My Body, My Temple

 My Body, My Temple: A 5Rhythms® Somatic Dance Series

6 Weeks · Sept 18 – Oct 23 · Thursdays, 7:00–8:30 PM

Joe Goode Annex · 401 Alabama St, San Francisco

You’re about to join My Body, My Temple—a 6-week 5Rhythms® series to return to the body not as a machine, but as a place of memory, power, and presence.

Each week, we’ll move with a different body part—feet, pelvis, spine, heart, hands, and head.

You’ll release what’s been held. Listen where you’ve gone numb.

And reconnect with the wisdom that lives beneath the surface.

Resource and Renew: 5Rhythms and Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness

 Through the practices of 5Rhythms dance, mindfulness meditation, and self-care, we weave together a retreat focused on healing and celebration. Looking back over the past few years, it is clear that many of us are exhausted. In times of turmoil and change, self-care and kindness are needed to connect us to the ability to recharge and renew. In order to move forward with energy, passion, and creativity, it is vital to seed these qualities in our daily life so that we may cultivate resilience.

Do you need to integrate more self-care into daily life? Would you like to be better resourced and have more energy? If the answer is yes to either of these questions, you are in perfect alignment to participate in this workshop.

The 5Rhythms is an externalization process that releases and balances the systems of the body through movement. It is a method of dance focused on presence versus performance. We pair this process with seated meditation to quiet the heart and mind, allowing for stillness and integration. Bringing both together mirrors the dance of life. We come together to create an environment that cultivates and nurtures joy, calmness, and ease.

Each session will be primarily focused on Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms moving meditation practice. We will complete each practice with a 10-15-minute seated meditation. Included will be a discourse on 5Rhythms, mindfulness, and self-care. All practices taught during this course lend to the experience and wisdom of resourcing and renewing vital life energy to send you home with skills and tools to apply to your daily life.

This workshop will include:

5Rhythms dance

Seated meditation

Sharing circles

Discourses on mindfulness and 5Rhythms

No experience is necessary. All workshop hours contribute to 5Rhythms® Teachers Training.