Classes
Edinburgh - Sunday mornings - in person
Sarena (5Rhythms & Open Floor) - Organiser and main teacher
Occasional invited teacher - Barbara (5Rhythms) from Glasgow
Dates: Every Sunday, NO CLASS ON 10 September and 24 December.
SWEAT YOUR PRAYERS 31 December
Venue: Lifecare Centre, Stockbridge House (downstairs hall)
Cheyne Street, Edinburgh, EH4 1JB, google link
Time: 10.30am - 12:30pm, music on at 10:15am
Cost: £15 or £48 paid in one go for any 4 classes
Email me for payment details for BACS.
"I noticed when I was dancing today how much my soul needed what you were creating in the space. And I'm feeling very grateful. As I so need spaces for connection with my body and with others in the raw humanity of the joy of movement. And so I'm moved to offer my heartfelt appreciation for your service. It will live on in my memory as one of the first times I engaged in such body connecting joyful movement outside of an alcohol environment." dancer anon
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"I have been coming to Sarena's Sunday morning 5Rhythms class for many years and I absolutely love it. It is liberating, restorative, grounding, a safe space where I come home to myself and connect deeply with others. And it is all these things because Sarena holds the space so beautifully, with humility, honesty, authenticity, wisdom, warmth and compassion. And of course some great music!"
Beth Clarke, CST MCSS, Craniosacral therapist, Edinburgh
Online (on zoom) classes - Sunday afternoon
Dates: 3Sept - 24Sept - 8Oct - 22Oct - 5Nov - 26Nov - 10Dec
Time: 4pm - 5:30pm BST
Cost: £10 per session or £32 for any 4 classes paid in advance.
EMAIL FOR THE LINK
Email for BACS and/or pay with Paypal
Linlithgow - monthly in person - Saturday afternoon
Dates: 15 Apr - 13 May - 10 June - 8 July - 12 Aug - 7 Oct - 28 Oct - 25 Nov
2024: 6 Jan - 20 Jan - 3 Feb - 17 Feb - 2 Mar - 16 Mar - 6 Apr - 20 Apr - 4 May - 1 June - 6 July - 20 July
Cost: £12 per class or pay for all four in advance £40
Venue: Queen Margaret Hall, 53 Blackness Road, Linlithgow, EH49 7JA
Times: 4pm - 5:30pm
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For 5Rhythms classes further afield by other teachers: https://www.easymapmaker.com/map/c216e4f4d429c1cae14ee242c445bd6a
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Workshops
Deep Dive - a 5Rhythms workshop
Saturday afternoon - 21 October 2023
I take this title from many evenings dancing with Barbara in the early 2000's refining my dance into utter bliss.
Dive Deep into the Rhythms discovering new layers, opening to new internal spaces and connections between us. If you hunger for joy in movment, join for an afternoon of engagement, exploration, laughter, tears and any other feeling or emotion that might allow us an entry point into our wholeness in the dance.
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Date: 21 October 2023
Time: 2 - 6pm
Venue: Stockbridge House - downstairs hall where we dance on Sundays.
Cost: £50 (early bird booking disocunt is £45 booked and paid for by 1 Oct.)
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Write and move - a morning practise - 2024
This is a block of 4 Saturday mornings on zoom - we will move and write. No need to have experience in writing or movement, it is a practise where we get to know our inner world in a different way. Allowing the body to find early morning movement to music, and writing to a few prompts to support the process.
Dates: 6; 13; 20; 27 January 2024
Cost: £8 per session or £28 for all four
Times: 8am - 9am
Email me for the link
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Dream Doors - in person in Edinburgh -2024
Dream Doors, a series of Saturday afternoon workshops, providing space explore different themes in movement. Ultimately by getting to know myself, I move closer to self compassion – because I do not have to fulfil or live something that is not me. I do not have to respond to any demand from outside or internal. I become my biggest project.
In these 4-hour workshops we will explore and dance, write, draw to discover what in us is ready to emerge and grow. Do one workshop or all. You also get an optional 30-minute one to one session supporting you to integrate during the week after the workshop.
Dates: 13 Jan - 24 Feb - 30 March - 27 April - 25 May - 29 June - 27 July
Venue: Lifecare Centre, Stockbridge House, downstairs hall, Cheyne Street, Edinburgh
Time: 2:00-6:00pm
Cost: Including one 30-minute individual session on zoom the week after each event as integration.
One workshop: £70 (including a one to one session - recommended to integrate) £45 just the dance session. To book the zoom integration session, you can do this on the day, cost is £25.
For any 3 sessions including the integration session - paid upfront £195, or just the workshop sessions £120
Living Closer to the Dreaming - on zoom
Three 2 hour session online over 3 weeks - you commit to all.
We use movement and the spoken word creating the poetry that is present in our bodies. We hold space for each other, dance, feeling into our current physical state and our mental mood, have an opportunity to explore one to one, be the witness, feeling into those same places in ourselves, be witnessed as we step into a new layer of trust in our bodies, and over time learn to trust our body's movements and sensations - quirky, strange, pleasant.
I love this unique way of working as it provides safety in a group, connecting in ways we don't normally do in everyday life. It opens up to how else we can be in communion with the world and those close to us.
Dates: NEW DATES TO FOLLOW
Time: Either 10am - 12noon or 6pm - 8pm
Cost for each block: £50 per session or £120 paid in advance (you commit to all three session)
Email to book a space and get payment details - maximum 6 people.
