“5Rhythms practice is a journey towards freeing the body, expressing the heart, emptying the mind, awakening the soul and embodying the spirit.” - GABRIELLE ROTH

Unmasking is for anyone who believes they are not an artist, and everyone who knows they are. Together we'll ride the untamed river of our creative juices and let its wild current carry us. We'll dance outside the box, draw outside the lines, pursue imperfection, and listen to the whisper of words on page. We'll dance with abandon, take dictation from our bodies, make colorful messes and marvel at the art taking shape in and through our hands. 

Live Wire is an embodied ritual theatre investigation, grounded in the movement maps of 5Rhythms, devoted to the shapeshifting nature of physical art, and guided by the vision of Lorca Simons and Gabrielle Roth. Designed to inspire, refresh, re-set and connect.
 Our time will include movement, creative excavations, collective truth-telling and beauty-making.

What if our willingness to source and celebrate beauty makes more beauty possible? What if any act of kindness, kissing a child’s scraped knee, smiling at a stranger, drinking in the scent of a flower, plants the seeds for more beauty and love to bloom in the world? Let’s attend to the soil of our lives, inner and outer, to accumulate and cultivate the seeds of simple beauty.

In this workshop, we will dance with our ancestry which live in our heart, soul, collective memory, and DNA. We will call on the wisdom and medicine of our lineage, the power of ancestral lands, and the spirit of the animal clans to guide us on our journey. 

The healing path has a trajectory. Gabrielle Roth called this, The Path of The Wounded Healer. It is here that we look closely at our healing process. We mark both where we are and where we want to be. We dance through the five stages of healing in relationship to being the victim, the survivor, the healer, the transformer, and eventually the one who rests in compassionate service.

We all contain aspects, expressions, and energies that shine bright: parts that are welcome and rewarded during daylight hours. And we all contain aspects, expressions, and energies that are deeper and more mysterious: parts which are equally intelligent, vibrant, and necessary to our wholeness. We also have aspects and behaviours that we disown. Places we don't like to go. Parts that we feel we can't afford to acknowledge, within ourselves or in the world around us. These, we push into the shadows. In this weekend workshop, we will follow the maps of the 5Rhythms to explore and embody all of these realms, walking well-lit trails, exploring deeper parts of the forest, breathing life into forgotten places, and braiding the threads that make us whole.

The time is Now: we’re in breakdown and breakthrough
Could we surrender to the reality
That the world is far bigger than us
That life is far stronger than us
That we’re all in this together?

In the dancing path of the 5Rhythms, God, Sex & 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…

In the dancing path of the 5Rhythms, God, Sex & 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…

Live Wire is a movement based theatre lab, a dynamic, raw, experimental base where anything can happen. A poetic landscape that is at the root and heart of our 5Rhythms practice. Tuning into the artistic nature of our practice invites our dance to new depths of discovery, unlocking the stories our bodies are longing to tell, further articulating the threads of your life…

What is your relationship to your body? To wealth? To prosperity? Exploration through movement and dance reveal newfound awareness of your interconnection to money. By understanding, naming and moving through money blind spots that no longer serve us, we will re-wire new somatic survival habits. We will dance through Scarcity to Survive to Thrive to Manifest and into Abundance...

These are wild times. We’re not just on the edge, we’re off the edge and falling. We need to change, radically, and it’s happening. There’s a shift in consciousness taking place that is profound, far reaching, beyond any one of us, and involving all of us. There’s a mighty river bursting it’s banks everywhere, and it’s rushing through each one of us. We are being called, cajoled and catapulted into new ways of being that require us to let go of our fixed ideas and patterns, to expand beyond what we thought possible and allow more energy to flow through us than ever before.

“Feelings are the language of the heart, but we have silenced them. We talk about feelings, we think about feelings, but when we actually feel them, we get so scared we immediately shove them back into the deepest chambers of our hearts. Yet none of us wants to be numb. We long to connect. We long to be real. We long to be intimate.” ~ Gabrielle Roth from “Connections”

"When we dance, we go beyond thought and beyond our individuality to become one in the divine ecstasy. This is the essence of the trance dance experience." - Goa Gil

*We are at capacity for this workshop. If you would like to be added to the wait list, please email layah@layahjane.com. Thank you!*

In the same way that the 5Rhythms are a part of us and live everywhere around us, we are made of the 5 Elements and they are present in our everyday lives. In this workshop, we will use the images, symbolism and vocabulary of the Elements to enter into the landscape of the 5Rhythms. We will find Earth for our Flowing, learn about our Staccato through Fire, dive into our Chaos through Water, lighten up our Lyrical through Air, and empty our Stillness through Ether. We will invite the Elements into our space and our dance, one by one, expanding our perspective of the Rhythms, and offering our bodies new creative ways to move and deepen our practice.

Our vulnerability is one of our greatest strengths. In this workshop we will explore where we are strong and where we are vulnerable; exercising parts of ourselves that need strengthening, and coming into balance. As we expand our capacity to hold all that we experience, we learn how to also be more present with what appears in those we love.

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We all have strong feelings - about ourselves, each other, and life ­even if they’re buried deep. We are meant to get scared enough to avoid danger, to get pissed off enough to change things, to cry deeply enough to truly let go of what we've lost. Then joy and compassion have deep roots and bold possibilities. Heartbeat is wild strong medicine; a deep meditation, and a celebration of loving. Embodied, expressed, and released, your feelings become a source of creative power and presence both on and off the dance floor, to find the courage to love and be loved. Join us for this 5Rhythms Heartbeat workshop with UK's Adam Barley!

REGISTER: https://heartspaceproductions.wufoo.com/forms/heartbeat-nov-2022-2015/

5Rhythms brings us home into our earthy bodies, enabling us to express and open our hearts and to empty the mind, so that we can tap into our intuition and creativity. When body, heart and mind are in alignment, we move through life from a deeper place within us- from SOUL. Join us for this transformational 1.5 day 5Rhythms workshop on "Lyrical", with Vancouver's Bettina Rothe!

REGISTER: https://heartspaceproductions.wufoo.com/forms/lyrical-soul-to-soul-sept-2627-2015/