Cycles **FILLED WITH A WAITLIST**

Nothing truly dies…all energy simply transforms.  

We like to think of everything as being linear but in reality everything is cyclical. So it is with the cycles of life. 

"Life is a journey. Its route is essentially the same for everyone, even though we start in different settings and with different baggage." Gabrielle Roth

In the Cycles workshop we give ourselves permission to embody the journey with new eyes and understanding. We explore the patterns, waves and vibrations that move us from birth to death

Our journey will be a deep investigation into our personal relationship to the rhythms and rituals, teaching and traditions, the people and places that have formed and informed who we are. It is an opportunity to move with the parts of ourselves that we wish to honor & explore as well as those parts of ourselves that we wish to let go of.

Common ground connects us all and coming together to explore the cycles of life gives us the opportunity to see ourselves in each other.

Peter Fodera:

ROOTED SNAKE RICH SOIL * INTUITIVE VISION EFFORTLESS ASCENT * BROTHER FATHER BEAR * CALM GENTLE SMOKE WISDOM * FLYING WITHOUT WINGS

My passion as an artist, art educator and conservator, combined with my experience in embodiment and my eclectic love of music continue to enrich my practice of the 5 Rhythms movement meditation. My teaching is clear, compassionate and a celebration of life. It is both a blessing and honor to be teaching this work.

Relief

In this workshop we move / dance with how essential/ basic grounded joy or the pure energetic of grounded joy can help us to experience and revel in the Relief that can come when we have allowed our emotions space and time to move in their own way and their own tempo, no more and no less; to really say yes and welcome the joy when it comes in small moments and in maybe longer warm blissful amounts of time, through our whole body. Sometimes there is an undercurrent of joy carrying on where everything is keeping in movement, flexibly and meeting the moment as it is, the reality, right now. The relief throughout all of the body when there is less squeezing closed or knottedness of emotions which have been disallowed, not accepted. The, perhaps unexpected, delight in celebrating in a beautifully embodied way and have gratitude. We will move through our practice of the 5 Rhythms time and again, to dance through this and, as much as possible, we allow everything that is happening in us. Yes, even revelling in the joy, having the satisfaction, without doubting it or questioning it. By the end of the day that sense of being softly grounded with the relief and even bliss can even feel like something as a matter of course, self-evident, yes, maybe this can be a “normal” part of our lives, feeling it in our bodies, right down to our toes. I look forward to following the movement of this journey with you.

In this open series of workshops "My Life and My Heart", we explore in movement, alternately the Waves map rhythms: Attention (Flowing), Clarity (Staccato), Adventure (Chaos), Freedom (Lyrical), and Connection (Stillness), and the Heartbeat map emotions: Awake (Fear), Upright (Anger), Release (Sadness), Relief (Joy), and Embracing (Compassion). In each workshop we go deeper with one rhythm or emotion, whilst also moving through full waves. Nancy will teach the Heartbeat workshops, Edo the Waves workshops.

This workshop counts for 1 days; 6 hours of Heartbeat towards Teacher Training pre-requisites. If you participate in all 5 Heartbeat workshops, they count as a 5-day Heartbeat committed group series.

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