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.
ENTER
5RHYTHMS on Thetis Island
6-8 pm, January 19, 2019
Forbes Hall Community Centre
292 North Cove Road
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...
Sliding scale $15-$20
PRACTICAL NOTES:
Please wear comfy layers and consider bringing indoor dancing shoes for this older community hall that may well be draughty in January weather.
Young ones (kids) welcome in this dance.
If you're walking onto the ferry to Thetis, be assured it's a very short walk to the hall from the ferry: about 5 to 7 minutes. Please walk against traffic.
If you are coming "footy" by ferry, let us know what ferry you're coming in on and we can pick you up. Off islanders are encouraged to take the 5:10 boat, which will arrive at 5:45, and our team can pick you up to arrive with a few minutes to get settled.
There are no corner stores or snacks available onsite, so please bring snacks you might require.
There is excellent drinking water available in a water fountain at the hall.
5RHYTHMS on Thetis Island
6-8 pm, January 19, 2019
Forbes Hall Community Centre
292 North Cove Road
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...
Sliding scale $15-$20
PRACTICAL NOTES:
Please wear comfy layers and consider bringing indoor dancing shoes for this older community hall that may well be draughty in January weather.
Young ones (kids) welcome in this dance.
If you're walking onto the ferry to Thetis, be assured it's a very short walk to the hall from the ferry: about 5 to 7 minutes. Please walk against traffic.
If you are coming "footy" by ferry, let us know what ferry you're coming in on and we can pick you up. Off islanders are encouraged to take the 5:10 boat, which will arrive at 5:45, and our team can pick you up to arrive with a few minutes to get settled.
There are no corner stores or snacks available onsite, so please bring snacks you might require.
There is excellent drinking water available in a water fountain at the hall.
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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
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.
Kelowna, B.C., April 27-29, 2018
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.
Kelowna, B.C., April 27-29, 2018
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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.
Duncan, B.C., March 22, 2018
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.
Duncan, B.C., March 22, 2018
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 of 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 of 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).
Duncan, B.C., December 3, 2017
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).
Duncan, B.C., December 3, 2017
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.
Duncan, B.C., November 12, 2017
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.
Duncan, B.C., November 12, 2017
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.
Duncan, B.C., October 1, 2017
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.
Duncan, B.C., October 1, 2017
COMPASS
An intrepid, reflective wayfinding weekend
Kelowna, B.C., March 17-19, 2017
An intrepid, reflective wayfinding weekend
Kelowna, B.C., March 17-19, 2017
ONE
Duncan, B.C., March 5, 2017
3-hour immersion in the Rhythm of Stillness, and an exploration of our connection to Spirit - all that is.
Duncan, B.C., March 5, 2017
3-hour immersion in the Rhythm of Stillness, and an exploration of our connection to Spirit - all that is.
BALANCE
Duncan, B.C., September 18, 2016
3-hour immersion in the Rhythm of Flowing, and an exploration of the body on the earth.
Duncan, B.C., September 18, 2016
3-hour immersion in the Rhythm of Flowing, and an exploration of the body on the earth.
