Vital Moves - 5Rhythms Dance for Transformation with Deborah Jay-Lewin :: WORKSHOPS

25-28 October 2012: Naked Honesty (Geneva)

2012-05-01T17:06:28.823+01:00

How do we use our bodies to communicate our truth into the space around us? We do, all the time. This is an invitation to use the Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms® movement method to sharpen both our awareness and our seeing for the sake of honest and authentic movement. Sometimes my body is heavy. Is this delicious or uncomfortable? Sometimes just plain tense. Is this awkward or energetically alive? Sometimes I feel as if I have no spine at all, I am so relaxed, other times it is as if I could just float away. What is this weird, wise and wonderful language that informs my dance each and every moment, in and outside the studio? Whatever the answer, revealing it authentically is what counts.

This weekend workshop will focus your physical presence and bring a greater clarity and honesty to your communication both as a dancer and as a human being moving through life. Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms® is an exhilarating, liberating and ultimately ecstatic approach to improvisational movement. The 5Rhythms® are Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness. They come together to create the Wave®, a movement meditation practice. While the practice itself is the essence of simplicity, it has the power to catalyse deep healing. People all over the world have discovered the freedom and enjoyment that 5Rhythms® offers, both on their own and with others. All levels of fitness and experience are welcome.

Dates: October 25 (Thur) 20.00-22:30: Waves / October 26 (Fri) 20:00-22:30, 27/28 (Sat/Sun) 10:00-17:00
Venue: Maison des Arts Grutli, 16 rue du Général-Dufour, 1204 Geneva, Switzerland
Cost: Waves only 25chf (free for workshop participants), whole workshop (Fri-Sun): 300CHF, early bird price (book before September 10th): 255chf
Booking: Contact Adela Bevan on +41 774261379 or adeladance@gmail.com

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8-9 June 2012: Gender Rhythms, Heartbeat-level (Findhorn)

2012-05-01T17:04:43.942+01:00

A workshop for men and women – for our masculine and feminine aspects – for our separateness and wholeness

A Heartbeat® level Gender Rhythms for the first time. So we can invite in and make space in the dance for our feeling natures; exploring where it is scary and exciting, and what we accept or reject. Expressing our frustration and passion as women and men; being nourished and liberated by all that energy that gets repressed or misdirected... because there is grief and sorrow, lots of it, for our personal and collective journeys, for all the exploitation, abuse and misunderstandings...

My heart aches – does yours? Because there is so much to celebrate in myself and in YOU, all you gorgeous men and women on the dance floor, to be grateful for, to acknowledge – and still, there is so much more of the mystery to expand into... with love, compassion and deep soulful honouring of the oh so tender and delicate fragility and resilience of our shared humanity...

That’s why it’s time for this workshop, which I have been offering as Waves® for over 15 years, to shift into the heart more consciously. If you are drawn to join me, then book soon – places are limited!

Dates: 8 – 9 June 2012
Times: Friday: 7.00 pm – 10.00 pm, Saturday: 11.00 am – 6.00 pm
Venue: The Universal Hall, Findhorn Ecovillage, Moray, Scotland
Cost: £90 (£70 if paid in full by 18 May 2012)
Booking: To book, please contact Liz at Bodysurf Scotland on 01309 691661 or admin@bodysurfscotland.co.uk

This workshop counts as 10 Heartbeat hours in the 5Rhythms teacher training

19-21 October 2012: Awakening to Dance (Barcelona, Spain)

2012-04-16T14:02:49.331+01:00

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10 June 2012: Waves Class (Inverness)

2012-03-13T12:31:16.165+00:00

A 2.5 Hours Dance Workout to Great Music with Deborah Jay-Lewin

No experience needed, just a willingness to have fun and be freed from self-consciousness. This class will leave you feeling lighter, relaxed, energised and more peaceful. Come try it out!

