices might reveal what has been germinating through the winter.

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Rituals of Belonging ~ A 5Rhythms & Open Floor Workshop w/ Layah Jane & Majero Bouman (Toronto)
Jan
20
11:00 AM11:00

Rituals of Belonging ~ A 5Rhythms & Open Floor Workshop w/ Layah Jane & Majero Bouman (Toronto)

  • Winchester Street Theatre, Studio B (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

In these times of disconnect and division, there is a yearning to come together--
To meet the living mystery of our own unfolding,
And to move in the poetry of our longing.
What do we welcome and what do we leave out?
What parts of ourselves are permissible; which are not?
How can our movement practice help facilitate more belonging to ourselves, and strengthen our dance with deep time?

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(Co)Motion ~ A 5Rhythms Workshop with Layah (Peterborough, ON)
Dec
2
11:00 AM11:00

(Co)Motion ~ A 5Rhythms Workshop with Layah (Peterborough, ON)

Dancing the 5Rhythms, we have the opportunity to witness ourselves in relationship. We can practice being with ourselves and each other, in all our fumbling, and fabulousness. What are the ways that we abandon ourselves, and how do we bring loving care? What is it like to reach out to each other, while still being connected to our authenticity? Are we able to share our selves in community - offering our unique gifts to the greater good?

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Home - A 5Rhythms Workshop with Layah (Guelph, ON)
Nov
25
to Nov 26

Home - A 5Rhythms Workshop with Layah (Guelph, ON)

Each of the 5Rhythms is a quality of energy that lives within us. Exploring the 5Rhythms through the lens of how they are at home in us, can offer us insight into our true natures, and give us tools to move through the places where we disconnect or get stuck. As we dance Wave after Wave of the 5Rhythms, we can re-connect to the spectrum of aliveness that is available to us. The dance delivers us to our most spontaneous, surrendered selves. It reminds us, returns us, and renews us. The body leads the way. The body lead us home.

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Roots & Wings ~ A 5Rhythms Waves Workshop with Layah (Warkworth, ON)
Oct
21
1:00 PM13:00

Roots & Wings ~ A 5Rhythms Waves Workshop with Layah (Warkworth, ON)

  • 40 Main Street Warkworth, ON, K0K 3K0 Canada (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

How do we connect to the tap root of our creativity? How do we draw on the strength and supports around us to nourish ourselves? In this workshop we will explore our relationship with Earth, and how we can ground ourselves in movement practice, even when we feel disconnected.

When we are rooted in the Here and Now, and centred in our selves, more freedom of expression is possible. How do we allow our unique spirits to come through on the dance floor and in daily life? In the second part of our time together, we will explore expansion and contraction, effort and effortlessness, and play with opening our wings to the creative winds that blow our way.

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Return ~ A 5Rhythms and Continuum Nature Immersion with Layah Jane & Kim Brodey (Madoc, ON)
Aug
18
to Aug 20

Return ~ A 5Rhythms and Continuum Nature Immersion with Layah Jane & Kim Brodey (Madoc, ON)

  • Black River Farm and Wilderness (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Beneath the bustle of busy lives, there is a yearning to slow down and resource. To turn towards ourselves and our relationship with nature,  co-creating sacred space for embodied prayer.

This August we will gather by The Black River in Madoc, ON for a midsummer movement sojourn, held in the temple of Forest, Sky, Rock, and River. Supported by 5Rhythms and Continuum practice, we will attune to the primordial rhythms that come from within and journey together into deeper communion with the wilderness within us and around us.

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5Rhythms @ Big Heart Dance Camp (Honeywood, ON)
Jun
23
to Jun 25

5Rhythms @ Big Heart Dance Camp (Honeywood, ON)

We welcome you to experience embodying your full creative self in a safe, supportive and playful environment. A wide array of dance, yoga, music, and other healing modalities are shared through playshops and evening events. A 5Rhythms workshop with Layah will take place Sat morning, followed by a DJ’d Sweat Your Prayers 5Rhythms dance on Sat night.

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Home ~ A 5Rhythms Waves Workshop with Layah (Warkworth, ON)
Apr
22
1:00 PM13:00

Home ~ A 5Rhythms Waves Workshop with Layah (Warkworth, ON)

  • The Warkworth Town Hall Centre for the Arts (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

The body is an encyclopedia of our lived experience. Our cells hold all of our suffering and celebration. Our bones and muscles move in ways that speak the truth, even when we’re not conscious of it yet.
Each of the 5Rhythms is a quality of energy that is within us. Many of us have a dominant Rhythm or two that permeate our movements on the dance floor and through our lives. Exploring the 5Rhythms through the lens of how they are at home in us, can offer us insight into our true natures, and give us tools to move through the places where we disconnect or get stuck…

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Embody ~ A 5Rhythms Waves Workshop (Halifax, NS)
Apr
14
to Apr 16

Embody ~ A 5Rhythms Waves Workshop (Halifax, NS)

  • DANSpace at the Lighthouse Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

“The body says what words cannot.” ~ Martha Graham

What if our bodies could talk? What if we listened?
What embodied wisdom is waiting to be awakened?

