*THIS WORKSHOP IS AT CAPACITY AND WAIT-LISTED! TO JOIN THE WAITING LIST, PLEASE EMAIL LAYAH@LAYAHJANE.COM*
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.
Kim (Continuum), and Layah (5Rhythms), are co-stewards of Black River Farm & Wilderness. They are mother/daughter-in-law creative collaborators, students of each other's work, and midwives of embodiment in their own lineages. Thirty years into their relationship, they are thrilled to invite you to join their first collaborative movement offering.
Black River Farm & Wilderness, situated on 300+ acres of forest and farmland in Madoc Township, Hastings County, is part of our family’s intergenerational collaborative effort to protect land, conserve wild habitat, and honour our relationships with the natural world as integral to our well-being. We are the grateful students and stewards of this land that is part of a growing community of people in the Hamlet of Cooper who are taking action to protect wilderness, regenerate farmland, and learn how to be good stewards for future generations.
Acknowledgment of First Nations Land and People: We honour and acknowledge the Wendake-Nionwentsïo, Mississauga, and Anishinabewaki Nation ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, on whose traditional and ancestral territories colonization is still being enacted. We strive to learn to recognize our part in the continuation of colonialism, and offer our work in a way that does no further harm. We seek to address ongoing colonial harms by supporting organizations that uplift and centre Indigenous identities, values, cultures, and rights. We invite you to take a moment to find for yourself what acknowledging means to you and how the action of repair lives in you.
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Registration
Registration is by application only, and will be capped at 22 participants. Please email layahjane@hotmail.com or click the link below, to request a spot. While previous experience with 5Rhythms and/or Continuum is not required, we are prioritizing spots at this residential for existing students of Layah’s and Kim’s. When you email, please identify who has been your primary movement teacher(s). If you are offered a spot, you will be provided with a workshop registration link.
Tuition: $245
Accommodation: $70 - $265
Meals are included. The first meal will be dinner on Fri Aug 18, and the last meal will be lunch on Sun Aug 20. Accommodation pricing varies depending on your choice from the lodging options below, and availability of them at the time of your booking.
Lodging Options
Pricing is per person for the weekend workshop (Fri 3pm to Sun 2pm).
Camping: $70/person
Participants will need to bring all their own camping gear. There will be a portapotty set up for campers, and for bathing, the river is a very short walk away from the tenting site : )
Sleeping bag space: $105/person
Participants will need to bring their own sleeping bag and mat, and will sleep dorm-style on the floor of our indoor, upstairs workshop space. Bedding and personal items will need to be packed up at the start of each day, to make space for workshop sessions, and then will be re set-up at the end of each day, once our group is finished with the space. There will be a portapotty set up for sleeping bag participants, and for bathing, the river is just a hop, skip and a jump away from the room where you will sleep. : ) Up to 8 sleeping bag spots are available.
Riverhouse
The Riverhouse is a 3 bedroom cottage located at Black River Farm and Wilderness. Participants who are sleeping in the Riverhouse will be sharing the two bathrooms in the house (1 is a 2 piece, and the other has a bathtub with jets, as well as a shower). Bedrooms and bathrooms will be private areas for the participants who are sleeping there, and the facilitators, however the common areas will be used by the full group at times during the weekend. The kitchen and screened-in porch will be used for our group’s mealtimes, including setup and cleanup. There is a large open concept living room area which we will also be using as a full group at certain times during our workshop.
Bunk bed Room: $165/person *SOLD OUT
There are bunk beds in one of the bedrooms. 2 bunk bed spots are available.
Double Room: $215/person single occupancy and $165/person double occupancy *SOLD OUT
This is a bedroom with a double bed.
Queen Room: $265/person single occupancy and $215/person double occupancy *SOLD OUT
This is the master bedroom of the Riverhouse, that has a queen bed.
Contact: Layah at layah@layahjane.com
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CANCELLATIONS
A refund, less a 50% cancellation fee, will be issued if notice is received by July 21, 2023.
A refund, less a 75% cancellation fee, will be issued if notice is received by July 28, 2023.
No refund will be issued for cancellations after July 28, 2023.*
*For cancellations up to Aug 15 due to testing positive or for a known exposure to COVID, we will offer you a 50% refund.
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Continuum with Kim Brodey
Before we become all the identities that give us a sense of our place in the world, we are simply the movement of Water. From the spiralling of our muscles to the spiral of a seashell, from the spiraling of the galaxies to the whorl on top of a newborn’s head, all life is shaped by the movement of Water.
With intention, sound, and breath, we vibrate our internal waters. Continuum is a play with sound and breath, inviting them in, to wake up our internal landscape. With curiosity and attention to sensation, we allow ourselves to be carried into movement that we come to recognize as the movement we are, the movement that formed us. We let go of the ways we define our body and how we know it, and open to the mystery of life that vibrates inside of us.
I fell in love with Continuum in 1992 and have been teaching workshops in Europe and North America since 1994. Key to my facilitation is creating an environment wherein participants have the opportunity and permission to delve into unfamiliar territory, expanding somatic expression. My love for the intelligence of our Body began with mentoring individuals and couples in 1972, as a rural midwife. My role as midwife continues, however I am no longer catching babies. I am midwifing the process of becoming fully embodied.
I was authorized in 1998 by Emilie Conrad, the mother of Continuum, and Susan Harper https://continuummontage.com/portal-home.html , co- creator with Emile, to teach Continuum and continued being mentored by Emilie up until her death in 2014. I am a founding member of the CTA, Continuum Teachers Association. https://www.continuumteachers.com/ the new home of Continuum.
5Rhythms® with Layah Jane Singer-Wilson
5Rhythms is a dynamic movement meditation practice - a map to reconnect with an innate spectrum of 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. The 5Rhythms ~ Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness ~ dance us through a Wave that mirrors the way energy moves and changes in the world. We will move with music, we will move with our breath, and we will move with the sounds of the forest around us. This is the dance of remembering, of re-wilding, of reconnecting with our essential creative natures.
I first fell for 5Rhythms in my late teens and for the last 20+ years I have steeped myself in movement meditation practice. Passionate about offering people sacred space to experience motion as medicine, I have facilitated expressive movement since 2003 on all kinds of dance floors: classes, gyms, offices, barns, forests, fields, and studios, including at Toronto's conscious dance hubs The Move, and Ecstatic Dance Toronto. I completed 5Rhythms teacher training in 2014, and am both a certified 5Rhythms teacher accredited with the 5Rhythms Teachers Association, and a member of the International Conscious Movement Teachers Association. All study hours with me count as prerequisites towards future 5Rhythms teacher trainings.