WHITENESS - an exploration through dance and words(on zoom)
with Caroline and Sarena
New dates for 2020: 26 Sept - 24 Oct - 28 Nov
To book email
with Caroline and Sarena
New dates for 2020: 26 Sept - 24 Oct - 28 Nov
To book email
A series of three 3 hour sessions exploring what it means to be white
Many of us who are white may think this kind of exploration has nothing to do with us.
We may experience the word whiteness as an accusation or a kind of unnecessary political correctness.
But if we are white this is our work to do.
Dismantling our unconscious and hidden racism and belief systems is not easy. We will find ourselves outside of our comfort zone. And this is exactly where we need to be for change to happen.
We can’t do this in isolation. We need our community to lovingly challenge us knowing how difficult it can be.
Over these three sessions we will find out about our white privilege, white fragility, white saviourism and more. Even if you think you know about these, there are always more layers. We will build our bodily resilience, grow our inner courage and discover new insights. Most of all we will grow towards becoming allies, building our confidence to step out, step up and step in around racism.
Course information:
Session 1. Building a container: White privilege and its cost to people of colour
Session 2. White fragility: Working through our personal history
Session 3. Allyship: Building the muscle of resilience towards showing up
Each session will build on the last as we continue to integrate our learning.
Dates: 10am-1pm on Saturdays - 26 Sept; 24 Oct; 28 Nov
Venue: Zoom
Cost: £30 per session - to book and pay, please email me for BACS details if you don't already have these. You can also pay with Paypal to move2bestill@gmail.com. (Choose the family/friends option).
(A percentage of the proceedings will go towards BRAP and Nonty Sabic).
Here is a piece to listen to as an inspiration.
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Sarena Wolfaard – is a process oriented psychotherapist and uses tools from this modality to work with the body in movement and interoception (inner feelings and sensations). She is a 5Rhythms and Open Floor teacher and trained in Therapy in Motion.
Caroline Baillie – I am also a process oriented psychotherapist and work with individuals and couples in Gloucestershire. I am committed to working on my own racism and moving towards allyship.
Many of us who are white may think this kind of exploration has nothing to do with us.
We may experience the word whiteness as an accusation or a kind of unnecessary political correctness.
But if we are white this is our work to do.
Dismantling our unconscious and hidden racism and belief systems is not easy. We will find ourselves outside of our comfort zone. And this is exactly where we need to be for change to happen.
We can’t do this in isolation. We need our community to lovingly challenge us knowing how difficult it can be.
Over these three sessions we will find out about our white privilege, white fragility, white saviourism and more. Even if you think you know about these, there are always more layers. We will build our bodily resilience, grow our inner courage and discover new insights. Most of all we will grow towards becoming allies, building our confidence to step out, step up and step in around racism.
Course information:
Session 1. Building a container: White privilege and its cost to people of colour
Session 2. White fragility: Working through our personal history
Session 3. Allyship: Building the muscle of resilience towards showing up
Each session will build on the last as we continue to integrate our learning.
Dates: 10am-1pm on Saturdays - 26 Sept; 24 Oct; 28 Nov
Venue: Zoom
Cost: £30 per session - to book and pay, please email me for BACS details if you don't already have these. You can also pay with Paypal to move2bestill@gmail.com. (Choose the family/friends option).
(A percentage of the proceedings will go towards BRAP and Nonty Sabic).
Here is a piece to listen to as an inspiration.
_______________________________________________________
Sarena Wolfaard – is a process oriented psychotherapist and uses tools from this modality to work with the body in movement and interoception (inner feelings and sensations). She is a 5Rhythms and Open Floor teacher and trained in Therapy in Motion.
Caroline Baillie – I am also a process oriented psychotherapist and work with individuals and couples in Gloucestershire. I am committed to working on my own racism and moving towards allyship.
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.
We are looking forward to sharing this year’s new Drawn to Dance workshop with you: Paint, Passion, and Pattern. We envisage our 4th collaboration will be a playfully embodied, celebratory end to a challenging and unprecedented year. We will be introducing lots of new things and look forward to welcome back those who have participated previously, as well as those who haven't worked with us both yet.
In light of the current circumstances we are planning for the original in-person workshop on 21/22nd Nov at Restoration Yard, with a back-up plan to go online if regulations don’t allow us to run it in person (with materials posted out to you). If for any reason we can’t go ahead in person, everyone booked for that workshop will be offered a place on-line, or a full refund. Any Covid19 related cancellations would be offered a full refund.
Sat 21st & 22nd November (Numbers will be limited to 18)
We will adhere to government regulations for health and safety around Covid19
Cost: Deposit £30 to secure a place.
Early bird rate of £120 if paid in full by Sat 7 November. £140 thereafter.
2 concessionary places are available. Please let us know your circumstances.
All bookings will be online via Jenny’s website
Click here to register your interest if you are only interested in coming if it happens on line in November, or would like to be kept informed about our plans for an On-line Drawn to Dance next year.
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
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.
We are looking forward to sharing this year’s new Drawn to Dance workshop with you: Paint, Passion, and Pattern. We envisage our 4th collaboration will be a playfully embodied, celebratory end to a challenging and unprecedented year. We will be introducing lots of new things and look forward to welcome back those who have participated previously, as well as those who haven't worked with us both yet.
In light of the current circumstances we are planning for the original in-person workshop on 21/22nd Nov at Restoration Yard, with a back-up plan to go online if regulations don’t allow us to run it in person (with materials posted out to you). If for any reason we can’t go ahead in person, everyone booked for that workshop will be offered a place on-line, or a full refund. Any Covid19 related cancellations would be offered a full refund.
Sat 21st & 22nd November (Numbers will be limited to 18)
We will adhere to government regulations for health and safety around Covid19
Cost: Deposit £30 to secure a place.
Early bird rate of £120 if paid in full by Sat 7 November. £140 thereafter.
2 concessionary places are available. Please let us know your circumstances.
All bookings will be online via Jenny’s website
Click here to register your interest if you are only interested in coming if it happens on line in November, or would like to be kept informed about our plans for an On-line Drawn to Dance next year.
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
All is Full of Love - 9-11 July 2021
All is Full of Love
5Rhythms Heartbeat with Alex Mackay
Edinburgh July 9 -11, 2021
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 2021: £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)
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The hall at The Restoration Yard we where we dance and draw.