Workshops & Gatherings
Come explore, deepen, expand, shift.
Going Deeper
I offer events on Vancouver Island and beyond. Feel free to contact me to book a workshop in your community. Examples of available workshops appear at the bottom of this page, and new workshops are in development. Class and workshop events can be developed and tailored for your group.
Upcoming Workshops
Conscious Dance NANAIMO Series
FOLLOW YOUR FEET
A mini-workshop dance, September 27
7 - 8:30 pm, dancers welcome to arrive and warm up at 6:30
OmTown Yoga, 43 Commercial St.
*Next dance with me will be December 27, 2019*
FOLLOW YOUR FEET
A mini-workshop dance, September 27
7 - 8:30 pm, dancers welcome to arrive and warm up at 6:30
OmTown Yoga, 43 Commercial St.
*Next dance with me will be December 27, 2019*
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5Rhythms practice builds community.
Local 5Rhythms teachers Joanne Winstanley, Anne Marie Hogya (Victoria), Shauna Devlin (Salt Spring) and I are committed to working together. We support each other as we continually explore this practice. We'll be assisting each other and co-teaching workshops to meet the needs of our communities on Vancouver Island and the Gulfs. These women are each committed teachers who hold regular classes in their communities, and offer workshops at home and in other places. For information on our collective offerings, please visit our shared website . "The next Buddha may take the form of a community, a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh |
Past Workshops
Soul Sojourn
A mini-workshop, created with Chris Bertin, paying tribute to Shkewetsen (also called Mount Tzouhalem) in whose shadow we have the privilege to dance every week, and the traditional lands of the Cowichan Tribes. Shkewetsen in the Hul’q’umi’num language calls the mountain "Basking", "Warming in the Sun". By dancing together on a floor that is also the earth, and rumbling our drums and didjeridu into the ground, and reaching our souls in the direction of the eagles and ravens who love to cruise the thermals created by the mountain's warmth, we gave our respect to this place.
A mini-workshop, created with Chris Bertin, paying tribute to Shkewetsen (also called Mount Tzouhalem) in whose shadow we have the privilege to dance every week, and the traditional lands of the Cowichan Tribes. Shkewetsen in the Hul’q’umi’num language calls the mountain "Basking", "Warming in the Sun". By dancing together on a floor that is also the earth, and rumbling our drums and didjeridu into the ground, and reaching our souls in the direction of the eagles and ravens who love to cruise the thermals created by the mountain's warmth, we gave our respect to this place.
Feet on Earth Hands on Drum Heart on Sleeve
This mini-workshop, created with Chris Bertin, called our attention to human heart, brilliance, and fortitude, looking and dancing in the direction of Mother Africa. The anniversaries of the election of Mandela's first post-Apartheid government in South Africa and the beginning of the Rwandan genocide, combined with the ongoing global victories and struggles of all Africa's peoples, accompanied us through dance, drum, and spirit of UBUNTU: I am because we are.
This mini-workshop, created with Chris Bertin, called our attention to human heart, brilliance, and fortitude, looking and dancing in the direction of Mother Africa. The anniversaries of the election of Mandela's first post-Apartheid government in South Africa and the beginning of the Rwandan genocide, combined with the ongoing global victories and struggles of all Africa's peoples, accompanied us through dance, drum, and spirit of UBUNTU: I am because we are.
Break Through
An evening of springing to life through dance, in beautiful harbourside Nanaimo. Our movement was gracefully supported by creative hang-drum and vocals from event organizer, community builder and dancer April Laurie.
March 29, 2019
Nanaimo
An evening of springing to life through dance, in beautiful harbourside Nanaimo. Our movement was gracefully supported by creative hang-drum and vocals from event organizer, community builder and dancer April Laurie.
March 29, 2019
Nanaimo
Rite of Spring
A mini-workshop honouring the spring equinox, supported by the powerful intuitive drumming of Éric Boucher.
March 21, 2019
Duncan
A mini-workshop honouring the spring equinox, supported by the powerful intuitive drumming of Éric Boucher.
March 21, 2019
Duncan
Enter
We'll use the natural, welcoming process of the 5Rhythms Wave to re-introduce ourselves to ourselves, enter the present moment, and also gently mark our entrance to this newborn year, 2019. Each of the five rhythms contains vast teachings. We'll enter each in turn with simplicity and curiosity, as if stepping from the shores of a stream into the gentle current of the water. Our bodies will be our gateway: 1. we'll breathe and notice our breathing; 2. we'll actively feel our own body as a whole and in its parts; 3. we'll allow movement to arise from our attention to our breathing, sensing bodies... and repeat. Entering, entering, entering...
January 19, 2019
Thetis Island
We'll use the natural, welcoming process of the 5Rhythms Wave to re-introduce ourselves to ourselves, enter the present moment, and also gently mark our entrance to this newborn year, 2019. Each of the five rhythms contains vast teachings. We'll enter each in turn with simplicity and curiosity, as if stepping from the shores of a stream into the gentle current of the water. Our bodies will be our gateway: 1. we'll breathe and notice our breathing; 2. we'll actively feel our own body as a whole and in its parts; 3. we'll allow movement to arise from our attention to our breathing, sensing bodies... and repeat. Entering, entering, entering...
