Rejoice with Andrea Juhan
1 - 3 Nov 2019
There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. --Vicki Baum
Joy is our birthright. We are designed to experience pleasure. However, have you ever noticed how easy it is to drift to the one negative comment in a sea of positive responses? To dwell on one doubt in the face of overwhelming support? Yes, we are designed to experience pleasure but our brains have what neuropsychologist call a “negativity bias”. Therefore, we need to practice embodying the full spectrum of human joy, teaching ourselves happiness to counter balance evolutions survival directive.
In Open Floor we investigate embodied joy; the kind of joy that transcend one’s own personal gain; like generosity, compassion, peace, and benevolence.
Dancing is the perfect medium for developing our capacity to tolerate the ‘big hits’ of rapture or ecstasy, and noticing the quieter forms of joy, such as presence, health, connection, belonging, kindness, ease, and well-being.
All of these particular qualities of joy have had imprints within our being. We can strengthen these neural pathways – we can dance ourselves into being happier people – at least more of the time.
Edinburgh Academy, 42 Henderson Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5BL
Cost: £210 Early bird deadline if paid in full by 1 Oct: £195
Times: Friday - 6:30-9:30pm, Saturday – 11am – 6pm and Sunday 11am – 5pm
To book email Sarena.
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About Andrea:
Andrea has been a student and a teacher in the field of body work, movement/dance and somatic psychotherapy for over 35 years. She has dedicated her work to understanding, from many different directions, how we can cultivate and support fully functional creative embodied lives for ourselves, our communities and our countries.
Andrea co-founded Open Floor International, a school for training teachers in embodied movement work. Through music, dance and skillful instruction, teachers develop expertise in using movement practice as a meaningful and effective way to support well being, mental health and spiritual work, while creating supportive communities of like minded others.
Andrea’s unique form of group process called Open Floor Encounter, and her work with sexuality (Open floor Libido) are taught worldwide.
All is Full Of Love
5Rhythms Heartbeat with Alex Mackay
Edinburgh July 10-12, 2020
Deepening our dance practice through the Heartbeat maps, we will find the shapes of the essential feelings as they move through us in the moment, and transform leftover fragments of old emotion into aliveness.
We prepare the field – the emptiness in which love thrives. The power of loving means allowing a full expression of feelings in ourselves and each other, being with any feelings; fear, anger, sorrow or joy, and increasing our capacity to be true and kind to ourselves as we respond to the mystery of another.
As human beings, we are built to know what others are feeling – there is a part of the nervous system that does this but we may have trained ourselves to shut it down. It is an instinctive animal part of us worthy of our curiosity and respect. In All is Full of Love we will be seeking the conditions when we can act from instinct, inhabit intimacy, and work directly from divine intelligence. We will practice the embodiment of the heart, valuing all the times when we can say yes to love.
Venue: Edinburgh Academy, 42 Henderson Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5BL
Cost: £210 Early bird deadline if paid in full by 1 June 2020: £195
Times: Friday 6:30-9:30pm, Saturday 11am-6pm and Sunday 11am – 5pm
To book: sarena@movetobestill.com
About Alex:
Alex has been teaching 5Rhythms Waves for over 2 decades, and trained with Gabrielle Roth to teach Heartbeat in 2006/7. She is currently one of only 2 teachers in the world to offer the archetypal workshop 'God, Sex and the Body'.
She is known for light and depth in her teaching, using few well-chosen words and opening a sense of wonder. She is energetic, embodied and creative and loves to dance with the group. This will be her first workshop in Edinburgh.
“I want to say I always love your invitation to dance just as you are - what it does for me is take away pressure to even dance the rhythms as they are meant to be danced which is such a relief when things aren’t going like you think they should!! this means that your workshop is always fun for me from start to finish.”
Mira, Minorca
“I really liked how direct, insightful, straight and tender yet decisive and straight forward you were. I found that calming and invigorating.
As well I loved your music - you had beautiful songs. Punky, fun, exhilarating, lifting songs as well as deeply touching, sphere transforming, grounding and nurturing songs. To me it was one of my most wonderful and intimate experiences I had in my life. I felt so much bliss, joy, admiration for myself and everybody else. I felt so at home and secure and content.”
Britta, Canada (5-day Heartbeat)
Paint, Pattern and Passion
a drawn to dance workshop
With Jenny Smith and Sarena Wolfaard
21 and 22 November 2020
“The stories of my body lie buried in my bones
waiting for the pull of muscle and sinew
and the tickle of a deep, deep breath
to float them to the surface of my skin.” (Rae Johnson)
Join us in the dance of creativity. The invitation is to move with paint and paint with movement in the spirit of playfulness, reflection and enquiry. Our canvas is the body as we step into deeper layers. Re-kindle the fire of your passion and re-discover your playful nature with the body as inspiration and medium. No previous art or movement experience necessary, but if you do have experience of either it will add to your palette.
