Paint, Pattern and Passion
a drawn to dance online workshop
With Jenny Smith and Sarena Wolfaard
21 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)
Picasso once said he spent his whole life learning to see like a child again. We have always been delighted to hear how playful participants find Drawn to Dance workshops. In this one-day, on-line workshop we will be combining dance, creating paper cut-outs, painting onto body parts (using as much or as little of your body as you choose) and sharing.
Join us for a day of playful, embodied creativity that may be a refreshing change from what you usually associate with screen time.
You will receive a materials package in the post with everything you will need to participate in the comfort of your own home. No previous experience in art or dance necessary, but if you do have experience of either, it will add to the experience.
The day will include, dancing, sharing and a 2-hour lunch break to enable you to get outside and have a good screen break.
Much of the creative work will be done away from the screen, but still connected via zoom.
We look forward to sharing this day with you and ask that you book/pay the balance by Sun Nov 14th at the latest, to enable time to receive your materials in the post.
This is a UK only workshop for this year, due to mailing of materials.
Cost:
£65 (includes materials and posting)
To secure your place either:
Concessionary places available for anyone struggling financially in the current circumstances. Please ask.
Time: 10 am - 6pm (with a 2 hour lunch)
You will receive in post:
Coloured papers
Face paints
1 x Face painting sponge
Please have:
Bluetooth speakers to enhance the sound/cable free headphones.
Scissors
Pritt Stick
Make-up brush/paintbrush(s)
A jar of water
Wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty.
Warm space advised
You should receive the zoom - link in a confirmation email, when you book. Please let us know if this doesn't happen :)
All bookings will be online via Jenny’s website
2 concessionary places available for anyone struggling financially in the current circumstances.
Any questions please email Jenny or Sarena
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 online workshop
With Jenny Smith and Sarena Wolfaard
21 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)
Picasso once said he spent his whole life learning to see like a child again. We have always been delighted to hear how playful participants find Drawn to Dance workshops. In this one-day, on-line workshop we will be combining dance, creating paper cut-outs, painting onto body parts (using as much or as little of your body as you choose) and sharing.
Join us for a day of playful, embodied creativity that may be a refreshing change from what you usually associate with screen time.
You will receive a materials package in the post with everything you will need to participate in the comfort of your own home. No previous experience in art or dance necessary, but if you do have experience of either, it will add to the experience.
The day will include, dancing, sharing and a 2-hour lunch break to enable you to get outside and have a good screen break.
Much of the creative work will be done away from the screen, but still connected via zoom.
We look forward to sharing this day with you and ask that you book/pay the balance by Sun Nov 14th at the latest, to enable time to receive your materials in the post.
This is a UK only workshop for this year, due to mailing of materials.
Cost:
£65 (includes materials and posting)
To secure your place either:
- Pay full amount online or
- Email Jenny to pay £30 deposit and £35 balance on 7 November. Full payment due by Sun Nov 14th at the latest, to enable time to receive your materials in the post.
Concessionary places available for anyone struggling financially in the current circumstances. Please ask.
Time: 10 am - 6pm (with a 2 hour lunch)
You will receive in post:
Coloured papers
Face paints
1 x Face painting sponge
Please have:
Bluetooth speakers to enhance the sound/cable free headphones.
Scissors
Pritt Stick
Make-up brush/paintbrush(s)
A jar of water
Wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty.
Warm space advised
You should receive the zoom - link in a confirmation email, when you book. Please let us know if this doesn't happen :)
All bookings will be online via Jenny’s website
2 concessionary places available for anyone struggling financially in the current circumstances.
Any questions please email Jenny or Sarena
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
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.
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.