RelationSHIFTS: Connection to Ourselves, The Other, Others with guest teacher Heeraa Sazevich
Join the full workshop 10:30 am - 4 pm or just the first two hours, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm.
We are born bonded from our conception and enter a world of relationships. They can define us, stretch us, inspire us and challenge us. Everyone and everything is our mirror. Who is reflected back?
In this 5Rhythms workshop, we will lovingly embody our energetic patterns in relationships. Through greater awareness of how we respond and act, we foster the opportunity to then choose freedom over the habitual. The body never lies and is our wise teacher. Come see and be seen with the eyes of Love.
Open to all levels of experience and abilities.
Full 5 hour workshop: 10:30 am - 4 pm
$75 Lean In
$95 General Admission
$105 Pay it Forward
Scholarships available for full workshop, contact Jilsarah at dance@jilsarah.com
Two hour options: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
$35
About the Workshop Leader
Heeraa Sazevich is a life-long dancer and meditator with a BA in Theater Arts UCLA. A 5RTA certified Heartbeat level teacher of the 5Rhythms®, she travels and teaches globally. Having founded dance communities in Hawaii and Idaho, she has facilitated conscious movement for over 20 years. Heeraa has danced the 5Rhythms since 1997, participating in many workshops with the source of the practice, Gabrielle Roth and her son Jonathan Horan. She studied classical Japanese dance and theater in Kyoto, Japan for six years, spent seven years in India practicing meditation and emotional release therapies and has built conscious dance communities on the island of Oahu, Hawaii and in Sun Valley, Idaho for over 12 years before becoming a 5Rhythms teacher. Heeraa combines her knowledge of 5Rhythms, theater, meditation and emotional release to create a safe and creative space for participants to let go and utterly embrace their whole selves through movement. Heeraa Sazevich is a certified Heartbeat level 5Rhythms® teacher. Having founded dance communities in Hawaii and Idaho, she has facilitated conscious movement for over 20 years and travels to teach globally. www.5rhythms-heeraa.com
By participating in this class you agree to be a partner in co-creating a safe and brave space for our collective dance practice. Since this dance practice is non-verbal, please make eye contact with other dancers before touch. Even if its your best friend or partner, on the dance floor we honor sovereignty. Someone may be having a deep experience, some dancers dance with eyes closed or half mast and touch could be disruptive or dis-regulating. On the dance floor, please use your eyes as a means for engagement. After eye contact, if you are not open to touch, please say or signal to your partner that you are not a yes to physical contact (ie; offering a Namaste ?? or arms crossed or by walking away).
Welcome Statement
We recognize and welcome all. All races, all religions, all gender identities, all sexual orientations, all abilities, all shapes and sizes, all languages, all ages. This dance practice can bring dancers into a deeply meditative space. As such, all children under 18 years of age must be under the care of an adult throughout the class, to maintain safety in the room for dancers of all ages.
Land Acknowledgement
This is land belonging to the Nipmuc, Pocumtuc, Nonotuc people. The Native American settlement at what is now Northampton was called Norwottuck, or Nonotuck, meaning: "the midst of the river." It consisted of a core area where clan meetings and elders' councils were held. This area included communal cemeteries and probably sweat lodges used for curing.
For more information about indigenous culture in our area,see The Nolumbeka Project, https://nolumbekaproject.org/pocumtuck-homelands-festival/