From previous participants:
"prepare to push boundaries and tip into a freer more creative explorative self." Janis
"This is a fun filled unique experience that is full on and takes you to your edges in the most fantastic way!" Carol Angel
Jenny Smith has been a professional artist for 25 years, with experience of teaching and exhibiting in a wide variety of contexts. She is a qualified Holistic Practitioner and has been dancing 5Rhythms for several years. Jenny has a deep, intuitive and playful approach to holding space. Convinced everybody has creativity, she delights in facilitating it’s emergence. www.drawnto.org.uk jenny@drawnto.org.uk 07713901730
Sarena Wolfaard has been facilitating 5Rhythms for over 16 years and is a qualified Open Floor teacher. She is a Publisher and a Process Worker, a body-based therapy focusing on expanding awareness. She teaches from a personal experience in the present moment, allowing space for what is emerging in the dance, encouraging freedom and the unexpected into the dance. www.movetobestill.com sarena@movetobestill.com 07941883040
Venue: Restoration Yard, Wellbeing Lab, Dalkeith Country Park, Edinburgh, EH22 1ST
Is this right venue for paint – mess wise? Not sure, on reflection… let’s discuss on Fri
Cost: £140 Refreshments & Art Materials Included.
£120 early bird fee, if paid in full by 1 Oct 2020.
£60 non-refundable deposit will secure your place.
Time: Sat: 10.30am – 6pm Sun 11am – 5pm
To book: sarena@movetobestill.com or jenny@drawnto.org.uk
a drawn to dance workshop
With Jenny Smith and Sarena Wolfaard
21 and 22 November 2020
“The stories of my body lie buried in my bones
waiting for the pull of muscle and sinew
and the tickle of a deep, deep breath
to float them to the surface of my skin.” (Rae Johnson)
Join us in the dance of creativity. The invitation is to move with paint and paint with movement in the spirit of playfulness, reflection and enquiry. Our canvas is the body as we step into deeper layers. Re-kindle the fire of your passion and re-discover your playful nature with the body as inspiration and medium. No previous art or movement experience necessary, but if you do have experience of either it will add to your palette.
From previous participants:
"prepare to push boundaries and tip into a freer more creative explorative self." Janis
"This is a fun filled unique experience that is full on and takes you to your edges in the most fantastic way!" Carol Angel
Jenny Smith has been a professional artist for 25 years, with experience of teaching and exhibiting in a wide variety of contexts. She is a qualified Holistic Practitioner and has been dancing 5Rhythms for several years. Jenny has a deep, intuitive and playful approach to holding space. Convinced everybody has creativity, she delights in facilitating it’s emergence. www.drawnto.org.uk jenny@drawnto.org.uk 07713901730
Sarena Wolfaard has been facilitating 5Rhythms for over 16 years and is a qualified Open Floor teacher. She is a Publisher and a Process Worker, a body-based therapy focusing on expanding awareness. She teaches from a personal experience in the present moment, allowing space for what is emerging in the dance, encouraging freedom and the unexpected into the dance. www.movetobestill.com sarena@movetobestill.com 07941883040
Venue: Restoration Yard, Wellbeing Lab, Dalkeith Country Park, Edinburgh, EH22 1ST
Is this right venue for paint – mess wise? Not sure, on reflection… let’s discuss on Fri
Cost: £140 Refreshments & Art Materials Included.
£120 early bird fee, if paid in full by 1 Oct 2020.
£60 non-refundable deposit will secure your place.
Time: Sat: 10.30am – 6pm Sun 11am – 5pm
To book: sarena@movetobestill.com or jenny@drawnto.org.uk
Gathering for Women.....
(a closed group)
These Gatherings are to come together to share and deepen our understanding of how it is to be a woman at this time; you are welcomed for who you are; for your unique qualities and the stories, attitudes and dreams that you are willing to share. We will explore:
- A deeper understanding of the community and culture in which we were raised;
- The belief systems that underpin our thoughts and aspirations;
- How our personal histories have influenced and shaped our attitudes towards, and experiences of our bodies, our sexuality and self-image.
- How our everyday challenges create patterns in our dreams, body symptoms and relationships and how they contain their own wisdom that can show us the way forward. Through movement and 5Rhythms dance, voice, storytelling, art and relaxation we will experiment with different ways to discover, connect, express and appreciate our individuality and the beliefs, passions and powers that unite us as women.
These seasonal Women’s Gathering in 2019 will be at the Wellbeing Lab, the Restoration Yard, right in the middle of Dalkeith Country Park. It is a gorgeous space and the grounds are beautiful so the environment is perfect for us. It also has plenty free parking and is easily accessible by bus into Dalkeith followed by a short and pretty walk into the grounds to the Restoration Yard.