January 19, 2019
Thetis Island
Holy
A last, mindful dance through the Wave before New Year's. Tuning in enough... being in the moment enough... becoming honest enough to learn to create good beginnings, middles, and endings. This is a strong teaching of the art and practice of 5Rhythms.
Come dance in the pause between years. Who knows how we will find ourselves, that night? Let's enter the ending - about to become another beginning - but not quite yet. Let's move and breathe in that space.
December 28, 2018
Nanaimo
Regenerate
A month before 2018's end, let's dive inward. Free-form movement and gentle guidance through the 5Rhythms will be the ground for this month's conscious dance at OmTown.
November 30, 2018
Nanaimo
Just Trust
In our culture TRUST is often imagined as a lofty, vague ideal or a naive illusion extended toward stuff found outside ourselves. Both of these cultural attitudes are incomplete, and lead us away from what is seriously trustworthy: the processes of life itself, our own bodies and instincts, our connection and intuition, our authentic creative responses and inspiration, and our honest reflection and integration.
5RHYTHMS embraces these deeper realities by helping us feel, allow and simply move with what’s really going on. When we can sense and engage with what’s happening right here and now, we grow our capacity to perceive clearly, TRUST what we find, and relate to others and the world from a place of greater self-knowledge. 5RHYTHMS practice invokes the way all things arise, take form, intensify and change, come to a new resolution, and die away. We’ll use the Rhythms to activate, explore, and TRUST ourselves in the natural life-process of our dance.
Waves-level practice is the foundation of the 5RHYTHMS dancing path. We engage the fundamental method of embodiment: feeling the ground, our bodies and our breath. We offer ourselves to be danced and moved. We invite energy to circulate through us in wave form, and we spontaneously follow our process.
April 27-29, 2018
Kelowna
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Unfurl
Come move, through the gateway of 5Rhythms dance, into the birth-moments of spring. Chris Bertin brings his intuitive, sensitive, and activating live music and care for the dancers. Chantell Foss brings encouragement from the heart to move as you are called, with catalytic guidance and care for the dancers.
March 22, 2018
Duncan
Come move, through the gateway of 5Rhythms dance, into the birth-moments of spring. Chris Bertin brings his intuitive, sensitive, and activating live music and care for the dancers. Chantell Foss brings encouragement from the heart to move as you are called, with catalytic guidance and care for the dancers.
March 22, 2018
Duncan
Into Mystery
Chantell Foss and Chris Bertin join to open a portal into the beautiful darkness of the longest night of the year. Chris, a long-time weaver of musical webs, brings an organic, responsive soundscape. Chantell, passionate about the healing mysteries of the huge dark spaces within and the co-creative miracles of community spaces without, will hold a free-dive, group-exploration 5Rhythms dance.
Duncan, B.C., December 21, 2017
Chantell Foss and Chris Bertin join to open a portal into the beautiful darkness of the longest night of the year. Chris, a long-time weaver of musical webs, brings an organic, responsive soundscape. Chantell, passionate about the healing mysteries of the huge dark spaces within and the co-creative miracles of community spaces without, will hold a free-dive, group-exploration 5Rhythms dance.
Duncan, B.C., December 21, 2017
Can You Love Some More?
Cultivate your power to stay with yourself with heart - or at least with crumbs of compassion and tastes of tenderness - through gateways that appear as you move along in the dance (as in life).
December 3, 2017
Duncan
Cultivate your power to stay with yourself with heart - or at least with crumbs of compassion and tastes of tenderness - through gateways that appear as you move along in the dance (as in life).
December 3, 2017
Duncan
Cost Of Freedom
Dance dimensions of your own freedom, in whatever circumstances life happens to be serving up, for you. With permission to totally go for it and unfetter ourselves, we'll commit to our moving process with a dash of discipline, so we can be present to see what's on the other side.
November 12, 2017
Duncan
Dance dimensions of your own freedom, in whatever circumstances life happens to be serving up, for you. With permission to totally go for it and unfetter ourselves, we'll commit to our moving process with a dash of discipline, so we can be present to see what's on the other side.
November 12, 2017
Duncan
Answer is Within
Set foot in your inner landscape. Explore new pathways, and wander trusty old ones.
Listen gently but intently to this changing world within, and express what is heard.
October 1, 2017
Duncan
Set foot in your inner landscape. Explore new pathways, and wander trusty old ones.
Listen gently but intently to this changing world within, and express what is heard.
October 1, 2017
Duncan
Compass
An intrepid, reflective wayfinding weekend
March 17-19, 2017
Kelowna
An intrepid, reflective wayfinding weekend
March 17-19, 2017
Kelowna
One
3-hour immersion in the Rhythm of Stillness, and an exploration of our connection to Spirit, or in other words: all that is.
March 5, 2017
Duncan
3-hour immersion in the Rhythm of Stillness, and an exploration of our connection to Spirit, or in other words: all that is.
March 5, 2017
Duncan
Balance
3-hour immersion in the Rhythm of Flowing, and an exploration of the body on the earth.
September 18, 2016
Duncan
3-hour immersion in the Rhythm of Flowing, and an exploration of the body on the earth.
September 18, 2016
Duncan