Date/Time: Sunday, 10th June 2012, 2.00pm–4.30pm
Venue: Eden Court, Bishops Road, Inverness, IV3 5SA, The Jim Love Studio
Cost: £12 – pay on the door (to book in advance, please call 01463 234234 or email Deborah at info@vitalmoves.co.uk for more information)

29 Nov – 2 Dec 2012: God, Sex & the Body – with Jonathan Horan (Findhorn)

2012-02-22T00:05:32.860+00:00

“God Sex and the Body is and always will be a profound and integral part of the 5Rhythms® curriculum. It has personally informed my way of being, my teaching style, and, most deeply, my acceptance of who I am and who I am not.“ (Gabrielle Roth)

In the series of maps that comprise the dancing path of the 5Rhythms®, God, Sex and the Body is an initiation into being an embodied soul. This five day journey is a call to stretch our imaginations with a long forgotten innocence and move through a spectrum of feminine and masculine archetypes, to dress up these characters in ritual theater, get inside them and give them expression. No one else can be a man or woman exactly like you. No one else can embody your soul, or project your magic or have your specific curiosity. Grounded in the 5Rhythms Movement practice, this experience can liberate and inspire us to emerge a bit more fascinated with each other and the mystery of it all. Participation in at least one 5Rhythms® class with an accredited teacher is a pre-requisite for this workshop.

Jonathan Horan is Gabrielle Roth’s son and closest collaborator. He has been immersed in the 5Rhythms® throughout his life and continues to be a key catalyst in its evolution.

Cost: full price £350, early booking discount of 10% if booked by 14 Sep 2012.
Booking: send a 25% non-refundable deposit to Bodysurf Scotland, The Universal Hall, Findhorn, Moray IV36 3TZ, Scotland
Contact: +44 (0)1309 69166,1 admin@bodysurfscotland.co.uk, www.bodysurfscotland.co.uk

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26-28 April 2012: Naked Honesty (Dubai)

2012-02-17T03:36:54.641+00:00

5Rhythms® Workshop with Deborah Jay-Lewin

How do we use our bodies to communicate our truth into the space around us? We do, all the time – this is an invitation to use the 5Rhythms® movement method of Gabrielle Roth to sharpen our awareness and our seeing.
Sometimes my body is heavy – delicious or uncomfortable? Sometimes just plain tense – awkward or energetically alive? Sometimes I feel as I have no spine at all I am so relaxed other times it is as if I could just float away... What is this weird, wise and wonderful language that informs my dance each and every moment, in and outside the studio? This weekend workshop will focus your physical presence and bring a greater clarity and honesty to your communication as a dancer and person.

Dates/Times: Thursday, 26 April (Thursday) 7:00-9:30pm: Introduction
27/28 April (Fri/Sat) 10:30am-5:30: In-depth workshop
Venue: Chill Studios, Al Shatha Towers, 9th floor, DMC
Cost: Thursday evening only: 200 Dhs, whole workshop (Thurs-Sat): 1000 Dhs (Early Bird price if booked before March 15th: 850 Dhs)
Booking: Contact Lina on +971 (0)50 4509595 or lina.omjood@gmail.com

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3 May 2012: Waves (Geneva, Switzerland)

2012-01-25T20:51:14.696+00:00

Refresh your Body, heart, Mind and soul with Deborah Jay-Lewin!

No experience needed, just a willingness to have fun and be freed from self-consciousness. This class will leave you feeling lighter, relaxed, energised and more peaceful. Come try it out!

Date & Time: Thursday, 3 May 2012 8.00–10.30pm
Venue: Maison des arts du Grutli 16 rue du Général-Dufour 1204 Geneva
Cost: 25 CHF – pay on the door

For more information and to confirm your place, please call Adela on+41774261379 or email her at adelamaryann@hotmail.com

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4-6 May 2012: Secret Garden (Geneva)

2012-01-25T20:39:30.418+00:00

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.co.uk 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 (255 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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27-30 September 2012: Moving Union (Eschwege Institut, Germany)

2012-01-13T23:24:41.662+00:00

A 5Rhythms® workshop with Deborah Jay-Lewin

These few days will give us the opportunity to use the vehicle of movement, specifically the practice of Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms® to explore our way of being ~ with ourselves, in our dynamics with others and within the circle of whoever joins us for the dance. We shall enjoy the blessed relief of minimising words and empowering our bodies with their inherent wisdom to communicate. To bring us home to ourselves and from there engage with others and the wider energetic field. The dance unifies us; body, heart, mind and spirit ~ it’s pretty much an absolute!

