Transitions/Thresholds

November is a time of transition, a threshold, as we move into the darkest times of the year. A threshold is defined as a point of entry, a new beginning, an opening, a crossing. Whenever you leave your home, walk from one room to another, or enter a building, you are crossing a threshold—

And a threshold is not a simple boundary; it is a frontier that divides two different territories,and rhythms. At any time, you can ask yourself: At which threshold am I now standing? At this time in my life, what am I leaving? Where am I about to enter? What is preventing me from crossing my next threshold? What gift would enable me to do it?

We will use the 5 Rhythms practice to explore how we move across the thresholds of each rhythm and maybe learn some skills that we can bring to times of transition in our lives.

Venue: Ellis Hall, Letterfrack, Connemara, Co. Galway

 Dates: Sunday November 23rd, 2025.

 Time: 10.30am to 1pm.

 Cost: €40. 

Booking: pay through PayPal on www.embodiedbrain.ie

"WHOLEHEARTED"

 “We have to let our emotions surface, get to know and appropriate them, have them flowing in our life so that we fear what really threatens us, get angry at what invades our integrity, cry when we get hurt, smile when it all goes right, and care about the real needs of others.”

Gabrielle Roth

To take your courage by the hand and look into the fears hidden under the bed, locked in our bones. To find your strength in being aware of your vulnerability. Pain that makes me angry, anger that hurts. How many dances does it take to let out a scream, to go through “crime and punishment”, to repair broken boundaries, to say a clear NO to whatever is wrong and violent, and to forgive ourselves, and others? To enter the inner chamber of your heart where sadness lives, to sit on its soft couch, to feel the edges of the lake of our tears touch other lakes of tears around us. We open the channels in our body and heart for the sadness to flow and cleansing us of fresh and old disappointments, while we practice the ability to surrender to life. To expand our capacity to tolerate the feeling of simplicity, lightness, beauty, and light in and around ourselves. To celebrate the moments of joy that uplift us, relax us, and open us. To explore our heart and soul as they grow through our generosity.

As we go through our emotions with more awareness, we can see how they connect us with others who are also going through them in the same or completely different time, place, way. If our heart wishes to serve other hearts, then it will start from the place that we know so well, from that bridge which has brought us to the other side, the feeling of compassion.

” Silvija offers a solid and no-drama space for us to become fluid and learn how to move, with our own two feet, thru our emotions. She offers a very well crafted opportunity for us to connect to our hearts and let them speak, whisper, shout and sing. Deep gratitude!” 

Cecile Klefstad, 5Rhythms teacher

“Thank you for your clarity, enthusiasm and also your curiosity and care – I have an experience of a human kindness in you which is incalculable in its worth – yes very precious. It’s like you cherish each person.” Nancy Harrison, 5Rhythms teacher