5Rhythms Dance for Transformation with Deborah Jay-Lewin & Bettina Jespersen

Change can be an unsettling thing, even though it is the only predictable thing there is. Some changes we resist, others we welcome. As the world changes around us, we are called to dance deeper into our own creative selves; to be honest about our vulner- ability and resource our strengths. Are we going to contract in fear or expand with trust and cooperation? This week we will use Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms® ecstatic dance practice to sustain, engage and inspire us. To let the dance be the container for all that we are, to deepen our ability to surrender to and embrace change, and to experience the solidarity of dancing in Community with others.

The workshop will be co-focalised by Bettina Jespersen and Adele Napier from the Findhorn Foundation, which is at the heart of one of the best known intentional communities and ecovillages in the world, a major international centre of holistic education and of personal and spiritual transformation.

Pre-requisites: a minimum of at least one previous class with an accredited 5Rhythms® teacher is recommended. This course does not require previous participation in a Findhorn Experience Week.
Income related price (low/medium/high): £575 / £695 / £925 Includes full (vegetarian) board & shared accommodation.
To book and for further information: Findhorn Foundation Bookings, bookings@findhorn.org, phone:+44 (0)1309 691653, Fax:+44 (0)1309 691663, www.findhorn.org/vitalmoves

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Invitation to a 5 Rhythms® Weekend for Women to Nurture and Celebrate our Sacred Sexuality with Deborah Jay-Lewin & Julie Rose

Enter the secret garden and explore, through dance and ritual the richness of being a woman. Our body and sexuality is strongly connected to the rhythm of nature, it is a natural source of energy and pleasure. In our busy lives we easily loose touch with this sacred connection to our deepest selves. When we reconnect with the power of our sexuality we feel the vitality of being alive and all aspects of our lives are nourished.
The 5 Rhythms are an amazing way of reconnecting all the parts of us that become fragmented; healing and guiding us towards wholeness. It’s an improvised dance practice with limitless possibilities. It helps us to release stories, which block our natural energy. In the dance we move our struggles and challenges as well as our joy and pleasure. The dance floor is a safe place to experiment with the different shapes of our energy; wild, tender, passionate, vulnerable, playful, innocent, sensual, creative... By bringing awareness, movement and an open heart into forgotten places we become our own healers.
The power of a women’s circle is to embrace and celebrate each other as women, so we can step forward into the mystery that we are and enter our own Secret Garden. Every woman who loves to dance and is willing to explore is welcome, no matter what age or level of experience.

Julie Rose (formally Julie Deal) is a 5 rhythms teacher, co-director of SOULWAVE the work she created with her husband David Rose (see www.soulwave for more info). She is also a ‘Be the Change’ facilitator, a natural birth teacher and doula. She has a wealth of experience working with women, holding a space for rites of passage and exploring all that it means to be a woman, including running the popular Goddess & the Whore workshops for over 10 years. Deborah Jay-Lewin has spent more than 20 years combining her passion for 5Rhythms® with her deep love of the spiritual principles she has learnt whilst living in Findhorn. She teaches regularly in Scotland, Europe and South-East Asia. Her workshops are known for being full of vitality, open heartedness and a unique approach that awakens transformation. Deborah is engaged in ongoing study with Gabrielle Roth and is certified to teach both Waves ® and Heartbeat® levels.

Venue: Maison des Arts Grutli, 16 rue du Général-Dufour, 1204 Geneva Switzerland.
Dates & Times: Fri, 4th May: 8-10.30pm; Sat, 5th May: 10am-3pm + 8-10.30pm; Sun, 6th May: 10 am-3pm
Cost: 300 Francs – 15% discount if paid in full by 1st March 2012 (265 Francs)
Notes: There will also be an Open Waves Night Thursday 3rd May 8-10.30pm, 25 Francs or free for those booking the weekend workshop
Contact: For bookings & more information contact Adela Bevan: phone +41 774261379, adelamaryann@hotmail.com
 
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A 5Rhythms Weekend with Deborah Jay-Lewin

An invitation to meet and deepen with each other in the dance; to sweat, release, relax, breathe in and out, melt and awaken together. To nurture and energise ourselves and prepare our bodies for the imminent Spring. All levels of 5Rhythms experience welcome.

Dates & Times: 27 January 2012 (Friday), 8–10.30pm: Waves® introduction 28–29 January 2012, 10am–5pm: Weekend Workshop
Venue: Maison des arts du Grütli, 16 rue du Général-Dufour, 1204 Geneva, Switzerland
Cost: Friday Wave: SFr 25, whole Workshop (incl. Fri): SFr 250 15% discount if paid in full by 1 December 2011!

