FACILITATOR TRAINING WITH SYLVIE MINOT - CALIFORNIA

In this intensive 5-day training, you will explore how dance and movement can be used as a powerful resource and tool in working with specific outreach populations (i.e., in jails, recovery centers, hospitals, elder care facilities, and schools). ??

This work is a dynamic movement practice of being in the body that can catalyze deep healing, connection, and creative expression.

?As 5Rhythms Founder Gabrielle Roth states, "If you put your psyche in motion, it will heal itself."

In Syzygy Dance Project's own community outreach work, the significant impact of this work is witnessed by helping people make better life choices and be open to new possibilities in their lives

?During this training, you will begin in your own body, allowing yourself to move freely and explore your innate movement patterns. You will learn movement exercises and how to support body movement and energetic attunement with others.

You will practice regulating and re-grounding yourself while leading a group, integrating voice with authentic movement, and exploring confident leadership.

?The training also involves discussions around specific outreach populations and the challenge of bringing movement classes to groups resistant to or less comfortable with movement.

Level 1 Prerequisites

• Have a movement practice of some kind and are comfortable with dancing,
• Have some experience in leading groups?, and
• Applicants must meet one of these requirements:
• Currently teach any type of movement related class, OR
• Is a licensed/trained helping professional of any kind (i.e., counselor, psychologist, social worker, nurse, psychiatrist, recreation therapist, etc.), OR
• Currently completing or have completed a graduate degree in dance, psychology, counseling, or social work, OR
• Have a dedicated dance/movement practice for more than 5 years, and
• ???Have an interest in using movement as a healing tool with a specific outreach population (i.e., incarcerated people, veterans, at-risk youth, recovering addicts, elderly, the homeless, etc.).

The Power of Loving

 "Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being."

                                                                                         Gabrielle Roth

The spontaneous heart is one that knows how to love and be loved. The Heartbeat map is a guide to how our emotional energy moves and morphs. In this practice we embody the art of being a fluid emotional athlete. 

This map teaches us how to navigate the emotional terrain of life without getting stuck,

holding on, or pushing away.

We will explore how the body has been shaped by our emotions. Through the technique of the 5Rhythms practice, you will be shown skills and techniques to work with emotions in a healthy and creative way.

The 5Rhythms Heartbeat map is a path to understanding how the energies of the heart are transformed. The investigation is focused on how these energies come into us, move through us and transform us into more powerful and resilient human beings.

In we Flowing dance with fear and courage. In Staccato we dance with anger and forgiveness. In Chaos we dance with grief, and surrender into emptiness. In Lyrical we dance in joy and generosity. In Stillness we dance in compassion and connection.

Each session will be primarily focused on the 5Rhythms moving meditation.We will integrate each movement session with a seated meditation practice, focused on one of the Buddhist Heart Practices (brahma Vih?r?); equanimity, compassion, loving-kindness and joy.

In sitting meditation, we have the opportunity to observe the mind and body at rest through silent introspection. In 5Rhythms, we engage in mindfulness while in motion. The two polarities of moving and sitting meditation together mirror the dance of life and support cultivation of well-being and balance.

All workshop hours contribute to 5Rhythms