Dates: 27-30 September 2012
Venue: Eschwege Institut, Hinter den Höfen 10, 37276 Neuerode, Germany, www.campus-peregrini.de
Cost: EURO 325.- (+ food and accommodation)
Contact: Tel.: +49 (0)5651 951360, Fax.: 952144, Mobil.: +49 (0)172 6315620 info@campus-peregrini.de

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11-17 August 2012: Awakening to Change (Findhorn, Scotland)

2011-12-21T19:18:31.174+00:00

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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13-20 July 2012: Elemental Waves (Greece)

2011-12-17T17:19:24.532+00:00

A week in the beautiful STK Centre (Spiti ton Kentavron) in Pelion, Greece with Deborah Jay-Lewin

Inspired by the Findhorn Community, the STK Centre will provide a wonderful venue for us to be part of a community, enjoy relaxing afternoons in nature combined with daily practice and input of 5Rhythms. Our dancing space has no walls – so we can breathe in the earth, sun, sea and wind and then refresh ourselves in the sea later. We will invite the elements to nourish, inspire and energise our dances and bodies. The 5Rhythms are an easily accessible movement practice that is both structured and improvised in its form. The week is suitable for all levels of fitness and both beginners and experienced dancers are welcome.

Dates: 13-20 July 2012
Venue: Spiti ton Kentavron (“Home of the Centaurs”) www.spititonkentavron.org
Cost: £350 / €400 (including basic accommodation) 5% discount if paid in full 90 days in advance! The basic price includes accommodation in a triple or quad room. Single and Double/Twin rooms are usually available at a surcharge; please inquire.
For further information and to book your place, please go to www.spititonkentavron.org/workshops/5-rhythms-dance-week

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“I feel I belong to this group of people who have been lucky enough to be introduced to 5Rhythms by Deborah Jay-Lewin. I feel her as a spiritual guide very discretely assisting me to use my body as a vessel to my higher consciousness, to experience my body, my mind and my spirit as a Whole that can express its One Self through movement. Thank you Deborah for being such a great guide, what a journey!”
(Patty Petropoulou, Greece ‘Elemental Waves’ 2011)

20-22 January 2012: Reponerse (Barcelona, Spain)

2011-10-21T12:14:46.476+01:00

Un fin de 20 a 22 de Enero de 2.012 semana 5Ritmos® con Deborah Jay-Lewin

v t reponer [repo’neɾ] Llenar algo o a alguien con la energía necesaria o alimento / reabastecer un fuego con combustible
ORIGEN Del lat. reponĕre, aparece por primera vez en un libro en el siglo XV, año 1.490, escrito por Alfonso de Palencia sobre literatura romance.

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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27 January 2012: Waves (Geneva, Switzerland)

2011-10-19T23:52:15.490+01:00

Refresh your Body, heart, Mind and soul with Deborah Jay-Lewin!

No experience needed, just a willingness to have fun and be freed from self-consciousness. This class will leave you feeling lighter, relaxed, energised and more peaceful. Come try it out!

Date & Time: Friday, 27 January 2012 8.00–10.30pm
Venue: Maison des arts du Grutli 16 rue du Général-Dufour 1204 Geneva
Cost: 25 CHF – pay on the door

For more information and to con- firm your place, please call Adela on+41774261379 or email her at adelamaryann@hotmail.com

27-29 January 2012: Replenish (Geneva, Switzerland)

2011-10-19T23:48:08.205+01:00

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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