Running with Wolves Women's 5Rhythms October

St Ambrose Hall

3 Dawson Street, Brunswick

$60 prepay ($70 at door if available) 

(22 places available)

https://www.trybooking.com/YPRW

1.45-6.15pm

Saturday October 20th

(next dates: Nov 17th Dec 15th)

5Rhythms is a catalytic dance practice, based on the creative flow of nature. Dancing each of the rhythms Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness offers us a map for understanding our body’s own inner waves, the rhythms of nature, and the rhythms of the creative process. 

In 2018 we are continuing to work through the book by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes - Women Who Run with the Wolves. We will be working with one archetypal feminine story at a time - and using it as our basis for an embodied inquiry and dance. Running with Wolves - Women's 5Rhythms - offers us a monthly ritual to honour ourselves, and our sisters.

(We only have three stories left to complete the book! Let's work with the story of The Withered Trees. Its a story of intuition and anger - personal and collective anger - I think it's the right time!! What a year for women's collective action.)

Just like the wolf, the female psyche has often been misunderstood, feared, and hunted to near extinction.

Only now is the feminine way of being returning to our awareness. 

In this workshop we'll be reminded of our cyclic nature, of the ebbs and flows of our creativity and of our spiralling unfolding pathway of our lives. We’ll dance and move together, to embody and reconnect with our physicality and to witness and honour this with our sisters. 

This is your invitation to track the movements and desires of your animal self, your deeper wisdom and to return to your fur-covered sensing self. This is your invitation to listen deeply. Do you hear the call?

Wholehearted

How do we meet our fears and vulnerabilities with courage and conviction? How can we channel our anger – away from blame into high-octane fuel for change and creative action? Do the sorrows of our lives, touch us deeply and restore our natural empathy and connection? Can joy infuse you with a deep appreciation for all things – big and small? Can you truly respect and behold all of this vital, emotional energy, with compassion & humility?

Using the 5Rhythms Heartbeat® Map, with a group of committed seekers, we will explore embodied ways to live like this, harnessing what’s most meaningful and Wholehearted.

This workshop has two components:

1. Heartbeat Map (3 days: Nov 2-4)

We will expand our emotional movement vocabulary. Like the potency of the Wave, Heartbeat is an empowering practice that harnesses raw energy from our emotional experience.

2. Heartbeat plus Deep Focus: (5 Days: Nov 2 -6)

From the Heartbeat Map – participants choose and explore examples from their life; where they get emotionally stuck. With supportive witnessing, focus and movement, together we will find our most spontaneous and wholehearted dance.