Shadow Dancer

 5Rhythms® Shadow Dancer

The 5Rhythms® moving meditation teaches mindful awareness of the body. Dancing the shadows invites us to open the gateway to the heart. It is here that we have an opportunity to explore what closes and opens our emotional states.

We will learn how to track energy, where it gets stuck and where it moves, expanding our capacity to sustain present time awareness with all that is. 

Light and shadow work identifies how to transform the stuck energies. The study of polarities has the ability to bring great insight. In Flowing, we meet our inertia and transform it into the power of fluid momentum. In Staccato, we transform control and tension into release and action. In Chaos, we face confusion and uncertainty practicing our ability to let go and surrender. In Lyrical, we work with changing distraction into focus and in Stillness, we meet numbness and transform it into connection. 

If we do not embrace these energies with full awareness, they often act to sabotage rather than empower us. By embracing the light and shadow of each rhythm, one can better navigate the inner and outer terrain of our emotional and energetic states. This is a practice that views all states of being as pure creative energy. We approach and investigate with an attitude of non-duality, non-judgment and kindness. 

All workshop hours contribute to 5Rhythms Teachers Training Prerequisites.

2 weeks access to recorded content for worldwide dancers in all time zones.

Class Donations: 

All classes are being offered now by donation.

Generosity is more than a personal practice, it is a universal concept that every one of has benefitted from. Everybody alive today is alive because of the generosity of somebody else. Your donation is not payment for goods or services; it is given purely from the heart.

Please donate on a sliding scale between $65-125 depending on your comfort level. For partial and full scholarship, we simply ask that you send a one-paragraph email to lucia@luciahoran.com explaining your situation and we will be in contact with you.

The Path of the Wounded Healer (Series Ticket)

 The Path of the Wounded Healer: A 5Rhythms® Heartbeat Series With Lucia Horan

The healing path has a trajectory. Gabrielle 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.

This seven part series will dance us through the shadows, into the gateways of the emotions and will be completed with the dance of emptiness.

It is my belief that our most sacred task in life is to transform the most difficult things we have been through into our greatest strengths. These are the stories of our true nature, our resilience, our vulnerability and our strength. It is here one may learn how to move with what is and transform it to what we want it to be.

In the Heartbeat Map, we investigate what is moving through the shores of the heart. Through understanding the relationship of the emotional polarities, we come to respect and appreciate what we have been through. Without fear, we do not experience courage. Without anger, we cannot experience forgiveness. Without love, we cannot experience grief. Without, loss, we cannot experience or appreciate the full spectrum of joy. Without all of these qualities, we cannot know the true nature of compassion.

You are invited to join this journey of movement and awareness, focused on how emotions transform the heart. This map is Gabrielle Roth’s living wisdom. I am here to pass this gift on to you so it can be carried in your own bones and blood.

Each session will be primarily focused on the 5Rhythms® moving meditation. We will close each movement session with a 10-15 minute seated meditation, focused on one of the Buddhist Heart Practices. Included in the group will be optional sharing and a question and answer period.

15 hours of 5Rhythms® Waves required to participate in this 5Rhythms® Heartbeat Series. All workshop hours contribute to 5Rhythms Teachers Training Prerequisites.

Schedule:

1/30/2021 - Shadow Dancer

2/13/2021 - Flowing Courage

2/27/2021 - Staccato Forgiveness

3/13/2021 - Surrendered Chaos

3/27/2021 - Lyrical Joyful-Generosity

4/10/2021 - Still Compassion

4/24/2021 - Emptiness Dancer

Times: 9:30-12:30pm PT

All workshop hours contribute to 5Rhythms Teachers Training Prerequisites.

5Rhythms® Teachers Training Credit: 7 Days Heartbeat

2 weeks access to recorded content for worldwide dancers in all time zones.

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