5Rhythms® is a dynamic movement meditation practice - a map to reconnect with an innate spectrum of body expression. There are no steps to follow in this improvisational movement methodology. Instead, we show up, tune in and move what is alive in us. This dance is the dance of remembering. Of returning. Of allowing something deeper to move us...

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Compass ~ A 5Rhythms Waves Workshop with Layah (Guelph, ON)
Jan
21
11:00 AM11:00

Compass ~ A 5Rhythms Waves Workshop with Layah (Guelph, ON)

Life takes us on a winding path.
From stuck-in-the-mud ditches of don’t-know-how-I-got-here, to celebratory strides across long aimed for finish lines, a sense of being lost and found and lost and found again, seems par for this wild course.

How do we find our way in times of trouble and in seasons of ease?

We are gifted with bodies full of instinct and intuition. We are the owners of magnificent navigational systems of signals and symptoms. Can we feel them? Do we follow their guidance?

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*POSTPONED*Sweet Surrender ~ Warkworth 5Rhythms Waves Workshop with Layah
May
10
11:00 AM11:00

*POSTPONED*Sweet Surrender ~ Warkworth 5Rhythms Waves Workshop with Layah

  • Warkworth Townhall Centre for the Arts (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

In this workshop we will practice the art of being fully alive in the present moment, to all that moves through us, awakening and expressing the full spectrum of our creative, vibrant, unique selves.  Together we will explore the foundations of 5Rhythms, and dive deep into our own dance, supported by diverse musical maps of funky grooves, soulful melodies, big thumping tribal beats, and meditative soundscapes…

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*POSTPONED* Compass ~ Toronto 5Rhythms Waves Workshop with Layah
Apr
18
11:00 AM11:00

*POSTPONED* Compass ~ Toronto 5Rhythms Waves Workshop with Layah

Life takes us on a winding path.
From stuck-in-the-mud ditches of don’t-know-how-I-got-here, to celebratory strides across long aimed for finish lines, a sense of being lost and found and lost and found again, seems par for this wild course.
How do we find our way in times of trouble and in seasons of ease?
We are gifted with bodies full of instinct and intuition. We are the owners of magnificent navigational systems of signals and symptoms. Can we feel them? Do we follow their guidance?…

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Gateways to Freedom ~ Guelph 5Rhythms Workshop
Jan
26
7:30 PM19:30

Gateways to Freedom ~ Guelph 5Rhythms Workshop

"Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?"~ Gabrielle Roth   

5Rhythms® is a dynamic movement meditation practice - a workout for body, heart and soul. How can we free ourselves from the patterns that paralyze, the stories that keep us small, and the doubts that disrupt embodied joy? In this workshop we will let the medicine of the 5Rhythms guide us to a deeper experience of our own dancing freedom…

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Embody ~ Fredericton 5Rhythms Waves Workshop
May
11
to May 12

Embody ~ Fredericton 5Rhythms Waves Workshop

  • Charlotte Street Arts Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

“The body says what words cannot.” ~ Martha Graham

What if our bodies could talk? What if we listened?
What embodied wisdom is waiting to be awakened?

5Rhythms® is a dynamic movement meditation practice - a map to reconnect with an innate spectrum of body expression. There are no steps to follow in this improvisational movement methodology. Instead, we show up, tune in and move what is alive in us. This dance is the dance of remembering. Of returning. Of allowing something deeper to move us...

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Gateways to Freedom ~ Chatham 5Rhythms Waves Workshop
Apr
20
to Apr 21

Gateways to Freedom ~ Chatham 5Rhythms Waves Workshop

Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?"~ Gabrielle Roth
Together we will let the medicine of the 5Rhythms guide us to a deeper experience of our own dancing freedom, supported by diverse musical maps of funky grooves, soulful melodies, big thumping tribal beats, and meditative soundscapes. Come as you are, come curious, come ready to sweat, release, and reSource.

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Awake ~ 5Rhythms & Mindfulness 1 Day Workshop
Feb
10
10:30 AM10:30

Awake ~ 5Rhythms & Mindfulness 1 Day Workshop

  • 805 Dovercourt Road Toronto, ON, M6H 2X4 Canada (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

In this 1 day workshop co-facilitated by Layah Jane and David Denis, we will integrate the stillness of mindfulness meditation with the movement practice of the 5Rhythms. Mindfulness is a state of being where we are in contact with the present moment; just as it is. Through both 5Rhythms dance and meditation we learn ways of opening to the full experience of each moment, cutting through our habits of limiting, judging, or disconnecting.

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Deep Waves @ Big Heart Dance Camp
Jun
24
8:00 PM20:00

Deep Waves @ Big Heart Dance Camp

Dancing the 5Rhythms (Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness), we move through a Wave that mirrors the way energy moves and changes in the world. We begin slow and gentle, let our movements become more vigorous as we build to a peak of release, then we follow the ripples of our dance until it settles into a still and meditative place. In this Big Heart Dance Camp workshop, we will practice the art of being fully alive in the present moment, to all that moves through us, awakening and expressing the full spectrum of our creative, vibrant, unique selves.

More info: http://www.ayrlie.ca/big-heart-dance-camp.php
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigHeartDanceCamp

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