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Dancing through Gateways | Opening body, heart and mind to states of trance

Olympia - 12 Apr 2024 to 14 Apr 2024
Bettina Rothe

 "Ecstasy is an egoless, timeless state of being. It’s a state of total alignment and unity. Unity of body, heart, mind, soul, and spirit. It is what we need to heal our psychic dismemberment.”


— Gabrielle Roth


Our brains are hardwired for trance. Many of our ancestors have accessed states of trance as a way of asking for inspiration, guidance or healing. It can bring ecstatic awareness and experiences that extend beyond the physical senses and the cognitive mind. The gates to our inner knowing and intuitive mind can open. Deep healing can occur in altered states of consciousness.


In our culture today many of us are experiencing a lack of ecstasy that we might try to fill with other means. The dancing path is an on-going journey from inertia to surrender and ecstatic trance through the vessel of our bodies. To be in a state of embodied ecstasy means to be fully alive.


In this workshop we will move within the 5Rhythms® maps to anchor into our bodies and explore the gateways of our physicality as well as our energetic centres. The 5Rhythms® practice will be the blueprint with which we will safely enter non-ordinary states of consciousness through movement, breath and rhythm. 


Breath practices, embodiment tools and ritual will support the “Medicine Dance” in which we will intent to move for personal, collective or ancestral healing. 


We will integrate our experiences through heart centred sharing and compassionate witnessing. 


No previous experience is required. Every body is welcome.



“There are so few opportunities, especially in an urban context, to move with freedom in a wordless, safe container, to be able to feel and sense this complete non-judgemental, supportive and connected community.

Music/rhythm provides the juice, the motivation and energy, and dance becomes a meditation of movement. It's this authenticity of self-expression that I simply can't find anywhere else.

I left the workshop with more openness after so much release, more alive, aligned and attuned with the universe, grounded, clear, lighter, and grateful!”


— Previous Workshop Particpant 

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The Holy Actor

Bellingham - 29 May 2024 to 2 Jun 2024
Andrew Holmes


The Holy Actor
A 5 Rhythms retreat 

“I have noticed a remarkable shift in me since the workshop: I am able to love myself, to give my attention unconditionally to others, and to lose myself easily. Such profound transformation”

“Letting the dance, each unfolding moment, all of everything flow through me: I’m so grateful to taste this true experience of being fully alive” 

“Wonderful, healing, joyful and loving!
The Holy Actor is the most extraordinary workshop I’ve ever been to”

Take some time for yourself: relax, breathe deep, and make space for your soul to soar. 

On this retreat we will create a supportive community for rich, healing work. Together we’ll dance the 5 Rhythms, explore the landscape of our hearts,  and improvise wordless theatre, offering ourselves to the universal stories that are waiting to be told. We'll open to connect more deeply to our creative, heartful self: not so much a solid, definite personality.. more a fluid range of possibility, full of life.

The Holy Actor is a joyful, challenging, and healing journey in search of inspired transformation. It’s a practice in possibility ~ being truly alive in each moment, willing to show up and respond, with courage and with curiosity, without needing to know how it will all turn out, trusting your instinct to take the next step.

It’s a practice in being human ~ in being alive, in meeting deeply. It’s a celebration of creativity, and the willingness to feel, and serve, and connect. It’s a practical course in freedom, and the infinite possibility of your soul. It’s serious fun, and sacred play, and about as good as it gets.

Will you join us?

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Local Teachers

Sue Ann Stabley Friday Harbor, Washington Teaching Since: 2014 Dancing Since: 2006

“We dance, we let go, we become... again, again and again.”

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Kellie Shannon Elliott Seattle, Washington   Dancing Since: 1998

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Christine Tasseff Langley, Washington Teaching Since: 1997 Dancing Since: 1988

“Dance me to the deep end!”

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Jayne Peterson Washington Teaching Since: 2014 Dancing Since: 2000

“All things change when I do.”

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Wyld Lee (Teacher In Training) Hood River, Oregon   Dancing Since: 2014

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Jannie Schaffer (Teacher In Training) White Salmon, Washington    

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