Connections - A 5Rhythms® exploration with Marcia F.W Jones

"When your body surrenders to Movement, your Soul remembers its Dance." - Gabrielle Roth

This 5Rhythms weekly class is a moving meditation through which we practice to come back to theintelligence and institual nature of our body. As an embodiment practice, we turn to the Dance as a vehicle for healing, liberation, self-expression, release, integration and connection.

No choreography, no steps to follow. The practice is to find your own authentic dance.

This is a guided class with lots of space to explore your own movement and expand into your experience within the group.

One Tribe

All welcome: No matter what race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, abilities and disabilities, shape and sizes, cultural background and languages. Age: 12+

𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨:

• Bring your water bottle and hydrate ofte

• Wear movement-friendly clothing, layers work the best

• The space is drug-free, substance-free, scent-free, and judgment-free

• Please share the space respectfully

• The dance floor is a non-verbal space

• Phones on silent and not allowed on the dance floor.

• Please do not attend if you feel unwell

• Barefoot or indoor shoes only

𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞:

Monday, June 16th

Kitsilano Neighbourhood House

2305 W 7th Ave, Vancouver, BC V6K 1Y4

Doors open at 6:50 PM

Doors close at 7:10 PM

𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲

$25

𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐔𝐆𝐆𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃.

About 5Rhythms:

Created by Gabrielle Roth and practiced by tens of thousands worldwide, 5Rhythms® is a philosophy, perspective, performance art and a dynamic movement practice rooted in the principle that if you put the psyche in motion it will heal itself. Movement is both the medicine and the metaphor, reaching across all languages, cultures and age groups to transform suffering into art, art into awareness, and awareness into action. Wherever the 5Rhythms are practiced, a community is born to dance, to sweat, to change, to support, and to provide a safe space for each of us to shatter the ego’s hold and awaken the juicy, unpredictable, fascinating, edge-walking, rock star part of ourselves that yearns to be free. Creativity. Connection. Community.

About Marcia:

Dance is my medicine. Dance is my refuge. Dance is my portal to the Spirit Realms. Somewhere along the way, I noticed that as I danced, I could feel a portal open up within my body. The music, the movement and the rhythm of my breath swept me into an altered state of consciousness. When I eventually walked into my first 5Rhythms® dance class in a small gymnasium in Cambridge England in the mid 1990’s, it was not love at first sight!

The 5Rhythms® practice became my lifeline and my movement healing practice. I was smitten with these simple but profound Rhythms. I danced my way to becoming a certified teacher in 2014.

My own spirit-led healing process is continuing to unfold and be witnessed and held by a community of initiated healers. The pathway of spirit-led healing work weaves seamlessly with my somatic re-patterning and my 5Rhythms® certifications.

I would not say that I chose this path in life – rather that it chose me. I am deeply committed to my personal healing and transformation in this life time  as I walk between the seen and unseen worlds, traveling the road to happy destiny. I hope you join me somewhere along the way.