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relating 
Mukw’ stem ‘I’ utunu tumuhw ‘o’ slhiilhukw’tul
Everything on this earth is interconnected

My thanks and honour to Jared Qwustenuxun Williams for this Hul'q'umi'num' statement  from  Quw'utsun Mustimuhw.

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5Rhythms is a powerful, guided free-form movement practice for human beings
irrespective of culture, colour, creed, gender, sexuality, size, (dis)ability situation, life stage, health status, or financial circumstance.
I hold this practice with justice and equity intent. Chairs available for seated dance.  All 13 + welcome.
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10 - 11:45 am
select Sundays in May, June, August & September

registration required to hold your headset : purchase below : if credit card doesn't work for you, contact me 

Providence Farm,  Quw'utsun Territory, Duncan BC
St. Ann's Garden
1843 Tzouhalem Road

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Each dance will include the possibility of relating to wisdoms offered by one of our earthly relations:
elemental relations, plant relations, or swimming, flying, crawling, 4-legged or 2-legged animal relations
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​dates:
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​MAY  8 : 15 : 22 : 29

JUNE  12 : 19 : 26

AUGUST  7 : 14 : 28

 SEPTEMBER  4 : 11 : 18 : 25 

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We'll dance in all weathers except a rainstorm.
​Please bring hat, hood or umbrella to protect your headset in case of rain. 
Remember to bring layers to protect your body from heat, sun, wind, and rain. Weather loves to change. 

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3 suggested payment points:

$25 SPONSORING
(Those in relative abundance and security can support this work and others' access.)

$20 STANDARD
(sustaining)
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$15 SPONSORED
(those experiencing under-employment or financial constraints/difficulty)

If you would like to request a different amount, please contact me.


If you need to cancel because of illness or other unavoidable obstacles, I'll offer a refund or credit. 

May 22

CA$15.00

Guided outdoor 5Rhythms dance meditation practice for all human beings.


Please pay what you can. No one turned away.

Sponsors' gifts lower obstacles for those in financial difficulty.

  • $20 Standard (sustaining)
  • $25+ Sponsor
  • $15 Sponsored (under-employed/financial difficulty or constraint)
  • please contact me to arrange to donate an amount not listed here: chantellfoss@gmail.com


St. Ann's Garden, behind the main building at Providence Farm

1843 Tzouhalem Rd., Quw'ustsun' Territory (Duncan)


10 - 11:45 am

Come a bit early to collect your headset.

Come prepared for weather.

Register

May 29

CA$15.00

Guided outdoor 5Rhythms dance meditation practice for all human beings.


Please pay what you can. No one turned away.

Sponsors' gifts lower obstacles for those in financial difficulty.

  • $20 Standard (sustaining)
  • $25+ Sponsor
  • $15 Sponsored (under-employed/financial difficulty or constraint)
  • please contact me to arrange to donate an amount not listed here: chantellfoss@gmail.com


St. Ann's Garden, behind the main building at Providence Farm

1843 Tzouhalem Rd., Quw'ustsun' Territory (Duncan)


10 - 11:45 am

Come a bit early to collect your headset.

Come prepared for weather.

Register

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Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.  - Gabrielle Roth
​I give 5Rhythms movement classes to acknowledge our human condition in intense times.
We can be simultaneously wounded and capable of restoring, inundated and insightful, ​
in need and generative, in conflict and peace-building.
Carrying potential for positive change.

I give classes to support growth in our individual capacities to know ourselves,
to be basically well, and to deliberately direct our time and attention
to mending our shared earthly state in this precious life.
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I give classes to invest in deepening responsiveness and balance
in our collective actions and community life,
in the context of a crisis-addled human family and planet.

I give classes knowing that broadened care and engagement is preceded 
by care directed inward, and rooted. We can show up, decompress, relate, and leave refreshed.

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​In summer 2021,  I used 5Rhythms classes to raise funds to support organizations
working to heal the living legacy of the Indian Residential School System of Canada.
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$900 (50% of my proceeds) went to Tsow-Tun Le Lum Society & Orange Shirt Society

We had the good fortune to dance in St. Ann's garden at Providence Farm (above).
This land has been worked and loved in community service since 1979 by an independent secular organization offering therapeutic programming
to adults and seniors with mental health challenges, developmental and intellectual disabilities, and age-related illnesses. 

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It was occupied 1864-1964 by a school run by the Catholic order of St. Ann, with students from Indigenous and settler communities at different times. 
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I've made sporadic efforts in the last 10 years  to research the school's role in our region, coming up relatively empty. 
Recently I received some help from others, and confirmed that this school was not part of the group of five Residential Schools
found at
 
Penelakut and 4 other places around Vancouver Island, contrary to what I previously understood from a government list
of schools that were both included in and excluded from compensation for victims.

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The distinction is an important one as we make our gradual way through layers of stories and unknowns toward facts and disillusionment
about our past and present. My understanding of our history is a work in progress which I expect will be disrupted again. Such is the learning path. 
My intention is to open our community,  in real time and in a gentle and honest way, to the significance and the power of the places where we dance and live.

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As we've met at this site since 2015, I've noticed that when people step onto these grounds to dance and reconnect, they become stirred by the layered and diverse histories and feelings of this place that has enduring meaning here.  The power of this spot on Earth is meaningful, as are our personal relationships with what it might represent to us, how we interact with the communities and individuals, human and non-human who occupy it.
Our relation with sites like this will be fruitful  and will change us, if we self-reflect, engage, and allow learning to come.

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Summer 2021's wave of confirmations of obviously criminal and genocidal mass-murder, and horrific
anonymous burial, of thousands of Indigenous children by the Residential system should 
properly continue to stir and shake us.
This reality is one we can't depart, and it's a
 medicinal invitation for for us to learn, grow, and shift, within community.
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These threads coming together provide the impulse for me to invite practice that includes real recognition of our history and its continued fallout,
​with attention to significant local stories and locations, alongside great and active appreciation for Quw'utsun' mustimuwh (people) and their homelands.
I invite dancers to step into practice on this historical spot on Quw'utsun' land in human awareness of each impacted child,
and in respect 
for the Indigenous nations and communities who lost their beloved little ones forever.

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