To book & for more information contact Adela Bevan, phone: +41 774261379, email: adelamaryann@hotmail.com
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Un fin de 20 a 22 de Enero de 2.012 semana 5Ritmos® con Deborah Jay-Lewin

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Una invitación a encontrarse y profundizar con el otro en la danza; de sudar, liberar, relajarse, inspirar y espirar, fundirse y despertar juntos. Una ocasión para nutrirnos y energizarnos y preparar nuestros cuerpos para la inminente Primavera. Todos los niveles de experiencia en los 5 Ritmos son bienvenidos ...

Horario: 20 Enero 2012 (Viernes), 7:30 –22.00h: Waves® Presentación 21 Enero 2012, 11:00–19:00 / 22 Enero 2012, 11:00-18:00: Taller Fin de Semana
Lugar: Happy Yoga, C/ Laforja, 118 bajos, Barcelona Precio: Wave del Viernes: 20€, Taller completo (incl. Viernes): 180€ (160€ si reservas antes del 5 de Diciembre de 2.011)
Para más información y reservas contacta con Virginia Almarcha-Jareño, +34690277278, e-mail: viralmarcha@yahoo.es
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A series of wee closed groups for local 5Rhythms dancers. Series 5 – Expanding into Stillness: Emptying ourselves in the dance and moving with the Stillness that awaits us.

Dates/Times: Tuesdays November 22nd, 29th & December 7th, 13th, 20th 7.30-9.45pm NB, December 7th class is a Wednesday.
Venue: James Milne Institute, Findhorn Village
Cost: £70, £55 if paid by November 14th, 4 reduced places @ £45

To book send payment to: Deborah Jay-Lewin, The Cottage, Station House, 46 Findhorn, Forres, IV36 3YF or email for bank details.
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WaveRave & Dance Party with Deborah Jay-Lewin & DJ Monkey Magic

CALLING ALL WAVE RAVERS... Deborah Jay-Lewin and DJ Monkey Magic team up to provide you with another night of seriously funky body moving! The dynamic duos pioneering collaboration of 5Rhythms® and DJ skills hits the James Milne Institute in Findhorn Village for your dancing pleasure, providing you with a seamless wave of sheer 5Rhythms indulgence.
WHAT IS THE WAVE®? Dancing the 5Rhythms Wave, through Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness, shakes us up, inside and out. A great way to overcome self-consciousness and enjoy the pleasure of moving the body to music that insists on being danced to.
PARTY! This time we will be following the Wave with a dance party to continue the festivities... DJ Monkey Magic and Deborah will be serving up a brand new mix of seriously funky tunes for the remainder of the evening..

Date/Time: Saturday, 5 November 2011, 8.00–10.30pm / Dance Party 10.30pm–Midnight
Venue: James Milne Institute, Findhorn Village
Cost: Wave Rave (incl. Party): £15 – £8 (On a sliding scale…, you know who you are!), Party only (10.30pm – Midnight): £5
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a series of wee closed groups for local 5Rhythms dancers.
Series 4: Relationship: Exploring finding and maintaining integrity of self whilst dancing with others.

Times: Tuesdays Sept. 27th, October 4th & 11th 7.30-9.45pm and Sunday October 2nd 12pm-6pm
Venue: Cluny Ballroom and Dance Studio, Universal Hall
Cost: £75, £60 if paid by September 17th, 5 reduced places @ £50

To book send payment to: Deborah Jay-Lewin, The Cottage, Station House, 46 Findhorn, Forres, IV36 3YF or email for bank details.
 
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A 5Rhythms week with Deborah Jay-Lewin & Findhorn Foundation Faculty
Change can be an unsettling thing, even though it is the only predictable thing there is. Some changes we resist, others we welcome. As the world changes around us, we are called to dance deeper into our own creative selves; to be honest about our vulnerability and resource our strengths. Are we going to contract in fear or expand with trust and cooperation?
This week we will use Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms® ecstatic dance practice to sustain, engage and inspire us. To let the dance be the container for all that we are, to deepen our ability to surrender to and embrace change, and to experience the solidarity of dancing in Community with others.

Pre-requisite: a minimum of at least one previous class with an accredited 5Rhythms® teacher is recommended. This course does not require previous participation in a Findhorn Experience Week. The workshop will be co-focalised by Adele Napier and Bettina Jespersen from the Findhorn Foundation, which is at the heart of one of the best known intentional communities and ecovillages in the world, a major international centre of holistic education and of personal and spiritual transformation.

Income related price (low/medium/high): £545 / £695 / £875 Includes full (vegetarian) board & shared accommodation.
To book and for further information:
Findhorn Foundation Bookings
E-mail: bookings@findhorn.org
Phone:+44 (0)1309 691653
Fax:+44 (0)1309 691663

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A 5Rhythms® Heartbeat® Workshop with Deborah Jay-Lewin
A Mini & Potent Heartbeat® workshop! A chance to meet or delve deeper into the rich tapestry of the feeling world; To engage with the weight of our Fear, the tension in our Anger, how floppy our Sadness makes us, how light we can become when fueled with Joy and the empti- ness of true Compassion. Suitable for those with at least 10 hours of Waves experience. (This workshop counts as 8 Heartbeat hours in the 5Rhythms teacher training)

Times: Friday: 7.30 pm – 10.00 pm, Saturday: 11.00 am – 6.00 pm
Venue: The Ballroom, Cluny Hill College, St. Leonards Road, Forres, Scotland
Cost: £80. Early bird price £60, if paid in full by May 15th.


