"TEACHER'S HEART" Heartbeat for 5R Teachers

 This Heartbeat level workshop is dedicated to and created just for 5Rhythms Teachers.

This Heartbeat is addressing the teacher’s heart and its emotions and it is for all 5Rhythms teachers, Waves or Heartbeat certified. This is for 5Rhythms Teachers who teach a lot, who teach sometimes, who are on sabbatical, who never started teaching, who are done with teaching, who don’t know when or what or why or how to teach, who are teaching who are teaching some other movement practice as well, who are not in 5RTA…

Emotions as teachers. Teacher’s emotions.

“…feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.”

Pema Chödrön

We all know teaching can feel lonely. Even when teaching Waves level, we are holding space for many emotions in the group. Those emotions are often ungrounded, sometimes projected on us seeing us as an authority or some other role, and very probably moving, touching, triggering our own emotions and projections.

My intention is to offer space and time where we can move with the emotions that we feel when wearing the teacher’s hat. Some of our emotional journey already begins when we start announcing the workshop, and sometimes even that alone can stop us from going forward with our unique offerings. For me the crises can hit me right in the midst of the process, on that Saturday evening of a weekend workshop, when I am too deep in and can not go backward but need to keep going forward and I am not sure how to do it and what is the point of it. For some of us, the hardest time we give ourselves is after the workshop, doubting what we did and how we did it, or dealing with students’ feedback and questions.

Cycles

 Nothing truly dies…all energy simply transforms.  
We like to think of everything as being linear…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 honour & 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.

Workshop level details: Cycles  is an up close and personal look at our own lives, our birth, our  upcoming death and everything and everyone between. We make connections,  reweave threads, let go of the hurt and humiliations. We get real. We honor the people and events that have shaped who we are and the  challenges and gifts they left us with and reinvent our inherited self  into somebody we truly want to be.

Prerequisites: Waves, Heartbeat level 5Rhythms practice