After March we will become a closed group up to a maximum of 20. We advise you book your place soon to secure it.
Saturday 23 March - Spring Women's Gathering 10am - 4pm
Saturday 29 June- Summer Women's Gathering 10am - 4pm
Saturday 12 October - Autumn Women's Gathering 10am - 4pm
Saturday 14 December 2019 - Winter Woman’s Gathering 10am - 4pm
Cost: £ 35 per Gathering (Early bird £30 if booked and paid a month before each gathering. Please book by emailing
sarahgoldsworthy@aol.com
About us
Sarena: I lost my dad to a car accident when I was 10yrs old. This had and still has a profound effect on me and how I feel about myself and how I interact with the world. I had to be strong to make it and my world felt dominated by strong men and struggling women. At times I still identify as the suffering woman, not seeing where I am strong and very capable. I know I am not alone with this and have a yearning to grow and learn with other women, to live our fullness and individually expressed ways in the world. I have been teaching conscious dance for the past 15 years and is a co-founder of Handspring Publishing doing books for professionals who work with body, mind and soul.
Sarah: I was highly sensitive child with a rich and deep connection to music, nature and an imaginary world. The messages I was given by parents and at school about my deep sensitivity was that it was a weakness. Over time this turned into a belief that experiencing deep feelings was wrong, a bit weird, and made me vulnerable.
For too much of my life I struggled to relate from my deep feelings, finding it safer to keep them hidden. Over the past 20 years I have learned to access my sensitivity and connection to a deeper wisdom as a rich resource for myself and my clients in my work as a Coach, Conflict Worker and Process Worker.
Sarena and Sarah are group facilitators and advanced students of Process Oriented Psychotherapy.
If you are interested you can see on Sarah's other work and life experience on her websites:
www.goldsworthyconsulting.com.
(a closed group)
These Gatherings are to come together to share and deepen our understanding of how it is to be a woman at this time; you are welcomed for who you are; for your unique qualities and the stories, attitudes and dreams that you are willing to share. We will explore:
- A deeper understanding of the community and culture in which we were raised;
- The belief systems that underpin our thoughts and aspirations;
- How our personal histories have influenced and shaped our attitudes towards, and experiences of our bodies, our sexuality and self-image.
- How our everyday challenges create patterns in our dreams, body symptoms and relationships and how they contain their own wisdom that can show us the way forward. Through movement and 5Rhythms dance, voice, storytelling, art and relaxation we will experiment with different ways to discover, connect, express and appreciate our individuality and the beliefs, passions and powers that unite us as women.
These seasonal Women’s Gathering in 2019 will be at the Wellbeing Lab, the Restoration Yard, right in the middle of Dalkeith Country Park. It is a gorgeous space and the grounds are beautiful so the environment is perfect for us. It also has plenty free parking and is easily accessible by bus into Dalkeith followed by a short and pretty walk into the grounds to the Restoration Yard.
After March we will become a closed group up to a maximum of 20. We advise you book your place soon to secure it.
Saturday 23 March - Spring Women's Gathering 10am - 4pm
Saturday 29 June- Summer Women's Gathering 10am - 4pm
Saturday 12 October - Autumn Women's Gathering 10am - 4pm
Saturday 14 December 2019 - Winter Woman’s Gathering 10am - 4pm
Cost: £ 35 per Gathering (Early bird £30 if booked and paid a month before each gathering. Please book by emailing
sarahgoldsworthy@aol.com
About us
Sarena: I lost my dad to a car accident when I was 10yrs old. This had and still has a profound effect on me and how I feel about myself and how I interact with the world. I had to be strong to make it and my world felt dominated by strong men and struggling women. At times I still identify as the suffering woman, not seeing where I am strong and very capable. I know I am not alone with this and have a yearning to grow and learn with other women, to live our fullness and individually expressed ways in the world. I have been teaching conscious dance for the past 15 years and is a co-founder of Handspring Publishing doing books for professionals who work with body, mind and soul.
Sarah: I was highly sensitive child with a rich and deep connection to music, nature and an imaginary world. The messages I was given by parents and at school about my deep sensitivity was that it was a weakness. Over time this turned into a belief that experiencing deep feelings was wrong, a bit weird, and made me vulnerable.
For too much of my life I struggled to relate from my deep feelings, finding it safer to keep them hidden. Over the past 20 years I have learned to access my sensitivity and connection to a deeper wisdom as a rich resource for myself and my clients in my work as a Coach, Conflict Worker and Process Worker.
Sarena and Sarah are group facilitators and advanced students of Process Oriented Psychotherapy.
If you are interested you can see on Sarah's other work and life experience on her websites:
www.goldsworthyconsulting.com.
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The hall at The Restoration Yard we where we dance and draw.