For booking and further information please contact Liz at Bodysurf Scotland on 01309 691661 or admin@bodysurfscotland.co.uk
 
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Invitation to a 5Rhythms weekend for women to nurture and celebrate our sacred sexuality – with Julie Deal and Deborah Jay-Lewin

Enter the Secret Garden and explore, through dance and ritual, the richness of being a woman. Our body and sexuality is strongly connected to the rhythm of nature, it is a natural source of energy and pleasure. In our busy lives we easily lose touch with this sacred connection to our deepest selves. When we reconnect with the power of our sexuality we feel the vitality of being alive and all aspects of our lives are nourished.The 5 Rhythms are a transformative way of reconnecting all the parts of us that become fragmented; healing and guiding us towards wholeness. It's an improvised dance practise with limitless possibilities. It helps us to release stories and energies which block our natural energy. In the dance we move our struggles and challenges as well as our joy and pleasure. The dance floor is a safe place to experiment with the different shapes of our energy; wild, tender, passionate, vulnerable, playful, innocent, sensual, creative... By bringing awareness, movement and an open heart into forgotten places we become our own healers. The power of a women's circle is to embrace and celebrate each other as women, so we can step forward into the mystery that we are and enter our own Secret Garden. Every woman who loves to dance and is willing to explore is welcome, no matter what age or level of experience.

Julie has been running workshops, moving and dancing as a spiritual practise since 1990. She is a 5Rhythms® teacher, director of Soulwave, a mother, a wife, a grandmother, a passionate human being striving to wake up and help others to do so in these times of great change. Her work is a tapestry, woven with the different approaches, teachings and experiences that have inspired her own healing journey.

Participation in at least one 5Rhythms class with an accredited teacher is a pre-requisite.

Times: Fri 4th March 7.30pm-10pm, Sat 5th 11am -11pm & Sun 6th 11am - 5pm
Venue: Universal Hall, Findhorn, Scotland
Cost: Full price £150, NFA £120, early booking discount of 15% if booked by 1 Feb

Further information and accommodation options from: Bodysurf Scotland, 201 The Park, Findhorn Forres IV36 3TB (Scottish Co No SC260642), www.bodysurfscotland.co.uk, +44(0)1309 691661, admin@bodysurfscotland.co.uk
 
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An ongoing 5Rhythms group with Deborah Jay-Lewin
What is essential at this time on the planet? To empower our bodies and hearts to have greater authentic expression. As we practice becoming fluid with the changes occurring within and around us we can engage with being agents of change for the greater good.

Plus rien n’a de sens ... pourtant nos sens détiennent tant des réponses dont nous avons besoin pour naviguer à notre manière au travers de ces temps incertains et mystérieux.

Over the course of the year we will create a space for people who love to dance 5Rhythms® to come together – to take steps to grow, change, heal, receive, let go, be nurtured and energised in the presence of a loving community that will evolve.This is about the dance, and how we ground our practice in daily life. To fulfil this purpose, each member of the group will deliver, within their locality, an act of loving kindness and give feedback on how it went during our final module.
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Dates in 2011: Feb 18-20, May 13-15, July 7-11 and Oct 21-23.
Venue: Maison des arts du Grutli,16 rue du General-Dufour, 1204, Geneva. The July module will be residential in the Swiss mountains. If you are coming from out of town for the Geneva modules please let us know if you require assistance with accommodation.
Cost: 1400 CHF for the whole year, plus accommodation and meals for the residential module. 15% discount if booked by Dec 1. A 25% non-refundable deposit confirms your place, the balance is due Feb 1. Places are limited.
Prerequisites: We will cover Waves® and Heartbeat® material, requiring all participants to have danced a minimum of one Waves weekend/16 hours of Waves with an accredited teacher.
Booking: To confirm your place or for further information please contact Adela on +41 774261379 or adelamaryann@hotmail.com
Pour toute information sur le stage et les inscriptions en français allez à www.vitalmoves.co.uk/a-venir-a-nos-sens
 
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A Findhorn S&PD event with Deborah Jay-Lewin

An invitation to our Community of 5Rhythms dancers to meet and deepen with each other in the dance; to sweat, release, relax, breathe in and out, melt and awaken together. All levels of experience welcome – no pushing, no holding back.

Time/venue: Saturday, 29th January - Monday, 31st January 2011, 10am-5pm, Auditorium, Universal Hall, The Park
Cost: FF Co-workers £40-£60, Concessions/NFA: £70-£100, Community: £120 Booking: monica.boeni@findhorn.org, tel: 692129 or leave a note in the General Office.
 
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